Brown irregular-grain cloth. Blind stamping on front. Black stamping on spine. No decoration on back. Endpapers printed with brown narrative scene of figures bursting out of John Brown's grave. Top edge colored brown.
Publisher's monogram stamped on front.
Book topics: Slavery--United States--Fiction; Master and servant--Fiction; African Americans--Fiction; Fugitive slaves--Fiction; Plantation life--Fiction; Slavery--Fiction; Slaves--Fiction; Southern States--Fiction.