‎Slavery‎

‎Slavery Ireland Edward‎

‎Autograph Letter signed "Edward Ireland" concerning his slaves and other property‎

‎Carroll County Maryland 1848. 2 pp. pen and ink on signle sheet. 4to. Light creasing from prior folding. 2 pp. pen and ink on signle sheet. 4to. Reading in part: "Having lost one of my negro men by death a big valuable one and having sold three more of them and having also sold one of my negro women - the above negros were sold to Mr. Joseph S. Donovan to be sent to the New Orleans market as he is a negro dealer living in Baltimore - the above negroes sold brought the sum of $2800 all of which money has been invested in property in the city of Baltimore . My object in writing to you is to request that you will lay this letter before the Commissioner of Tax of Carroll County and have all of the above negroes taken at once from my assets .". unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 262219

‎Slavery Liberty Press Extra‎

‎The Cause of the Hard Times‎

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

Bookseller reference : 24068

‎SLAVERY NEWTON John‎

‎Ängelske Sid-Captenens federmera Predikantens Johan Newtons synnerligen märkwärdiga Rese- och Leswernes-Beskrifning. Pastoren Doctor T. Haweis.‎

‎Stockholm: Carl Fr. Marquard 1802. Joints starting but firm unnumbered final contents page torn with loss and with rather basic paper repair; a worn but not unattractive copy. Small octavo wear to title-page and final text leaf contemporary half calf lending-library binding with original borrowing rules pasted to front paste-down Very uncommon: the first Swedish edition of this series of letters by the English clergyman and former slave-ship owner John Newton best known as the author of the hymn "Amazing Grace". The letters are written to Thomas Haweis co-founder of the London Missionary Society and the editor of the 1799 account of the Duff voyage to Tahiti. After a difficult career as a young man at sea Newton experienced a conversion in 1748 although for more than a decade he continued his association with slave-ships. It was not until 1764 that Thomas Haweis managed to get Newton the living for Olney in Buckinghamshire the same year that this work was first published in England An Authentic Narrative of some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars. Communicated in a series of letters to the Reverend Mr. Haweis. This Swedish translation is based on a German-language edition of 1791. Becoming a prominent abolitionist in 1788 Newton published Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade a horrific account of the Middle Passage. The main text of this work is in the form of a series of "Brefwet" or letters the first signed 12 January 1763 and the last 2 February 1763. Throughout there are numerous quotations from the Bible usually printed in bold and references to the main locations associated with the slave trade including notes on Sierra Leone Antigua and the West Indies. Carl Fr. Marquard unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 3910386

‎Slavery Peters Richard‎

‎Report of the Case of Edward Prigg against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States at January Term 1842‎

‎Philadelphia: stereotyped by L. Johnson 1842. First edition. 140 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown ribbed cloth rebacked with original spine laid down titled in gilt. Marginal dampstaining throughout scattered foxing some wear to boards good. First edition. 140 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of this report of this monumental Supreme Court decision regarding escaped slaves preceding by 15 years and rivaling in importance the Dred Scott case of 1857. "In Prigg the Court identified slavery as a core constitutional commitment with which states could not interfere. In this case the Court struck down northern states' 'personal liberty laws' established to protect alleged fugitive slaves from recapture without due process of law. When the professional 'slave catcher' Edward Prigg tried to remove Margaret Moran an alleged runaway he was unable to meet the burden of proof set out by Pennsylvania's 1826 Personal Liberty Law and failed to obtain the legal certificate permitting him to remove her. When Prigg proceeded to ignore this and removed Moran illegally to Maryland Pennsylvania convicted him of kidnapping. The US Supreme Court however overwhelmingly overturned Prigg's conviction 8-1 and pronounced state laws interfering with the return of alleged runaways a violation of the Fugitive Slave Clause." Beaumont The Civic Constitution 2014 p. 128. Blockson 9905; Dummond p. 140; Sabin 61207 stereotyped by L. Johnson unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 313227

