A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten [Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy] [Signed by Winch]

  • SIGNED
  • Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002
By [James Forten] Julie Winch
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Very Good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's glossy pictorial wrappers; x,481pp. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Signed and dated Feb. 6, 2002, by the author on title page. Advance review copy with promotional letter from the publisher laid in.

The first biography of James Forten (1766-1842), the Revolutionary War soldier, abolitionist, Philadelphia businessman, and "founder of the most important African-American family of 19th-century America" (rear cover).

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