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1730rif. PHO-2325Paris, Guérin, 1730-1731. 2 volumes in-4 (25,5 × 20 cm). XXVIII, 482 p., 29 ff. ; XIV, 506 p., 30 ff., reliures postérieures en demi-veau, pièces de titre et tomaison, coins et coupes légèrement frottés et émoussés, petits manques aux coiffes. Légèrement bruni, légères galeries de vers et traces d’humidité dans la marge intérieure au début du tome I ; les pages 17-20, 221/222, *19/*20 du tome I ainsi que les plans « Plan de la ville de San-Domingo » (tome I) et « Plan du Cap François » (tome II) sont déreliés ; petit déchirement restauré au pli de la garde de la « Carte de l’Isle de Saint-Domingue » (tome II). Ex-libris Jack Grout.
1832rif. PHO-2260Paris, Jules Renouard, 1832. 3 vol. in-8° (21,5x14cm) de xxxj, 1 bl., 328 pp. ; 380 pp. ; 272 pp. et son Atlas in-folio (37x29cm) de titre, [1] p., 1 grande carte dépliante et 21 planches lithographiées (la n° 6 en double). Demi-chagrin miel à coins, dos à 5 faux-nerfs orné, p. de t. en maroquin fauve, tomaison dorée en pied, tête dorée, couverture et dos conservé (Reliure moderne). Des rousseurs, quelques pl. de l'Atlas légèrement brunies, coiffe sup. de l’atlas légèrement frottée. Étiquette de librairie, le frontispice figurant la médaille reçue par l’auteur est en déficit. Bel ensemble.
1786rif. 40654Philadelphia: London printed: Philadelphia: re-printed by Joseph Crukshank 1786. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 inches. xix 2 22-155 pp. Publisher's advertisement at rear. Original blue paper wrappers Exceedingly rare first American edition of Clarkson's first work. A landmark work by the writer who helped abolish slavery in the British Empire. First American edition of Clarkson's rare first published work preceded by the same years first English edition his famous prize essay on the abolition of slavery igniting the campaign for one of the fundamental rights of man PMM 232. In 1770s England as "rebellious Americans were severing ties with their former British motherland a strenuous battle occurred that spawned the noble civil- and human-rights fight that eventually ended Britain's participation in the African slave trade." With this Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species Thomas Clarkson "became the official whistle-blower of the horrors of transatlantic slavery the driving force behind the abolition of African slavery and the slave trade" Smith Thomas Clarkson 17. Clarkson's "famous prize essay was the prelude to parliamentary action" on the abolition of slavery. Clarkson together with William Wilberforce led the "campaign carried on by word of mouth and by means of the printing press for one of the fundamental rights of man" PMM 232. Clarkson had been completing his studies at Cambridge when he entered an essay competition and came across an "advertisement for Benezet's Historical Account of Guinea. He was profoundly struck by the title and 'hastened to London to buy it'. Overwhelmed by the horror and brutality of transatlantic slavery his goal of merely winning the prize for its own sake" shifted to creating a work of wider impact. On winning the 1785 Cambridge prize Clarkson translated the essay his Latin dissertation into English for publication. He documents the long history of slavery the devastating Middle Passage and the inhumanity of slavery in the colonies. Clarkson is renowned as "the man who spawned the British Abolitionist Movement and the first Briton to devote his entire adult life to ending African slavery… the moral conscience of American slavery proponents well into the 19th century" Smith 9-30 43. "He never ceased to work for anti-slavery lending his pen and his prestige particularly to the cause of abolition in the United States" DNB. Evans 19561; Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana 1553-1906 2nd ed. 2384; Kress B1028; ESTC W32021; PMM 232a; Sabin 13484. London, printed: Philadelphia: re-printed by Joseph Crukshank unknown
1786rif. 40654Philadelphia: London printed: Philadelphia: re-printed by Joseph Crukshank 1786. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 inches. xix 2 22-155 pp. Publisher's advertisement at rear. Original blue paper wrappers Exceedingly rare first American edition of Clarkson's first work. A landmark work by the writer who helped abolish slavery in the British Empire. First American edition of Clarkson's rare first published work preceded by the same years first English edition his famous prize essay on the abolition of slavery igniting the campaign for one of the fundamental rights of man PMM 232. In 1770s England as "rebellious Americans were severing ties with their former British motherland a strenuous battle occurred that spawned the noble civil- and human-rights fight that eventually ended Britain's participation in the African slave trade." With this Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species Thomas Clarkson "became the official whistle-blower of the horrors of transatlantic slavery the driving force behind the abolition of African slavery and the slave trade" Smith Thomas Clarkson 17. Clarkson's "famous