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SLAVERY. Whittier John Greenleaf
Poems
Philadelphia: Joseph Healy; Boston: Weeks Jordan; New York: John S. Taylor 1838 1838. First edition. BAL 21710 binding A; American Imprints 53638. Edges a little rubbed; light foxing; very good copy. 12mo original floral patterned blue-green cloth gilt lettering on the upper board. ¶ An early and substantial collection of over 50 poems by John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1891. The first part contains 24 of his memorable abolitionist poems collected for the first time with his approval. In 1837 Isaac Knapp of Boston published Whittier's Poems Written During the Progress of Abolition Question but it was issued without Whittier's permission and according to the poet was riddled with errors. Lending library label of the Suffolk Lyceum Library with their rules on the front paste-down. On the front free endpaper is an intriguing faint pencil inscription to a "Mrs. Mary Lincoln / a present from / Mr. Lincoln / March 10th 1845." Extensive research on this has led . . . nowhere. <br/><br/> Philadelphia: Joseph Healy; Boston: Weeks, Jordan; New York: John S. Taylor, 1838 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 28115
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Slavery. American Poetry. Thomas Joseph.
A Poetical Descant on the Primeval and Present State of Mankind; or The Pilgrim's Muse.
Winchester Va.: J. Foster Printer 1816. First edition. Fragile sheep rubbed but sound; some light foxing and spotting; front joint just a trifle tender; a good sound copy of a moderately crude American book. Small 8vo original sheep red leather label gilt lettering 219 1 pages. An eccentric book-length poem from Elder Joseph Thomas 1791-1835 the wide-ranging charismatic North Carolina itinerant preacher known as the White Pilgrim for his habit of attiring himself in white apparel in all seasons and climes. Thomas includes a fairly lengthy and graphic section here leveled against slavery and its e suggesting those who endorse slavery might "Let them be bound and torn away / From wives and friends to Africa. / Let them be starv'd and beat one year / Then say 'tis right I'll say 'tis queer; / Or whip their wives before their eye-- / Is that all right O no they cry." Thomas also suggests abstaining from the product of slave labor "In sugar works where Negroes toil / A leg and arm they often boil; / They grind them up and mix the sweet / Of all that luxury we eat. / O temp'rate man use not that food / That's stain'd or mix'd with negro blood! / That taste luxur'ous now forego / Which causes human gore to flow." Stoddard & Whitesell 1148; Sabin 63639. Early ink autograph ownership signatures to the front free endpaper and to a rear blank and endpapers. Small tear from the lower margin of one leaf with loss of a few letters but no loss of sense. J. Foster, Printer, unknown
Bookseller reference : 19598
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Slavery. Anonymous.
Equality and Inequality: Slavery. Junk h. k. Lyceum Thursday Evening Jan. 4th 1855.
N. p.: Jan. 4th 1855. Autograph address in ink on an unbound fascicle of 15 folia 30 leaves stitched. These arguments it is believed fairly prove that a man can be at the same time both a slave-holder and a Christian or stated in the abstract that the particular relation of superior & inferior known as slavery is not in itself necessarily sinful." An extensive detailed legal and ethical apology for American slavery arguing that a reciprocal relationship exists between the enslaver and the slave; the speak tentatively argues that Congress does have power to regulate slavery in the territories and had words against the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty. The anonymity of this argument and the popular setting of the lyceum stage perhaps as a student production seems altogether fitting as a reflection of the widespread currency of legalistic equivocation over chattel slavery in America prior to the Civil War. With revisions and interpolations and corrections to the text throughout. Jan. 4th,
Bookseller reference : 19759
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Slavery. Alabama. Harding Edward.
Stampless cover autograph letter signed E. Harding to his family member perhaps niece Maria A. Queen of Washington D. C.
Mount Vernon Alabama April 20 '27 i.e. 1827. Separating at spots along old folds; some staining browning and light soiling; in good condition legible. One page on a lined bifolium 9.75 x 7.75 inches approx. 250 words. A prelude to flush times in Alabama and representative bit of evidence of the growth of the internal slave trade from the soon-to-be commander of the Mount Vernon Arsenal authorized by Congress in May 1828. Harding appears to have had roots in Montgomery County Maryland; this letter includes references to inheritance complications and to Maria's recent misfortunes: "I recd. a letter some days ago from Mr. R. Burdine communicating the disturbing intelligence at the loss of yr. house & effects by fire and by this days post I enclose here a draft on the Bank of the Metropolis for $100 for yr. benefit. ñ this amount althoí small is all I can well afford ñ I have four children to educate who are at very expensive schools and their Mother is now abroad in Pennsylvania superintending their education. . . . I think those who have surreptitiously obtained possession of your Grandfathers property ought to contribute liberally to yr. relief. ñ From that estate you know I have nothing but 5 Negroes the land left me by my father and which I shall ever believe my children were swindled out of. I have long since abandoned the idea of ever being able to recover." Harding notes further "I suppose you are aware my brother H. purchased for me last fall Old Sall and her daughter who joined me in December last. They with the rest of the Negroes are around me & doing well." Maria Queen appears in public records petitioning for compensation in May 1862 for the emancipation of the enslaved Ellen Hanson freed under the Washington D. C. compensated emancipation act: "Said Ellen was given to Me at the age of Ten years by My Grand father Edward Harding of Montgomery County Md Said Ellen has been in my immediate service ever since." Franked by Harding as the postmaster of Mount Vernon. With a preliminary transcript. April 20, '27, [i.e.,] unknown
Bookseller reference : 19400
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Slavery. Alabama. Harding Edward.
Stampless cover autograph letter signed E. Harding to his family member perhaps niece Maria A. Queen of Washington D. C.
Mount Vernon Alabama April 20 '27 i.e. 1827. Separating at spots along old folds; some staining browning and light soiling; in good condition legible. One page on a lined bifolium 9.75 x 7.75 inches approx. 250 words. A prelude to flush times in Alabama and representative bit of evidence of the growth of the internal slave trade from the soon-to-be commander of the Mount Vernon Arsenal authorized by Congress in May 1828. Harding appears to have had roots in Montgomery County Maryland; this letter includes references to inheritance complications and to Maria's recent misfortunes: "I recd. a letter some days ago from Mr. R. Burdine communicating the disturbing intelligence at the loss of yr. house & effects by fire and by this days post I enclose here a draft on the Bank of the Metropolis for $100 for yr. benefit. ñ this amount althoà small is all I can well afford ñ I have four children to educate who are at very expensive schools and their Mother is now abroad in Pennsylvania superintending their education. . . . I think those who have surreptitiously obtained possession of your Grandfathers property ought to contribute liberally to yr. relief. ñ From that estate you know I have nothing but 5 Negroes the land left me by my father and which I shall ever believe my children were swindled out of. I have long since abandoned the idea of ever being able to recover." Harding notes further "I suppose you are aware my brother H. purchased for me last fall Old Sall and her daughter who joined me in December last. They with the rest of the Negroes are around me & doing well." Maria Queen appears in public records petitioning for compensation in May 1862 for the emancipation of the enslaved Ellen Hanson freed under the Washington D. C. compensated emancipation act: "Said Ellen was given to Me at the age of Ten years by My Grand father Edward Harding of Montgomery County Md Said Ellen has been in my immediate service ever since." Franked by Harding as the postmaster of Mount Vernon. With a preliminary transcript. April 20, '27, [i.e.,] unknown books
Bookseller reference : 19400
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Slavery. American Poetry. Thomas Joseph.
A Poetical Descant on the Primeval and Present State of Mankind; or The Pilgrim's Muse.
