‎Esclavage‎

‎(Slavery)‎

‎Message from the President of the United States Transmitting The information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives . relating to the proceeedings of the Joint Commission of Indemnities Due under the Award of the Emperor of Russia for Slaves and other private property carried away by the British Forces In Violation of the Treaty of Ghent. March 8 1826. Read and laid upon the table‎

‎Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton 1826. 181 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound some browning to title page else a good tightly sewn copy. 181 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. John Quincy Adams' brief memorandum transmits Secretary of State H. Clay's report; a detailed list of slave owners and the names of their slaves comprises the bulk of this document. <br/><br/> Printed by Gales & Seaton unknown‎

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‎(Slavery)‎

‎Report On Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States Caption title‎

‎Washington City 1817. First Edition. 5 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Some foxing. First Edition. 5 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of the government's reply to the request of a group of Virginia planters for a "colony" to essentially rid them of the problem of "free coloured people." In December of 1816 a group of Virginia planters approached the government with a request asking for a location where freed blacks might be sent. In January this "memorial" was presented and in February it was answered with this "Report." This reply discusses location etc. In the end the government officially refused to have anything to do with the plan - thus the American Colonization Society was born. For a detailed account of these events see Dumond Anti-Slavery pp. 126-127. S&S 42738 2 copies unknown‎

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‎(Slavery)‎

‎Subscription List for "Speech given in Congress of William H.enry Kelsey 1812-1879 on the Slavery Question at 50cts per hundred." Given on July 29 1856‎

‎Washington D.C.: Globe Office 1856. Signed by Kelsey ordering 2500 and by James Livingston for 100 and another. Old folds. Blind embossed " Platner & Porter Cobngress" staionary. Signed by Kelsey ordering 2500 and by James Livingston for 100 and another. Globe Office unknown‎

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‎(Slavery) Stewart, Alvan‎

‎Liberty Press-Extra . The Cause of the Hard Times‎

‎Utica 1843. 4pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound spotted and soiled separated along spine else a good copy of this rare piece. 4pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare. An "Extra" to the "Liberty Press" relating to slavery and the "deep distress" and idleness caused by slavery. The author signed "Truth-Teller" attributes most of the labor problems and many of the economic ones to the instution of slavery. He recommends allowing Florida a place in the Union as a free state and Congress guaranteeing each state a republican form of government which he feels would bring about the end of slavery. <br/><br/> unknown‎

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‎(Slavery) Great Britain, House of Commons‎

‎Papers Presented to the House of Commons On the 7th May 1804 Respecting the Slave-Trade . With Papers Presented to the House of Commons Respecting the Slave Trade . Ordered to be printed 25th February 1805‎

‎London 1805. 309; 4 46pp. Uncut. 2 vols. Folio. Disbound. 309; 4 46pp. Uncut. 2 vols. Folio. Two British Parliamentary papers on the slave trade issued in the midst of the debates for its abolition. The first paper organized by West Indian island includes the correspondence between the British government and their West India colonies regarding slavery from the period 1797 to 1800 and includes the text of the Leeward Island Amelioration Act of 1798. The paper includes a wealth of statistical information on the enslaved populations of each island as well as the names of plantation owners and their holdings. The second paper continues the correspondence from 1804-1805 with updated statistics. unknown‎

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‎(Slavery) Drayton, Daniel‎

‎Personal Memoir of . For Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner For Charity's Sake in Washington Jail. Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl‎

‎Boston: Bela Marsh 1855. Second printing. Frontispiece portrait. 122 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Upper half of spine shaky else a nice tight copy. Second printing. Frontispiece portrait. 122 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. The author was convicted of aiding slaves to escape from Washinton D.C.--Blockson. Sabin 20912 Blockson 9838 for first ed. Bela Marsh unknown‎

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‎(Virginia Slavery). Faulkner, Charles J‎

‎To the Voters of Frederick County. Fellow Citizens:--I have consented to have my name placed before you as a candidate to represent you in the next congress of the United States Caption title & partial text‎

