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c6409A Anvers, chez Philippe Krakenner, 1778 ; in-12° pleine basane marbrée de l' époque, dos lisse orné de filets et petits fers dorés, titre doré sur étiquette de maroquin vieux-rouge, tranches rouges; 451, ( 2)pp.Reliure légèrement frottée, ors du dos un peu passés, infime manque à la coiffe supérieure, un coin émoussé avec manque de cuir, très petit manque de papier en marge d'un feuillet ; inscriptions manuscrites anciennes sur la garde blanche ( chiffres et additions).
8996(Paris ), de l' Imprimerie Nationale, Floréal an 10 ; Brochure in-8° en feuilles de 20pp., sans couverture comme parue, imprimé sur papier bleuté.
26786Paris de l'imprimerie du Patriote Français 1790 in 8 (20x13) 1 fascicule broché, 3 pages, non rogné. Avec la liste des noms de Colons Américains signataires qui attestent de leur soumission à l'Assemblée Nationale. Cette lettre datée du premier Août 1790 est leur réponse à un arrêté de l'île de Saint-Domingue, par lequel cette colonie déclare n'entendre soumettre les loix relatives au régime intérieur de la colonie, qu'à la seule sanction du Roi. Elle précéde aussi les importants débats de la Constituante sur les droits politiques des hommes de couleur dans les colonies du mois de mai 1791. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
184125455PARIS 1841-45 -in-8 demi-basane 31 plaquettes du même Auteur, reliées en 2 volumes, reliure demi-basane (half binding sheepskin) bleu-marine in-octavo, dos long (spine without raised band)décoré "or" (gilt decoration), Auteur et Titre frappés "or" (gilt title) avec 4 filets fins "or" de part et d'autre, 4 filets fin "or" en place des nerfs et en tête et en pied, papier marbré vert, crème et marron aux plats (cover with marbled paper), toutes tranches lisses (all smooth edges), sans illustration (no illustration), Oeuvres Reliées comme suit : TOME I ...... 1- Précis de l'Affaire Douillard-Mahaudière adressé à la Chambre des Députés, 20 pages, 1841, Paris Imprimerie de Cosse et G.-Lagionie Editeur, 2- Mémoire du Conseil des Délégués des Colonies à M. le Baron DUPERRE Amiral de France, Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, 28 pages, 1841, Paris Imprimerie de Cosse et G.-Lagionie Editeur, 3- Conseil des Délégués des Colonies. a Monsieur le Ministre de l'Agriculture et du Commerce, 21 pages, 1841, Paris Imprimerie d'Ad. Blondeau Editeur, 4- Avis de M. JOLLIVET, Délégué de la Martinique à Monsieur le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, sur le projet d'Ordonnance relatif à l'emprisonnement disciplinaire des Esclaves, 24 pages, 1841, Paris Imprimerie d'Ad. Blondeau Editeur, 5- ANALYSE DES OPINIONS ET VOTES DES CONSEILS GENERAUX DE L'AGRICULTURE, DES MANUFACTURES ET DU COMMERCE, SUR LA QUESTION DES SUCRES : Lettre de Mr A. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, Délégué de la Martinique à Messieurs les Présidents et Membres du Conseil Supérieur du Commerce, SUR LA QUESTION DES SUCRES, 18 pages, 1842 Paris Imprimerie d'Ad. Blondeau Editeur, 6- Des Missions en France de la Société Abolitionniste Anglaise et Etrangère, par M. JOLLIVET, Député d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Délégué de la Martinique, 15 pages, sans date (1841)Paris Imprimerie d'Ad. Blondeau Editeur, 7- Question des Sucres dans la Chambre des Communes d'Angleterre - Du Travail Libre et du Travail Forcé. Leur Influence sur la Production Coloniale, par M. JOLLIVET, Député d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Délégué de la Martinique, Bon à Tirer avec dernières corrections de fautes et parfois de phrases rajoutée de la main de l'Auteur avant impression définitive par l'Editeur, 27 pages, Mai 1841 Paris Imprimerie d'Ad. Blondeau Editeur, 8- De L'Expropriation Forcée dans les Colonies de la Martinique, de la Guadeloupe et de la guyane par M. JOLLIVET, membre de la Chambre des Députés, 70 pages, 1842 Paris Imprimerie d'Ad. Blondeau Editeur, 9- Du Projet de Loi tendant à Régler les Attributions Financières des Conseils Coloniaux par M. JOLLIVET, membre de la Chambre des Députés, 51 pages, 2 Avril 1842 Paris Imprimerie d'Ad. Blondeau Editeur, 10- De la Philantropie Anglaise par Mr JOLLIVET, membre de la Chambre des Députés (deuxième edition), 55 pages, 1842 Paris Imprimerie d'Ad. Blondeau Editeur, 11- Discours de Mr JOLLIVET, Député d'Ille-et-Vilaine, dans les Séances des 28 et 30 Mai 1842, 15 pages, 1842 Paris Imprimerie de Cosse et G.