The Genius Of Universal Emancipation, A Monthly Periodical Work, Containing Original Essays, Documents, And Facts, Relative To The Subject Of African Slavery. Volume 1. Third Series - Commencing April, 1830 Lundy, Benjamin, Editor AFRO-AMERICANA,AMERICANA,LOMAZOW,QUAKERS,SLAVERY

8vo. [4], 200 pp. Volume I, Third Series: complete. April 1830 - March 1831, Plus Supplementary to Vol. XI. - April 1831. Twelve issues plus Supplement, continuously paginated, plus unpaginated engravings. Preceded by general title page and detailed index. Bound in contemporary marbled calf; worn and rubbed along spine, which has been inexpertly rejointed. Very Good. A scarce antislavery monthly edited by Benjamin Lundy (1789 -1839), a Quaker abolitionist from New Jersey who established several anti-slavery newspapers and contributed to or edited many others. Quoting Mott extensively, Eberstadt says Lundy was "'a heroic figure-- the stuff of which legends are made. He began the Genius without capital and with only six subscribers; each month he would walk twenty miles to get his paper printed and return with the edition on his back'. He was often assaulted by slave-dealers, once almost killed, but never silenced. . ." William Lloyd Garrison briefly served as co-editor until he was arrested in March 1830 for libel. This volume begins immediately after Garrison's departure, at the start of the "Third Series." Lundy mournfully notes Garrison's departure on page 1: "Again I find myself, alone, at the editorial desk." The first six issues display on the masthead the iconic kneeling slave after Josiah Wedgwood's famous "Am I Not a Man and a Brother." Several issues also include unpaginated, separate engravings. Number 1 has a frontis portrait of the wealthy Quaker "Elisha Tyson, The Philanthropist." Number 2 has a separate of the famous Wedgwood engraving. Number 3 has a frontis engraving of Benjamin Lay, a fearless Quaker barely four feet tall. Number 4 has a detailed engraving frontis of the "United States Slave Trade 1830," with Africans in chains in sight of the Capitol. Our copy does not include an October plate, which is frequently lacking. Topics run the gamut of anti-slavery literature, including the work of women organized into abolition societies; emancipation; border states; horrors of slavery; West Indies; escapes to Canada; the Garrison Trial; freedom of the press; slavery in the District of Columbia; manumission societies in Southern States; and, of course, much else. 165 Eberstadt 224. Dumond 58. LCP 4066 [a few issues]. Mott 162-164. Not in Lomazow. OCLC locates a few scattered holdings as of April 2024.