RAY, Emma J. (1859-1930) Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Ray. Chicago: Free Methodist Publishing House, 1926. 8vo (139 x 198 mm). Frontispiece with plates throughout. (Ephemera pasted to frontispiece verso and rear endpapers). Maroon cloth with gilt titles (scratch to front board, light wear to hinges and corners). FIRST EDITION. Slave narrative and autobiography of Emma Ray, an early leader in the temperance and women’s suffrage movements and a lifelong spiritual leader. Born into slavery in Missouri, she was sold as an infant with her mother. As an adult, she married L.P. Ray in Fredonia, Kansas before later moving farther west to Seattle, Washington. It was here in 1891 that she founded the Colored Women's Temperance Union and was elected the organization's first president. She was involved with revivalist churches and the suffragist movement in Seattle and Washington state until her death in 1930. Condition: Scratch to front board, light wear to hinges and corners. Newspaper article tipped into rear endpapers, ownership markings on front endpaper, half-title partially detached, poem affixed to frontispiece verso causing wrinkling.
RAY, Emma J. (1859-1930) Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Ray. Chicago: Free Methodist Publishing House, 1926. 8vo (139 x 198 mm). Frontispiece with plates throughout. (Ephemera pasted to frontispiece verso and rear endpapers). Maroon cloth with gilt titles (scratch to front board, light wear to hinges and corners). FIRST EDITION. Slave narrative and autobiography of Emma Ray, an early leader in the temperance and women’s suffrage movements and a lifelong spiritual leader. Born into slavery in Missouri, she was sold as an infant with her mother. As an adult, she married L.P. Ray in Fredonia, Kansas before later moving farther west to Seattle, Washington. It was here in 1891 that she founded the Colored Women's Temperance Union and was elected the organization's first president. She was involved with revivalist churches and the suffragist movement in Seattle and Washington state until her death in 1930. Condition: Scratch to front board, light wear to hinges and corners. Newspaper article tipped into rear endpapers, ownership markings on front endpaper, half-title partially detached, poem affixed to frontispiece verso causing wrinkling.
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