‎Slavery Postal Covers in the Civil War‎

‎FIVE POSTAL COVERS UNUSED DEPICTING SLAVES IN CIVIL WAR THEMES‎

‎Philadelphia Lancaster PA and elsewhere: Magee Philadelphia Zahm Lancaster and three others 1865. Five postal covers all in Very Good condition:<br/> a. "The latest Contraband of War." A working slave stands confidently: "Whar is Massa Jeff now dat's what's de matter."<br/>Weiss C-BL-16.<br/> b. "Him fader's hope / Him moder's joy / Him darling little / Contraband Boy." A white man holds a little black baby.<br/>Weiss C-BL-11.<br/> c. A medicine bottle labeled "Black Drop" with the head of a Negro at its top: "A popular medicine used by the C.S.A. aristocracy that cannot be obtained in any Northern apothecary shop being com-POUND-ed exclusively on the sacred soil." italics instead of caps in the original. "S.H. Zahm & Co. Publishers Lancaster Pa." <br/>Weiss C-BL-12.<br/> d. A black man polishes boots in a house. Referring to Ben Butler's capture of New Orleans he says "By golly Massa Butler I like dis better dan workin' in de field for ole Sesesh massa." <br/>Weiss C-BL-59.<br/> e. "A member of Jim Francis' Philadelphia Dog Detective Gards has Jeff in a tight place." A black man holding some twigs looks down at a dog with collar labeled "Jeff." An observing donkey says "Jeff has the feelings of a prince of wails." Published by Magee 316 Chestnut Street Philadelphia.<br/>Weiss C-BL-35. Magee [Philadelphia], Zahm [Lancaster], and three others unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 36346

‎Slavery Quincy Josiah‎

‎Address Illustrative of the Nature and Power of the Slave States and the Duties of the Free States; Delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Quincy Mass‎

‎Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1856. First Edition. 32pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan printed wrappers owner's inscription at top right corner. Very good copy. First Edition. 32pp. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> Ticknor and Fields unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 8471

‎Slavery Whipple Charles King‎

‎The Family Relation as Affected by Slavery‎

‎Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society 1858. Tract 40 of the Society. Pp. 24 caption title imprint on p. 24. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound tears where removed affecting only margin in gutter stitching removed with leaves loosened some light soiling of first and last leaves else very good. Tract 40 of the Society. Pp. 24 caption title imprint on p. 24. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> American Reform Tract and Book Society unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 36872

‎Slavery.‎

‎Address to the Citizens of the United States of America on the Subject of Slavery…‎

‎Pamphlet small 8vo removed dbd 11 pp. Removed some minor foxing normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. This pamphlet was prepared for the New York chapter of the Religious Society of Friends Quakers for their annual meeting to oppose slavery. Not surprisingly this tract encourages people to help end "this stain upon our national character." While there are religious sentiments in this work much of the discussion relates to social injustice and morality. Mahlon Day (and New York Quakers),‎

Bookseller reference : 101441

‎SLAVERY.‎

‎An inventory of all the goods and chatels of the estate of Mr. John Cant . the first day of June 1694 .‎

‎Middlesex County 3 September 1694. . Folio 15.5 x 3 9 cm manuscript ink on single sheet of paper. Signed off at foot Robert Dudley John Smith Edwin Thacker a few closed tears along folds some old ink burns not affecting legibility part of watermark visible a horn paper lightly toned edges uncut. This early American manuscript inventory records 'all the goods and chatels of the estate of Mr. John Cant' of Middlesex County Virginia on 1st June 1694. The son of Major David Cant John Cant is recorded as a burger of Middlesex County in 1692. The text begins with a record of his nine slaves six men and three women 'negroe Sam negroe Sambo negroe Jak .'. An indentured servant 'An English lad named Robert Brown six years to serve' is also listed. The list of chattels includes 'one large feather bed new and good . two court cuberts one good table ten old leather chairs . two pairs of fire tongues one fire shuffell one large new looking glass . one smoothing iron . six pounds one ounce three quarters of silver . three horses two mares and a coult .' and various other accoutrements and fabrics. Significant numbers of African slaves were brought to Virginia in the seventeenth century and the present document is a valuable original record of the slave trade. Middlesex County, 3 September 1694. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 92358

