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Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on slavery and emancipation for sale.
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;) | DAVIS Darien J. Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc. (1995) 301pp. Ex Library book with several h/s's but very clean in card covers. | £5.00 |
;) | THESEE Francoise Le Général Donzelot a la Martinique : Vers la fin de l'ancien régime colonial, 1818-1826 Karthala (1997) 246pp + plates. Fine in card covers | £9.00 |
;) | SCHLOSS Rebecca Hartkopf Sweet liberty: the final days of slavery in Martinique Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (2009) 300pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £15.00 |
;) | MOITT Bernard Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 Indiana University Press (2001) 217pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £14.00 |
;) ;) | HOARE Prince Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq.: Composed from his Own Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Documents in the Possession of his Family and of the African Institution London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co (1820) xxxii + 524pp + xxxiii. 1st ed., fine in original half calf, front board detached and marbled boards with some loss. Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was a British campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade. He founded the St George's Bay Company, a forerunner of the Sierra Leone Company to settle black people there. | £750.00 |
;) ;) | COLERIDGE Rev. W.H. Charges delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Barbados and the Leeward Islands; - together with prayers on certain public occasions; and addresses to candidates for Holy Orders: to young persons offering themselves for confirmation within that Diocese: and at the consecration of a chapel and burial ground in the city of Caracas. London (1835) x + 324pp + 44pp + 4 hand coloured folding maps. 1st ed., clean in original worn and faded cloth with original paper label. Includes chapters on Antigua and British Guiana with maps of each. A scarce work with details of the final abolition of slavery. The author was uncle of H.N. Coleridge. | £250.00 |
;) | 1853 Act for carrying into effect the Treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of New Granada for the Suppression of the Slave Trade London 15pp. Fine. | £8.00 |
;) | MARRYAT Joseph A Reply to the Arguments contained in various publications, recommending an equalization of the duties on East & West Indian Sugar. London : Printed for J.M. Richardson (1823) 111pp. 1st ed., fine, disbound retaining half title. Marryat was the founder of a large commercial house with interests in the trade of Trinidad. 'Opposes equalization and attempts to prove that East India sugar was a slave, not a free-grown, product. Presents arguments on both sides very fully.' [Ragatz p.308] | £75.00 |
;) ;) ;) | COLERIDGE Rev. W.H. Charges delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Barbados and the Leeward Islands; - together with prayers on certain public occasions; and addresses to candidates for Holy Orders: to young persons offering themselves for confirmation within that Diocese: and at the consecration of a chapel and burial ground in the city of Caracas. London (1835) x + 324pp + 44pp + 4 hand coloured folding maps. 1st ed., fine in original cloth with later paper label. Includes chapters on Antigua and British Guiana with maps of each. A rare work with details of the final abolition of slavery. The author was uncle of H.N. Coleridge. | £280.00 |
;) ;) | STURGE Joseph and HARVEY Thomas The West Indies in 1837; - being the journal of a visit to Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St Lucia, Barbadoes, and Jamaica; undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the actual condition of the negro population of those islands. London (1838) ix + 476pp + two folding maps. 1st ed., a clean copy rebound in modern cloth An important work on slavery. | £175.00 |
;) ;) | HINTON John Howard Memoir of William Knibb, Missionary in Jamaica Houlston and Stoneman, London (1847) x + 562pp + 6pp Publisher's catalogue and engraved portrait frontispiece. 1st ed., fine in old half calf. Wiliam Knibb was a Baptist missionary in Jamaica from 1823. | £300.00 |
;) ;) ;) | CROPPER James Relief for West-Indian distress: shewing the inefficiency of protecting duties on East-India sugar, and pointing out other modes of certain relief. London (1823) 36pp. 1st ed., fine in later full calf with marbled end papers. Bookplate of Aaron J. Matalon. | £120.00 |
