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18095958Havana 1809. Good. 1p. on a bifolium. Printed form completed in manuscript. Previously folded. Small portion of upper left corner torn away and some scattered worming neither affecting text. Upper right of blank conjugate leaf clipped. Some scattered staining and offsetting with even tanning. An early 19th-century bill of sale for four slaves in Havana. The form completed in manuscript approves the sale by Doña Dolores Hernandez of "quatros negros" who had been brought from the coast of Africa on the slave ship Juno captained by Jabez Gibbs 1360 reales. It further states that the enslaved men are "Con la calidad de bozal alma en boca huesos en costal à uso de férias sin asegurar de tachas ni enfermedades mal de corazon gota coral de S. Lazaro ni orta qualesquiera que puede paceder la humana naturaleza porque toas corren por cuenta del comprador." The document is signed by the relevant authorities and dated March 26 1809. A good document of the slave trade in Cuba during the early 1800s. unknown
18353546Southampton Va 1835. Fair. 8pp. of manuscript plus a loose sheet of manuscript measuring 12.5 x 4 inches written within a book on family medicine. Book disbound lacking title page and first text leaf some gatherings and leaves loose or detached. Some age toning to manuscript leaves. A unique manuscript family genealogy for the Worrell family of Virginia as recorded by several hands in the margins and blank portions of two middle pages and on a few terminal and end leaves of a contemporary copy of a sammelband of two early American imprints -- The Family Adviser 1793 and John Wesley's Primitive Physic 1795 revised and corrected and on a single folded sheet folded and laid into the book. The entries within the book detail the births of the children of Josiah and Alice Worrell and sometimes their in-laws. An example of the former: "Lewis Worrell Son of Josiah Worrell & Alice his wife was born March 7 / 1774." And an example of the latter: "Polley Worrell wife of the said Lewis Worrell was born March the 9th / 1781." The entries continue much the same with the latest-dated entry reading: "Benj. Eldridge Worrell Son of Lewis Worrell & Temperance his wife was born June 21st 1835." Sometime presumably in the 1790s a member of the family also listed out a long accounting of the births of Josiah Worrell's children on a longer piece of paper folded into the present work. Titled in manuscript "Ages of Josiah Worrell's children" this sheet again begins with Lewis Worrell and lists a total of six members of the Worrell family.<br /> <br /> Most interestingly the bottom of this sheet also contains the births of four family slaves. This listing reads as follows: "Negro Ages. Ben was born the 8th day of June 1783. Solomon was born Dec. 20th 1785. Simon was born Feby. the 14th 1790. Isam was born the 20th Dec. 1792." The inclusion of the birth dates of four slaves is highly unusual in a family record of this type but remains valuable information on the lives of these four enslaved men owned by the Worrell family. unknown
185012963Charleston SC: Printed by Walker & Burke February 7 1850. Partially-printed document completed in manuscript 13 x 8 inches. Old folds minor toning and offsetting. Very good. A very rare pre-printed form from antebellum South Carolina designed specifically for documenting the sale of slaves in Charleston in the mid-19th century. The document emanates from the Court of Equity and directs the estate of Gilbert C. Geddes to sell five named slaves to James Hopkinson for $2075. The names of the slaves are Sam Nelly Daphne Simon and Jenny. The document is signed by James W. Gray Master in Equity in the case of "Bank of the State of South Carolina vs. the Executrix of Gilbert C. Geddes et al" and by William E. Seabrook as witness. Gray adds a particularly insidious note near the bottom of the document when he writes that Hopkinson is entitled to "have and hold" the aforementioned five slaves "together with the future issue and increase of the females." Geddes 1806-1848 a wealthy Charleston resident owned more than a hundred enslaved people when he died; his father John Geddes served as governor of South Carolina 1818-1820. This is the first example of this document we have seen and a unique record of the transference of five slaves and particularly interesting for granting the new slaveowner the rights to future slave children. Printed by Walker & Burke, February 7 unknown
1852100540<p>Letterpress braodsheet 10 3/4 x 6 1/4 text on both sides. Margins trimmed on both sides a little uneven on the left side close to words on reverse but not affecting text a few small stains in text. Indiana was for many years a site of refuge for escaping slaves. With this joint resolution the document declares that the only real way to do away with the injustice of slavery was to advocate emigration and colonialization of Africa.</p>
1852100540<p>Letterpress braodsheet 10 3/4 x 6 1/4 text on both sides. Margins trimmed on both sides a little uneven on the left side close to words on reverse but not affecting text a few small stains in text. Indiana was for many years a site of refuge for escaping slaves. With this joint resolution the document declares that the only real way to do away with the injustice of slavery was to advocate emigration and colonialization of Africa.</p> books
170358Paris, A. Sautelet, 1826-1827 4 vol. in-8, XIV-527, [4]-478, [4]-492 et [4]-538 pp., basane fauve marbrée, dos lisses ornés alternativement de motifs à la cathédrale et de croisillons de pointillés dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison cerise et noires, encadrement de simple filet à froid sur les plats, simple filet doré sur les coupes, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque). Accroc à un mors inférieur, rousseurs parfois abondantes, mais bel exemplaire.
