St. Martins Chapel.
An account of St. Martins, an Anglican chapel in Denver, Colorado, with illustrations after photographs by Laura Gilpin taken early in her career. Inscribed by Gilpin on a leaf preceding the title page.
An account of St. Martins, an Anglican chapel in Denver, Colorado, with illustrations after photographs by Laura Gilpin taken early in her career. Inscribed by Gilpin on a leaf preceding the title page.
First edition of this self-published narrative by John Thompson, chronicling his early life as a slave in Maryland, his successful escape to Pennsylvania, and his voyage aboard the New Bedford whaling ship Milwood to avoid recapture. Born into slavery in Maryland to two field hands in 1812, John Thompson was.....