Julia Griffiths Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (2nd Series, 1st printing) green colored embossed binding with gilt lettering and decoration; clean with "No. 4" in small letters inside cover o.w. no markings or writings; 309 pages followed by ads for other publications some wear at the points and other trace surface wear ;all portraits of prominent abolitionists have tissue guards Very good plus copy satisfaction or purchase price returned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Autographs for Freedom. Edited by Julia Griffiths. Auburn: Alden, Beardsley & Co. Rochester: Wanzer, Beardsley & Co., 1854. Second Series, First Edition. 309 p + 9 p publisher's adverts. Original red cloth binding measures 8 x 5", 8vo. In fair condition. FRONT BOARD DETACHED FROM BINDING! Boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine chipped with exposed binding; gilt lettering and deco dulled/soiled, but legible. Toning and age-staining through text-block. Off-setting on tissue guards; some tissue guards creased or chipped. FRONT BOARD DETACHED FROM BINDING! Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Autographs for Freedom is an anthology of literature designed to help "sweep away from this otherwise happy land, the great sin of SLAVERY." It was put together by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society and includes the only published fiction of Frederick Douglass, who would go on to become the first black citizen to hold high rank in the US government. The driving force behind the anthology was an Englishwoman named Julia Griffiths, a prominent member of the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. She had first met Frederick Douglass in London in the mid 1840s. Douglass had escaped his life of captivity in 1838, at the age of twenty, fleeing Baltimore and reaching New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he worked as a laborer and evaded suspicion. In 1841, at an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, he was invited to describe his experiences under slavery. His spontaneous remarks so stirred the audience that he was catapulted into a key player in the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. An orator and wordsmith of great power, he went on to write a classic memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845). Upon its publication, fearing he would be recaptured because it mentioned the name of his former owner, Douglass left the US to tour the British Isles, give speeches, and build support for emancipation. It was there that he met and befriended Julia Griffiths. When Douglass returned to America he did so with enough funds to purchase his freedom and to set up an anti-slavery newspaper. In 1849, Griffiths sailed to Rochester, New York, to join Douglass. She supported his work and co-founded the influential Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, along with five other women. The second collection of anti-slavery "testimonies" compiled by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, includes a speech excerpt by Frederick Douglass, & works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown and Harriet Beecher Stowe. RAREA1854DTVB FORN-TUB-0096-BB-2512-HK3044.…

First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's original brown cloth titled in gilt on spine, with central lozenges within ornate borders blind-embossed onto covers; viii,263,[1]pp, with tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece and two plates of illustrations (at pp.82 and 161). Sunning to spine (though gilt is still legible), wear and a few tiny tears to spine ends, light rubbing to cloth, with wear and some board exposure to lower corners; foxing to text edges and margins, tissue guard lacking from the plate at p.82, with a shallow tide-mark to lower edge of a few preliminary and terminal leaves; hinges sound; a Very Good, unrepaired copy. A collection of literary works by the prominent men and women of the anti-slavery movement, compiled for the Rochester [NY] Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Issued in the format of an annual gift book, for which a second series was published the following year. Contents includes a poem and short vignette by Harriet Beecher Stowe; and the first book edition of Frederick Douglass' only attempt at fiction, a novella titled "The Heroic Slave," originally published the same year in his newspaper The North Star. The story is a fictionalized account of the historic figure Madison Washington, an enslaved cook who instigated a revolt on the slave brig Creole on its journey from Virginia to New Orleans; upon gaining control of the ship, the slaves had the ship be taken to Nassau, which was under British occupation at the time. Though they would be taken under British custody, 116 of the participants would be granted their freedom the following year. BAL 11172 (describing Caroline M. Kirkland's contribution "Momma Charlotte"). SABIN 28835; SCHOMBURG IV, p. 3088; WRIGHT II 1033. 90271.…