-Laguionie Editeur, 12 - LETTRE ET REPONSE AU JOURNAL DES DEBATS, par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, Délégué de la Martinique, 14 pages, 1842 Paris Imprimerie de E.-B. DELANCHY Editeur, 13 - LETTRES de M. A. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés et Délégué de la Martinique, 31 pages, 1842 Paris Imprimerie de E.-B. DELANCHY Editeur, 14- Analyse des Délibérations et Avis des CONSEILS COLONIAUX des Gouverneurs et des Administrateurs des Colonies sur les PROJETS D'EMANCIPATION(ABOLITION DE L'ESCLAVAGE), de la Commission présidée par M. Le Duc de Broglie, Par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, 69 pages, 1843 Paris Imprimerie Bruneau Editeur, 15 - L'EMANCIPATION ANGLAISE (ABOLITION DE L'ESCLAVAGE) Jugée par ses Résultats - Analyse des Documents Officiels Imprimés par ordre de M. le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, Délégué de la Martinique, 104 pages, 1842 Paris Imprimerie de Moquet et Hauquelin Editeur, 16 - Enquête Parlementaire sur les COLONIES ANGLAISES publiée en Septembre 1842 - ANALYSE DE L'ENQUÊTE par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, 48 pages, 1843 Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 17- QUESTION DES SUCRES par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, 86 pages, 1843 Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 18 - PARALLELE entre les COLONIES FRANCAISES ET LES COLONIES ANGLAISES, Appendice au Rapport du Duc de Broglie par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, Délégué de la Martinique, 40 pages, 1843 PARIS Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, TOME II ..... 1 - Lettre de M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, Délégué de la Martinique, au Rédacteur du Journal des Débats, 13 pages, 1844 Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 2 - Note Présentée au Conseil des Ministres Par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, Délégué de la Martinique, sur UN PROJET DE LOI RELATIF A LA CONSTITUTION POLITIQUE DES COLONIES, 23 pages, sans date (1844)Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 3 - A LOS HABITANTES DE LA ISLA DE CUBA (texte en espagnol ...par A. JOLLIVET, diputado de la camara de francia, y delegado de la Martinica), 23 pages, 1844 Paris imprimerie d'Ed. Proux et Cie Editeur, 4 - HISTORIQUE DE LA TRAITE ET DU DROIT DE VISITE. Par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, 35 pages, 1844 Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 5 - PETITIONS DE QUELQUES OUVRIERS ET OUVRIERES DE PARIS POUR L'ABOLITION IMMEDIATE DE L'ESCLAVAGE - VERITABLE SITUATION DES NOIRS DANS LES COLONIES FRANCAISES Par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, 20 pages, 1844 Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 6 - Observations Présentées par M. JOLLIVET, Délégué de la Martinique, devant la Commission de la Chambre des Pairs sur LE PROJET DE LOI (SUR L'ESCLAVAGE DES NOIRS), Tendant à Modifier les Articles 2 et 3 de la loi du 24 Avril 1833 - Séance du 11 Juin- 81 pages, 1844 Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 7 - QUESTION DES SUCRES EN ANGLETERRE. - DU TRAVAIL LIBRE ET DU TRAVAIL ESCLAVE, par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, 23 pages, 1845 Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 8 - DOCUMENTS AMERICAINS, ANNEXION DU TEXAS, EMANCIPATION DES NOIRS(ABOLITION DE L'ESCLAVAGE), POLITIQUE DE L'ANGLETERRE, par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, 40 pages, 1845 Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 9- ANNEXION DU TEXAS - NOUVEAUX DOCUMENTS AMERICAINS Publiés par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, 55 pages, 1845 Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 10 - DOCUMENTS AMERICAINS, 3ème Série. LES ETATS UNIS D'AMERIQUE ET L'ANGLETERRE. ANNEXION DU TEXAS. L'OREGON, par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, 74 pages, Avril 1845 