179010775A Paris, chez Demonville, 1790. 2 parties en 1 vol. In-8 de (4)-166 pp. 1 f. blanc 141 pp., demi-toile bleue, couverture imprimée conservée, non rogné (reliure du XIXe siècle).
1730PHO-1965Paris, Saugrain, 1730.4 vol. in-12 de I. xxiv-[2]-381 pp., 14 pl. ; II. [4]-364 pp. 11 pl. ; III. [4]-350 pp., 4 pl.; IV. [4] pp., pp. 345-682, [36] pp., 1 pl., veau brun époque, dos usés avec manque, 1 carte volante, 1 carte avec déchirure sans manque. De la bibliothèque de Sir William Geary, 2nd baronnet (1756 –1825) homme politique conservateur anglais avec son ex-libris
A Genêve, Chez Jean Leonard Pellet 1780, imprimeur de la Ville et de l'Académie. 10 volumes In-8 plein veau brun. Dos lisses très ornés à motifs dorés,pièces de titres vertes et de tomaison rouges, tranches marbrées, gardes de papier marbré, triples filets dorés en encadrement sur les plats, filet doré sur les coupes. Bien complet des gravures en frontispice à chaque volume dont le portrait de Raynal dessiné par Cochin, gravé par De Launay. Table des matières en-tête de chaque volume et table alphabétique en fin de chaque. XVI + 532,VIII + 582, VII + 580, VIII + 472, VII + 405, VII + 484, XVI + 558, VIII + 547, VIII + 412, VI + 538 pages. Complet des tableaux dépliants. Coiffe du tome 10 très légérement arasée sans aucune gravité et léger manque de papier en marge de la dernière page (table alphabétique) du tome 8 avec petite perte de texte. Intérieur des volumes en très bel état. Titres des gravures : Portrait de Raynal (Cochin) - Les Anglais demandent pardon à Aurengzeb qu'ils ont offensé (Moreau le Jeune) - Les Espagnols se rendent maîtres de Montezuma dans Mexico même (Moreau le Jeune) - François Pizarre assassiné par une troupe de Conjurés (Moreau le Jeune) - Voilà les tributs que paye le Roi de Portugal (Moreau le Jeune) - Ouragan aux Antilles (Moreau le Jeune) - Un Anglais de la Barbade vend sa maitresse (Moreau le Jeune) - Bienfaisance d'une famille sauvage du Canada envers des Français (Moreau le Jeune) - Penn achète des sauvages le pays qu'il veut occuper (Moreau le Jeune) - Esclaves conduits par des marchands (Moreau le Jeune). Bel exemplaire.
242994Paris, Pagnerre, 1845 in-8, 256 pp., dérelié.
180517636Paris, Buisson (imprimerie Jeunehomme), an XIV-1805 ; in-8, broché ; (4), 322 pp. , portrait en frontispice, planche dépliante représentant 3 proas, bateau indigène et des armes et 2 cartes dépliantes, couverture souple bleu uni.
185234901Glasgow Kentucky: W.S. Brown 1852. Early edition being a reprint of the 1851 Louisville edition. Each page printed within a decorative chain-line frame the stereotyped title-page makes reference to engravings but none are called for in this edition. Tall 8vo in the publisher's original brown cloth the covers with decorative embossing retaining the emblem of the Louisville publishers in blind the spine lettered in gilt and with flat bands ruled in blind powder-blue endpapers. xiii 569 8 8 ads pp. A sound copy the text-block well preserved and complete a bit of expected age toning to the paper and light foxing here and there as usual the binding with some age-wear but still very sturdy strong and tight. ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS PRO-SLAVERY BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR. The author stylized himself as "the Rev. Josiah Priest" but was not ordained in any denomination.<br> The present Louisville text evolved from an earlier version titled "Slavery As It Relates to the Negro or African Race" published in 1843. It went through numerous editions and title changes during the 1840s and 1850s reflecting the growing sectional controversy over slavery. The popularity of the work exploded <br>in 1852 as it was viewed as a counter-argument to Stowe's pro-abolitionist epic UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.<br> The work's central claim is that slavery is fully sanctioned and approved of by the Bible. Among his arguments are: people of African descent were descendants of Ham and therefore subject to a divine curse; the racial differences were ordained by God; that slavery was beneficial or natural for Black people; and that abolitionism was a dangerous fanaticism threatening the social order and status quo.<br> Although repugnant to many modern readers the book is historically significant because it demonstrates how slavery's defenders tried to answer the growing abolitionist movement. The title also accurately states that the issue of slavery was going to divide the Republic thus predicting the Civil War. W.S. Brown hardcover
Two volumes in one, complete. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC STUDY OF EUROPEAN AND COLONIAL ECONOMICS, including slavery. 2 leaves; 223 pp; 2 leaves; 267 pp. Printed on fine laid paper. 8vo. Original wraps with paper spine label. Entirely uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS. A pristine copy of an important book, exactly as it came out of the printer's office.
