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‎SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON 1st Baronet 1786 1845 Philanthropist and Anti Slavery Reformer.‎

‎Engraved Portrait of Buxton Three-Quarter Length seated facsimile signature after H.P. Briggs by W. Holl.‎

‎Stipple engraving unknown‎

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‎"The Negro Apprenticeship System" in Edinburgh Review January 1838‎

‎Edinburgh Review 1838. The American issue of The Edinburgh Review Theodore Foster's Edition. The original blue wrappers of this issue show minor discoloration. The interior has minor scattered foxing. Overall this copy is in near fine condition. Twenty-four page essay occasioned by the publication of the Report of the Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Working of the Negro Apprenticeship and the publication of Papers Relative to the Abolition of Slavery both published in 1837. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Edinburgh Review Paperback‎

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‎An Overseer is Guilty of Murdering His Slave by "Stocks Starvation and Lashes."‎

‎<p>A Mississippi inquest holds a slave overseer accountable for killing a slave.</p> <b>SLAVERY.</b>Manuscript Document Signed by George Newman Edward T. Smith Sheppard Taylor Elijah Norman Hezekiah Kibbee David Collins and Daniel Greenleaf. Adams County Mississippi December 16 1821 1p. 8 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Partial Transcript:</b></p><p><i>"the sd negro Frank came to his death by inhuman treatment and severe punishment in stocks starvation and lashes by the order and by the hand of William Wall.and so the sd Wm. Wall did then and there feloniously cause the death of the sd Negro Frank against the peace and dignity of the state and so we say all."</i></p>‎

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‎Anno Tricesimo Nono GEORGII III. REGIS. Cap. LXXX. An Act for Better Regulating the Manner of Carrying Slaves in British Vessels from the Coast of Africa caption title‎

‎London: 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. <br/><br/> (London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1799) unknown‎

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‎Authentic Details of the Valdenses in Piedmont and Other Countries; with Abridged Translations of "L'Histoire des Vaudois" par Bresse and La Rentree Glorieuse d'Henri Arnaud with the Ancient Valdensian Catechism. To which are subjoined Original LEtters Written During a Residence Among the Vaudois of Piedmont and Wirtemberg in 1825‎

‎London: 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

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‎Autographed Letter Signed regarding payment on one cask of limes to arrive by boat‎

‎1847. unbound. The writer Mr. Pugh also mentions that he has received a letter concerning a runaway slave and will keep a look out in part: ".I rec'd your letter about a Runaway Negro but as yet have not heard anything about him. Will keep a look out. Yours Respectfully." 1 page 8vo light water-staining 9.25 x 7.5 inches. No place October 12 1847. Very good- condition. unknown‎

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‎British Government Document: Slavery Abolition Act. Copy of an Order in Council… for giving effect to an Act of Parliament made in the Third and Fouth Year of His present Majesty for the Abolition of Slavery in the Colonies‎

‎<p>Single small folio leaf printed on both sides. Faint creases whee originally folded probably removed modest aging and browning a couple of very small spots or stains; overall very good. Over forty years after William Wilberforce presnted evidence of the brutality of slavery to Parliament and following Thomas Clarkson's tireless efforts the crown finanlly put an end to salvery in the West Indies and her colonies. The act included a provision that all slaves above the age of six were to present themselves for apprenticeship. The crown also set aside 20 million pounds to compensate the slave owners who could retain their workforce for a modest sum.</p> Ordered by the House of Commons,‎

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‎Charleston Slave Badge for a House Servant Charleston 1834‎