Paris Imprimerie de Bruneau Editeur, 11 - LES COLONIES FRANCAISES DEVANT LA CHAMBRE DES PAIRS. Analyse de la Discussion Générale du Projet de Loi sur le Régime Colonial, par M. JOLLIVET, Membre de la Chambre des Députés, 112 pages, 1845 Paris imprimerie de Guiraudet et Jouaust Editeur, 12 - Chambre des Députés - Session de 1844-1845 - DISCOURS prononcé par M. JOLLIVET, Député d'Ille-et-Vilaine dans la discussion générale du projet de loi relatif aux COLONIES, Séance du 29 Mai 1845, 31 pages, extrait du Moniteur Universel du 30 Mai 1845, 1845 Paris Imprimerie Panckoucke Editeur, 13 - DISCOURS prononcés par M. JOLLIVET, Député d'Ille-et-Vilaine, dans la discussion des articles du projet de loi relatif au REGIME DES COLONIES, Séances des 2, 3 et 4 Juin 1845, extraits du Moniteur Universel des 3, 4 et 5 Juin 1845, 36 pages, 1845 Paris Imprimerie Panckoucke Editeur,
1970z015630Westport CT: Negro Universities Press 1970. Reprint. Very Good. Facsimile reprint. 8vo. in black cloth. Varying internal paginations. Very good. Boards and top edge foxed. Light penciling to contents else internally unmarked in a sound binding. Negro Universities Press unknown
1759ST19900Philadelphia and Germantown: Benjamin. Franklin and David. Hall or Christopher Sower 1759-60. 192 x 130 mm. 7 1/2 x 5". 1 p.l. collection title 47 1 71 4 76-168 iv 5-43 1 55 1 64 16 pp. <br/> Contemporary blind-ruled sheep nicely rebacked to style raised bands. Verso of front flyleaf inscribed in ink in the recipient's hand: "This Book is the Gift of Mr. Anthony Benezett sic to William Anderson October 14th 1760"; front pastedown with ink inscription: "The holy Book To Be Read"; title page with signature of William Anderson dated 1760; front flyleaf and both free endpapers with additional 19th century owner inscriptions. Miller 730; Smith Friends' Books I p. 240. For "Observations": Sabin 4676; Evans 8542. Boards a little dried and scuffed with a couple of small stains text variably toned because of colonial paper quality perhaps a fifth of the text rather browned dampstaining in the upper margin in the middle part of the volume mostly unobtrusive but darker and extending downward on a few leaves. The texts in the kind of problematic condition expected with early American imprints but the binding much better than is normally seen.<br/> <br/> This is a presentation copy of an important published collection of Quaker texts that includes four works printed by Benjamin Franklin as well as an early significant abolitionist tract that delivers a powerful condemnation of the slave trade. The collection title page lists nine tracts in total six of which were issued with separate title pages comprising: "An Extract from the Spirit of Prayer" by W. Law; "A Discourse on Mistakes concerning Religion" by Thomas Hartley; "Christ's Spirit or a Christian's Strength" "The Stumbling Stone" "The Doctrine of Baptism" and "The Trial of Spirits" all by William Dell; "The Liberty of Flesh and Spirit Distinguished" by J. Rutty; and "Observations on Enslaving Importing and Purchasing of Negroes &c." followed by "The Uncertainty of a Death-bed Repentance" both by Anthony Benezet. Miller asserts that "the first fifth sixth and seventh had previously been printed by Benjamin Franklin and David Hall all in Caslon type. The remainder had been printed by Christopher Saur who owned no Caslon letter." The volume title also in Calson type is attributed to the press of Franklin and Hall for the same reason. According to Miller Anthony Benezet put together this collection of Quaker material in the spring of 1760 in an edition of 500 copies with the hope of reaching those living "in ye back Parts of Maryland Virginia & N. Carolina . . . and Connecticut." First printed in 1759 Benezet's forceful denunciation of the slave trade is notable for using eyewitness accounts from people actually involved with the trade recounting the horrific practices and conditions that were realities of the system. Citing various lines of scripture Benezet argues that slavery runs contrary to Christian teachings and Mosaic law and that those who purchase and keep slaves bear as much guilt as the traders themselves. Born in France to Huguenot parents