‎Slavery.‎

‎Extracts from the American Slave Code.‎

‎Pamphlet leaflet 8vo 4 33-36 pp. Some aging and browning and a small stain at the bottom let margin; otherwise very good plus. Basically this short pamphlet provides "abridged selections" of various slave statutes from states around the country prior to the Civil War .The statutes consistently explain that a slave should be considered a thing not a person and of course has no right to own property. It also outlines various punishments such as 25 lashes for riding a horse without permission 21 lashes if more than six slaves meet together and death for striking a white person 3rd offense. The Anti-Slavery Bugle, books‎

Bookseller reference : 100899

‎Slavery.‎

‎Kentucky manuscript legal documents in a suit over ownership of a young female slave and her infant daughter.‎

‎<p>Folio manuscript legal sheets 11 pp. plus docketing on final back sheet. Traces of wax in some margins. Paper is browned and aged some minor creasing at folds margin hole on a couple of pages not affecting text; otherwise very good. This is a very complex legal case about the ownership of two slaves. These manuscript documents are signed by the three Constables deposed as witnesses. The testimony is taken at the law offices of Lysander G. Gordon. It seems that an individual who owed people money was forced to give the slaves to a sheriff and were then sold to William Knox in Southern Tennessee. However it appears that the slaves actually belonged to someone else. These documents try to sort though this mess. </p> books‎

Bookseller reference : 106404

‎Slavery.‎

‎Manuscript document certifying that no Negroes had been registered by Hugh Neilly under the laws passed for the gradual abolition of slavery.‎

‎<p>12 lines in brown ink with paper seal on sheet of paper 34x21 cm 13½x8¼". Signed by Thomas Hamilton clerk. Remnant of seal old folds with splitting along them normal aging and browning some offsetting very good overall. Amazing little document relating to the enforcement of Pennsylvania's groundbreaking effort to begin the abolition of slavery "An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery" passed by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1780. The Act prohibited further importation of slaves into the state required Pennsylvania slaveholders to annually register their slaves with forfeiture for noncompliance and manumission for the enslaved and established that all children born in Pennsylvania were free persons regardless of the condition or race of their parents. Those enslaved in Pennsylvania before the 1780 law entered effect remained enslaved for life. The present document seems to reveal non-compliance with the law by Hugh Neilly in part: "I hereby certify on application of Ralph Cherry that a careful search hath been made by me among the Records of Negro's sic entered on the Records of Westmoreland County and that on such search it doth not appear that any Negro's hath been registered in the name of Peter or any other name as his property by Hugh Neilly of Westmoreland County aforesaid under the laws passes for the gradual abolition of slavery. Thomas Hamilton clerk." Docketed on the back "Certificate that no Negro's hath been registered in Westmoreland as the property of Hugh Neilly." </p> books‎

Bookseller reference : 106470

‎Slavery.‎

‎Massachusetts teacher manuscript letter as Maryland Slave overseer.‎

‎<p>Folded letter sheet four pages and remnant of wax seal. Creases at folds normal aging; otherwise very good or better. The letter is to Henry J. Carter Stockbridge Mass. from his brother. An unemployed 20 year-old Massachusetts teacher who had left home the year before in "exceeding hard times" Edward had gone to Baltimore – where some 50 teachers were out of work – and taken a job working for a wealthy man who had 4 acres of farm land worked by slaves. "…he has given me the office of overseer to look after the blacks in their work. O but you ought to see me walk over the lot with my cane in my hand to see how my work is going on. Then you ought to see the darky when he wants anything of me come up and take off his hat before he speaks…" Praising the "fine folks live in this beautiful part of the world" Carter proves that even a Massachusetts Yankee could quickly adapt to Southern culture and make peace with slavery. The letter is unsigned. </p> books‎

