1861 ENSLAVED CHILD TEACHER. Rare Volume Owned by Teacher of Enslaved Children. Americana alongside those of John Witherspoon

alongside those of John Witherspoon and Samuel Davies

Some very light rubbing at extremities of calf and the boards just ever-so slightly bowed

with the motto 'Am I not a man and a brother

New-England

1861 ENSLAVED CHILD TEACHER. Rare Volume Owned by Teacher of Enslaved Children. Americana alongside those of John WitherspoonA wonderfully provenanced volume. This 1861 imprint is handsomely inscribed on the ffep, "To Miss Rebecca Craighead. From Her Friend, XXXX Jones, Chaplain, 176th OVI. Nashville. June 10th, 1865." Rebecca Craighead is a fascinating figure from the Civil War era. Born in 1834, she had been a teacher before the Civil War. Seemingly right at the War's onset, she joined the Christian Commission and served the Western Sanitary Commisssion as a nurse for