PHILADELPHIA'S BLACK ELITE Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy, 1787-1848.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to the British historian George Shepperson. Original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout. Complete with the original lightly rubbed and creased, slightly spine faded dustwrapper.

Inscribed by Julie Winch in blue ink to the blank page facing the title page, reading "With many [underlined] kind regards. / Julie Winch / April 15, 1988 / (See p. 213)". The recipient is George "Sam" Shepperson (1922-2020), British historian, Africanist and William Robertson Professor of Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh from 1963 until 1986. The page referenced in the inscription contains the chapter notes that reference Shepperson's work. Winch is a history professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and a scholar of African-American society, politics, and cultural development in the pre-Civil War North. This title draws on research she conducted for her doctoral dissertation at Bryn Mawr.