Winchester Va.: J. Foster Printer 1816. First edition. Fragile sheep rubbed but sound; some light foxing and spotting; front joint just a trifle tender; a good sound copy of a moderately crude American book. Small 8vo original sheep red leather label gilt lettering 219 1 pages. An eccentric book-length poem from Elder Joseph Thomas 1791-1835 the wide-ranging charismatic North Carolina itinerant preacher known as the White Pilgrim for his habit of attiring himself in white apparel in all seasons and climes. Thomas includes a fairly lengthy and graphic section here leveled against slavery and its e suggesting those who endorse slavery might "Let them be bound and torn away / From wives and friends to Africa. / Let them be starv'd and beat one year / Then say 'tis right I'll say 'tis queer; / Or whip their wives before their eye-- / Is that all right O no they cry." Thomas also suggests abstaining from the product of slave labor "In sugar works where Negroes toil / A leg and arm they often boil; / They grind them up and mix the sweet / Of all that luxury we eat. / O temp'rate man use not that food / That's stain'd or mix'd with negro blood! / That taste luxur'ous now forego / Which causes human gore to flow." Stoddard & Whitesell 1148; Sabin 63639. Early ink autograph ownership signatures to the front free endpaper and to a rear blank and endpapers. Small tear from the lower margin of one leaf with loss of a few letters but no loss of sense. J. Foster, Printer, unknown books
Bookseller reference : 19598
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Slavery. Anonymous.
Equality and Inequality: Slavery. Junk h. k. Lyceum Thursday Evening Jan. 4th 1855.
N. p.: Jan. 4th 1855. Autograph address in ink on an unbound fascicle of 15 folia 30 leaves stitched. These arguments it is believed fairly prove that a man can be at the same time both a slave-holder and a Christian or stated in the abstract that the particular relation of superior & inferior known as slavery is not in itself necessarily sinful." An extensive detailed legal and ethical apology for American slavery arguing that a reciprocal relationship exists between the enslaver and the slave; the speak tentatively argues that Congress does have power to regulate slavery in the territories and had words against the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty. The anonymity of this argument and the popular setting of the lyceum stage perhaps as a student production seems altogether fitting as a reflection of the widespread currency of legalistic equivocation over chattel slavery in America prior to the Civil War. With revisions and interpolations and corrections to the text throughout. Jan. 4th, books
Bookseller reference : 19759
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Slavery. Bacon Leonard.
Review of Pamphlets on Slavery and Colonization. First Published in the Quarterly Christian Spectator for March 1833. Second Separate Edition.
New-Haven: Published and Sold by A. H. Maltby; Boston: Pierce and Parker 1833. Evident first edition. Wrappers quite foxed; some scattered internal foxing and a little light soiling and wear; a good copy. Original printed yellow wrappers stitched 9.5 x 5.75 inches 24 pages untrimmed. From the Congregationalist clergyman and polemicist gradual emancipationist and advocate of colonization see the ANB an attack on Garrison; per the LCP catalog description "Articles reviewed are William Lloyd Garrisonís Thoughts on African colonization; James Cropperís Letter to Thomas Clarkson; and Abolition of Negro slavery published in American quarterly review September 1832." The edition statement would seem to have been more accurately rendered with a comma "second separate edition" as there appears to be no other edition besides this supposed second separate edition published besides the periodical appearance in the Christian Spectator. Lib. Company. Afro-Americana 759; Dumond page 23; Sabin 2671 & 70214; American Imprints 17489. Published and Sold by A. H. Maltby; Boston: Pierce and Parker, unknown
Bookseller reference : 19436
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Slavery. Bacon Leonard.
Review of Pamphlets on Slavery and Colonization. First Published in the Quarterly Christian Spectator for March 1833. Second Separate Edition.
New-Haven: Published and Sold by A. H. Maltby; Boston: Pierce and Parker 1833. Evident first edition. Wrappers quite foxed; some scattered internal foxing and a little light soiling and wear; a good copy. Original printed yellow wrappers stitched 9.5 x 5.75 inches 24 pages untrimmed. From the Congregationalist clergyman and polemicist gradual emancipationist and advocate of colonization see the ANB an attack on Garrison; per the LCP catalog description "Articles reviewed are William Lloyd GarrisonÃs Thoughts on African colonization; James CropperÃs Letter to Thomas Clarkson; and Abolition of Negro slavery published in American quarterly review September 1832." The edition statement would seem to have been more accurately rendered with a comma "second separate edition" as there appears to be no other edition besides this supposed second separate edition published besides the periodical appearance in the Christian Spectator. Lib. Company. Afro-Americana 759; Dumond page 23; Sabin 2671 & 70214; American Imprints 17489. Published and Sold by A. H. Maltby; Boston: Pierce and Parker, unknown books
Bookseller reference : 19436
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Slavery. Channing William Ellery.
Slavery.
Boston: James Munroe and Company 1835. First edition. Spine and portions of the rear board sunned and faded; some spotting to the cloth; some foxing and light staining; front hinge just tender; a very good copy. 8vo original embossed purple cloth printed spine label iv 167 1 pages. An important anti-slavery work from the pioneering New England Unitarian. Lib. Company. Afro-Americana 2185; American Imprints 2185. James Munroe and Company, unknown
Bookseller reference : 19491
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Slavery. Channing William Ellery.
Slavery.
Boston: James Munroe and Company 1835. First edition. Spine and portions of the rear board sunned and faded; some spotting to the cloth; some foxing and light staining; front hinge just tender; a very good copy. 8vo original embossed purple cloth printed spine label iv 167 1 pages. An important anti-slavery work from the pioneering New England Unitarian. Lib. Company. Afro-Americana 2185; American Imprints 2185. James Munroe and Company, unknown books
Bookseller reference : 19491
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SLAVERY. MOUNT VERNON. WEST FORD. MARY BOWLES ARMISTEAD SELDEN
His Grandmother-in-Law Can’t Spare a “Stacker” for John Augustine Washington III – Letter Delivered by Freed Washington Family Slave West Ford Includes List of Mount Vernon Slaves
<p>Mary B. Selden was the grandmother of Eleanor Love Selden who married John Augustine Washington III in 1843. She regrets not being able to furnish Washington with the services of one of her slaves as a stacker for the upcoming wheat harvest.</p><p>Still a faithful employee West Ford worked for the Washington family well into the nineteenth century including delivering this letter.</p><p>The letter includes a list of two dozen slaves written in pencil by John Augustine Washington III.</p> <b>SLAVERY. MOUNT VERNON. WEST FORD. MARY BOWLES ARMISTEAD SELDEN.</b>Autograph Letter Signed to John Augustine Washington III hand delivered by West Ford; <b>JOHN AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON III</b>. Autograph List of Slaves. Single folio leaf with autograph address on verso. Alexandria Virginia 1845.<p><b>Complete Transcript</b></p><p><i>My dear Augustine</i></p><p><i> I am very sorry to be unable to render you the service you require. I have a very fine stacker but he is hired by the year to M<u>r</u> Young as I did not expect to have employment enough for him at M<u>t</u>Ida. Another year if you wish it you can have him I receive very small wages for him and as a stacker I have never known any one equal to him.</i></p><p><i>I am very sorry to hear that Nelly is sick. I hope she will be well enough to come up and meet the bridal party on thursday.</i><i> I received a letter from Eliza to day in which she says they will be at M<u>t</u> Ida that day but will bring no company with them. It will give great pleasure to them and to me if M<u>rs</u> Washington</i><i> Nelly and yourself will come up on that day. M<u>rs</u> Lippitt</i><i> will have a room ready for any of the party that will favour her with their company she must by no means be left behind.