Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
Bound Volume of Harpers New Monthly Magazine, March 1857, 144pp., disbound, VG. A lengthy 17 page article “North Carolina Illustrated” with 20 illustrations of which 8 are of Black people. The article is a travel log providing a brief history of North Carolina. Most interesting are the illustration of several black characters. Betsy Sweat “ .. smaked a short-stemmed pipe almost incessantly, and would drink numerous jiggers of raw whiskey without winking. ..” And, Aunt Rose, perhaps a hundred years old. ... and others.
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