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Trade paperback. Includes an introduction by Bontemps, and three early slave stories in the oral tradition including The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustsvus Vassa, the African; the Fugitive Blacksmith, History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church in New York (formerly a slave in Maryland); and Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, or the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. 311 pp. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dustjacket (sunning to spine, peeled spot from spine label) Rather uncommon in hardcover. .ISBN # 0807054739 

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