Author: SHIPHERD, Jacob R. (compiler)
Title: History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
Description: New York, Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 280pp. Fine. A tight and pristine facsimile reprint of the 1859 first edition of this court case transcript introduced by Henry E. Peck and Ralph Plumb -- a famed test of the Fugitive Slave Law involving an escaped slave from Kentucky and the owner's attempt to reclaim him in Ohio. .

Keywords: Black History


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