</i></p><p><i> Most truly and affectionately / yrs</i></p><p><i>M. B. Selden</i></p><p><2></p><p>Address: <i>John A. Washington Esq. / M<u>t</u> Vernon / By West Ford</i></p><p>Docketing by John Augustine Washington III: <i>Mrs. M. B. Selden</i></p><p>List of slaves in pencil by John Augustine Washington III:</p><p><i>Phil</i> b. 1790</p><p><i>Hannah</i> b. 1826</p><p><i>Gabe</i> b. 1820 <i>Eliza</i> b. 1811</p><p><i>Ned</i> b. 1827 <i>Jim</i>Michum b. 1795</p><p><i>Edmund</i> b. 1827 <i>John</i> b. 1833</p><p><i>Betty</i> b. 1833 <i>Mary</i> b. 1819</p><p><i>West</i> <i>Fanny</i> "Belongs to my wife"</p><p><i>Sarah </i> b. 1809 <i>Dennis</i> b. 1838</p><p><i>Hannah</i> <i>Nelly</i> b. 1836</p><p><i>William</i> b. 1830 <i>Jim</i>Starks b. 1805</p><p><i>Joe</i> b. 1832 <i>Sally</i> b. 1827</p><p><i>Ephraim</i> b. 1834 <i>Tom</i> b. 1835 "bound to me till Oct 1856"</p><p><i>West</i> b. 1838</p><p><i>Jesse</i> b. 1785</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Farmers in mid-nineteenth-century Virginia typically planted winter wheat in September and October and harvested it in the following June. After wheat had been cut a stacker tied the wheat into bundles and piled the bundles in shocks to dry in the field. After the shocks dried they would be stored in a barn or carefully built stack capped with grass to shed the rain until threshing time. Even after Cyrus McCormick developed his mechanical grain reaper in the 1830s men needed to follow the machine to bundle and stack the wheat. Building a good stack was an important skill and those workers free or enslaved who knew how to do so were very valuable at harvest time.</p><p><b>Mary Bowles Armistead Alexander Selden</b> 1783-1846 was born in Hanover Virginia. She married Charles Alexander Jr. 1772-1812 with whom she had five children including Louisa Elizabeth Fontaine Alexander 1802-1827. After her first husband's death she married Dr. Wilson Cary Selden 1761-1835. She was his third wife and they had three children. By his first wife Dr. Selden was the father of Wilson Cary Selden Jr. 1796-1843. In 1822 Wilson Cary Selden Jr. married Louisa Elizabeth Fontaine Alexander and they became the parents of Eleanor Love Selden 1824-1860 who married John A. Washington III. Thus Mary Bowles Selden was both the grandmother and step-grandmother of Eleanor Nelly Washington. At the time she wrote this letter she was living at Mount Ida a 6000-acre plantation that stretched along two miles of the Potomac River north of Alexandria Virginia and fewer than ten miles from Mount Vernon. Her first husband built the neoclassical mansion of Mount Ida in 1808.</p><p><b>John Augustine Washington III</b> 1821-1861 was born in Blakeley West Virginia the son of John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840. His father inherited George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in 1829 but it passed to his wife at his death in 1832. In 1841 Augustine Washington proposed to manage Mount Vernon for his mother. When she died in 1855 the plantation passed to him. In 1858 after offering the property to both the federal government and to the State of Virginia he sold 200 acres of the Mount Vernon estate including the mansion outbuildings and family tomb to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association for $200000. Washington married Eleanor Nelly Love Selden 1824-1860 in 1843 and they had seven children. In 1860 he owned 22 slaves. In 1861 Washington joined the Confederate Army as a lieutenant colonel and served as an aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee. He was killed while conducting reconnaissance at the Battle of Cheat Mountain in September 1861.</p><p><b>West Ford</b> ca. 1784-1863 was born on the Bushfield Plantation in Westmoreland County Virginia to an enslaved woman owned by George Washington's brother John Augustine Washington. When George Washington visited West Ford was his personal attendant. When John Augustine Washington's widow Hannah died in 1802 she granted Ford his freedom at age 21. Bushrod Washington George Washington's nephew and heir to Mount Vernon freed Ford in 1806 and Ford continued working for the Washington family. According to family oral history Ford's mother Venus told her mistress Hannah Washington that he was George Washington's son. Nearly all historians doubt the claim though one of Washington's nephews certainly could have been the father.</p><p>In 1812 West Ford married Priscella Bell a free woman. Their four children—William Daniel Jane and Julia—were educated on the Mount Vernon Plantation despite laws which restricted the instruction of African Americans. When Bushrod Washington died in 1829 he willed 160 acres of land adjacent to Mount Vernon to West Ford who continued to live on the Mount Vernon estate.</p><p>Over the next several years West Ford was frequently highlighted in the media making his private life a matter of public record. In 1850 two Virginia newspapers—the <i>Alexandria Gazette</i> and the <i>Virginia Advertiser</i>—carried articles describing his prestigious position and authority at Mount Vernon. In 1857 an entry in the Fairfax County Deed Books noted that Ford divided his land among his four children. In 1858 Ford was sketched a second time this time by historian and artist Benson Lossing. In March 1859 <i>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</i> published Lossing's feature on Mount Vernon and included his sketch of Ford. Ford told the reporter of his property on Little Hunting Creek where he planned to retire after the Washington estate was no longer in the Washington family.</p><p>In June 1863 an ailing West Ford was brought back to the Mount Vernon estate by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. The association cared for West Ford until his death on July 20 1863.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Foxing and show through particularly near the signature.</p>
Bookseller reference : 24737
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Slavery. Mississippi
Probate Documents "Writ of Hire" of Frances A. and William A. Valentia and Albert S. Killingsworth Wards. Signed by Albert N. Ford clerk A.J. Scott A.W. Sutpin and Thomas S. Osteen appraisers J.M. Ellis Judge
Jefferson County State of Mississippi 1858. 4to. 315 x 200mm. 12 ½ x 8 inches. 2 pp. Docket on verso. Blue legal paper; folds edges browned and slightly frayed; top page cut 2 inches shorter no loss. The first page dated July 27 1858 shows the value of two slaves Juda and Emma owned by the named wards to be valued at $40 together. The three appraisers of the above slave property signed their names on the first page. The second page is an application of Mary Shaw dated April 9 guardian of the four Killingsworth wards to appoint the appraisers for the slaves. It is signed by Albert N. Ford clerk. There is an interesting story behind these records. William Anderson Killingsworth owner of about thirty slaves was born 1821 in Tennessee. He married Nancy Ann Shaw who was born 1820 in Mississippi and died 23 June 1853 in Jefferson County MS. Their children were Francis Horace Valencia William and Albert. On July 19 1854 William Killingsworth was murdered by two of his slaves named Jesse and Albert. Two more slaves Bill and Charles were accused of torching the house. Unnamed slaves retrieved William's body and his three children from the burning house. The slaves' trial was in the fall of 1854. Jesse and Albert were hung November 21 1854. Jesse confessed that he alone committed the murder. This information is recorded in a diary written by Susan Sillers Darden which began in January 1854.  Darden was thirty-eight years old when she wrote the diary. The diary reads in part; "July 20 1854: There was an awful murder committed at Killingsworth's last night. He was murdered by his negroes and the house burned down; he had four children but the house was discovered and taken out." "November 21 1854: Our negroes went to Fayette to see Jesse and Albert hung for murdering their master W. Killingsworth. Jesse confessed that he had done it all that no one helped to do it; exhorted his fellow servants to be faithful and do their duty." Since both parents were deceased the Killingsworth children were the wards of their grandmother Mary Shaw and Uncle William Shaw. Frances Chalmers Killingsworth 1842-1910 was the oldest child.  See The Diary of Susan Sillers Darden on-line at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Jackson Mississippi. . unknown books
Bookseller reference : 714
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SLAVERY. MOUNT VERNON. WEST FORD. MARY BOWLES ARMISTEAD SELDEN
His Grandmother-in-Law Can’t Spare a “Stacker” for John Augustine Washington III – Letter Delivered by Freed Washington Family Slave West Ford Includes List of Mount Vernon Slaves