prize essay was the prelude to parliamentary action" on the abolition of slavery. Clarkson together with William Wilberforce led the "campaign carried on by word of mouth and by means of the printing press for one of the fundamental rights of man" PMM 232. Clarkson had been completing his studies at Cambridge when he entered an essay competition and came across an "advertisement for Benezet's Historical Account of Guinea. He was profoundly struck by the title and 'hastened to London to buy it'. Overwhelmed by the horror and brutality of transatlantic slavery his goal of merely winning the prize for its own sake" shifted to creating a work of wider impact. On winning the 1785 Cambridge prize Clarkson translated the essay his Latin dissertation into English for publication. He documents the long history of slavery the devastating Middle Passage and the inhumanity of slavery in the colonies. Clarkson is renowned as "the man who spawned the British Abolitionist Movement and the first Briton to devote his entire adult life to ending African slavery… the moral conscience of American slavery proponents well into the 19th century" Smith 9-30 43. "He never ceased to work for anti-slavery lending his pen and his prestige particularly to the cause of abolition in the United States" DNB. Evans 19561; Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana 1553-1906 2nd ed. 2384; Kress B1028; ESTC W32021; PMM 232a; Sabin 13484. London, printed: Philadelphia: re-printed by Joseph Crukshank unknown books
1789rif. R240004234IMP D'AIME DE LA ROCHE. 1789. In-4. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Mouillures. 367 pages. Dos cuir marron avec filets et pièce de titre (manquante) doré. Manque coiffe en tête et en pied, revêtement sur le 1er platde couverture.. . . . Classification Dewey : 326-Esclavage
1780rif. PHO-1926Genève, Pellet, 1780, 5 volumes in-4, 4 de texte et un atlas in-4, Texte ; portrait, XVI, 741 pp., 1 pl.; front., (2 ff.), VIII, 485 pp.; front., XV, 629 pp.; front., (2 ff.), VIII, 770 pp., (1 f.), Atlas ; 2f., 28pp. ; illustré complet des 50 cartes (chiffrées 1-49 et 17 bis) ; quelques cartes mal chiffrées et 23 tableaux de statistiques in fine, la plupart dépliants. Rousseurs éparses, feuillets légèrement brunis par places. Tampons humides "Bibliothèque populaire de Bordeaux". Reliure Texte ; Basane fauve marbrée de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés, triple filet doré encadrant les plats, Atlas ; veau brun marbré de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, fleurons tulipes entre caissons, tranches marbrées, filet à froid encadrant les plats, double filet doré sur coupes 2 coiffes arasées, une arrachée, petits chocs à 2 autres, frottements et épidermures, coins très émoussés, mors fendillés aux entrées, coins émoussés, tranches marbrées (atlas).
1857rif. 13322N.p. but near New Bern NC 1857. 1p. on a folio sheet docketed on verso. Old folds minor spotting toning and edge wear. Overall very good condition. An extraordinary manuscript document listing the names birth dates hire information and annual cost of hire for twenty-seven enslaved men women and children in antebellum North Carolina all owned by the same woman. The slaves were the property of Eliza Vail 1783-1853 who died in New Bern North Carolina about four years before the document was produced. Apparently her surviving family hired out her slaves to themselves and a number of neighbors. Among the names on the document are some of Eliza's family members mentioned in her will in ancestry records online including her grandsons John Nicholson Washington who later served as the mayor of New Bern and Thomas Reed Emery and her granddaughter-in-law Mary L. Emery. The document also includes some of the slaves mentioned in her will including Juoco Affie and Amos. The preponderance of the document is a four-column list beginning with the birth date then name then "To whom hired" and finally the cost of hire for each slave in 1857. For instance Amos born in 1818 was hired to "J.N.W." John Nicholson Washington for $150 in 1857. The birth dates of the slaves range from 1790 to 1848 making them between 67 and 9 at the time the document was written. The annual hiring costs range between zero for the nine-year-old and $175 for some of the younger men with the oldest man Jim York costing only $20 as he is "Too infirm to pay much." The names of various family members are listed as the parties currently hiring the slaves along with other citizens of the New Bern area such as "Dr. Duffy" "Rev. Mr. Greene" and J.D. Whitford President of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad among others. Additionally a note at the bottom records the hiring costs of four slaves being sent from Dr. Duffy to J.N. Washington. An extraordinary record of female ownership of enslaved peoples and the economics involved in mid-19th-century North Carolina. unknown
