Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life.

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Lydia Maria Child (1802 Ð 1880) was a womenÕs rights activist, novelist, educator, and dedicated abolitionist. She authored numerous anti-slavery publications, edited Harriet Ann JacobsÕ classic memoir Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) and offered protection and shelter to Black people fleeing slavery. Child was also a member of the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society and an editor of The National Anti-Slavery Standard, the societyÕs periodical. Twelvemo. xvi, 493 pp. With frontisportrait and one plate (both of Hopper) with tissue guards. PublisherÕs brown cloth titled in gilt on spine. Minor edgewear. Yellow coated endpapers. Some foxing to plates and title-page, but otherwise very clean throughout. Two early pencil ownership signatures to front flyleaf. A near fine copy, unusually fresh and tight, of ChildÕs biography of her friend, in a custom cloth open-end slipcase. First edition. Isaac Tatem HopperÊ(1771 Ð 1852) was a leading Pennsylvania abolitionist who protected free Black people and fugitives from slavery. Between 1841 and 1845, he served as the treasurer and book agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Hopper was also a prison reformer, an overseer of the Negro School for Children in Philadelphia, and a teacher in a free school for Black adults. BAL 3174. Dumond. Bibliography of Antislavery in America, p. 38.

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Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life.

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Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853.

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