‎Winchester Va. 1833. Broadside 4to. 290 x 160 mm. 11 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches.   Printed in two columns signed in type by Charles J. Faulkner at Winchester dated March 8 1833 at conclusion. Lightly dust-soiled pale stain affecting perhaps one-third of the left-hand margin and column of text. Neatly silked on verso. Withal about very good. Following the August 1831 Nat Turner rebellion in Southampton County a last effort was made by moderate Virginians to gradually abolish slavery. Faulkner a 26-year-old lawyer and assemblyman along with Thomas Jefferson Randolph sponsored legislation to free all children born of slave parents after July 4 1840. His speech emphasized the evil of slavery for Southern white labor noting that slavery "converts the energy of the community into indolence--its power into imbecility--its efficiency into weakness.Shall society suffer that the slave-holder may continue to gather his crop of human flesh" As the Assembly was malapportioned in favor of the Tidewater slaveocracy the proposal lost rather narrowly and nearly thirty years later the Confederacy was assured of Virginia's succession. It is perhaps not surprising that Faulkner "comparatively a stranger" to the county but a member of the Virginia House of Delegates at this time 1831-34 was not successful in his campaign to represent Virginia in the U.S. Senate. However Faulkner was elected to three terms in Congress from Virginia in the 1850s. He was elected to Congress from West Virginia after the Civil War. In the interim he served as Minister to France during the Buchanan administration and on the staff of Stonewall Jackson. Dictionary of American Biography.  Not in Hummel. Not found in American Imprints for 1833 and not in the 1830-1839 title index. OCLC records four copies at The Library of Virginia University of Virginia Virginia Historical Society and American Antiquarian Society. unknown‎

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‎[Abolitionism – United Kingdom] Committee of the Society for Mitigating and Gradually Abolishing the State of Slavery throughout‎

‎A Brief View of the Nature and Effects of Negro Slavery As It Exists in the Colonies of Great Britain‎

‎London England: Ellerton and Henderson 1823. Three page document measuring 8 ½ x 13 ¼ inches. Folded with some small wrinkles at edges else Near Fine. A document produced by the Society for Mitigating and Gradually Abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions better known as the Anti-Slavery Society. The group was founded in London in 1823 by a group of politicians philanthropists and businessmen including William Wilberforce Joseph Sturge and Zachary Macaulay. The document discusses the horrors of enslavement—even unfavorably comparing the British colonies’ conditions with those in the US—and decries the fact that after the 1807 Slave Trade Act essentially nothing more had been done to put “an end to a condition of society which so grievously outrages every feeling of humanityâ€. We find a single copy of the Ellerton and Henderson edition in physical format listed in OCLC as accession number 83930673. Ellerton and Henderson unknown‎

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‎[African Americana]: [Slavery]: [Restitution]‎

‎28th Congress 1st Session. H.R. 398. A Bill for the Relief of the Heirs and Legal Representatives of Antonio Pacheco Deceased. caption title‎

