209p octavo. Foreword by E.D.W. Jones, and illustrated from photographs of the Edmondson family. Green cloth. The binding with considerable spotting on the cloth of the front cover, few small damp spots on the rear cover, else a very good copy, text clean, in a worn and chipped good dust jacket. A nice association copy of an important title, inscribed by the author to his classmate at Lincoln University Aaron Mossell, the father of a pioneering African-American family. Blockson 9460. Smith. Emancipation: The Making of a Black Lawyer 1844-1944.