<p>Mary B. Selden was the grandmother of Eleanor Love Selden who married John Augustine Washington III in 1843. She regrets not being able to furnish Washington with the services of one of her slaves as a stacker for the upcoming wheat harvest.</p><p>Still a faithful employee West Ford worked for the Washington family well into the nineteenth century including delivering this letter.</p><p>The letter includes a list of two dozen slaves written in pencil by John Augustine Washington III.</p> <b>SLAVERY. MOUNT VERNON. WEST FORD. MARY BOWLES ARMISTEAD SELDEN.</b>Autograph Letter Signed to John Augustine Washington III hand delivered by West Ford; <b>JOHN AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON III</b>. Autograph List of Slaves. Single folio leaf with autograph address on verso. Alexandria Virginia 1845.<p><b>Complete Transcript</b></p><p><i>My dear Augustine</i></p><p><i> I am very sorry to be unable to render you the service you require. I have a very fine stacker but he is hired by the year to M<u>r</u> Young as I did not expect to have employment enough for him at M<u>t</u>Ida. Another year if you wish it you can have him I receive very small wages for him and as a stacker I have never known any one equal to him.</i></p><p><i>I am very sorry to hear that Nelly is sick. I hope she will be well enough to come up and meet the bridal party on thursday.</i><i> I received a letter from Eliza to day in which she says they will be at M<u>t</u> Ida that day but will bring no company with them. It will give great pleasure to them and to me if M<u>rs</u> Washington</i><i> Nelly and yourself will come up on that day. M<u>rs</u> Lippitt</i><i> will have a room ready for any of the party that will favour her with their company she must by no means be left behind.</i></p><p><i> Most truly and affectionately / yrs</i></p><p><i>M. B. Selden</i></p><p><2></p><p>Address: <i>John A. Washington Esq. / M<u>t</u> Vernon / By West Ford</i></p><p>Docketing by John Augustine Washington III: <i>Mrs. M. B. Selden</i></p><p>List of slaves in pencil by John Augustine Washington III:</p><p><i>Phil</i> b. 1790</p><p><i>Hannah</i> b. 1826</p><p><i>Gabe</i> b. 1820 <i>Eliza</i> b. 1811</p><p><i>Ned</i> b. 1827 <i>Jim</i>Michum b. 1795</p><p><i>Edmund</i> b. 1827 <i>John</i> b. 1833</p><p><i>Betty</i> b. 1833 <i>Mary</i> b. 1819</p><p><i>West</i> <i>Fanny</i> "Belongs to my wife"</p><p><i>Sarah </i> b. 1809 <i>Dennis</i> b. 1838</p><p><i>Hannah</i> <i>Nelly</i> b. 1836</p><p><i>William</i> b. 1830 <i>Jim</i>Starks b. 1805</p><p><i>Joe</i> b. 1832 <i>Sally</i> b. 1827</p><p><i>Ephraim</i> b. 1834 <i>Tom</i> b. 1835 "bound to me till Oct 1856"</p><p><i>West</i> b. 1838</p><p><i>Jesse</i> b. 1785</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Farmers in mid-nineteenth-century Virginia typically planted winter wheat in September and October and harvested it in the following June. After wheat had been cut a stacker tied the wheat into bundles and piled the bundles in shocks to dry in the field. After the shocks dried they would be stored in a barn or carefully built stack capped with grass to shed the rain until threshing time. Even after Cyrus McCormick developed his mechanical grain reaper in the 1830s men needed to follow the machine to bundle and stack the wheat. Building a good stack was an important skill and those workers free or enslaved who knew how to do so were very valuable at harvest time.</p><p><b>Mary Bowles Armistead Alexander Selden</b> 1783-1846 was born in Hanover Virginia. She married Charles Alexander Jr. 1772-1812 with whom she had five children including Louisa Elizabeth Fontaine Alexander 1802-1827. After her first husband's death she married Dr. Wilson Cary Selden 1761-1835. She was his third wife and they had three children. By his first wife Dr. Selden was the father of Wilson Cary Selden Jr. 1796-1843. In 1822 Wilson Cary Selden Jr. married Louisa Elizabeth Fontaine Alexander and they became the parents of Eleanor Love Selden 1824-1860 who married John A. Washington III. Thus Mary Bowles Selden was both the grandmother and step-grandmother of Eleanor Nelly Washington. At the time she wrote this letter she was living at Mount Ida a 6000-acre plantation that stretched along two miles of the Potomac River north of Alexandria Virginia and fewer than ten miles from Mount Vernon. Her first husband built the neoclassical mansion of Mount Ida in 1808.</p><p><b>John Augustine Washington III</b> 1821-1861 was born in Blakeley West Virginia the son of John Augustine Washington II and Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840. His father inherited George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in 1829 but it passed to his wife at his death in 1832. In 1841 Augustine Washington proposed to manage Mount Vernon for his mother. When she died in 1855 the plantation passed to him. In 1858 after offering the property to both the federal government and to the State of Virginia he sold 200 acres of the Mount Vernon estate including the mansion outbuildings and family tomb to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association for $200000. Washington married Eleanor Nelly Love Selden 1824-1860 in 1843 and they had seven children. In 1860 he owned 22 slaves. In 1861 Washington joined the Confederate Army as a lieutenant colonel and served as an aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee. He was killed while conducting reconnaissance at the Battle of Cheat Mountain in September 1861.</p><p><b>West Ford</b> ca. 1784-1863 was born on the Bushfield Plantation in Westmoreland County Virginia to an enslaved woman owned by George Washington's brother John Augustine Washington. When George Washington visited West Ford was his personal attendant. When John Augustine Washington's widow Hannah died in 1802 she granted Ford his freedom at age 21. Bushrod Washington George Washington's nephew and heir to Mount Vernon freed Ford in 1806 and Ford continued working for the Washington family. According to family oral history Ford's mother Venus told her mistress Hannah Washington that he was George Washington's son. Nearly all historians doubt the claim though one of Washington's nephews certainly could have been the father.</p><p>In 1812 West Ford married Priscella Bell a free woman. Their four children—William Daniel Jane and Julia—were educated on the Mount Vernon Plantation despite laws which restricted the instruction of African Americans. When Bushrod Washington died in 1829 he willed 160 acres of land adjacent to Mount Vernon to West Ford who continued to live on the Mount Vernon estate.</p><p>Over the next several years West Ford was frequently highlighted in the media making his private life a matter of public record. In 1850 two Virginia newspapers—the <i>Alexandria Gazette</i> and the <i>Virginia Advertiser</i>—carried articles describing his prestigious position and authority at Mount Vernon. In 1857 an entry in the Fairfax County Deed Books noted that Ford divided his land among his four children. In 1858 Ford was sketched a second time this time by historian and artist Benson Lossing. In March 1859 <i>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</i> published Lossing's feature on Mount Vernon and included his sketch of Ford. Ford told the reporter of his property on Little Hunting Creek where he planned to retire after the Washington estate was no longer in the Washington family.</p><p>In June 1863 an ailing West Ford was brought back to the Mount Vernon estate by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. The association cared for West Ford until his death on July 20 1863.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Foxing and show through particularly near the signature.</p> books
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Slavery. New York State Colonization Society.
African Colonization. Proceedings on the Formation of the New-York State Colonization Society; together with an address to the Public from the Managers Thereof.
Albany: Printed by Websters and Skinners 1829. First edition. Some wear to the untrimmed edges; long closed tear to one leaf from the upper edge no loss; some light soiling and a few small stains; a very good copy. Unbound pamphlet stitched as issued 6 x 9.13 inches untrimmed 24 pages. When therefore the fetters whether gradually or suddenly shall be stricken off and stricken off they will be from those accumulating millions yet to be born in bondage it is evident that this land unless some outlet be provided will be flooded with a population as useless as it will be wretched. . . . Whether bond or free their presence will be for ever a calamity." The organizational proceedings of the first iteration of the New-York State Colonization Society intended to help the national organization settle free blacks in Africa. Lib. Co. Afro-Americana 7116; American Imprints 39836. Printed by Websters and Skinners, unknown
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Slavery. New York State Colonization Society.
