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We have found 15 book/s in category Anti-Slavery & Slavery

       
Author Title Price Purchase
ANON. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE BRITISH COMMERCE, with reference particularly to British India, the United States of America, and the Slave Trade. £ 80.00

London. (Pamphleteer Vol IX, No XXi). 1817. pp. 265 - 275. 8vo. Disbound, leaves loose. Library stamp on verso of title.

Reference: 73481

 
BOLT, Christine. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION. A Study in Anglo-American Co-operation 1833 - 77. £ 5.00

Oxford University Press. 1969. pp. (ix), 197. 8vo. D/W, frayed. Apart from the dust wrapper a very good, clean copy.

Reference: 154574

 
FROST, Quintin. THE HARPER. and Other Poems. £ 300.00

London. Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme. 1806. pp. xv, (i), 104. 8vo. Modern quarter calf, marbled boards. No half title. The work contains the poem The Negro to His Wife - In the Introduction to this poem Frost references the 'beautiful Poem of the Dying Negro' ( an abolitionist poem first published in 1773 written by John Bicknell and Thomas Day). 'In the subsequent verses, I have pictured to myself that, on the moment of departure, he has been restored to his house, and in consequence write the following lines.' The Dying Negro is cited in Ragatz p. 496 and Hogg 4175. The Library Hub lists 2 copies of The Harper only - Oxford and the British Library. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1807, the Abolition of Slavery Act was not passed until 1833.

Reference: 84609

 
HOWICK, Lord Viscount. SPEECH OF LORD VISCOUNT HOWICK, in the House of Commons, on Friday the 15th of April 1831; on the subject of Colonial Slavery. Extracted from the Mirror of Parliament, Part LXXXIII. £ 150.00

London. The Proprietors of 'The Mirror of Parliament'. 1831. pp. 22. 8vo. Modern marble wrapper. Ragatz lists the 'Corrected report of the speech May 14 1833' as does the Library Hub but neither have this earlier report.

Reference: 68470

 
LEVY, Moses E. A PLAN FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY consistently with the interests of all parties concerned. £ 10.00

Edited with an Introduction by Chris Monaco. Micanopy, FL. Wacahoota Press. 1999. pp. xxix, 32. Frontis, 1 plate. 8vo. D/W. Originally published in 1828.

Reference: 7082

 
MACKENZIE-GRIEVE, Averil. THE LAST YEARS OF THE ENGLISH SLAVE TRADE. Liverpool 1750 - 1807. £ 20.00

London. Putnam & Co. Ltd. 1941. pp. xii, 332. Frontis, 7 plates. 8vo. Black cloth. Pasted on to front free endpaper:- 2 C20th MS copies of C18th receipts for slaves and a newspaper article about 'auction by candle'.

Reference: 10360

 
MONTGOMERY, James & James Grahame, and E. Benger. POEMS ON THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. £ 400.00

Embellished with Engravings from Pictures painted by R. Smirke, Esq. R.A. London. R. Bowyer. 1809. pp. (xiv), ii, (ii), 141. Directions to the binder tipped in. Engraved title & 3 plates being of Granville Sharpe, Thomas Clarkson, & William Wilberforce, plus 9 as called for. Royal 4to. Modern contemporary style half calf, boards. Some worm damage between pp 19 - 26, not affecting the plates, affecting some text very slightly, some minor holes up to this point.

Reference: 21594

 
ROMER, Ludewig Ferdinand. TILFORLADELIG EFTERRETNING OM KYSTEN GUINEA, (Reliable IIntelligence about the Coast of Guinea) £ 1,000.00

Indeholdende: Bestrivelse I. Om Kysten i Almindeilighed. II. Om Europaeiske Nationers Handel der. III Om Negernes Religion. IV. Om Negernes Historie, Saeder og Levermaade. V. Om os Danske, vores Forter og Etablissements. Copenhagen. Rudol Henrich Lillies 1760. pp. (xxxii), 348, (ii). Frontis, 1 map folded, 3 plates folded. 8vo. Half calf, speckled boards. 2nd Danish edition. Text block and illustrations browned.

