Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter

by Francis Colburn Adams

First edition.  New York and Auburn, AL:  Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Publisher's gray cloth covers over thin boards have blind tooled borders and decoration.  
• Boards show some wear, smudges, stains, bumps, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are bowed, worn, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine is rounded, has gilt text and is sunned, with crushed, frayed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, staining, worm damage, bookseller's marks.  See photos.  
• Frontispiece is present and has intact tissue guard.
• Illustrations, engravings, are clear, with scattered foxing, marginal age-toning and staining.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits marginal toning, scattered moderate foxing, some stains, light edgewear, a couple corners turned down.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2024.1016

597 pages. 4 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches

First edition copy of this anti-slavery novel, in the publisher's original gray covers.  Overall Very Good- condition, with wear to the thin boards and scattered foxing to the text block and illustrations.

The author, Francis Colburn Adams, remains an enigmatic figure; certain is the fact that he was a stage manager in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, and that he was imprisoned for unpaid debts.  Adams wrote and published twelve books between 1853 and 1880, including five novels.  In Our World: or, The Slaveholder's Daughter, Adams examines the household of Hugh Marston, an aristocratic planter from Charleston whose financial collapse brings misery both to himself and to his human property.  The novelist aimed to expose the “moral, social and political evils” of slavery.

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