African Colonization. Proceedings on the Formation of the New-York State Colonization Society; together with an address to the Public from the Managers Thereof.
Albany: Printed by Websters and Skinners 1829. First edition. Some wear to the untrimmed edges; long closed tear to one leaf from the upper edge no loss; some light soiling and a few small stains; a very good copy. Unbound pamphlet stitched as issued 6 x 9.13 inches untrimmed 24 pages. When therefore the fetters whether gradually or suddenly shall be stricken off and stricken off they will be from those accumulating millions yet to be born in bondage it is evident that this land unless some outlet be provided will be flooded with a population as useless as it will be wretched. . . . Whether bond or free their presence will be for ever a calamity." The organizational proceedings of the first iteration of the New-York State Colonization Society intended to help the national organization settle free blacks in Africa. Lib. Co. Afro-Americana 7116; American Imprints 39836. Printed by Websters and Skinners, unknown books
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Slavery. Smith Gerrit.
Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York wrapper title.
New-York John A. Gray Printer 1860. First edition. Some foxing; a couple of small spots of light staining; a very good copy. 16mo original printed self-wrappers 29 pages. In the wake of John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid long-time abolitionist Gerrit Smith who had been one of the covert backers of the raid--the "Secret Six" was evidently so horrified once he realized the scope of the violence the raid unleashed that he had a breakdown and entered an asylum. Smith returned from his insensibility to find that--perhaps not surprisingly--some northern Democrats had published attacks on his links to the raid. Smith responded by suing for libel and this pamphlet reproduces correspondence between his son-in-law Charles D. Miller and the subjects of the suit with extracts from Smith's writings and abolitionist polemics. Sabin 82609; LCP Afro-Americana 9498. John A. Gray, Printer unknown
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Slavery. Smith Gerrit.
Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York wrapper title.
New-York John A. Gray Printer 1860. First edition. Some foxing; a couple of small spots of light staining; a very good copy. 16mo original printed self-wrappers 29 pages. In the wake of John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid long-time abolitionist Gerrit Smith who had been one of the covert backers of the raid--the "Secret Six" was evidently so horrified once he realized the scope of the violence the raid unleashed that he had a breakdown and entered an asylum. Smith returned from his insensibility to find that--perhaps not surprisingly--some northern Democrats had published attacks on his links to the raid. Smith responded by suing for libel and this pamphlet reproduces correspondence between his son-in-law Charles D. Miller and the subjects of the suit with extracts from Smith's writings and abolitionist polemics. Sabin 82609; LCP Afro-Americana 9498. John A. Gray, Printer unknown books
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Slavery. TC. Boyd T. C.
SALLY COME UP! Broadside Ballad-Sheet
San Francisco: T.C. Boyd ca. 1860. Near fine. Broadside 8.5" by 4.5". Printed from type and wood engraving. Very near fine with trivial crease to edges. <br/><br/>Racist slavery-era broadside printed and designed by one T.C. Boyd featuring a drawing and lyrics to a ballad which begins: "Massa's gone to town de news to hear / And he has left the overseer / To look over all de nrs here / While I make love to Sally!" Boyd notes he had 10000 such sheets for sale at his shop. T.C. Boyd unknown
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SLAVERY. TANNER Henry S.
THE MARTYRDOM OF LOVEJOY.
SLAVERY. TANNER Henry S. THE MARTYRDOM OF LOVEJOY. An Account of the Life Trials and Perils of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy Who Was Killed by a Pro-Slavery Mob at Alton Ill. on the Night of November 7 1837 By an Eye-Witness Henry S. Tanner. Chicago:: Fergus Printing Company 1881. First edition. . Hinges carefully restored with cloth tape; a near fine copy with text fresh and clean. . Octavo red cloth 234 followed by four pages of ads illustrated with two frontispiece portraits and three folding plates. Fergus Printing Company, hardcover
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Slavery. TC. Boyd T. C.
SALLY COME UP! Broadside Ballad-Sheet
San Francisco: T.C. Boyd ca. 1860. Near fine. Broadside 8.5" by 4.5". Printed from type and wood engraving. Very near fine with trivial crease to edges. <br/><br/>Racist slavery-era broadside printed and designed by one T.C. Boyd featuring a drawing and lyrics to a ballad which begins: "Massa's gone to town de news to hear / And he has left the overseer / To look over all de nrs here / While I make love to Sally!" Boyd notes he had 10000 such sheets for sale at his shop. T.C. Boyd unknown books
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SLAVERY. US. CONGRESS U. S.
Blistering Border State Speech against Wartime Confiscation of Slaves
<p><b>SLAVERY. U.S. CONGRESS.</b>Pamphlet. <i>Speech of Hon. John S. Carlile of Virginia on the Bill to Confiscate the Property and Free the Slaves of Rebels; Delivered in the Senate … March 11 1862.</i> Washington: Congressional Globe Office 1862. 13 pp. </p><br />"<i>We are not at war … with a belligerent Power but with rebellious citizens. The Senator from Maine asks how shall it ever be known when we are in a state of war I reply Congress will inform him. The Constitution confers upon Congress the power to declare war … I object to this bill because it violates an express provision of the constitution in this: the Constitution declares that no person shall be deprived of life liberty or property without due process of law and that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation … This bill … without judicial accusation or trial would sweep from the entire population of the seceded States the property of every person residing therein … The friends of this measure contend that it is necessary to the suppression of the rebellion. How can this be It can only be enforced where rebellion has never existed or where it has been suppressed … Congress has the power to legislate for the suppression of insurrection but the insurrection must be suppressed and the rebellion put down by constitutional means…</i>"<p>On March 6 1862 President Lincoln delivered an important message to Congress recommending passage of a bill enabling the voluntary compensated abolition of slavery in the border states with federal funds for promoting the emigration of freedmen to Africa. Congressional debate over this measure was coupled with the controversy over the role of the Union Army in occupied portions of Missouri Virginia and South Carolina in harboring fugitive slaves. On March 13 1862 Lincoln forbade Union officers from returning fugitive slaves to their owners. In the end though some Radical Republicans were upset that Lincoln did not yet countenance full and immediate emancipation the party leadership swung behind support of Army confiscation of fugitive slaves on the frontlines and compensated abolition in the border states. On June 19 Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act declaring all fugitive slaves behind Union lines as captives of war liable to be set free. The legislation incorporated provisions for transporting and colonizing any black consenting to emigrate outside the United States.</p><p>Carlile as a quintessential border-state congressman voted against these measures. His speech was impassioned and intelligent recalling his own experiences defending the Union in Richmond Virginia in early 1861 at the risk of his life and recounting a litany of statements from Republican politicians early in the war attacking the notion that the federal government could unilaterally seize Southern properties.</p><p><b>John S. Carlile</b> 1817-1878 was a politician from Winchester Va. who moved to Berkeley now West Virginia in 1842 and established a law practice. He was elected to the state senate 1847-1851 and then to Congress 1855-1857 as a member of the Know-Nothing Party. Carlile was reelected in 1860 as a Unionist serving from March 4 1861 until July 9 1861 when he resigned to fill the Senate vacancy caused by the defection of R.M.T. Hunter to the Confederacy. He served in the U.S. Senate from July 1861 to March 3 1865. As a Virginian who stayed loyal Carlile was a leader in the movement for statehood for West Virginia but he did not support President Lincoln on emancipation.</p>
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SLAVERY. VAUX Roberts.
Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet.
W. 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
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SLAVERY. VON FRANK Albert J.
The trials of Anthony Burns. Freedom and slavery in Emerson’s Boston.