Reference: 65123

 
ROMILLY, Sir Samuel. THE SPEECH OF SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, in the House of Commons, on the twenty-eighth of june 1814, on that Article in the Treaty of Peace which relates to the Slave Trade. £ 150.00

(London. Pamphleteer. Vol IV, No. VIII) 1814. pp. 407 - 430. 8vo. Disbound. Ragatz p. 546. 'Opposes the clause which permitted the French to continue the slave trade for five more years, holding that the traffic was then largely dead and that this clause would serve to revivie it, making it more difficult for France to effect abolition uponits expiration than at that moment.' Hogg 2385.

Reference: 85850

 
SIERRA LEONE COMPANY. SUBSTANCE OF THE REPORT OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE SIERRA LEONE COMPANY, delivered to the General Court of Proprietors, on Thursday the 26th February 1795. £ 125.00

London. James Phillips. Published by Order of the Directors. 1795. pp. 24. Small 8vo. Stitched as issued. Hogg 168. Lists the report for 1791 and says that subsequent reports published until 1808.

Reference: 65840

 
THORPE, Robert. A COMMENTARY ON THE TREATIES entered into between His Britannic Majesty, and His Most Faithful Majesty, signed at London, the 28th of July 1817; between His Britannic Majesty, and His Catholoic Majesty, signed at Madrid, the 23rd of September 1817; and between His Britannic Majesty, and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, signed at The Hague, the 4th of May 1818. For the Purpose of Preventing their Subjects from engaging in any illicit traffic of Slaves. £ 145.00

London. (Pamphleteer Vol XIV). 1819. pp. 417 - 445. 8vo. Disbound. Ragatz 561. 'Holds that, in reality, these treaties would augment the slave trade instead of decreasing it and that the commission courts provided for by them would become legalized protectors of that commerce. Urges that the slave trade be declared piracy by all the great powers.' Hogg 2548.

Reference: 64450

 
WEST, Shearer. (Editor). THE VICTORIANS AND RACE. £ 25.00

Contributors are Tim Barringer, Inga Bryden, Deborah Cherry, Helen M. Cooper, Tim Dolin, Simeran Man Singh Gell, Mary Hamer, Joseph A. Kestner, Anita Levy, Reina Lewis, Douglas A. Lorimer, Donald M. MacRaild, H.L. Malchow, Shearer West. Aldershot. Scolar Press. 1996. pp. xv, 249. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W. The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors Vincent Newey & Joanne Shattock. ISBN 1859282687. A very good, bright, clean copy. Includes Tracing the route to England: Nineteenth-Century Caribbean interventions into English debates on race and slavery.

Reference: 8496

 
WILBERFORCE, William. A LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRINCE OF TALLEYRAND PERIGORD, etc, etc, etc. on the subject of the SLAVE TRADE. £ 175.00

(LOndon. Pamphleteer. Vol V, No X) 1814. pp. 353 - 397. 8vo. Disbound, split in two. Faint library stamp on verso of title. Ragatz p569 'The late treaty of peace had allowed France to continue the slave trade for a period of five years. The long war had prevented the real facts of its horrors, become generally known in Great Britain, from reaching France. Wilberforce here presennts a sketch of the way in which it was carried on and urges that the French Government forbid its nationals and ships to have any part of it.' Hogg 2488a.

Reference: 37082P

 
WOOD, Marcus. (Editer). THE POETRY OF SLAVERY. An Anglo-American Anthology 1764 -1865. £ 20.00

Oxford University Press. 2003. pp. lxii, 704. 14 illustrations. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 0198187084. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 9684

 
WYATT-BROWN, Bertram. LEWIS TAPPAN AND THE EVANGELICAL WAR AGAINST SLAVERY. £ 10.00

Cleveland. The Press of Case Western Reserve University. 1969. pp. xxiv, 376. Frontis. 8vo. D/W, spine faded, slightly torn. SBN 829501460. Apart from the dust wrapper a very good, clean copy.

Reference: 66780

 
 
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