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August 29, 2025: Summer Americana - Day 3

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  • Civil War
Lot 2384

RARE ANTIQUARIAN VIRGINIA / MARYLAND ABOLITIONIST VOLUME

Estimate: $80 - $120
Starting Bid
$40

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RARE ANTIQUARIAN VIRGINIA / MARYLAND ABOLITIONIST VOLUME, Rev. George F. Davis, A Brief Sketch of the Life and Character of the Late William Crane of Baltimore. Baltimore: John F. Weishampel, Jr., 1868. 47pp. Original soft leather binding. 
Catalogue Note: William Crane (1790-1866) was a Baptist lay leader, missionary, and businessman. Born in New Jersey in 1790, he became a shoemaker and later joined his brother in Richmond, Virginia, where he established himself as a successful merchant. He joined the Baptist church and, in 1813, helped organize the Foreign Missionary Society of Virginia. Two years later, he and Lott Cary, a free black member of his church, founded the Richmond African Baptist Missionary Society. Crane led a Sunday school and then a night school for African Americans. After the establishment of the American Colonization Society in 1816, he helped raise money for those who wanted to immigrate to Liberia in West Africa. Frustrated and disillusioned by the problem of slavery, he moved to Baltimore in 1834 and helped incorporate the Chesapeake and Liberia Trading Company in 1845. In Baltimore, Crane remained active in the Baptist church. In 1865, he published the pamphlet Anti-Slavery in Virginia, which criticized abolitionists and secessionists equally. He died in 1866.

Condition

Very good condition, the interior is tight and primarily clean, with light wear to the binding. 
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Provenance

Deaccessioned by the Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA to benefit collections care, preservations, and future acquisitions.

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