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New World Publishing, 2019. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Canada's first black lawyer and magazine editor. In very good clean condition..

Halifax, NS: New World Publishing, 2019. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. paperback w/cover port. xii, 120 pages : illustrations, map, this book a biography of Abraham Beverley Walker, Lawyer, Lecturer, Activist, chronicles his life and work, as well as the systemic racism Dr. Walker faced as Canada's first black lawyer, and first black magazine editor. He was one of eleven children of farming parents but excelled academically studying law at the National University in Washington, D.C., law at the Saint John Law School, as well as philosophy and several languages. Abraham Walker lived in the last half of the nineteenth century and was born in Kars, New Brunswick but spent his entire professional career (except for a year and a half) in Saint John..