Voices from the Spirit World Being Communications from Many Spirits. By the Hand of Isaac Post, Medium
Rochester, New York: Charles H. McDonell, Printer, 1852. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. xiv, 15-256pp. Original light yellow wraps with decorative ruling and black lettering on cover and spine. With an introduction by B. Franklin. Amy and Isaac Post were early converts to the 19th century Spiritualism, a religious movement that believes that the dead have the ability to communicate with the living. It had about 8 million followers by the end of the 19th Century. In 1848 the couple joined with Kate and Margaret Fox who had acquired the ability to communicate with spirits. Isaac Post too was acknowledged as a medium. The spirits contacted with the communication recorded in writing by Post included George Washington, Emanuel Swedenborg, John C. Calhoun, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and William Penn.
In 1842 the Posts became instrumental in founding the abolitionist Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, William Lloyd Garrison was one of the cofounders. They had been hosting meetings and lectures for like-minded participants in the reform movement, e.g. Frederick Douglass who became a close friend, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth, an African-American abolitionist and women's right activist. Amy Post got involved as an organizer in the women's movement in 1848. Wraps with light smudges and line drawing on back cover. Wraps with light wear along edges, small tears and chips at head and tail of spine and front joint. Light staining and foxing at front and back free endpapers. Wraps in overall good-, interior in very good condition. g- to vg. Item #42818
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