SIGNED 1st Ed 1942 MY BLACK MAMMY TRUE STORY Of SOUTHLAND JEFFERSON PENN HC Rare
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1st Edition
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
EXTREMELY RARE & COLLECTIBLE
BLACK AMERICANA GEM
*** MY BLACK MAMMY ***
"A TRUE STORY OF THE SOUTHLAND"
by
JEFFERSON PENN
HIGH VALUE RARITY
TRUE STORY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON PENN GROWING UP IN THE LATE 1800'S.
MAMMY LEETHY WAS THE PRE AND POST CIVIL WAR SLAVE, SERVANT, MAMMY OF THE PLANTATION IN CHARGE OF ALL THE CHILDREN AND THE PLANTATION HOME
*** THIS IS HER STORY... AS TOLD BY THE CHILD OF THE WEALTHY FAMILY WHO LOVED AND CHERISHED HER MEMORY ***
SOME PEOPLE WILL THINK THAT THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK SOUNDS ***RACIST...OR BELITTLING TO AFRICAN AMERICANS**** , HOWEVER IT IS NOT MEANT THAT WAY !
THIS STORY IS TOLD IN THOMAS JEFFERSON PENN'S OWN WORDS, AND WAS HIS WAY OF HONORING A WOMAN THAT HE CARED FOR DEEPLY
*** MEET MAMMY LEETHY ***
THE STORY TAKES PLACE IN THE LATE 1800'S WHEN JEFFERSON PENN WAS JUST A CHILD.
THOMAS JEFFERSON PENN WAS BORN IN 1875 TO FRANK REID PENN AND ANNIE SPENCER PENN OF VIRGINIA. HE WAS THE FOURTH CHILD.
AFTER MOING TO NORTH CAROLINA THE FAMILY STARTED THE
*** PENN TOBACCO COMPANY IN REIDSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA***
THE COMPANY WAS SOLD TO THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY LATER. THIS COMPANY AND ITS FAMILY IS FAMED FOR OWNERSHIP OF THE BRANDS: LUCKY STRIKES, PALL MALL, TAREYTON, HIT PARADE AND HERBERT TAREYTON CIGARETTES.
THIS FAMILY WAS CONSIDERED *** AMERICAN ROYALTY***
THIS IS THE TRUE STORY OF THE BLACK MAMMY OF THE CHILDREN OF SOUTHERN AMERICAN " ROYALTY "
MAMMY LEETHY WAS A REAL PRE AND POST CIVIL WAR MAMMY TO THE CHILDREN OF THE WEALTHY TOBACCO FAMILY
"SHE WAS NEITHER SLAVE NOR A SERVANT, NEITHER AN EQUAL NOR AN INFERIOR...SHE WAS ALL OF THESE "
A BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPH OF MAMMY-LEETHY IS THE FRONTISPIECE OF THE VOLUME
HER STORY IS ILLUSTRATED IN SKETCHES WHICH ACCOMPANY EACH CHAPTER AND TRUE TALE OF LIFE WITH MAMMY ON THE PLANTATION....ALL DRAWINGS ARE ILLUSTRATIONS OF NEGRO LIFE
A PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR IS ALSO INCLUDED AS A FINALE TO THE VOLUME
THE AUTHOR IN LATER YEARS BUILT A 27 ROOM ROCK HOUSE ON 1000 ACRES OF LAND HE PURCHASED IN REIDSVILLE AND NAMED HIS ESTATE THE "CHINCQUA PENN PLANTATION ". ....AS OF 2006, THE ESTATE WAS SOLD AND IS NOW A TOURIST ATTRACTION.
THE PLANTATION ESTATE AND THIS BOOK REMAIN A LASTING TRIBUTE TO THE LOVE HE HAD FOR HIS BLACK MAMMY,
THE DEDICATION STATES:
"TO MY WONDERFUL MOTHER...ANNIE SPENCE PENN; AND TO HER MAID, GIVEN HER WHEN A CHILD...MY BLACK MAMMY "
*** THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST RARE BLACK AMERICANA VOLUMES IN PRINT AND IS NOW OUT-OF-PRINT AND PRESERVED IN VERY FEW UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ***
ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTIC SIGNED 1ST EDITION !
HIGH VALUE BLACK AMERICANA
VERY GOOD CONDITION LINEN HARDCOVER WITH CLEAN BRIGHT PAGES, VIVID IMAGES AND TIGHT BINDING
A MUST HAVE FOR THE SERIOUS COLLECTOR !
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