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THE LIBERATOR.GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD, editor; DOUGLASS, FREDERICK, contributor. 202 issues of the important anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator covering important years 1848-1855, folio, each issue a 4 pp bifolium, bound in order in plain black library cloth, lettered in gilt to spine: "The Liberator/ 1847-1855," issues from September 10, 1847-December 30, 1855, the years 1852-1855 largely complete, occasional foxing, chipping, some issues missing corners or edges with text loss (mostly in vol 23, 1853), but primarily in very good condition.
Provenance: individual issues with ownership signatures of abolitionists/contributors Wendell Phillips, George Thompson A.W. Weston, Samuel Cox, E.D. Hudson, and Thomas Garrett, among others; Collection of Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher; sold to our consignor.
AN EXTENSIVE RUN OF THE LIBERATOR, WITH INTERESTING EARLY PROVENANCE FOR NUMEROUS ISSUES. A long run of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist paper, covering the years of Frederick Douglass's split to form Frederick Douglass's paper, and including a number of articles about Douglass, and then about the rift between Douglass and Garrison. The period here also covers the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, including the earliest ads for publication (published March 20, 1952), and then much commentary and controversy including numerous contributions from Harriet Beecher Stowe. Some individual issues carry the ownership signatures of important abolitionists listed above. "The Liberator stands alone as the dominant printed source for those who sought the abolition of slavery in America. ...Runs of The Liberator are exceedingly rare, due in large part to the fact that its original circulation only included around 3,000 subscribers, three-quarters of whom were freed slaves" (Celebration of My Country 73).