‎Diamond-shaped copper badge stamped "Charleston 1834 SERVANT" 2 x 2 in.; 5 x 5 cm hole punched at the top for suspension pitted and worn with losses particularly at the bottom edges somewhat ragged. Floated on a velveteen mount glazed and framed 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.; 14.6 x 14.6 cm. Not examined out of frame. A POIGNANT AND EVOCATIVE ARTIFACT OF THE PRACTICE OF SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH. Approximately a quarter to a third of white Southern families were slaveholders. According to James O. Horton Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University the rest of the population likely contracted to purchase slave labor on a part-time basis. Any resulting income the slave earned from their ancillary services could be passed on to the master completely divided between master and slave or in some recorded instances kept by the slave entirely. Badge laws existed in several Southern cities-urban centers such as Mobile and New Orleans Savannah and Norfolk; the practice of hiring of slaves was common in both the rural and urban South. But the only city known to have implemented a rigid and formal regulatory system was Charleston the historic center of the slave trade. In this affluent seaport the city treasurer's office issued all badges on an annual basis with license fees set on a sliding scale according to the category and skill of the laborer. The most common occupations were servants and porters though Charleston slaves also worked as skilled artisans such as carpenters and silversmiths fishermen and fruit vendors. Badges were made of copper alloy and occasionally from silver cut or pressed from a mold or sometimes fashioned by hand into various sizes and shapes. Most typically were squares or diamonds ranging in size from about 1.5 square inches to 3 square inches. They were usually stamped with the name of the city the year the occupation of the laborer and often with a serial number. Each was pierced with a hole and was probably worn about the neck on a string or chain. The badges Hodder said "evoke a personal history which is almost unfathomable: beatings hardships tears pain separation loss a terrible sense of abandonment." At the same time he adds "one can read into them a sense of hope and planning for the future-the slave working to earn as much money as possible perhaps to purchase his freedom or the freedom of a family member." REFERENCES: "Copper Neck Tags Evoke the Experience of American Slaves Hired Out as Part-Time Laborers" Smithsonian; Harlan Greene and Harry Hutchins Slavery's Badge: A History of the Slave Hiring System of Charleston SC 1783-1865. PROVENANCE: Doyle Rare Books Autographs & Maps 17 April 2019 lot 43. unknown‎

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‎Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition‎

‎1788. SLAVERY. Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition Of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. Begun in the Year 1774 and Enlarged on the Twenty-Third of April 1787. To which Are Added the Acts of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery. Phila.: Printed by Francis Bailey 1788. 29pp. Period-style cloth-backed marbled boards housed in custom cloth folding case with brown morocco spine label. Some very faint scattered foxing else very good. Evans 21381. NAIP w030522. Dumond p.91. Reese The Federal Hundred 14 ref. This edition follows and enlarges upon the constitution of the Society as published in 1787. The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was founded in 1774 by Anthony Benezet and most of its members were Quakers. The officers of the Society included Benjamin Franklin as president Benjamin Rush and Tench Coxe as secretaries and Thomas Paine serving as clerk of the General Assembly. Franklin and Rush helped write the Society's constitution. Following the society's constitution and list of officers the remainder of the present pamphlet reprints a series of acts governing slavery in Pennsylvania. These include "An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery" "An Act to give Relief to certain Persons taking Refuge in this State with respect to their slaves" and an additional act of March 1788 amending the original act for gradual abolition. This last act is prefixed by a report of the committee of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. In 1788 as a result of petitions from the Society the Pennsylvania legislature amended the gradual abolition act of 1780 prohibiting the transportation of slave children or pregnant women out of Pennsylvania making it illegal to build outfit or issue slave ships from Philadelphia and imposing heavier fines for the kidnapping of slaves. unknown‎

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‎Extracts from the Second Report of the Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions‎

‎Manchester: Printed by Henry Smith 1825. 8vo 36 pp. Disbound. The report running to 193 pages was published the same year in London. Manchester: Printed by Henry Smith unknown‎

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‎EXTRACTS FROM THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH REPORTS OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE AFRICAN INSTITUTION READ AT THEIR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS HELD IN LONDON ON THE 11th DAY OF MAY 1824 AND ON THE 13th DAY OF MAY 1825‎

‎Philadelphia 1826. 40pp. Original tan wrappers. Wraps a bit creased spine slightly chipped. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Text a bit tanned. very good. A call for the abolition of the slave trade with sections regarding the involvement of a number of foreign countries in the trade. This copy belonged to the Rev. Leonard Worcester of Peacham Vt. Worcester was a member of the Auxiliary Colonization Society of the State of Vermont a regional subgroup of the American Colonization Society. A nice association copy. SHOEMAKER 23434. paperback books‎

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‎INJURED HUMANITY; BEING A REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THE UNHAPPY CHILDREN OF AFRICA ENDURE FROM THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS‎

