1869 Samuel J. May. Recollections of the Antislavery Conflict. Olympia Brown's Copy! Eschatology Title and final leaf reinforce

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At the commencement of the War between the North and the South

1869 Samuel J. May. Recollections of the Antislavery Conflict. Olympia Brown's Copy! Eschatology Title and final leaf reinforceA wonderful volume even aside from the provenance! The present work, an important first hand account of the early efforts, conventions, etc., organized to end modern slavery, is rare to begin with. The present copy bears the original 19th century bookplate of Olympia Brown. Olympia Brown, b. 1835, is one of the most important rights activists of the 19th century. She was an active abolitionist, and, once slavery was officially ended, she turned her