Benezet 1713-84 was a Quaker abolitionist educator and writer who became one of the earliest and most outspoken advocates against slavery in colonial America. He emigrated to Philadelphia by way of Rotterdam and London in 1731 where he founded Pennsylvania's first secondary school for girls and later opened one of the first schools to welcome black students. ANB says that "Although Benezet is recognized as the most prolific antislavery propagandist of the eighteenth century throughout his lifetime he supported and wrote about a wide variety of causes and topics including assistance for Acadian refugees temperance peace fair treatment of Native Americans religion educational reform and poor relief." His wife Joyce Benezet d. 1786 née Marriott was a preacher in the faith herself. According to Waldstreicher Franklin maintained a "lifelong friendship with Quaker politicians merchants and scientists. . . . He admired Quakerism because of its affirmation of simplicity frugality anti-slavery and humanitarianism." Franklin also saw the possibility of profit in printing for the considerable Quaker population of his colony. Hall 1714-72 came to Philadelphia from London in 1744 to work for Franklin and became a partner in the firm in 1748. As a considerable mark of his regard for Hall Franklin drew up a contract whereby his partner would over an 18-year period buy him out. It is a further sign of Franklin's regard for Hall that the printer is buried beside Franklin and his wife. As to contemporaneous provenance we can speculate with some degree of certainty that our William Anderson was the person of that name who was a Quaker preacher from Haverford near Philadelphia. His wife Margaret--like Benezet's wife Joyce--was also a preacher and these two husband-and-wife teams are dealt with in Rebecca Larson's "Daughter of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad 1700-1775" 1999 Appendix 2. . B[enjamin]. Franklin and D[avid]. Hall or Christopher Sower unknown
18407120Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1840-1841. 4 volumes in-8 (225 x 114 mm), (10)-XXXII-343 pp. + (4)-V-(3)-430 pp. + (4)-XVI-546 pp. + (4)-504 pp., reliure d'époque demi-veau, coiffes frottées, un mors fendu en tête sur 5 cm ( tome II), frottements aux mors du tome IV, coins frottés, sur tous les volumes un cachet de la bibliothèque de la Société des études coloniales et maritimes sur le feuillet de garde et sur la première page de texte.
1850515519Salem Mass: Published by C. Foote 1850. Unbound. Very Good. First edition. Folio. 4pp. Printed self-wrappers. Owner's contemporary ink name on front cover in upper margin. Text is folded lightly creased few spots of faint soiling very good. Text includes: "The Beloved Tune" by Lydia Maria Child three full columns and a thirty-six line announcement about the pending publication of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Also includes a brief article entitled "Mr. Clay on Slavery" printing extracts from a debate between Senator Clay and General Cass; also prints a three-line announcement about the liberation of fourteen slaves: "Fourteen slaves belonging to Dr. John Casson of Mississippi have been taken to Cincinnati and liberated by their owner. Published by C. Foote unknown
17203Privas, Mémoire d'Ardèche, Temps présent, N° 68, 2000, 1 broché, couverture illustrée. in-4 de 80 pages, texte sur 2 et 3 colonnes, illustrations, photos, cartes ;
18644Tours, Mame, 1897, 1 pleine percaline, triple encadrement estampé à froid, au chiffre de l'école Saint-Louis de Gonzague, au Trocadéro à Paris, dans une couronne de chêne doré, 1 mors légèrement fendu. in-8 de 192 pages, illustrations ;
6618Paris, Administration de Librairie, 1853. 2 volumes in-8, (4)-516-IV et (4)-392-VI p., reliure demi-chagrin rouge moderne, titre doré, dos orné (mouillure et rousseurs au début du 1er vol.).
ORD-3633Au clergé de son diocèse sur l'Esclavage. Orléans. Georges Jacob.1862. In-8 br.pp.387 à 399.
2013AFRIQQQQ30323Paris, L'Harmattan, 2013, 15,5 x 24, 224 pages sous couverture souple illustrée. Actes du colloque international en hommage à Edouard Glissant, les 11, 12 et 13 mai 2011 au Musée du Quai Branly. Iconographie noir & blanc.
