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Item #35484 CORRESPONDENCE WITH FOREIGN POWERS RELATIVE TO THE SLAVE TRADE. FROM JANUARY 1 TO...

African Slave Trade:

CORRESPONDENCE WITH FOREIGN POWERS RELATIVE TO THE SLAVE TRADE. FROM JANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1841, INCLUSIVE. PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY, 1842. CLASS D.

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1842. xiii, [1 blank], 325, [1] pp. Bound in modern blue wrappers, with copy of title page laid down on front wrapper. Lacking half title, else Fine. An indispensable primary source on England's efforts to stamp out the African slave trade. The voluminous diplomatic exchanges..... More

Price: $650.00

[African Slave Trade]:

AFRICA AMERICA.

London: W.B. Walker, August 20, 1807. Engraved mezzotint broadside, 10" x 14." Several minor small tears and holes within the image. Publisher's line mostly erased. Lightly hinged on thin one-ply paper, with attractive ivory mat border. Some light wear to the image, Good+ copy of a rare broadside, attractively matted..... More

Price: $3,500.00

American Anti-Slavery Society:

THE ANTI-SLAVERY RECORD. VOL. I. OCTOBER, 1835 [FIRST EDITION.] NO. 10.

[New York: 1835]. [109]-120 pp, with caption title as issued. Stitched [loosening], some dusting and spotting. Good+. Illustration of "The Flogging of Females." On the horrors of slavery and the slave trade. More

Price: $75.00

Item #37075 A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS; THEIR RISE, RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES AND...

Benezet, Anthony:

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS; THEIR RISE, RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES AND SETTLEMENTS IN AMERICA. MOSTLY COLLECTED FROM DIFFERENT AUTHORS, FOR THE INFORMATION OF ALL SERIOUS INQUIRERS, PARTICULARLY FOREIGNERS. THE THIRD EDITION. BY ANTHONY BENEZET.

Philadelphia: Printed by Enoch Story, at his Printing-Office... 1783. 40pp, stitching gone. Inner margin and corner lightened [no effect on text]. Lightly toned, else Very Good. Benezet explains the Quakers' stance on slavery and the slave trade, unequivocally prohibiting their "being, in any respect, concerned in support of this infamous..... More

Price: $375.00

Item #37973 A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THAT PART OF AFRICA, INHABITED BY THE NEGROES. WITH RESPECT TO THE...

[Benezet, Anthony]:

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THAT PART OF AFRICA, INHABITED BY THE NEGROES. WITH RESPECT TO THE FERTILITY OF THE COUNTRY; THE GOOD DISPOSITION OF MANY OF THE NATIVES, AND THE MANNER BY WHICH THE SLAVE TRADE IS CARRIED ON...THE SECOND EDITION, WITH LARGE ADDITIONS AND AMENDMENTS.

Philadelphia: W. Dunlap, 1762. 80pp, light tanning and foxing, Very Good in later quarter calf and marbled boards. Errata statement at the bottom of page 80. A significant work by "the most determined, prolific, and successful advocate of the Negro's rights in the American colonies. Not single-handed, of course, but..... More

Price: $2,500.00

Item #38223 AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED BY CLARKSON, 17 JANUARY 1811 FROM LONDON, TO WILLIAM FREND,...