186062260Atlanta: Printed at the Daily Locomotive Job Office 1860. 47 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. Wrapper a bit chipped else Fine. 47 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed at the Daily Locomotive Job Office unknown
186062260Atlanta: Printed at the Daily Locomotive Job Office 1860. 47 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. Wrapper a bit chipped else Fine. 47 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed at the Daily Locomotive Job Office unknown books
1871231181871. Slavery Black Labor Puerto Rico This official Puerto Rican slave registry document issued in Arecibo in 1871 under Spanish colonial administration represents the bureaucratic infrastructure of slavery in the Caribbean at the precise moment preceding abolition. Titled within the printed form as part of the "Registro de Esclavos - Isla de Puerto Rico" the document records the forced legal identity of an identified enslaved man. <br /> <br /> Single sheet slave registry document "Empadronamiento General de esclavos" from Arecibo Puerto Rico dated 20 de Enero de 1871. Measuring 6.25" x 8.5". This document was registered by a person registering their slave. Document bears official signatures from the local authorities. The enslaved person is listed by their age stature "color" hair color beard eyes nose and mouth. The person is listed as 22 years old and the "color" of this individual is listed as "negro". The physical list of classifications functioned as mechanisms of surveillance control and verification within the colonial slave system. Inclusion of official signatures from both the "dueño" and "comisario" along with a stamped fiscal seal en verso.<br /> <br /> Produced just two years prior to the 1873 abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico the document reflects the transitional legal environment in which enslaved individuals were increasingly catalogued in anticipation of emancipation policies that would in practice impose systems of forced apprenticeship and indemnification to former enslavers.<br /> Some minor wormholes and occasional spotting. Overall good condition. The document stands as evidence of how emancipation in Spanish territories was mediated through administrative control prolonging coercive labor conditions even as slavery was formally dismantled. unknown
1817PHO-2154Paris, Bechet,1817. 3 parties en 2 vol in 8°, (23x 13cm), demi veau époque, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre rouge, xxxii, 507 pp errata, 394 pp.-1f. (errata)- 2ff.-160pp.-1f (errata), demi veau époque, dos lisse orné avec tomaison et pièce de titre, frottements et épidermures, manque de papier au tome 2 et au dos, intérieur frais.
1859017039Washington DC: Gales and Seaton 1859. Tabloid. Good. Side folding large tabloid newspaper. A single issue of this long running newspaper published in Washington DC first published in 1800 and publishing until 1870 with an eventual bias toward conservative Whig policies. Besides the usual ads and political news this issue contains two "Was Committed" notices last page bottom right one pertaining to Mary Norris George Park and Sally King the other pertaining to Lewis West. All four were African-Americans with Mary Norris George Park and Lewis West being enslaved people from enslaver Robert E. Lee. According to the US National Park Service website devoted to Robert E. Lee's Arlington House Memorial Mary Norris George Parks and another man Wesley Norris believed they were free based on a provision in the will of George Washington Custis. Based on this knowledge the three emancipated themselves traveling to Pennsylvania. They were all captured in Maryland. According to contemporary newspaper accounts New York Tribune in June 1859 Lee had the re-captured African-Americans whipped. Wesley Norris himself wrote an article in the Anti-Slavery Standard in 1866 which provides his account of the whipping. Early historians and biographers dismissed both accounts considering them to be accounts used for anti-slavery propaganda. Lee himself was silent on the subject with many of his contemporaries and historians taking his silence as a denial. However modern research suggests the accounts of Wesley Norris and others were true dispelling the myth of Lee as benevolent enslaver perpetuated by earlier historians. The first notice states that Norris Park and West were committed to jail on May 26th and that "George and Mary say they belong to Col. Robert Lee of Fairfax County Virginia." The complexion and height of all three are given as well as descriptions of the clothing they wore. Sally King asserted that she was free living in Washington with a Mrs. D. Bread. According to the piece they all initially left Washington on May 22nd 1859. The second notice contains the same information as the first although it appears Lewis West was jailed on May 27th but also asserted he "belongs to Col. Robert Lee." Both notices request that the "owner or owners" come forward and pay all charges due. Also present is a notice of "young servants for sale" indicating the availability of several girls from ages 11 to 15 as well as young men from 21 to 25 years old. All were apparently located in Georgetown. The newspaper is in GOOD condition. Paper split chipped and deteriorating along the spine with very slight loss of letters to some of the "was committed" ads. Horizontal and vertical fold creases present. Moderate toning along the spine edge. Small hole worn through at the intersection of the fold creases. Some wrinkling and creasing to the paper. Several small tears along the extremities. Gales and Seaton unknown