1745316296London: Thomas Astley 1745. Engraving. 4 x 13-1/4 inches. Creased from prior folding a few wormholes soiling and foxing. Engraving. 4 x 13-1/4 inches. Engraving showing "Negro Canoas carying Slaves aboard at Mansrow" extracted from A New Collection of Voyages and Travels 4 vols London: Thomas Astley 1745-7. <br/><br/> Thomas Astley unknown
192 p. Damp stain. Age stain. 12mo. 190 mm. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Boards damp stained with loss. Paper spine label perished. Hardbound. Fair. Haliburton was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author. Politically, he played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia prior to its entry into Confederation. While Haliburton gained a reputation as a local businessman and as a judge, his greatest fame came from writing. He wrote a number of books on history, politics, and farm improvement. He rose to international fame with his Clockmaker serial, which first appeared in the Novascotian and later published as a book throughout the British Empire, becoming popular light reading. The work recounted the humorous adventures of the character Sam Slick. He was the first international best-selling author from what is now Canada. S&S/AI 56101. First edition of the second series. PAIMP 23
410 p. Foxed. 8vo. 220 mm. Spine rebacked in black leather. Original boards, worn. First American edition. Hardbound. Good. Scots born Thomas Hamilton (1789-1842) was generally overshadowed by his famous father - William Hamilton (1758-1790), professor of anatomy and botany at Glasgow, and his brother Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856) the metaphysician and antiquary. In 1810, after fully showing, in Glasgow and Liverpool, his incapacity for business, he got a commission in the 29th Regiment. Twice on active service in the Peninsula, he received from a musket bullet, at Albuera, a somewhat serious wound in the thigh. He was also in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick with his regiment, which at length was sent to France as part of the army of occupation. About 1818 Hamilton retired to Edinburgh on half-pay. He became a valued member of the 'Blackwood' writers. Hamilton married in 1820, and for several summers he and his wife lived near Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott finding them very congenial neighbors and friends. In 1827 he wrote the ten popular novel Cyril Thornton. In 1829 they went to Italy, where Mrs. Hamilton died. Some time after his return, Hamilton visited America, bringing back materials for a this book on the Americans. 'Men and Manners in America' first appeared in 1833. 'Here his fund of humour and his genial satire, characteristics that struck Carlyle in his interviews with him in 1832-3 found scope, but his fun, if occasionally extravagant, was never unfair, nor were his criticisms directed by prejudice or charged with ill-nature.' - DNB. In the book he insightfully comments on all aspects of American culture, industry and government, he frequently expresses fascinating insight into the mores of this country. Especially interesting is his observations on American blacks - both Free and Slave. S&S/AI 19191; Sabin 30035; Howes 4481/H-138. PAIMP 22
18481Epinal, Pellerin, s.d. (vers 1890), 1 broché, couverture illustrée (image d'Epinal), dos manquant, coins émoussés. in-8 de 30 pages, illustrations hors-texte (images coloriées au pochoir), coins émoussés ;
185740445Boston: John Wilson and Son 1857. Paperback. Small 4to. Self-cover. 12pp. Very good. Outer wrappers only faintly age toned. Clean attractive first edition of this lengthy diatribe against President James Buchanan's handling of the slavery issue in Kansas which they considered weak and ineffective followed by his reply and their response to it. "They fervently hope "that you may yet see that in this respect one false principle if adhered to must prove a principle of weakness and decay -- a sure prelude to the end of all our greatness happiness and glory -- a death-spot in the tree of liberty whose leaves like those of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations." Signed in type at the conclusion by these Connecticut congressmen in order: Nathaniel W. Taylor Theodore D. Woolsey Henry Dutton Charles L. English John H. Brockway Eli W. Blake Benjamin Stilliman Jr. Thomas A. Thacher J.A. Davenport Worthington Hooker Philos Blake Amos Townsend James Brewster Eli Ives S.G. Hubbard John A. Blake William H. Russell A.N. Skinner Charles Robinson Joel Hawes G.A. Calhoun Leonard Bacon H.C. Kingsley Benjamin Stilliman Sr. Charles Ives Josiah W. Gibbs James F. Babcock and Alfred Walker. OCLC cites 20 copies. SABIN 52997. John Wilson and Son paperback
16365(Blois), 1789. 2 parts in 1 volume. 140 pp.; 60 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in INED; Stourm, p. 154; Martin & Walter 19727. One of two different editions from the year of the first publication. The first part is entitled Instructions, the second part Observations sur le rapport fait au Roi dans son conseil par le ministre des finances, le 27 décembre 1788. Pp. 73-75 of the first part contains arguments in favour of the abolition of slavery under certain conditions. Discusses the various reforms deemed necessary for France: criminal justice, the parlements, the meeting of the estates general, the procedure for voting, the ancient constitution, legislation, financial matters, the various trading compagnies, royal power and authority, freedom of the press, etc. etc. all with remarkable short historical references.