Bookseller reference : 106407

‎Slavery.‎

‎VOYAGE dans les �tats Barbaresques de Maroc Alger Tunis et Tripoly; Ou Lettres D'un des Captifs qui viennent d'�tre rachet�s par MM. les Chanoines r�guliers de la Sainte-Trinit�; SUIVIES D'une Notice sur leur rachat & du Catalogue de leurs noms‎

‎Paris: Chez Guillot Libraire de Monsieur 1785. viii 9-193 i 8 pp. 12mo. 11 x 18 cm. Sewn entirely uncut � la barbe loose contemporary grey wrappers spine strip gone; preserved in modern blue blind wrappers and a wooden drop box. � The very rare first edition of a series of letters by a French naval officer who was kept slave in North Africa and bought free by the canons of the Trinitarian ordre. In it the author gives i.a. a description of Mekn�s Sal� Alger Tunis and Tripoli. The work concludes with a list of 313 French slaves bought free by the Trinitarian ordre in 1785 who later that year 9th of July arrived in the harbour of Marseille. Fine copy in pure state as issued was never bound. With on the title and p. iii the library stamp of the "P�res Trinitaires de Marseille". A German translation was published in 1788. Playfair Algeria 280; Tailliart 1618; ABES the French Union Catalogus lists only 2 copies. Chez Guillot, Libraire de Monsieur, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 1426

‎SLAVERY. CROPPER James.‎

‎Chart of the world on Mercator's projection illustrative of the impolicy of slavery.‎

‎London Joseph Cross n.d. but c. 1825. . Hand coloured engraved map. The map shows the extent 30° north and south of the Equator in which sugar is grown. Australia is still shown as New Holland. 29.8 cm x 23.7 cm 11¾" x 9¼". Framed and glazed. Scarce colour-coded map concerning the sugar trade and its link to slavery. The section shaded yellow is the appropriate climate for the growing of sugar. The section shaded red is the area from which Britain may obtain sugar cheaply parts of South America and the West Indies under British rule. The blue section shows where Britain is unable to obtain sugar due to the devastating effects of the slave trade. The pink and green areas are those from which the sugar trade is limited by high duties and restrictions. The argument is that the duties and restrictions are there to protect the slave trade and ultimately damage the British economy. James Cropper was a successful and wealthy Quaker merchant philanthropist and disciple of Adam Smith. A major force in the anti-slavery movement he believed that eliminating tariff protections would lead to the end of slave labour in the West Indies. Cropper himself had interests in East Indian sugar and therefore stood to benefit from the reduction of tariffs which colored his role in the abolition movement. Nevertheless 'in Cropper's mind the intensity of Quaker Quietism had fused with the economic optimism of Adam Smith. Anti-slavery confirmed this union endowing laissez-faire with an immediate moral and spiritual purpose and enriching his faith in the inevitability of human progress' Davis James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement 1961. London, Joseph Cross, n.d. [but c. 1825]. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 94420

‎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. <br /><br /> 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

Bookseller reference : 28115

‎SLAVERY. Von FRANK Albert J‎

‎THE TRIALS OF ANTHONY BURNS.‎

‎AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: SLAVERY. Von FRANK Albert J. THE TRIALS OF ANTHONY BURNS. Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston. Cambridge:: Harvard University Press 1998. First edition uncorrected proof copy. . A near fine copy with light foxing to top edge and several pages with faint crease at corner; publisher's promotional material laid into book. . Octavo yellow printed wrappers 395 pages. Harvard University Press, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 44512

‎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

‎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

‎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

‎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

‎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

‎SLAVERY. MOUNT VERNON. WEST FORD. MARY BOWLES ARMISTEAD SELDEN‎

‎His Grandmother-in-Law CanÂ’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>‎

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‎SLAVERY. MOUNT VERNON. WEST FORD. MARY BOWLES ARMISTEAD SELDEN‎

‎His Grandmother-in-Law CanÂ’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

Bookseller reference : 24737

‎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

Bookseller reference : 19216