‎New York: Samuel Wood 1808. Broadside 16 1/2 x 13 inches with main text printed in two center columns flanked on both sides by seven woodcut illustrations with descriptive text. The entire broadside surrounded by an ornamental border. Old folds minor chipping to edges short repaired tears small smudge in right column. Backed on acid-free tissue. Very good condition. A rare and powerful illustrated broadside describing in text and images the cruelties suffered by Africans in the West Indies slave trade. The main text is largely adapted from a work published in London in 1793 REMARKS ON THE METHODS OF PROCURING SLAVES WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THEIR TREATMENT IN THE WEST- INDIES in support of an abolitionist boycott of West Indian goods with information gleaned from Parliamentary reports. It describes slave auctions and the "scrambles" by which sickly Africans are sold and gives details of the treatment of field and house slaves. The illustrations are horrifying showing slave families being separated at auction and then branded floggings at the hands of black overseers and various restraints to keep the slaves from eating or escaping including head-frames and mouthpieces neck braces weights leg spurs and shackles and yokes. The printer of this broadside Samuel Wood was a noted Quaker- reformist and the illustrations are credited to pioneering New York wood engraver Alexander Anderson. OCLC locates eleven copies and gives a publication date of 1802 though Pomeroy the American Antiquarian Society and Princeton give a date of 1805 to 1808 based on Samuel Wood's address as noted in the imprint. The Gilder Lehrman Institute also holds a copy as does the Rosenbach Museum. Rare and very interesting and a powerful manifestation of the growing abolitionist sentiment in the United States in the early 19th century. POMEROY ALEXANDER ANDERSON 169. HAMILTON EARLY AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS AND WOOD ENGRAVERS 252. OCLC 33989651 476101156 945084251. Samuel Wood unknown‎

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‎INTERESSANTES GESPRACH �BER SCLAVEREN IN AMERIKA ZWISCHEN NABOB UND GOTTLIEB IM STAATE GEORGIEN‎

‎N.p. but Germany 1840. 16pp. Stitched as issued. Very light dampstaining at top edge. Very good. In German. An imaginary dialogue between a slaveholder and a missionary in Georgia. They debate the rights and wrongs of slavery with the slaveholder gradually crumbling before biblical evidence. A most unusual German tract on the American slavery controversy. unknown‎

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‎INTERESSANTES GESPRÄCH ÜBER SCLAVEREN IN AMERIKA ZWISCHEN NABOB UND GOTTLIEB IM STAATE GEORGIEN‎

‎N.p. but Germany 1840. 16pp. text in German. Stitched as issued. Very light dampstaining at top edge. Very good. An imaginary dialogue between a slaveholder and a missionary in Georgia. They debate the rights and wrongs of slavery with the slaveholder gradually crumbling before biblical evidence. A most unusual German tract on the American slavery controversy. unknown books‎

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‎Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Tramsmitting A Statement of Lands Lots and Dwelling Houses and of Slaves with. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury An Abstract of the Valuation Lands Slaves and Dwelling Houses…with Report of the Secretary of the Treasury Respecting the Valuation of Lands Lots Dwelling Houses and Slaves‎

‎Pamphlet formate folio disbound first pamphlet 3 leaves printed on recto only second 7pp. third 6 pages and folding chart. Pamphlet extracted from larger volumne chipping along spine and edges not affecting text second papmple completely disbound paper browned and somewhat dry These pamphlets are rare and represent an important source of information on the numbers and values of slaves in early 19th century America. The first title presents the value assigned to slaves in 11 states including New York. The second lists the number and values of slaves in the various counties in the state of Maryland. The final pamphlet presents real estate values and values on dwellings including slaves in the counties of Pennsylvania. The information in these reports was compiled by Alexander James Dallas 1759-1817 who was the Secretary of the Treasury. Dallas born in Kingston Jamaica settled in Pennsylvania and practiced law there. Eventually he would become Secretary of the Treasury in 1814 when the nation was almost bankrupt. He managed to reorganize the department get the country out of debt created a surplus and even helped promote what would become the Second Bank of the United States. ANB. William A. Davis, books‎

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‎Manuscript poem entitled "The Little Slave‎

‎Waterford Maine Feb 3rd 1861. In a neat nineteenth-century hand on a single leaf torn from a larger sheet of note paper. 1 vols. 5 x 8 inches. Old folds else fine. In a neat nineteenth-century hand on a single leaf torn from a larger sheet of note paper. 1 vols. 5 x 8 inches. "My mammy's worked out". Thirty-two line poem expressing pious sentiments at the plight of the child slave: "Here orange trees wave / But oh not for me -- / I'm a poor little slave . My mammy's worked out / And lies here in the grave / There's none to kiss me / I'm a poor little slave". unknown books‎

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‎Middle Passage" slave shackles‎