;) ;) | MARRYAT Joseph A Reply to the Arguments contained in various publications, recommending an equalization of the duties on East & West Indian Sugar. London : Printed for J.M. Richardson (1823) 111pp. 1st ed., fine in modern half calf. Bookplate of Aaron J. Matalon. Marryat was the founder of a large commercial house with interests in the trade of Trinidad. 'Opposes equalization and attempts to prove that East India sugar was a slave, not a free-grown, product. Presents arguments on both sides very fully.' [Ragatz p.308] | £125.00 |
;) ;) | ANON On protection to West-India sugar. - Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, and containing an answer to a pamphlet entitled 'A Reply,' & & by Joseph Marryat. London : Printed for J.M. Richardson (1823) 159pp. Fine apart from title page which has been repaired with tissue and suffered some loss, in modern half calf. Bookplate of Aaron J. Matalon. Marryat was the founder of a large commercial house with interests in the trade of Trinidad. Rare. | £175.00 |
;) | CARIBNET Journal of the Caribbean Studies International Network. - Issue 1 University of London (1998) 118 large pp. Fine in card covers. Includes article on 'Resistance against slave labour: forced migration, maroon society and the struggle in the Caribbean by W. Heilbron. | £15.00 |
;) ;) | SLAVERY Brief remarks on the Slave Registry Bill; - and upon a special report of the African Institution, recommending that measure. London (1816) 67pp + table. 1st ed., in later quarter cloth with marbled boards. Fine. 'Denies the central Government's right to regulate the colonies' internal affairs. Denies that illegal importations of slaves had been taking place. Holds that the island slave laws were salutary and were faithfully carried out.' (Ragatz) | £120.00 |
;) | MONTGOMERY James The West Indies and other poems. London (1814) 160pp. 4th ed., fine in original decorated full calf. A very fine copy. Long poem written in honour of the abolition of the African slave trade by the British Legislature in 1807. | £50.00 |
;) ;) | STERNE Henry Statement of Facts, Submitted to the Right Hon.Lord Glenelg, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies...with an Exposure of the Present System of Jamaica Apprenticeship London: Printed by J.C. Chappell (1837) xii + 282pp + vii + folding genealogical table. 1st ed., foxing to title page and first few pages otherwise clean in original boards (detached) Describes injustices to former slaves under the Apprenticeship system. | £160.00 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | STEDMAN Cap. J.G. Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam - in Guiana on the wild coast of South America from the years 1772 to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country and describing its productions.. London (1806) 2 vols. 4to, 2 engraved titles both with handcoloured vignettes of ships at sea and 81 coloured engravings including 3 plates engraved by William Blake. 2nd ed., large paper copy. Very fine in contemporary tree calf, rebacked with old backs laid down, red and black letter pieces. (Watermarks on paper: text 1796, plates, 1794, J. Whatman paper). The Large Paper copy of which only a few were printed was published coloured at £5.5s as opposed to the plain issue on ordinary paper at £3.3s. Abbey 719, Sabin 91075 | £14,000.00 |
;) ;) | RICHARD Henry Memoirs of Joseph Sturge. London: S.W. Partridge (1864) xix + 622pp + frontispiece with tipped in sepia photo. 1st ed., clean in original full calf, with new spine. Biography of the missionary with much on his time in the West Indies including a chapter on his opposition to the apprentice system. | £195.00 |
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1837 (23 Dec) Grenada EL from Geo. Paterson, at Marli Estate to Edinburgh. Light boxed Falmouth '½' in green, rated 2/5½d. Geo Paterson was governor of Grenada from 1815-16 and 1823-26. In the letter he expresses fears of a negro revolt caused by a delay to the end of the apprentice system.
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1837 (23 Dec) Grenada EL from Geo. Paterson, at Marli Estate to Edinburgh. Light boxed Falmouth '½' in green, rated 2/5½d. Geo Paterson was governor of Grenada from 1815-16 and 1823-26. In the letter he expresses fears of a negro revolt caused by a delay to the end of the apprentice system.
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CONNEAU Capt. Theophilus A Slaver's Log Book: Or, 20 Years' Residence in Africa. Robert Hale Ltd 1977 370pp. 1st U.K. ed., very fine in fine D/W.
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