Cambridge MA: Harvard Univ. Press 1998. 8vo. 409 1 pp. Frntsp. plates. Half-blk cloth over blue boards blue & gilt lettrng w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition. Harvard Univ. Press, hardcover
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Slavery. Women. Boston Female Anti Slavery Society.
The Eleventh Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair caption title.
Boston: n. p. 1844. First edition. Some light dust-soiling and toning with a small chip from the fore-edge of the blank second leaf; in very good condition. Unbound bifolium scant 10 x 8 inches 1 pages of text in 2 columns. If you wish slavery to cease you cannot more effectually aid in its extinction than by upholding this Fair." Dated at the foot of the text Boston Feb. 8 1844 a committee of 30 women solicit support for the annual Anti-Slavery Fair to be held in Armory Hall Boston: "To remember that there is nothing useful of ornamental--no mechanical agricultural or manufacturing product--nothing either to eat drink or wear--no work of taste or art for household use or decoration--but will so perfect had our arrangements at last become be made as available to the cause as its worth in money." The abolitionist efforts of the women of Massachusetts were in part effectively channeled through their fairs which provided a substantial source of revenue to the larger anti-slavery cause. The circular here is headed up by Maria Weston Chapman with a number of other familiar names following in train. Lib. Company. Afro-Americana 6493. n. p., unknown
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SLAVERY. WILBERFORCE William; FOX Charles James; CLARKSON Thomas; YOUNG John C..
The enormity of the slave-trade and the duty of seeking the moral and spiritual elevation of the colored race. Speeches of Wilberforce. . . .
New York: American Tract Society 150 Nassau Street 1861. 16mo. 4.2 x 6 in. 144 pp. Pebbled plum-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor sunning to fore-edges spine very minor bumping to corners occasional light interior toning & foxing still VG copy w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. Second edition of this abridged version of several anti-slavery abolitionist and even pro-slavery arguments first published in 1846 by the American Tract Society. This work was issued in the Fall of 1861 against the backdrop of a rift in the American Tract Society with one faction pushing for the continued publishing of tracts concerning “The Sin of Slavery†and the other resisting this. This Anti-Slavery handbook incorporated the founding speeches of abolition by Wilberforce Fox and Clarkson as well as the British Bill of Parliament which abolished the trade. Of particular interest is the inclusion of Rev. John C. Young’s 1846 Danville KY sermon on the Duties of Masters employing the southern evangelical church defense of slavery that it could be perpetuated because African-Americans were incompetent to govern themselves and needed to learn how to live respectably as Christians. Proslavery southern Christians continued to characterize their slaves as practitioners of traditional African religions retaining their heathenish influence and that constant vigilance by their masters was required in order to overcome these practices and their lack of work ethic. Sabin Vol. VI 22630; See: Wedow Servants Obey Your Masters: Southern Representations of the Religious Lives of Slaves Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 5 Article 4 2015 pp .1-27. American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, hardcover
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Slavery/Civil War.
Partially Printed document showing Payment to a Confederate General for his slave's labor on "military fortifications" in South Carolina.
<p>Single 8vo sized sheet 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" duplicate receipt signature printed and hand written some aging; but very good or better. This receipt is signed by A.M. Kennedy for John D. Kennedy. Printed and Handwritten Document Signed. Columbia South Carolina. Jan. 18 1864 "Duplicate Receipt" for $2000 paid by the state to Confederate commander John D. Kennedy as "compensation for his slave named Robert lost by reason of the employment of said slave by the authorities of the Confederate Government upon the military fortification in this State." John Doby Kennedy was born on January 5 1840 in Camden South Carolina the son of a Scots immigrant. John was a student at South Carolina College. He was a wealthy man and reportedly owned 60 slaves. On the day this receipt was issued to his brother 24 year-old John Doby Kennedy was on the battlefield commanding his South Carolina Infantry regiment having fought in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and that year in the Shenandoah Campaigns after which he was given the rank of Brigadier General. Opposing General Sherman's advance until the bitter end he did not surrender until two weeks after Lee met Grant at Appomattox. civilwarintheeast website. </p>
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Slavery/Civil War.
Partially Printed document showing Payment to a Confederate General for his slave's labor on "military fortifications" in South Carolina.
<p>Single 8vo sized sheet 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" duplicate receipt signature printed and hand written some aging; but very good or better. This receipt is signed by A.M. Kennedy for John D. Kennedy. Printed and Handwritten Document Signed. Columbia South Carolina. Jan. 18 1864 "Duplicate Receipt" for $2000 paid by the state to Confederate commander John D. Kennedy as "compensation for his slave named Robert lost by reason of the employment of said slave by the authorities of the Confederate Government upon the military fortification in this State." John Doby Kennedy was born on January 5 1840 in Camden South Carolina the son of a Scots immigrant. John was a student at South Carolina College. He was a wealthy man and reportedly owned 60 slaves. On the day this receipt was issued to his brother 24 year-old John Doby Kennedy was on the battlefield commanding his South Carolina Infantry regiment having fought in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and that year in the Shenandoah Campaigns after which he was given the rank of Brigadier General. Opposing General Sherman's advance until the bitter end he did not surrender until two weeks after Lee met Grant at Appomattox. civilwarintheeast website. </p> books
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SLAVERY: CANADA. SOCIETE HISTORIQUE DE MONTREAL
MEMOIRES ET DOCUMENTS RELATIFS A L'HISTOIRE DU CANADA.
SLAVERY: HISTORY: CANADA. MEMOIRES ET DOCUMENTS RELATIFS A L'HISTOIRE DU CANADA. Publies par La Societe Historique de Montreal. Montreal C.E.:: De L. A. Huguet-Latour N.P. 1859. First edition text in French with some passages in English. . Lacking front cover two-inch chip to lower corner of title page with no loss of printing first twelve leaves of text chipped at corner margin with no loss of printing few short creased tears and small chips to extremities else a good copy. . . Large octavo printed wrappers 63 pages sewn. Publisher's cancel label on title page revising publisher's name. Small rubberstamp "withdrawn" on title page with no other markings. Pencil notation on front cover states: "1st Monograph on Slavery in Canada": introduction states: ". La premiere livraison qu'elle presenteau au publie contient un travail sur la question de l'existence de l'esclavage dans le Canada.".Contains extracts from Canadian Government documents and court proceedings regarding the history of slavery in Canada dating from 1688 to 1800. De L. A. Huguet-Latour, N.P., unknown
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SLAVERY: GEORGIA: circa 1840
INTERESSANTES GESPRACH UBER SCLAVEREN IN AMERIKA ZWISCHER NABOB UND GOTTLIEB IM STAATE GEORGIEN.
SLAVERY: GEORGIA: circa 1840. INTERESSANTES GESPRACH UBER SCLAVEREN IN AMERIKA ZWISCHER NABOB UND GOTTLIEB IM STAATE GEORGIEN. Title in Translation: 'Interesting Conversation about Slavery in America between the Nabob and Gottlieb in the State of Georgia'. No Place:: No Publisher 1840. First edition . Covers have early light brown staining at upper fore-corner faintly visible throughout text one-inch closed tear at base of spine else a very good copy. . not in Blockson or Work. Text entirely in German. Small octavo printed self-wrappers 16 pages sewn. The title translates to "Interesting conversation about Slavery in America between the Nabob and Gottlieb in the state of Georgia. [No Publisher], unknown
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SLAVERY: NORTH CAROLINA: 1860. HELPER Hinton Rowan. HELPER Hinton Rowan
THE IMPENDING CRISIS OF THE SOUTH: How to Meet It.
