first edition
1836 · New York
by [SLAVERY & ABOLITION] [WRIGHT, Elizur, ed.]
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836. 12mo (19cm). Stitched self-wrappers; pp.[13]-24. Light soil, small loss at bottom fore-corner (not touching text); complete and Good. Woodcut decoration at head of text, depicting a formation of enslaved Africans being driven by a whip-bearing foreman.
Single issue of this monthly abolitionist periodical that ran from 1835 to 1837, published by the American Anti-Slavery Society under the direction of Elizur Wright. It was "a small magazine with excellent woodcuts, containing, principally, extracts from other publications," that was "distributed freely without charge" and "found [its] way into the schools and colleges everywhere" (Dumond p.267). Wright stated that in September 1835, the Society published 25,000 copies of the Record (p.267). BLOCKSON 9174. LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 622. (Inventory #: 82915)
Single issue of this monthly abolitionist periodical that ran from 1835 to 1837, published by the American Anti-Slavery Society under the direction of Elizur Wright. It was "a small magazine with excellent woodcuts, containing, principally, extracts from other publications," that was "distributed freely without charge" and "found [its] way into the schools and colleges everywhere" (Dumond p.267). Wright stated that in September 1835, the Society published 25,000 copies of the Record (p.267). BLOCKSON 9174. LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 622. (Inventory #: 82915)
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