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Lot 135
America.- Native Americans.- [Apess (William)] Hymn. The Indian's Prayer, rare first separate edition, [Boston], Shepley & Wright, Printers, Congress Street, 1835.
Estimate: £400 - 600
Description
America.- Native Americans.- [Apess (William)] Hymn. The Indian's Prayer, first separate edition, broadside, 223 x 135mm., little light spotting, in an excellent state of preservation, [Boston], Shepley & Wright, Printers, Congress Street, [c.1835].
⁂ Rare. Apess (or Apes) was a mixed race (part Pequod) ordained Methodist minister and activist. His A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William Apess, A Native of the Forest, Comprising a Notice of the Pequot Tribe of Indians, 1829, is one of the first autobiographies by a Native American writer. He helped organise the Mashpee Revolt of 1833-1834, which attempted to regain civil rights for the Native American people.
Description
America.- Native Americans.- [Apess (William)] Hymn. The Indian's Prayer, first separate edition, broadside, 223 x 135mm., little light spotting, in an excellent state of preservation, [Boston], Shepley & Wright, Printers, Congress Street, [c.1835].
⁂ Rare. Apess (or Apes) was a mixed race (part Pequod) ordained Methodist minister and activist. His A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William Apess, A Native of the Forest, Comprising a Notice of the Pequot Tribe of Indians, 1829, is one of the first autobiographies by a Native American writer. He helped organise the Mashpee Revolt of 1833-1834, which attempted to regain civil rights for the Native American people.
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