28345Confidant of Missouri pioneer Jonathan Bryan 1759-1846 of the noted St. Charles family whose relatives included their neighbor Daniel Boone. DS 1p 7½" X 12" St. Charles County MO 1847 February 2. Near fine. Acknowledgment that Tuter who signs himself as "Administrator of the Estate of Johnathan Bryan" has had a writ of replevin made out and issued to the St. Charles sheriff Edward C. Cunningham 1809-65 for delivery to an unnamed offender. The writ seeks to recover the following property apparently wrongfully taken from Jonathan Bryan's estate: "one negro man a Slave named Heney one Two horse waggon and one pair of Briches Two Black horses one Lorrel horse with bold face one walnut Cupboard one clock one Bureau one bedstead and bedding one walnut Table one Trunk one Bible." In other words everything but the kitchen sink. Signed at the conclusion by Tater in his definitely untutored hand. Tales of slaves are found in the Bryan family lore such as: "Mrs. Jonathan Bryan a kinswoman of Daniel Boone was working in her yard with a slave woman when a boy slave screamed. She saw an Indian warrior heading for them with a tomahawk in one hand and a gun in the other. The women ran for the house. Just as they were slamming the door they caught the warrior's head and right arm between the door and facing. The slave woman grabbed the hatchet from his hand and killed him with a sharp blow. The women had barely recovered from their fright when the boy shouted again." Could the slave boy in this old family legend by none less than the "Slave named Heney" whose return is demanded in this replevin suit Quite unusual slavery item with an intriguing history. unknown
1816ST19567-131<p>Wilmington: Printed by R. Porter 1816. Abridged Edition. 180 x 115 mm. 7 x 4 1/2". 348 pp.Abridged by Evan Lewis. <br />Contemporary tree calf smooth spine with double gilt rules tan leather label with gilt lettering. With one small illustration of a seal in text. Title with crowned monogram stamp in purple ink. Sabin 13486. Calf with significant wear front hinge exposed but the binding very tight; text as expected with varying sometimes noticeable degrees of foxing and browning because of quality of paper.<br /><br />First published in two volumes in 1808 this important work on the history of the slave trade is an "invaluable" resource and "contains much essential autobiographical and other information." DNB The present edition was condensed into one volume in order to "be more generally diffused among the people of the United States" where slavery would not be abolished for another half a century. Thomas Clarkson 1760-1846 was a leading English abolitionist who advocated for an end to slavery world-wide and was an original founder of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade as well as the pacifist Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace.</p> Printed by R. Porter
184542820850<p><strong>A unique survival.</strong> This important collection of largely identified photographs documents the home and family of Dr. Sidney Smith and those he enslaved at Gravel Hill his South Carolina plantation. The collection includes an extraordinary daguerreotype depicting Dr. Smith his two daughters and his brother posed together with two enslaved African American men. This is <strong>one of the earliest known images—if not the very earliest photograph—of an identified plantation owner posing with enslaved African Americans. </strong></p><p><strong> The photographs :</strong></p><p>1. Quarter plate daguerreotype 4 x 3 1/8 in. of Gravel Hill Plantation near Robertville St. Peter's Parish Beaufort District South Carolina. Ca. mid-to-late 1840s. Manuscript notation on passe-partout mat "Grandfather Sidney Smith Gravel Hill S.C." The image shows the plantation house with various figures engaged in an unidentified activity with a horse tied to a picket fence. The two girls in white may be Sidney Smith's daughters Arabella b. 1832 and Julia b. 1837 and the others may be enslaved African American children. An enslaved African American subject stands on the steps in the background. In the foreground are two figures with an unknown object perhaps a dog cart or a bone-shaker bicycle. In front of the house is a heavily-vined grape arbor presumably connected with Smith's efforts in viniculture.</p><p>2. A quarter plate tintype copy of the above daguerreotype.</p><p>3. Sixth plate daguerreotype of Sidney Smith his daughters Arabella and Julia his brother James Laurens Smith and two unidentified African American men almost certainly enslaved men. Ca. mid-1840s-1850. One of the girls is blurred because she is hold a struggling dog. Accompanied by the envelope in which the daguerreotype was discovered with penciled notation about the subjects as well as a tentative date of "1850 or thereabout."</p><p>4. Sixth plate daguerreotype of Smith's daughters Arabella and Julia pointing to a book and an unidentified object. Ca. mid-1840s-1850.</p><p>5. Sixth plate daguerreotype of Sidney Smith. Ca. 1845. Smith appears to be wearing a mourning band on his coat suggesting that the image was made following the death of his first wife Eliza in March 1845.</p><p>6. Sixth plate tintype copy of the above portrait.</p><p>7. Sixth plate tintype portrait of Maria King Smith second wife of Sidney Smith with an infant possibly William King Smith. A period copy image.</p><p>8. Sixth plate ambrotype of William King Smith son of Sidney and Maria Smith possibly as a cadet. Ca 1850s.</p><p>9. Quarter plate ambrotype of Sarah Smith sister of Sidney and James Laurens Smith aunt to Arabella and Julia. Ca 1850s-1860s.