[ST. GEORGE TUCKER] COLEMAN, Mrs. George P. (ed)

Virginia Silhouettes. Contemporary Letters Concerning Negro Slavery in the State of Virginia. To which is appended: A Dissertation on Slavery: with a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia

Richmond: The Dietz Printing Co., 1934. Second printing. 12mo (19cm). Textured blue cloth, decoratively titled in silver on front cover; 59,64pp. Clean and tight with partial thin crack to front hinge (internal); Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.

Collects a series of letters to and from St. George Tucker, of whom the editor was a descendant. Final 64pp comprise a reprint, with separate title page, of Tucker's "A Dissertation on Slavery" (Phila: 1796).

Price: $60.00

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