Clarkson, Thomas:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED BY CLARKSON, 17 JANUARY 1811 FROM LONDON, TO WILLIAM FREND, DISCUSSING DR. WILLIAM DICKSON'S UPCOMING PUBLICATION ABOUT SLAVERY: "MY FRIEND, AND OLD FELLOW-LABOURER, DR. DICKSON IS GOING TO PUBLISH A WORK, NOT ONLY SHEWING HOW SLAVES MAY BE GRADUALLY BROUGHT FROM A STATE OF SLAVERY TO FREEDOM, BUT ALSO THAT THE PURCHASE OF NEW NEGROES IS ALWAYS ATTENDED WITH LOSS. THIS LATTER PROPOSITION, IF REDUCED TO AN AXIOM, WOULD HAVE ITS MIGHT, AND HE IS THEREFORE VERY DESIROUS, THAT YOU, AS AN ABLE MATHEMATICIAN, SHOULD GIVE HIM ABOUT 3 HOURS [IT WILL REQUIRE NO MORE] TO INVESTIGATE IN YOUR OWN CLOSET HIS NEW THEOREM. I HAVE NO DOUBT, FROM THE GREAT INTEREST YOU HAVE ALWAYS TAKEN IN THIS GREAT QUESTION, THAT YOU WILL MOST READILY COMPLY WITH DR. DICKSON'S REQUEST. WHEN I COME TO TOWN IN MAY, I WILL CALL UPON YOU. YOURS TRULY, T. CLARKSON "

London: January 17, 1811. One page, 7" x 9," written on recto in neat ink manuscript. With a four-line ink manuscript note on verso, signed by the activist Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan: "This letter was addressed to my father William Frend who had worked with Thomas Clarkson some years before..... More

Price: $3,750.00

Colonization:

REPORT OF THE NAVAL COMMITTEE TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AUGUST, 1850, IN FAVOR OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LINE OF MAIL STEAMSHIPS TO THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA, AND THENCE VIA THE MEDITERRANEAN TO LONDON, DESIGNED TO PROMOTE THE EMIGRATION OF FREE PERSONS OF COLOR FROM THE UNITED STATES TO LIBERIA: ALSO TO INCREASE THE STEAM NAVY, AND TO EXTEND THE COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. WITH AN APPENDIX ADDED BY THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.

Washington: 1850. 79pp, disbound. .Minimal foxing. Very Good. This item is not a government-published document, although it prints this House Committee's report advocating an increase in the steam navy, partly to emulate England, partly as an appropriate response to the recent acquisition from Mexico of California and New Mexico; but..... More

Price: $250.00

Item #38471 THE DYING NEGRO, A POEM. NEW EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. Thomas Day, John Bicknell

[Day, Thomas; and John Bicknell]:

THE DYING NEGRO, A POEM. NEW EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED.

London: Printed for W. Flexney... 1787. Quarto. [2], x, 24 pp, in contemporary drab plain wrappers. Engraved title vignette of a slave in chains. Stitched. Title page dusted; with an expertly repaired margin tear [no text affected]. A few spots. Else Very Good. A slave, who had planned to marry..... More

Price: $1,000.00

Item #36961 THE EPISTLE FROM THE YEARLY-MEETING, HELD IN LONDON, BY ADJOURNMENTS, FROM THE 16TH...

Friends:

THE EPISTLE FROM THE YEARLY-MEETING, HELD IN LONDON, BY ADJOURNMENTS, FROM THE 16TH TO THE 24TH OF THE FIFTH MONTH, 1791, INCLUSIVE. TO THE QUARTERLY AND MONTHLY MEETINGS OF FRIENDS IN GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND, AND ELSEWHERE. DEAR FRIENDS,...

[London: 1791]. 3, [1]pp. Folio sheet, folded to 8-1/4" x 13-1/4." Untrimmed. Caption title [as issued]. Docketed on page [4], "The Yearly-Epistle, 1791." About Fine. "As a Christian society we have found it in our duty to promote the abolition of the Slave-trade; and, although the Legislature of this country..... More

Price: $250.00

Item #37499 PROCEEDINGS AGAINST WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, FOR A LIBEL. William Lloyd Garrison

[Garrison, William Lloyd]:

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, FOR A LIBEL.

Baltimore: Printed by William Wooddy, 1847. 32pp. Persistent browning at lower margins. Disbound. Good+. In 1834 Garrison was convicted in a Baltimore court of libeling Francis Todd of Newburyport, Mass, by falsely accusing him of involvement in the slave trade. The author, annoyed that Garrison attributed his defeat to bias..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #36988 CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES RELATIVE TO THE TREATY...

