Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, Sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, During a Captivity of More than Twenty Years Among the Slaveholders of Kentucky, one of the So Called Christian States of North America. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1854. 

12mo, 144 pages. Frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. Original dark brown cloth. Second(?) Edition. Sabin 13434.

A gripping slave narrative of brothers Lewis and Milton Clarke that details their hardships and the business of Kentucky enslavement. Originally published in 1846, this expanded edition was issued to coincide with Lewis's speaking tour for the newly formed Republican Party. 

The Clarke brothers were friends with Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Lewis is credited in The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin as one of the sources for the character of George Harris in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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