SLAVERY: NORTH CAROLINA: 1860. HELPER Hinton Rowan. THE IMPENDING CRISIS OF THE SOUTH: How to Meet It. By Hinton Rowan Helper of North Carolina. New York:: A. B. Burdick 1860. Later printing . Ex lending-library copy with early bookplate partially removed on front pastedown early paper residue shadows on rear endpapers no other library marks. Cloth is lightly frayed at tips of spine with very shallow chipping at crown light wear at tips of corners scattered foxing to a few leaves of text else a very good copy with binding bright text fresh and clean. . stating "Hundredth Thousand" on title page; first published in 1857 see Howes H400 and Sabin 31270. Octavo brown cloth 420 pages. Chapters include: "Comparison Between the Free and the Slave States" "How Slavery Can be Abolished" "Southern Testimony Against Slavery" "Free Figures and Slave" etc. A. B. Burdick, hardcover
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Slavery; Seminole Indians Cass Lew
Purchase of Negroes from Seminole Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War in Answer to A Call for Information in relation to the Purchase of Indian Negroes in the Seminole Country
1836. Very good overall. House of Representatives Doc. No. 275 24th Congress 1st session. Mr. Cass discusses the proposal to buy negro slaves from the Seminole Indian nation of Florida. General Thompson's view prevails that "the Indians in Florida did not want to sell their negroes and the very idea that any individuals are permitted to come into their country to buy have distresed them very much and all say they will neither sell nor leave their negroes." 8vo 1 pp printed on both sides evenly tanned. <br/><br/> unknown
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Slavery; United States
In the Senate of the United States. February 1 1858 Ordered.
1858. Dividing Prize Money After the Capture of a Slave Ship Slavery. United States. In the Senate of the United States. February 21 1858-Ordered to Be Printed. Mr. Polk Made the Following Adverse Report To Accompany Bill S. C. of C. 108.: The Committee of Claims To Whom was Referred the Opinion of the Court of Claims in the Case of O.H. Berryman and Others Report: The Claimants in this Case are the Officers and Crew of the United States Schooner "On-Ka-Hy-E" drop-head title. Washington DC: S.n. 1858. 13 pp. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Disbound light rubbing to extremities some toning and light foxing. $100. 35th Congress 1st Session Senate Rep. Com. No. 33. This speech disputes the distribution of prize money between the Federal government and the crew that captured the slave ship Laurens. unknown
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Slavery; United States
In the Senate of the United States. February 1 1858 Ordered.
1858. Dividing Prize Money After the Capture of a Slave Ship Slavery. United States. In the Senate of the United States. February 21 1858-Ordered to Be Printed. Mr. Polk Made the Following Adverse Report To Accompany Bill S. C. of C. 108.: The Committee of Claims To Whom was Referred the Opinion of the Court of Claims in the Case of O.H. Berryman and Others Report: The Claimants in this Case are the Officers and Crew of the United States Schooner "On-Ka-Hy-E" drop-head title. Washington DC: S.n. 1858. 13 pp. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Disbound light rubbing to extremities some toning and light foxing. $100. 35th Congress 1st Session Senate Rep. Com. No. 33. This speech disputes the distribution of prize money between the Federal government and the crew that captured the slave ship Laurens. unknown books
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SLAVERY; WEST INDIES. HAITIAN SLAVE REVOLT.
Log book of Commodore John Ford.
1792 - 1794. Original manuscript log book of Commodore John Ford kept during the Haitian Revolution Square octavo 195 x 157 mm. Contemporary reversed calf spine with five low raised bands sides with blind roll tool foliate border. 122 ff. pre-printed log book grid. Rubbed some staining to boards marks from wine glasses and spilled candle wax upper joint cracked but firm on cords fabric lifting from spine in places occasional tears portion of one leaf for 7-8 December 1792 neatly excised yet this remains in remarkably good condition. A conspicuous survival from a period of violent tumult in the Caribbean: the log book of the distinguished Royal Navy officer Commodore John Ford kept while Commander-in-Chief Jamaica Station. "At the start of the French Revolutionary War Ford d. 1796 had nine small vessels including three frigates in addition to his flagship at Jamaica. Having been asked to assist French Royalists on the island of San Domingo he sailed on 9 September 1793 in company with the Goelan 14 guns Commander Thomas Wolley and schooner Flying Fish 4 guns Lieutenant James Prevost. After occupying parts of the island from 19 to 21 September he installed a royalist government and spent the rest of the year reducing the main towns on the island. During September his force captured the French vessel Convention Nationale 10 guns off San Domingo. Early in 1794 he began a blockade of Port au Prince on 3 February captured Cape Tiburon and on 11 April took Aoul. Now commanding four sail of the line three frigates and three sloops he conveyed nearly fifteen hundred troops under the command of Brigadier-General Whyte to Port au Prince and despite the arrival of a ferocious tropical storm he quickly took Fort Brissoton. After bombardments over the next three days Port au Prince capitulated on 4 June. He eventually vacated his command and returned home with Captain Thomas Surridge as his flag-captain in July 1795" morethannelson.com. Ford is mentioned in Dudley Pope's The Black Ship 1963 his account of the 1797 mutiny the bloodiest in British naval history in which the frigate Hermione under Ford's command on the Jamaica Station was the main stage. Apparently designed to demarcate his Jamaica service the log commences on 7th November 1792: "On the 5th Day of October last I received a Commission from the Right Honble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty appointing me Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships & Vessels… employed at harbour the Island of Jamaica & the Bahama Islands & this day at 11 AM hoisted my Broad Pendant on bd. His Majesty's Ship 50 Gun Europa in Hamouze. Saluted Rr. Ad. Corby with 13 guns which was returned". Hamouze was the inlet at the mouth of the river Tamar at Plymouth that ran up country for some miles and housed both a wet and a dry dock. After his arrival in Jamaica on 4th Jan. 1793 there are no further entries until 10th September 1793 but the log does then record position actions and signals of various squadrons and in various locations including at the home base of Port Royal taken on almost every subsequent day until 31st July 1794. Most significantly this manuscript records in detail one of the most outstanding actions of Ford's career and indeed of the Jamaica Station itself: the September 1793 attack on the French colonies of Saint-Domingue and Jérémie which had been seized by slaves during the Haitian Revolution 1791-1804. In various actions at L'Islet Flamande Bay and Môle-Saint-Nicolas Ford's squadron captured French merchant and naval vessels; the shallow-draught schooner Flying Fish conveying part of the 13th 1st Somersetshire Regiment in a daring beach assault in support of French monarchists. The Môle-Saint-Nicolas itself is described by C. L. R. James as "the Gibraltar of the Caribbean Sea" The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution 1963 p. 31. The final significant action recorded before this log closes is the capture of Port au Prince in concert with the ground forces of Brigadier-General John Whyte on 8th June 1794. All of this is covered by Clowes in his magisterial history of the Royal Navy where he describes Ford's assistance to French royalist forces as being "welcomed with joy" vol. iv p. 214. John Ford was commissioned lieutenant in April 1761 and appointed to the sloop Swallow; in 1772-73 he was commander on the Hazard. Promoted post-captain in 1773 and given command of the Unicorn he was at two actions during the American Revolutionary War the capture of the frigate Raleigh 1778 - in a seven-hour running battle off the Maine coast - and the action at Cancale Bay 1779. As captain he commanded the frigates Brilliant and Nymphe during the Anglo-French War of 1778-83 and was at Chesapeake Bay 1781 and under Rodney and Hood in the West Indies at Battle of the Saintes 1782. Following this he captained ships-of-the-line Polyphemus and Carnatic before being appointed Commander-in-Chief Jamaica Station on the 50-gun Europa. In 1794 he was successively Rear-Admiral of the Blue and of the White and in the following year Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Ford's Letter Books six volumes covering the years 1792-1795 kept while he was on the Jamaica Station are held at the Admiralty Library Portsmouth MSS 179. By its very nature a ship's log is a businesslike thing and this example is no exception. However there is an urgency discernible in the hand during the rising tensions of imminent action and wartime events spice the plain fare of log-keeping. Other matters punctuate the diurnal repetition of duties: on Saturday 21 September 1793 for instance Ford notes the punishment of one "Josh. Treglome with 1 Dozen lashes for neglect of Duty" and two days later the death "in the T. Gt. Topgallant sails" of "Jno. McCullum". There is supplying of rum to garrisons reading of the Articles of War and the constant maintenance of the ship "wash'd the Lower Deck" is regularly noted an action more common in hot climes for as the Naval and Military Magazine pointed out in 1827: "the lower deck should never be washed at all excepting under the most favourable circumstances for drying it". Among the regular ship's business for Wednesday 19 December 1792 - apparently while at anchor in Funchal Bay Madeira - is the intriguing note in a rather more florid hand "Miss Ann Phelps Gardner of Hereford is at present at this house". A remarkable log covering the Jamaica Station at a time of historic turbulence the pinnacle of Ford's career and the action for which he was promoted to vice-admiral and is best remembered. hardcover
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SMITH, William.
