New York: Arno Press & The NY Times, 1968. Hardcover - The title page goes on to state: "A Fatherless Boy, Carpenter and Contractor, Anti-Slavery Lecturer, Merchant, Railroad Builder, Superintendent of Mine, Attorney-at-Law, County Attorney, Municipal Judge Register of United States Lands, Receiver of Public Monies for U. S., United States Consul to Madagascar, Prominent Race Leaders, etc." An autobiography of a man whose life was one of adventure and danger and who was a witness to many of the significant events in the history of the United States during the 19th century. The early chapters include comments on the Underground Railroad, Nat Turner's Insurrection, Cinguez, the Hero of Armistead Captives and his first tour with Frederic Douglass. In California, where he had gone in 1850 during the gold rush, he was politically active, rode with John C Fremont during the Vigilante era, the co-founder with Peter Lester of "Mirror of the Times", California's first Black newspaper, protesting the poll tax and a bill to ban Black people from moving to the state, and generally speaking out. With Lester and hundreds of other families, he moved to Victoria in British Columbia where he made a fortune in dry goods, and real estate. In 1869 after the Civil War, he returned to the United States - to Oberlin, Ohio, where he earned a degree in law. He served as a judge in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was appointed U.S. Consul to Madagascar in 1897. Introduction by Booker T. Washington. New preface for this edition by William Loren Katz. Illustrated. 372 pp.

Hartford, Connecticut: The Stowe-Day Foundation, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - After publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe was invited to Great Britain in 1853 by abolitionist leaders there. She asked her younger brother, Charles Beecher, to accompany her and to keep a journal of the trip. Although Stowe acknowledged using the journal in writing her book about her travels, 'Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands', this is the first publication of the complete journal,which covers the period from April 1 to Sept 3, 1853. unaltered and direct, written with wit and insight, with no attempt to gloss over her eccentricities. As such, it gives a new perspective on the literary, political and social significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Introduction and notes by the editors. Illustrated with photographs. Map endpapers. xxxii, 382pp. ISBN: 0-917482204.