‎Washington DC: June 7 1844. Very good. Broadside 12.25 x 7.75 inches. Light tanning shallow marginal chips and some fraying to left and right edges. An unrecorded slip-bill printing of a House Resolution with a phenomenal back story involving an erudite elusive and resourceful Florida slave. The slip bill authored by Howell Cobb U.S. Representative from Georgia stipulates that the Secretary of the Treasury pay the sum of five hundred dollars to the heirs and representatives of Antonio Pacheco a former resident of Florida the sum "being the price of a slave named Lewis which was sent out by the United States with the Seminole Indians and lost to his owners." That's where the plot thickens. The slave is now known to history as Luis Fatio Pacheco born in 1800 to enslaved parents on the "New Switzerland" plantation in Florida which was surrounded by a mix of Europeans Africans and Native Americans. As such Luis became fluent in several languages including Seminole which later made him a valuable asset.<br /> <br /> After a conflict with his owner Luis attempted to escape slavery in 1824 by fleeing to Spanish fisheries on Florida's Gulf Coast but he was captured by U.S. military authorities the following year. Skilled as he was in languages and literacy by the military Luis was sold in 1832 to Antonio Pacheco a Cuban merchant. After Antonio's death Luis became the property of Pacheco's widow. When tensions began to ratchet up again between American military forces and the Seminole tribe a U.S. Army officer made a deal to rent Luis from the Pacheco estate at the rate of $25 a month to take advantage of his services as an interpreter. In December 1835 Luis was accompanying a troop detachment led by Major Frances L. Dade in a march to reinforce Fort King near the present-day city of Ocala Florida. Evidently that day Luis was assigned as a scout; he has said to have attempted to warn Dade of a possible ambush by the Seminoles which went unheeded by the commander. The result is today known as the Dade Massacre in which Dade and most of his men were killed.<br /> <br /> According to the narrative provided by Luis who spoke Seminole he explained to the warriors that he was a slave and successfully pleaded for his life. Luis lived with the Seminoles as a captive for nearly two years before again managing to escape. In September 1837 Luis surrendered to the U.S. Army at Fort Peyton near St. Augustine. Soon after he was accused of collaborating with the Seminoles in the Dade Massacre. In 1841 negotiations between the US government and Seminole leader Coacoochee the Native American leader claimed Luis as his property captured in war. Coacoochee was permitted to take Luis together with other Black Seminoles to Oklahoma for resettlement. This event led to the claim by Anthony Pacheco‘s heirs for restitution of a lost slave. The Joint Committee on Claims approved the claim. Luis's story eventually became a focal point in the abolitionist argument against slavery and in 1858 Ohio representative Joshua R. Giddings published a book portraying Luis as a hero against the system. In any case the question of whether or not Luis betrayed Dade has never been completely resolved. June 7 unknown‎

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‎[African slavery] Mannix, Daniel in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley‎

‎Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade.‎

‎<p>New York:: Viking Press 1962. Second Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the extremities. The African slave trade in the Americas officially began in 1518 with the landing in the West Indies of the first black cargo direct from Africa and was offically suppressed in the United States in 1865. It is estimated that approximately 15 million Africans had crossed the Atlantic during this period. This book attempts to tell where the slaves came from how they were enslaved in Africa how they were purchased by sea captains how they wre transported and how the trip survivors were sold in West Indian and American markets.</p> Viking Press, hardcover‎

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‎[AFRICAN-AMERICANA -- SLAVERY]. MITCHELL, W[illiam] M‎

‎The Under-Ground Railroad. . . .‎

‎London UK: William Tweedie 337 Strand 1860. Small 4to. 5.25 x 7.5 in. xv 1 3-172 xi 1 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. of the author still preserving tissue guard. Publisher’s ribbed plum-coloured cloth dark maroon coloured title label & price of 1 shilling 6 pence mounted front cover very minor chipping head & foot of spine slight fraying title label stamping dimmed and minor bumping to a couple corners still a VG copy w/ London UK bookseller’s label partially removed at gutter margin front pastedown. First edition first printing of the first book wholly devoted to the Underground Railroad published only in England and by an African-American/Native-American author. Mitchell was a pivotal figure in the Underground Railroad who also aided the escaped slave “Eliza†whose escape over the Ohio River ice inspired the key dramatic moment in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s pivotal Uncle Tom’s Cabin. “Eliza†was sheltered originally in the network by noted abolitionist John Rankin passed on to Mitchell who then subsequently ensured her safe passage along the network overseen by Levi Coffin 1798-1877. Ironically the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act which criminalized those aiding in the Underground Railroad to free slaves with fines of $ 1000 and six months imprisonment fueled resistance and forced Mitchell to publish this seminal work in Great Britain rather than the U.S. As a freeborn orphan Black in North Carolina Mitchell was forced into apprenticeship with a North Carolina plantation owner where he witnessed the deprivations of slavery and became inspired to aid African-American slaves to escape to Canada. From 1842-1855 he helped over 1300 slaves reach Canada from his Washington Court House Fayette County Ohio way station. This memoir recounts many anecdotes of the formerly enslaved including: one enslaved woman who died from frostbite while protecting her three children and a former slave John Mason brought Mitchell in just 19 months of that 13 year span “265 human beings whom he had been instrumental in redeeming from slavery.†Mitchell further recounts Mason’s recapture in Kentucky and later escape from New Orleans to Canada. Mitchell estimates in his book that 60000 enslaved peoples escaped into Canada on the Underground Railroad modern estimates range from 40000 to 100000. At the end of the 1850’s he moved to Toronto and began serving as a minister to African-American Baptist Free Mission congregations largely composed of freed slaves and the final section details the lives of these Canadian Black immigrants. In the final appendix he urgently pleads for a boycott of Southern cotton by Great Britain attempting to overcome resistance to the economic impact and hardship it would have on British cotton mills and related industries. Mitchell c. 1826-c.1879 was encouraged to write this historic work by W.H. Bonner A British abolitionist and had toured Britain in 1860 with William Howard Day and British abolitionist George Thompson to oppose the condition of slavery before the outbreak of the Civil War. This work is quite scarce with only 2 copies at auction in the last 50 years and both those appear to have been the 2nd edition which removed the hyphen in “Under-Ground†extended the title and a couple other revisions. William Tweedie, 337, Strand, hardcover‎