[International Slave Trade]:

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES RELATIVE TO THE TREATY LATELY CONCLUDED AT WASHINGTON; INCLUDING INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE EARL OF ABERDEEN TO LORD ASHBURTON. 1842--43. PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, BY HER MAJESTY'S COMMAND, APRIL, 1843.

London: Printed by T.R. Harrison, [1843]. Folio. 19, [1 blank] pp. New stitching, light rubberstamp in upper blank portion of title page, else Very Good. England used her mighty naval power in a massive effort to stamp out the International Slave Trade. The major roadblock to a Treaty with the..... More

Price: $750.00

Lewis, Alonzo M.:

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE AMISTAD SLAVE CASE. FIRST REVELATION OF A PLOT TO FORCE THE SLAVERY QUESTION TO AN ISSUE MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS BEFORE ITS FINAL OUTBREAK IN THE CIVIL WAR - SEVERAL HITHERTO UNKNOWN ASPECTS OF THE CASE TOLD.

Hartford: The Connecticut Magazine, Volume XI, Number 1, 1907. Connecticut Magazine, First Quarter 1907. [6], 184, [28] pp. Original printed and illustrated wrappers, original staples. Front wrapper detached but present, with its lower corner torn away. Else Very Good. Reverend Lewis's article appears at pages 125-[129], with the iconic full-page..... More

Price: $75.00

Monroe, James:

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS.

1817. December 2, 1817. [1]. 11, [1 blank] pp, disbound, untrimmed, partially uncut. Light dustsoiling, light tanning. Good+. AI 42657. More

Price: $75.00

[Monroe, James]:

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...IN RELATION TO THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. MARCH 20, 1824. [119].

Washington: 1824. 41pp, disbound, lightly foxed, last leaf trimmed closely shaving a few letters. Very Good. Secretary of State John Q. Adams provides diplomatic correspondence with England on suppressing the slave trade. Lord Canning advises that the trade, far from diminishing, "seems to acquire a fresh capacity for existence with..... More

Price: $100.00

[Parliament]:

AN ACT FOR CARRYING INTO EFFECT A CONVENTION OF ACCESSION OF THE KING OF THE TWO SICILIES TO TWO CONVENTIONS WITH THE KING OF THE FRENCH FOR SUPPRESSING THE SLAVE TRADE. [10TH AUGUST 1838.].

London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1838. Folio. [713]-716 pp, as issued. Disbound. Very Good. This Act discusses the two recent conventions between Great Britain and France and the King of the Two Sicilies, with details regarding cruizers of the Two Sicilies which are to be employed in the suprression..... More

Price: $35.00

[Parliament]:

AN ACT FOR VESTING THE FORT OF SENEGAL, AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, IN THE COMPANY OF MERCHANTS TRADING WITH AFRICA. CAP XX.

London: Printed by Mark Baskett, 1764. Folio. [1], [1 blank], 335-336pp, as issued. Disbound. Very Good. ESTC N56806. More

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[Parliament]:

AN ACT TO CONTINUE AN ACT FOR AMENDING AND CONSOLIDATING THE LAWS RELATING TO THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE, [25TH JULY 1828].

London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1828. Folio, pp. 945-947, [1 blank]. Disbound, else Very Good. More

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[Parliament]:

AN ACT TO REVIVE AND CONTINUE, UNTIL SIX MONTHS AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE NEXT SESSION OF PARLIAMENT, AND TO AMEND, AN ACT FOR AUTHORIZING HER MAJESTY TO CARRY INTO IMMEDIATE EXECUTION BY ORDERS IN COUNCIL ANY TREATIES MADE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. [14TH AUGUST 1838.] CAP. CII.

London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1838. 821-823, [1 blank] pp, as issued. Disbound. Else Very Good. More

Price: $35.00

Raymond, Henry:

DISUNION AND SLAVERY. A SERIES OF LETTERS TO HON. W. L. YANCEY, OF ALABAMA.

