1859 FUGITIVE SLAVE. Negro Woman Rescues White Children from Slave Riots. Rare! Biography Preached in Springfield

Preached in Springfield

It is scarce in the trade

we stopped in this condition 3 hours and we heard the explosion of the gunboat "Mississippi

Sprague was of course author of the classic Lectures on Revivals

1859 FUGITIVE SLAVE. Negro Woman Rescues White Children from Slave Riots. Rare! Biography Preached in SpringfieldA very rare first edition of the story of Daph and her "charge," i. e. two white children. She was enslaved during the slave riots in the Indies. She was apparently not an active participant in them, but in the middle of the bloodshed, noticed two babies left alone. She snatched them up to protect them, hoping to find their parents after the violence ceased. The parents never returned to the home, presumably killed. The story recounts her attempts to