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‎[anonyme] - [PECHMEJA (Jean de)].‎

‎Téléphe, en XII (12) Livres.‎

‎A Londres, s.é., 1785. 2 vol. au format in-12 étroit (166 x 98 mm) de 154 et 158 pp. Reliures uniformes de l'époque de pleine basane marbrée havane, plats jansénistes, dos lisses ornés d'un double filet d'encadrement doré, triples filets dorés, larges fleurons dorés, semis de points dorés, pièces de titre de maroquin vieux-rouge, titre doré, tomaison dorée, filet doré sur les coupes, toutes tranches rouges.‎

‎Ensemble complet de ses deux volumes. ''Utopie se déroulant en Crète, dans la grande tradition des voyages imaginaires. L'auteur, professeur d'éloquence au collège de la Flèche, décrit ici une société idéale, sans propriété ni esclavage qu'il critique vertement, au même titre que les inégalités et injustices dont sont victimes les plus démunis.'' Barbier IV, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, 672-f - Quérard VII, La France littéraire, p. 7 - Cioranescu III, Bibliographie de la littérature française du XVIIIème, 49293 (pour l'originale de 1784) - Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIème, 367-368. Mors légèrement frottés. Coiffes arasées. Légers frottements affectant les dos. Auréole claire dans le corps d'ouvrage de chacun des volumes. Du reste, ensemble en bonne condition.‎

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‎[Archéologia]‎

‎ARCHEOLOGIA‎

‎N° 574 (Mars 2019) : revue de 82 pages, format 215 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état‎

‎Au sommaire : Tromelin ou comment écrire l'histoire de l'esclavage ; Homère, une épopée au Louvre-Lens ; Les mystèrieuses peintures rupestres du désert d'Atacama ; La malédiction des roux : un lointain héritage de l'Egypte antique, etc.‎

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‎[BEDFORD (Peter)].‎

‎Appel aux habitants de l'Europe sur l'esclavage et la traite des nègres. par la Société religieuse des Amis de la Grande-Bretagne [Quakers]‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot frères, 1839 in-8, 39 pp., en feuilles, cousu.‎

‎Unique édition française de cette proclamation, dans laquelle la part des explications et pièces justificatives occupe l'essentiel du texte (pp. 15-39), détaillant les étapes du passage en servitude : 1. Enlèvement des noirs. - 2. Marche à la côte. - 3. Détention à la côte avant l'embarquement. - 4. Passage d'Afrique au lieu de la vente. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

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‎[Bibliothèque de Travail] F. et M. GOUZIL‎

