The White Slave – Richard Hildreth – 1853 | Archy Moore | Illustrated London ed

Richard Hildreth

The white slave – richard hildreth – 1853 | archy moore | illustrated london ed | richard hildreth’s the white slave, printed in london around 1853, is a memoir-style fictional account first issued in the 1830s, published under a pseudonym and illustrated with 39 plates.

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Richard Hildreth’s The White Slave, printed in London around 1853, is a memoir-style fictional account first issued in the 1830s, published under a pseudonym and illustrated with 39 plates.

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The White Slave: or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America by Richard Hildreth was first published in the 1830s under the pseudonym Archy Moore. This edition, printed in London around 1853 by Clarke, Beeton, & Co., is part of the transatlantic print history of abolitionist literature. Written in the form of a memoir, the story presents the life of a person born into slavery in the American South. The book gained wide readership and circulated extensively before the Civil War. This copy contains full-page plates.

 

Bibliographic Details

  • Title: The White Slave: or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America
  • Author(s): Richard Hildreth
  • Illustrator(s): uncredited
  • Publisher: London, Clarke, Beeton, & Co.
  • Edition: [ca. 1853]
  • Format: Octavo (8vo), single volume
  • Binding: Brown cloth binding
  • Size:  9 in x 6 in (23 cm x 15 cm)
  • Collation: vi, 4-316 pp
  • Illustrations: 39 unnumbered leaves of plates
  • Contents Include:
    • Memoir-style narrative by Archy Moore
    • Fictional account of slavery in the American South
    • British printing of American abolitionist work
  • Provenance: Bookplate of G.A. Foster

 

Condition:

Very Good. Original brown cloth binding with moderate rubbing. Hinges secure. The spine is complete and intact, with some rubbing at spine ends. Text block is solid, and the plates are present. Interior pages show age toning but remain clean; scattered foxing mainly along page margins.

 

Why Collect This?

  • Features 39 unnumbered plates
  • Fictional anti-slavery narrative widely read before the Civil War
  • Author used a pseudonym to publish abolitionist themes

 

Item Number: #28860

Categories

Americana, American History

Law & Government

Literature

Civil War

European History

Authors

Richard Hildreth

Printing Date

19th Century

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Very Good

Collation

Complete

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