Rare Anti-slavery Booklet Acquired by University of Virginia

Rare Anti-slavery Booklet Acquired by University of Virginia: The University of Virginia has acquired a rare first edition of an 1829 anti-slavery manifesto that was considered a rallying cry for Black Americans and a major threat to Southern leaders, who worked vigorously to ban it.

The copy of abolitionist David Walker's 'Appeal in Four Articles; Together With a Preamble to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America' is one of seven known to still exist. The pamphlet is on display at U.Va.'s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.

A private endowment for U.Va.'s special collections recently acquired it from a New Jersey rare-book dealer for $95,000, university officials said Thursday.