Set My People Free. A Negro’s Life of Lincoln.
“This is the first life of Lincoln ever written by a Negro”
Biography of Abraham Lincoln—supposedly the first—written by an African-American. The dust jacket declares: “This is the first life of Lincoln ever written by a Negro, and throws new light on him from the point of view of the race he liberated.”
Author and Tennessee native William E. Lilly, a graduate of Howard University, was involved in politics in southern Illinois and was a noted Chicago lawyer.
Description: Set My People Free. A Negro’s Life of Lincoln.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart (1932). First Edition. Frontis., viii, 269pp. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth with gilt titling; dust jacket. Some edge-wear, minor soiling and chipping, and a short closed tear to just jacket; cloth binding with some fading along spine and edges; overall, good to very good.
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