</p><p>10. Sixth plate ambrotype of Rosa Nicholes sister of Maria Smith with "Eddie" Postell possibly the Edward Postell who was killed in action in 1863 at Fort Wagner. Ca 1850s.</p><p><strong> Dr. Sidney Smith</strong></p><p>Sidney Smith was born in 1805 in or near Beaufort SC the son of William Smith a man of moderate wealth and Elizabeth Wilson Smith of Philadelphia reportedly a Quaker. Sidney was sent to Yale College and subsequently studied medicine in Ohio. His younger brother James Laurens Smith b. 1809 studied law but he apparently never practiced devoting himself instead to agriculture. Sidney Smith married Eliza Lawton in 1829. The two had several children including daughters Arabella and Julia. Smith was apparently practicing medicine in the vicinity of Robertville South Carolina as well as trying his hand at being a planter. In 1831 he appears in the Lawton Family Papers as having been paid two dollars for "expirating a Fungus Tumor from the head of Little Negro Shiloh" Inabinett 1963. His name appears in several land transactions in the upper St. Peter's Parish in Beaufort District where he experimented with various crops.</p><p>Smith's experiments with wine received wide-ranging coverage in the press. A notice in the Boston Daily Atlas of 28 December 1844 printed a report from a Savannah newspaper: "This editor of the Savannah Republican has samples of eight kinds of wine made by Dr. Sidney Smith of Robertville Beaufort District S.C. They are pure juice of the grape without the addition of any spirits whatever. One of the specimens is from the vintage of 1833 another from that of '38 and the other six from that of the present year. They differ in flavor according to the species of grape from which they were expressed … Dr. S. has on hand some 800 gallons of those wines which he finds useful for all medicinal and culinary purposes."</p><p>Smith's first wife Eliza died in 1845 at the age of 37 possibly explaining her absence from the group portrait. In 1846 Smith married Maria Ann King with whom he would have two children who survived into adulthood William King Smith b. 1846 and Walter Watson Smith b. 1849.</p><p>By 1850 Smith and most of his family had left Gravel Hill and relocated to Marietta Georgia where he acquired another plantation Rockford near Marietta. By this time Smith had acquired 74 slaves according to the 1850 Slave Schedules of the United States Census. He continued to run Gravel Hill as an absentee owner from Georgia.<br />In 1853 Smith sold Gravel Hill then comprising 700 acres and his other plantation properties in the Robertville area to John Goldwire Lawton in 1853 according to genealogical records at the Heritage Library Foundation. Smith's Gravel Hill home appears to have been on the site of present-day Gravel Hill Plantation the ca. 1910 hunting preserve near Robertville on the National Register of Historic Places. The elaborately decorated center-hall plan home as well as the town of Robertville was burned by W.T. Sherman's troops in 1865.</p><p>After the war the land was sold to Northern buyers. Newer structures were apparently built on the foundations of the original Gravel Hill around 1910 when it was refashioned as a gentleman's hunting plantation. Dr. Smith and his wife Maria died in 1856. Their sons Walter and William became wards of Smith's brother James who himself apparently died in 1865. Walter Smith was a student at the Georgia Military Institute when it closed at the time of W. T. Sherman's approach in 1864. At the age of 14 he and the other cadets were sent to guard the river crossings in the approaches to Atlanta. With his brother William Walter served in Confederate units until the end of the Civil War. Sidney Smith's sister Sarah known as "Aunt Sarah" to Walter and William Smith wrote vivid letters describing the evacuation of Marietta and her flight to Atlanta.</p><p>While no documentary evidence of the Smith family's views on slavery has been found Susan E. Geoffrey claims in her academic paper "A Southern Family in Transition 1830-1865" that Sidney and his siblings were "reasonably humane to their slaves according to the standards of their society." Geoffrey adds that Sidney's sisters Sarah and Hannah developed an interest in educating their brothers' enslaved children. Dexter's biographical sketch of Smith notes that Smith "opposed strenuously the act of nullification in South Carolina and by his personal efforts retarded the action of that State." Smith's brother James provided in his 1853 will that every tenth! child born into slavery in the estate should at age eighteen be granted freedom to be facilitated by the Colonization Society.</p><p><strong>The photographers</strong></p><p>The photographers of these images are unidentified but it appears that Smith himself may have made two of the daguerreotypes. <em>Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History</em> vol. 7 1913 notes of Smith: "He was a man of unusual mental gifts an earnest student and devoted to the community and mankind. When the art of the daguerreotype was first introduced he was a pioneer in cultivating it in the South."</p><p>Based on his interest in the "art of the daguerreotype" it is possible that Smith created the daguerreotypes himself perhaps with the aid of an assistant so he could be included in certain images most notably the group portrait. The informal group portrait shows a relaxed family posing together. Smith appears to have moved into the frame at the last moment after setting up the shot. Likewise the subjects in the Gravel Hill daguerreotype are in casual poses as if they are in a Daguerreian snapshot of the family rather than formally arranged portraits.