‎1800. Wrought iron two semicircular wrist pieces approx. 4 inch in diameter attached to an 11-inch long bar. Oxidization consistent with age and material. Wrought iron two semicircular wrist pieces approx. 4 inch in diameter attached to an 11-inch long bar. A set of shackles of the type used in the Middle Passage slave route from Africa to the Americas in the 18th century. An illustration of this type of shackle appears on page 16 of Lydia Maria Child's Appeal in Behalf of that Class of Americans Called Africans Boston 1833 where she notes that these shackles were used to secure the ankles of adjacent slaves. "Yet even thus secured they do often jump into the sea and wave their hands in triumph at the approach of death unknown‎

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‎N.Y. COURT OF APPEALS. REPORT OF THE LEMMON SLAVE CASE: CONTAINING POINTS AND ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL ON BOTH SIDES AND OPINIONS OF ALL THE JUDGES‎

‎New York 1860. 146pp. 20th-century tan buckram gilt leather labels. Later ink stamp on titlepage; contemporary ownership inscription. First two leaves nearly detached; last two leaves detached. Internally clean. Good. An interesting case in which a writ of habeas corpus was demanded for eight slaves who were being kept in New York while awaiting shipment to their owners in Virginia and then to Texas in 1852. Chief Justice Paine upheld the writ and in 1860 the case went to the court of appeals where the original judgment was overturned to preserve peace in the Union. hardcover‎

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‎PRESBYTERIANISM AND SLAVERY. BY OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. PUBLISHED FOR THE USE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY‎

‎Pittsburgh: Alexander Jaynes 1836. 8pp. Dbd. Lightly and evenly tanned. Very good. "The question of Slavery being before the General Assembly of 1836 on petition from many members of the church that the Assembly would bear their testimony against the practice of slaveholding as a SIN it has been thought proper to reprint the testimonies and acts of former Assemblies on the same subject from the official Minutes without note or comment." Only three copies located in OCLC at Princeton Oberlin and the Library Company of Philadelphia. Alexander Jaynes unknown books‎

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‎PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MEETING AT FANEUIL HALL NOVEMBER 26TH 1850‎

‎Boston 1850 Beals & Greene. Pro-slavery position from northerners: No doubt there are cases of cruel oppression but which it is not our right nor our business Don Quixote like to attempt to relieve. Includes some strongly racist opinions. Octavo 46pp. removed from larger binding and rebound in later wraps. VG faint vertical foldline throughout text clean and binding secure. . paperback‎

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

‎WashingtonCity 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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‎Slave Bill of Sale: Tyrrel County North Carolina. Dated 5th June 1856‎

‎Very good condition. The administrator for the estate of Thomas Medyett sells "Aries" for $550. Signed John McCluse. 7 3/4 x 9 1/2" pale blue lined paper slight white spotting. On the verso the Registrar's notes recording the bill of sale. <br/><br/> unknown‎

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‎Some Observations on the Assiento Trade as has been Exercised by the South Sea Company; Proving the Damage which will accrue thereby to the British Commerce and Plantations in America and Particularly in Jamaica…‎

‎Pamphlet 8vo modern full calf in the style of an 18th century “Cambridge†binding 32 pp.Very slight aging; in excellent condition. This is a rare first edition of a work that presents a complaint by British planters in the West Indies concerning the Assiento or “agreement’ with Spain that gave Britain a virtual monopoly on the African slave trade. This agreement came out of the Treaty of Utrecht which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. This pamphlet indicates that the planters feared as a result of this agreement British slavers might be required to provide African slaves to the Spanish colonies which could result in insufficient numbers available for the West India plantations. The Assiento with Spain would mark the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade as a very powerful economic growth engine. Unfortunately this would translate into millions of Africans being taken from their homes. H. Whitridge unknown books‎

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‎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 books‎

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‎THE ANTI-SLAVERY RECORD. MARCH 1836. VOL. II. NO. I WHOLE 15‎

‎New-York: R. G. Williams 1836. 12pp illustrated. Original printed and decorated wrappers stitched. Illustrations. Very Good. The contents of this issue: The Humanity of the Africo-Americans The Consistency of Lafayette The Disruption of Family Ties and Receipts of the American Anti-Slavery Society. The rear wrap has advertisements a sonnet and a short historical essay on a Jamaican town of Negro refugees called "We no sen' you no come." Dumond 17. Blockson 9174. R. G. Williams unknown‎

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