Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue.

SHIPHERD, Jacob R. (compiler).

New York: Negro Universities Press, [1969]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 280pp. Fine. Item #42041
ISBN: 0837127297

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.

Price: $20.00