Nouveau voyage de Guinée, contenant une description exacte des coutumes, des manières, du terrain, du climat, des habillemens, des bâtimens, de l'éducation, des arts manuels, de l'agriculture, du commerce, des emplois, des langages, des rangs de distinction, des habitations, des divertissemens, des mariages et généralement de tout ce qu'il y a de remarquable parmi les habitans. Traduit de l'anglais de Guillaume Smith, Ecuyer.
A Paris, chez Durand et Pissot, 1751. 2 volumes in-12, X -258 pages ; (2 ff), 313 p. Plein veau raciné époque (Coiffes endommagées, coins, coupes et mors épidermés. Infime galerie de ver n'affectant pas le texte aux pages 57 à 64 du tome I)
Bookseller reference : PHO-1113
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Smith Gerrit American Anti Slavery Society
Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie of the state of Mississippi 1837 Leather Bound
2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back 1837. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Pages 84. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LB1111004740774
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Smith Gerrit American Anti Slavery Society
Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie of the state of Mississippi 1837
2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - eng Pages 84. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1837. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback
Bookseller reference : PB1111004740774
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Smith Gerrit American Anti Slavery Society
Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie of the state of Mississippi 1837 Hardcover
2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 84. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1837. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1111004740774
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Smith Goldwin. Does the Bible sanction American slavery
A brief reply to an important question : being a letter to Professor Goldwin Smith from an implicit believer in Holy Scripture 1863 Leather Bound
2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back 1863. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Pages 31. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover
Bookseller reference : LB1111005692269
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Smith Goldwin. Does the Bible sanction American slavery
A brief reply to an important question : being a letter to Professor Goldwin Smith from an implicit believer in Holy Scripture 1863 Hardcover
2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 31. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1863. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1111005692269
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Smith Goldwin. Does the Bible sanction American slavery
A brief reply to an important question : being a letter to Professor Goldwin Smith from an implicit believer in Holy Scripture 1863
2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - eng Pages 31. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1863. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback
Bookseller reference : PB1111005692269
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Smith Martin ; & Allsebrook Annie Sharman Anne Marie; editor: Anti Slavery International
Ethnic Groups in Burma : Development Democracy and Human Rights
Minor rubbing. VG. Textual map & photo illus. Burmese Political History Anti-Slavery International London 1994 orig.wrappers 22x14cm 144 pp. Contents: A Rich Tapestry of Peoples: The Ravages of History; Burma's Ethnic Diversity; Military Rule & Human Rights Abuses: A Strategy of Control: Compulsory Relocation & Forced Labour; The Effects of Conflict: A Land & Its Peoples in Crisis; Conclusuions & Recommendations: The Way Forward: Unity in Diversity. Anti-Slavery International paperback
Bookseller reference : BOOKS021416I
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SMITH, Keithlyn B. - SMITH Fernando C.
To Shoot Hard Labour : the Life and Times of Samuel Smith, an Antiguan Workingman, 1877-1982.
in-8, 183 pp., illustrations. Very Good Copy (No Mrks, No Inscriptions). [P-12]
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Smith, Keithlyn B.; Smith, Fernando C.
To Shoot Hard Labour - The Life and Times of Samuel Smith, an Antiguan Workingman 1877-1982
183 pages. Index. "A vivid account of life in the plantation system just after slavery." - Lemuel W. Martin. Moderate wear. Gift greetings inside front cover. Book shop stamp upon title page. Sound copy. Book
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Smith, R. E. F.
THE ENSERFMENT OF THE RUSSIAN PEASANTRY
Light browning to DJ spine. Dustjacket has very light chipping to head of spine. Minor shelfwear. Minor pencil marginalia. ; In 1649 a Code of Laws was issued in Moscow completing the process of the enserfment of the Russian peasantry. This book illustrates this process with fifty-six documents of the twelfth to seventeenth centuries, almost all unabridged and translated for the first time. They relate mainly to the central and northern area of European Russia known, in the sixteenth century, as Muscovy. ; 194 pages
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SOCIÉTÉ DE GÉOGRAPHIE DE LYON
BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DE GÉOGRAPHIE DE LYON
5ème livraison .Septembre à décembre 1886. Contient : EXPLORATIONS ET TRAVAUX GEOGRAPHIQUES DES MISSIONNAIRES EN 1884 ET 1885 par Valérien GROFFIER. LES POSSESSIONS FRANÇAISES DE LA CÔTE DES ESCLAVES. CORRESPONDANCE. RECONNAISSANCE DU FLEUVE OGUN ET LETTRES par P. ZAPPA. LETTRES D’AUSTRALIE. NOUVELLES HEBRIDES par CH. HAURET. Secrétariat de la Société de Géographie, Lyon, 1886. In-8 ( 16 X 25 cm) broché, 107 p. ( 257-364 pp) Bien complet des 2 cartes dépliantes dont celle des Possessions européennes de la Côte des Esclaves.
Bookseller reference : 278
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Société de Saint-Pierre Claver
L'Ange des esclaves
Non Renseigné. Non daté. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 32 p.. . . . Classification Dewey : 326-Esclavage
Bookseller reference : ROD0027940
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SOCIAL FICTION WHITE SLAVERY WALL STREET NORWOOD Thomas M.
Plutocracy or American White Slavery. A Politico-Social Novel
New York: Metropolitan Pub. Co 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Thomas Manson Norwood 1830-1913 was a U.S. Senator and later a Democratic Member of the House from Georgia. In this his only novel he assails the trusts the stock market and the unequal distribution of wealth as the source of vice in America. The setting is New York City with much of the action set on Wall Street. WRIGHT III:3999. Octavo 19cm. Publisher's decorated deep mustard cloth stamped in gilt on spine; viii 431pp. First issue per Wright with no printer's statement on verso of title page. Bit of grubbiness to boards; donation bookplate and private ownership stamp to prelims; else a tight unmarked copy on the better side of VG. Metropolitan Pub. Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14044
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SOCIAL FICTION WHITE SLAVERY BROOKS Virginia
Tilly From Tillamook
Portland: By the Author / Press of A.E. Kern 1925. Second edition same year as first. Octavo 19cm. Original illustrated wrappers; 127pp. Covers moderately dusted and darkened; a few faint corner-creases to text; Very Good. Written as an expose of the bootlegging and white slavery rackets of Oregon the novel chronicles the fall and rise of an innocent country girl who comes to Portland from the cheese-making village of Tillamook. The author's foreword announces that "Law enforcement is the burning topic of the hour and will continue to be while merchant princes as well as members of the United States Senate Conress public officials apologetic judges and parasitical bootleg attorneys keep stocks of fancy liquors in their homes and serve the same to their friends." Uncommon in commerce; this is a tight attractive copy. OCLC finds 15 locations nearly all in Oregon. By the Author / Press of A.E. Kern unknown books
Bookseller reference : 43939
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