‎BIBLIOTHEQUE de TRAVAIL n° 128‎

‎Une revue de 24 pages, format 150 x 230 mm, illustrée, brochée, publiée en 1950, bon état‎

‎Dossier : Sam, esclave noir‎

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‎[British Empire – Mauritius – Slavery] Unknown Author‎

‎1830 Letter Written from Mauritius Describing Economic and Social Conditions on the “Ebony Isleâ€‎

‎Mahébourg Mauritius 1830. Single unsigned fourteen-page letter measuring 8 x 12 ¾ inches. Folded with some stains and pencil marks. Overall near fine. In 1830 Mauritius was a British colony captured from the French in 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars. It was originally a Dutch colony and the Dutch had introduced enslaved labor to the islands. Enslaved people were imported from Madagascar India and Southeast Asia to harvest the valuable ebony trees and later to farm sugarcane. It became a French colony in 1715 and among other provisions the French government awarded upper-class colonists large land grants each with twenty enslaved people to work them. Slavery was abolished in 1835 under British rule after which the planters still farming sugarcane turned to indentured servant labor from India and China alongside illegal slavery.1<br /> <br /> Offered here is a lengthy single letter written by an unknown author to an unknown recipient from Mahébourg in 1830 shortly before this radical change. The letter describes the lives and economic circumstances of the planters and merchants and of the non-white population particularly Malabar people and free and enslaved Black people.<br /> <br /> Noting that “every inch of ground that will produce sugar cane is planted with it†including “the former fine gardens to some of the Habitations†the author reports on the situation for sugar planters:<br /> <br /> “The price of sugar here is not more than 20/per Cwt. for the best quality which does not now remunerate the Planter as his expenses are becoming every day more heavy in consequence of their slaves diminishing . The want of Slaves induced many of the Planters to send for Chinese Labourers and several hundreds were imported at a great expense but unfortunately they did not answer and were obliged to be reshipped for their native Country again at the charge of those who sent for them.â€<br /> <br /> The author later notes that “nearly everyone of the Planters have heavy mortgages on their Estates and are obliged to pay this immense Interest which keeps them poor and will I fear ultimately ruin themâ€. In fact the planters in British Mauritius had extra duties on their sugar exports compared with their Caribbean counterparts. The shopkeepers on the other hand “calculate on retiring with a fortune in five years– therefore you will fancy what must be their prices also their profits.â€<br /> <br /> Though writing from Mahébourg the author describes the capital city of Port Louis at length especially its Malabar Indian and free Black residents—the lives of the latter particularly the free Black women seem especially grim. They write:<br /> <br /> “The Centre of Port Louis is inhabited by all the respectable people and many most excellent houses buildings– the Catholic Chapel the English Church amongst the number. The Suburbs to the West is the part occupied by about 3000 Malabars called ‘Malabar Town.’ – They are dressed mostly in white with Turbans ear rings c c and the females with ornaments in their noses and on their Toes as they generally go bare foot. – Once a year they have what is called a ‘Yamsee’ or a festival in honor of Mehomet which lasts for about a fortnight during which time they seem to get no sleep a continual beating of tom toms – jingling of bells – carrying pagodas which are made of various coloured paper and most richly ornamented followed by all the population of their Caste with their faces daubed with red white c and which has a most ludicrous appearance. The Suburbs to the South is called ‘black Camp’ – the Houses being very small and poor and inhabited by all the free blacks as well as many Mulattoes. – Also a certain class of females of the population of colour – who are visited immediately on the Arrival of a Ship the Crews soon enquiring the way to the ‘Camp.’â€<br /> <br /> As regards relations between the races the author recounts an incident that followed the 1828 abolition of the color bar which would ostensibly give the free non-white population the same rights as the whites:<br /> <br /> “The Theatre is a very good one but has been closed for several months past the Actors Actresses gone to Bourbon in consequence of the promulgation of the act ‘causing all free people of the population of Colour’ to have the same laws – the same privileges as the Whites’ fearing they ought come to the Theatre which they had hitherto been forbidden thereby cause disturbances as the French Whites detest them wd. not sit in the same box it was considered best to shut the Theatre which is a great loss to the Place it being the chief public amusement and indeed the only one we have here.â€<br /> <br /> Overall a detailed letter giving insight into life in a slave colony at a time when significant changes were on the horizon. Of interest to scholars of the colonial history of Mauritius and the second wave of British colonialism.<br /> <br /> 1 Truth and Justice Commission Report of the Truth and Justice Commission Vol. 1 Mauritius: Government Printing 2011. unknown‎