[New York: 1860]. 36pp, disbound. Caption title [as issued], printed in double columns. Good+. The editor of the New York Times tries to reason with the South's notorious Fire-Eater and its most accomplished orator. Writing in late 1860 after Abraham Lincoln's election, Raymond says Yancey's many speeches in the North..... More

Price: $175.00

[Schenck, Robert Cumming]:

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMUNICATING, IN COMPLIANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE, THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. SCHENCK, UNITED STATES MINISTER TO BRAZIL, AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN RELATION TO THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. MARCH 13, 1854.

1854. 33d Cong., 1st Sess. SED47. [Washington: 1854]. 14, [2 blank] pp, disbound, spine reinforced with paper tape. Light water stain running through text, else Very Good. Schenk reports on Brazil's active encouragement of and participation in the African slave trade. Despite British efforts to stamp out this traffic, "secret..... More

Price: $65.00

[Sierra Leone]:

PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE PREVENTION OF SLAVE DEALING AT SIERRA LEONE. (IN CONTINUATION OF PAPERS PRESENTED AUGUST 12, 1853.) PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY, AUGUST 1855.

London: Printed by George Edward Eyre... 1855. Folio, modern blue wrappers, with copy of title affixed to front wrap. Stitched. iv, 85pp, Near Fine. Informative material on the slave-trade, with lists "of children rescued from slavery, either sold from or purchased and brought into this country"; prosecutions for slave-trading, naming..... More

Price: $450.00

[Sierra Leone]:

PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE RIGHTS OF LIBERATED AFRICANS AND THE PREVENTION OF SLAVE DEALING AT SIERRA LEONE. (IN CONTINUATION OF PAPERS PRESENTED AUGUST 12, 1853.) PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY, AUGUST 12, 1853.

London: Printed by George Edward Eyre... 1853. Folio, modern blue wrappers, with copy of title affixed to front wrap. Stitched. 35, [1] pp. Lightly foxed, Very Good. The papers concern the treatment of Liberated Africans under British law; the continuing participation of Africans in the illicit slave trade; the "case..... More

Price: $450.00

Slave Trade:

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMUNICATING ...COPIES OF THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THAT OF GREAT BRITAIN, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE RIGHT OF SEARCH; WITH COPIES OF THE PROTEST OF THE AMERICAN MINISTER AT PARIS AGAINST THE QUINTUPLE TREATY, AND THE CORRESPONDENCE RELATING THERETO.

29th Cong., 1st Sess. SD377. 1846. 248pp, disbound, light fox. Very Good. A detailed review of "the state of things on the coast of Africa," the activities of England in "checking the African slave trade," and the roadblocks to establishing a treaty with the U.S. in that regard. British board-and-search..... More

Price: $100.00

Slave Trade:

MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMUNICATING...A REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, WITH DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

31st Cong., 2d Sess. SED6. 1850. 43pp, disbound, light scattered foxing and wear. Very Good. On the misuse of the American flag in the African-Brazilian slave trade. The United States is "mortified" at this practice; the U.S. consul includes eye-witness reports. More

Price: $75.00

Stuart, Charles:

THE WEST INDIA QUESTION. IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION WOULD BE SAFE FOR THE MASTERS- PROFITABLE FOR THE MASTERS- HAPPY FOR THE SLAVES- RIGHT IN THE GOVERNMENT- ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE NATION- WOULD INTERFERE WITH NO FEELINGS BUT SUCH AS ARE DISGRACEFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE- CANNOT BE POSTPONED WITHOUT CONTINUALLY INCREASING DANGER. AN OUTLINE FOR IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION; AND REMARKS ON COMPENSATION.

New Haven: Hezekiah Howe, 1833. 43, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, lightly worn, Good+. The title summarizes the argument. Stuart was one of several influential British abolitionists who turned anti-slavery sentiment from gradual to immediate emancipation. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. LCP 9958. Dumond 107. More

Price: $100.00

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