1843WRCAM55715Guayama Puerto Rico 1843. 1p. Quarto. Old folds a few short closed tears minor wrinkling. About very good. A record of a slave sale in Puerto Rico during the late Spanish colonial period. The document records various expenditures for "Senora Dna Yrma de Gott" for the spring and summer of 1843. Along with other expenditures from April to July 1843 the present manuscript document includes a line item from March 30 reading "recibido de Antonini por el negro Alfred." Apparently the señora received 200 Spanish dollars or pesos for Alfred the slave. The Spanish brought slavery to the island of Puerto Rico during the early colonial period. Slave labor fueled sugar production on the island reaching its peak in the early to mid-19th century. Slavery was finally abolished in Puerto Rico 1873 after years of slave revolts against Spanish colonial rule which began in 1868. Despite its long history of slavery records of slave sales from Puerto Rico are rarely encountered in the market. unknown books
1793106470<p>12 lines in brown ink with paper seal on sheet of paper 34x21 cm 13½x8¼". Signed by Thomas Hamilton clerk. Remnant of seal old folds with splitting along them normal aging and browning some offsetting very good overall. Amazing little document relating to the enforcement of Pennsylvania's groundbreaking effort to begin the abolition of slavery "An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery" passed by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1780. The Act prohibited further importation of slaves into the state required Pennsylvania slaveholders to annually register their slaves with forfeiture for noncompliance and manumission for the enslaved and established that all children born in Pennsylvania were free persons regardless of the condition or race of their parents. Those enslaved in Pennsylvania before the 1780 law entered effect remained enslaved for life. The present document seems to reveal non-compliance with the law by Hugh Neilly in part: "I hereby certify on application of Ralph Cherry that a careful search hath been made by me among the Records of Negro's sic entered on the Records of Westmoreland County and that on such search it doth not appear that any Negro's hath been registered in the name of Peter or any other name as his property by Hugh Neilly of Westmoreland County aforesaid under the laws passes for the gradual abolition of slavery. Thomas Hamilton clerk." Docketed on the back "Certificate that no Negro's hath been registered in Westmoreland as the property of Hugh Neilly." </p> books
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
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 books
1794126550London no printer 1794 or later. First edition variously dated by ESTC and WorldCat between 1794 the date given at the end of the preliminary "Short Account of the origin and present state of the charitable fund" and 1823. The short account dated March 1794 is followed by a tipped in leaf reporting on the first meeting of the society which took place on Thursday April 3 1794 electing the Lord Bishop of London as president. The Charter of the Society 18 pages in length is dated at Westminster "this thirtieth Day of October in the thirty-fourth Year of our Reign" which again falls in 1794. Octavo 190 x 123 mm pp. ix 18. Sometime in a pamphlet vol. now disbound. Spine shows evidence of earlier binding sometime folded vertically; title lightly dust soiled page ix trimmed down and tipped onto p. viii; a good copy. Sabin 85881. unknown
1817SLAVERY005957W. Alexander York. 1817. First U.K. edition with additions to the Philadelphia printing. 12mo. 156 pages including 4 pages of adverts. Frontispiece. Original boards with paper backstrip and title label. Anthony Benezet 1713-1784 was a leading abolitionist.Early nameplates Thomas Marsh and Robert Langdon on front pastedown. Some foxing to prelims. Cup ring to front cover. Backstrip defective label rubbed. Very good. Scarce in original state. W. Alexander, York. hardcover
1804PHO-1039Paris, Xrouet, Déterville, an XII (1804). 2 parties en un vol. in-8, XXIV-548 p. en numérotation continue, 2 cartes dépliantes hors-texte, demi-veau fauve moucheté de l'époque, dos lisse orné alternativement de grands fleurons et de semis géométriques dorés, pièce de titre cerise, encadrement d'un filet à froid sur les plats, filet doré sur les coupes, tranches marbrées.