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‎[CHASSÉRIAU Frédéric Victor Charles].-‎

‎Abolition de l'Esclavage dans les Colonies Anglaises.-‎

‎Cinquième publication. Suite des rapports recueillis par le Département de la Marine et des enquêtes du Parlement anglais. Paris. Imprimerie Royale. 1843. Tome V et dernier de cette publication. Fort in-8 (155 x 230mm) dos lisse veau brun, frises or, pièce de titre veau rouge, plats mouchetés (reliure de l'époque), 2ff., 576 pages. Coiffes grignotées, 1er plat presue complètement détaché, traces de mouillures essentiellement sur les tranches sinon bon exemplaire, sans rousseurs. Provient de la Bibliothèque de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (cachet). Rare. Sabin 12222 pour les 2 premiers volumes.‎

‎Publié sur l'ordre de Duperré, ministre de la guerre et des colonies, rédigé par Chassériau, administrateur à Saint-Domingue. Cette partie concerne 1la Guyane anglaise, la Jamaïque, les Seychelles et Sainte-Lucie et 2° Les enquêtes et documents touchant les Indes Occidentales (Condition des Noirs, Situation des Planteurs), les Établissements anglais de la côte d'Afrique (Émigration de la Côte Occidentale d'Afrique, Émigration des Coulis de l'Inde à Maurice et Immigration: Jamaïque, Guyane, Trinidad, Grenade).‎

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‎[Civil War]: [Slavery]: [Political Satire]‎

‎Slavery and Its Ally caption title‎

‎N.p. 1864. Lithograph 14.5 x 20.5 inches. Noticeable toning small areas of light discoloration along top margin short closed tear to left edge minor dust-soiling numerous creases and wrinkles. About very good. A dramatic political cartoon issued during the Civil War and satirizing the dangerous influence of those who argue a compromise on slavery or an easy solution to the war. The work was likely issued in the midst of the 1860 but more likely the 1864 presidential election campaign. The central image of the lithograph involves a three-headed snake -- labeled "The People's Party" and emerging from the American "South" personified by a moss-covered swamp -- which is wrapped around the length of a large tree labeled "Slavery." Each snake vocalizes a different misleading message about the issue of slavery and compromise seemingly aligned with political entities such as the Peace Party and the Copperheads. The messages from each snake head read respectively "Extend Slavery over the Northern States and the Rebellion will be over in 60 days;" "Persevere till after election and then we will give you all you ask;" and "'Support the President' - but oppose everything he may do to crush the Rebellion." This latter message indicates the author of the work supported President Lincoln. The North is personified in the background at left by a depiction of the U.S. Capitol Building. The central image of the lithograph carries echoes of the story of the Book of Genesis with the involvement of a deceptive serpent amid the tree of life.<br /> <br /> The lithograph is signed in the stone at bottom right reading simply "Brooks." Though the work came to us proposing the identify of the artist as Reuben Brooks 1794-1870 we were ultimately unable to confirm this authorship. The lack of an imprint in the lithograph also precludes easy research and identification. In fact the rarity of the lithograph makes it difficult to expound much more about it at all. OCLC reports just a single copy at the Peabody Essex Museum and it is not listed in Weitenkampf or Reilly. Given its rarity and content the present lithograph offers an outstanding opportunity for further research and contextualization. unknown‎

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‎[COLLECTIF] / DOMENACH (Jean-Marie), sous la direction de.‎