</p><p><strong>Dating</strong></p><p>The approximate dating of the featured images has been determined based on the estimated ages of Smith's daughters Arabella and Julia who are pictured in two or perhaps three of the daguerreotypes. Arabella b. 1832 and Julia b. 1837 appear to be around the ages of twelve/thirteen and eight/nine respectively. The girls appear together in a sixth plate daguerreotype portrait and in the sixth plate group portrait of Dr. Sidney Smith his brother and two unidentified African American men almost certainly enslaved subjects. The sisters may also be the two girls in white dresses on the steps of the house in the quarter plate daguerreotype.</p><p>This dates those daguerreotypes to the mid-1840s and no later than 1850 thus making them among the very earliest photographs of a slave-holding antebellum plantation.</p><p><strong> A rare opportunity</strong></p><p>It is evident that Dr. Sidney Smith wanted to use the new art of photography to create a visual record of his plantation home at Gravel Hill and of his family and the enslaved individuals who worked for him. The daguerreotypes offered here most notably the group portrait of Smith with his brother daughters and two Black men are unique in depicting enslaved subjects posed together with their owner especially in a relatively informal setting. We are not aware of comparable images dating from the mid-to-late 1840s.<br />This exceptional collection of photographs from an identified family in the antebellum South is worthy of further research.</p><p><strong>References </strong></p><p>Dexter Franklin Bowditch. <em>Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College</em> 1913</p><p>Geoffrey Susan E. "A Southern Family in Transition 1830-1865" 1982 Accessed online through the Heritage Library History and Research Center in Hilton Head SC September-October 2024. Background on the Smith family is derived from this academic paper although the research center's copy is incomplete lacking numerous footnotes and bibliography. Some but not all of Geoffrey's sources have been located in the William King Smith Papers Wilson Special Collections Library UNC Chapel Hill.</p><p>1845-1850 four daguerreotypes and ca. 1855-1860 three ambrotypes plus three early tintype copy images. 10 items.</p>
185426154Washington: Printed at the Congressional Glove Office 1854. First edition. pp. 22. 1 vols. 8vo. Self wrappers unsewn as issued. Some browning and spotting wear along spine and edges but a very good copy. First edition. pp. 22. 1 vols. 8vo. Primarily concerning the issue of slavery in the territories this speech was part of the debates for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act initiated by Douglas ultimately repealed the Missouri Compromise allowed the local residents to determine whether the area was free or slave territory allowed for "the doctrine of popular sovereignty of the two territories" and laid the way for a transcontental railroad. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in the Senate on the 3rd of March. Clayton was a lawyer noted agriculturist and long-time member of Congress who was Secretary of State under President Taylor. As Secretary of State he is best remembered for having negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer treaty with Great Britain which provided for a neutral international canal across Central America and "contained pledges which ultimately forced Great Britain to withdraw from large tracts of territory which.it had been occupying on the Isthmus." DAB. Sabin 13576n Printed at the Congressional Glove Office unknown
179928145London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1799 1799. ESTC N60288 Lincoln's Inn Library and Wellcome Institute. Fine. 4to disbound paginated 637-652 untrimmed. An act passed by Parliament in the summer of 1799 delineated in 39 paragraphs that regulated the slave trade beginning in August 1800 - an act no doubt intended to placate the growing voices of opposition to the English slave trade. The act stipulates how many slaves could be stowed in a ship by mathematical formula according to the size of the ship but never more than 400; that slaves must be separated from other cargo; and that the space for the slaves "be full and complete perpendicular height of five feet." Nothing is said about their treatment other than that the ship's surgeon was required keep a log of illnesses and deaths of both slaves and crew. Much of the act is taken up with its enforcement and the penalties and fines for violations; it also regulates the conditions and treatment of the crew. The acts of Parliament were usually published separately and later issued in collections of the Public General Statutes; this one was issued as part of the collection of statues Passed in the Thirty-Ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third: Being the Third Session of the Eighteenth Parliament of Great Britain. This copy is disbound from such a volume. (London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1799) unknown
1827213910London: John Hatchard and Son 1827. Illustrated by 9 etchings. viii 464 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full calf spine gilt. Upper board missing 8 leaves damp-stained else Near Fine. Illustrated by 9 etchings. viii 464 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. John Hatchard and Son unknown