‎Esprit n°410 - Janvier 1972 - n°1.‎

‎Paris, Esprit, 1972 1 volume 14 x 22,7cm Broché. 158p., 1 feuillet, 8p. bleutées. Rousseurs au dos; très bon état intérieur.‎

‎N°1 de la nouvelle série, janvier 1972, de la revue fondée par Emmanuel Mounier et dirigée par Jean-Marie Domenach; au sommaire, articles sur le Bengale ("Le Crime des riches" par Jean BASTIAIRE et "L'aveuglement" par Paul THIBAUD), sur le Japon, "Pensée et idéologie" de Jean-Pierre SIMEON, "Portrait psychologique du toxicomane" par Claude OLIEVENSTEIN, article sur la fondation de la revue, extrait d'un ouvrage de Jean-Marie DOMENACH sur Emmanuel Mounier, articles sur l'apartheid d'Anne-Marie GOGUEL, sur l'esclavage de Jean-Pierre CHRETIEN; etc. Avec la bande annonce: "Bengale: le crime d'indifférence - La foondation d'Esprit - Qu'est-ce que l'idéologie ? - Le Japon en bouleversements" et le supplément au n°: table des articles publiés en 1971.‎

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‎[Cuba]. [Slavery]‎

‎Cuban Manuscript Document Noting the Death of a Chinese Laborer‎

‎Havana 1872. Very good. Manuscript form approximately 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear at edges; a few small worm holes. Contemporary ink stamp. Light tanning and offsetting. This 1872 manuscript form from a Havana jail the Celaduria de la Punta notes the death there of an "Asiatico" a Chinese indentured servant with the given name of Juan Macao and orders the transfer of the body to the mortuary for cremation. Indentured servants found themselves jailed for several reasons including suspicion of theft and other crimes recapture following runaway or mere suspicion of abandoning a contract. unknown‎

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‎[Cuba]. [Slavery]‎

‎Manuscript Regarding the Disappearance of a Chinese Indentured Servant from a Plantation‎

‎Cuba 1879. About very good. 3pp. on a small bifolium. Contemporary ink stamps; accomplished in a fairly legible hand. Minor wear. A few small wormholes. Light tanning and dust soiling. Brief but very interesting manuscript report on the case of a missing Chinese indentured servant in the district of Alagranes near Matanzas. On February 18 1879 the owner of the plantation Juanita reports the missing person stating that there was a fire in his sugar cane field and it is thought that the laborer might have been burned. It seems that the present document serves to register the case with regional authorities in Matanzas and is a good record of the bureaucracy controlling indentured servitude in Cuba at this time. unknown‎

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‎[Cuba]. [Slavery]‎

‎Registro Civil de Esclavos de la Jurisdiccion de. manuscript caption title‎

‎Havana 1850. Good. 138pp. Folio. Stitched with remnants of leather binding along spine. A few blank leaves scattered throughout. Dampstaining and moisture damage at upper fore-edge of scattered leaves slightly affecting text. Moderate offsetting occasional ink burn. Light edge wear and tanning scattered foxing. An extensive list of slave owners in Cuba in the mid-19th century who were issued cedulas for their human property. Cedulas were integral documents for the identification and transportation of enslaved people in the bureaucracy of colonial Cuba and were usually required by the government. In the present manuscript the race and sex of the slaves being issued documents are usually identified -- Negra Negro mulata mulato Chino China e.g. -- though some are just entered as esclavos and there are several entries noted as dotaciones that is complements usually large of slaves on a plantation. The names of the owners are grouped alphabetically according to their first names generally though not in any strict order and the leaves of the manuscript are sometimes bound out of order. Often there are multiple listings of an owner most likely one for each slave in need of a cedula and in all there are approximately 2500 or more separate listings. The first leaf appears to be a model for the cedulas that were being issued to the listed slaveholders with dashes where the information on the slaves and slave owners is to be filled in. The entire document has the appearance of an index with numbers at the right side of each page indicating perhaps the page numbers in the master ledger where the original entry was made. Overall a fascinating and significant document. unknown‎

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‎[Duras (Claire de Kersaint, Duchesse de)]‎

‎Ourika. Deuxième édition.‎

‎Paris, Ladvocat, 25 mars 1824 (Imprimerie de J. Pinard) ; in-12 ; demi-chagrin bleu-marine, dos à nerfs orné de roulettes décoratives de style romantique, fleurons à froid, filet doré sur les plats, plats de couverture marron illustrés conservés, non rogné (reliure fin XIXe-début XXe) ; 172 pp. y compris le faux-titre et le titre ; au verso du faux-titre on lit "Publié au profit d'un établissement de charité".‎

‎(Vicaire, III-535). L'édition originale, imprimée juste avant celle-ci au début de 1824, ne fut tirée qu'à 25 exemplaires hors-commerce. Celle-ci est la première édition publique, rare aussi, du tout premier roman d'amour d'une jeune Sénégalaise noire, sauvée de l'esclavage et emmenée en France, qui aime secrètement un homme blanc ; Ourika avait passé son enfance dans une bonne famille, aimée, entourée, éduquée dans tous les domaines, elle avait reçu l'éducation d'une jeune fille de bonne famile. Avec l'adolescence, la dure réalité sociale et la barrière raciale s'imposèrent. Qui voudrait épouser une Négresse ? Quel avenir humain pouvait-elle espérer ? Amoureuse en secret, mais également désespérée de son état, elle avait décidé de se laisser mourir; l'issue, ou plutôt le refuge, elle le trouva en prenant le voile. Ce roman court mais très intense est la première tentative littéraire de pénétrer l'âme africaine, d'essayer de comprendre la psychologie d'un être totalement aimé et respecté par son entourage et pourtant seul à porter le lourd fardeau de la différence, différence qui l'exclut de fait de la vie de toute une société, malgré les idées de la Révolution française, idées qu'elle juge vaines face à la réalité des hommes et de la vie. Souvent, Ourika se demande s'il n'aurait pas mieux valu qu'on la laisse en Afrique ou en esclavage ; le problème du métissage est aussi courageusement évoqué, mais bien vite écarté.Née à Brest (1777 - 1828), Claire de Kersaint voit son père, amiral, guillotiné le 5 décembre 1793. Emigrée aux Antilles avec sa mère, elles reviendront ensuite en Suisse et à Londres où Claire épouse Amédée Bretagne-Molo Durfort de Duras en 1797. Rentrée en France en 1801, elle fera la connaissance de Chateaubriand et ouvrira un salon aux Tuileries, fréquenté par Humbold, Cuvier, Talleyrand, Madame de Staël, Balzac, Lamartine, Delphine Gay, Juliette Récamier, etc. Petite auréole claire dans l'angle supérieur et petites rousseurs éparses, sinon exceptionnel exemplaire avec sa couverture d'origine, qui porte la date du "25 mars 1824", date non reprise au titre, qui est la marque d'authentification de cette première édition publique, non rognée, tel que parue, avec une reliure sur brochage.‎

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‎A view of the present state of the African slave trade published by direction of a meeting representing the Religious Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New –Jersey, etc…‎

‎Philadelphia, William Brown, 1824. In 8 de 69 pp. (sous couverture), (rousseurs).‎

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‎La Révolution française et l'abolition de l'esclavage. Textes et documents‎

‎Paris, EDHIS, 1968 12 volumes in-8, brochés.‎

‎Il s'agit de la précieuse réimpression anastatique de 89 pièces révolutionnaires ou pré-révolutionnaires sur les questions de la traite et de l'esclavage, la plupart fort rares et difficilement réunissables. - Il manque malheureusement le tome II, qui ne contient que le texte de l'abbé Sébastien-André Sibire (L'Aristocratie négrière, 1789).I.-V. Traite des Noirs et esclavage. - VI.-IX. La Société des amis des Noirs. - X.-XI. La révolte des Noirs et des Créoles. - XII. La législation nouvelle. - Table générale et index. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 179459