1857rif. 13322N.p. but near New Bern NC 1857. 1p. on a folio sheet docketed on verso. Old folds minor spotting toning and edge wear. Overall very good condition. An extraordinary manuscript document listing the names birth dates hire information and annual cost of hire for twenty-seven enslaved men women and children in antebellum North Carolina all owned by the same woman. The slaves were the property of Eliza Vail 1783-1853 who died in New Bern North Carolina about four years before the document was produced. Apparently her surviving family hired out her slaves to themselves and a number of neighbors. Among the names on the document are some of Eliza's family members mentioned in her will in ancestry records online including her grandsons John Nicholson Washington who later served as the mayor of New Bern and Thomas Reed Emery and her granddaughter-in-law Mary L. Emery. The document also includes some of the slaves mentioned in her will including Juoco Affie and Amos. The preponderance of the document is a four-column list beginning with the birth date then name then "To whom hired" and finally the cost of hire for each slave in 1857. For instance Amos born in 1818 was hired to "J.N.W." John Nicholson Washington for $150 in 1857. The birth dates of the slaves range from 1790 to 1848 making them between 67 and 9 at the time the document was written. The annual hiring costs range between zero for the nine-year-old and $175 for some of the younger men with the oldest man Jim York costing only $20 as he is "Too infirm to pay much." The names of various family members are listed as the parties currently hiring the slaves along with other citizens of the New Bern area such as "Dr. Duffy" "Rev. Mr. Greene" and J.D. Whitford President of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad among others. Additionally a note at the bottom records the hiring costs of four slaves being sent from Dr. Duffy to J.N. Washington. An extraordinary record of female ownership of enslaved peoples and the economics involved in mid-19th-century North Carolina. unknown books
1875rif. 231241875. Slavery Cuba Spanish colonial slave sale manuscript recording the transfer of thirty-eight enslaved individuals in Cuba in 1875 materializing the sheer scale and organization of enslaved labor within the island's plantation economy during the final decade before abolition. The document enumerates a large group of enslaved people including multiple family units with young children demonstrating how slavery functioned as both an economic system and a hereditary condition sustained through the sale and reproduction of enslaved populations. Created eleven years prior to the abolition of slavery in Cuba in 1886 the manuscript documents the continued legality and normalization of large-scale slave transactions despite decades of international pressure and earlier prohibitions on the transatlantic trade offering concrete evidence of how internal markets sustained the institution in its final phase. Official Cuban slave contract documenting the sale of thirty-eight enslaved individuals for the sum of 126000 pesetas formalized before a public notary or legal authority. Single manuscript leaf written in Spanish cursive in black ink on both recto and verso densely filled with names ages and relational identifiers. Measures 8.5" x 12.25". The text lists individuals sequentially including men women and children with repeated references to kinship structures such as mothers with multiple children indicating the sale of family groupings rather than isolated individuals. The script reflects extended passages detailing ownership exclusions and conditions of transfer. A partial watermark of the official coat of arms of Cuba is visible. By 1875 Cuba remained one of the last major slave societies in the Atlantic world with sugar production driving demand for large controlled labor forces. Even after Spain curtailed the official slave trade earlier in the century illegal importation persisted into the 1860s and alternative systems of coerced labor including Chinese indenture supplemented plantation workforces. The scale of this transaction demonstrates the consolidation and redistribution of enslaved labor within domestic markets while the inclusion of children underscores the long-term economic logic of slavery as a self-reproducing system. Moderate toning and foxing concentrated along the edges with numerous small closed wormholes a few affecting portions of the text. Light edge wear present. Overall in good condition. This document provides unusually extensive nominal data on a large enslaved population encompassing the roles of kinship valuation and labor organization in late Spanish colonial Cuba. unknown
1875rif. 231241875. Slavery Cuba Spanish colonial slave sale manuscript recording the transfer of thirty-eight enslaved individuals in Cuba in 1875 materializing the sheer scale and organization of enslaved labor within the island's plantation economy during the final decade before abolition. The document enumerates a large group of enslaved people including multiple family units with young children demonstrating how slavery functioned as both an economic system and a hereditary condition sustained through the sale and reproduction of enslaved populations. Created eleven years prior to the abolition of slavery in Cuba in 1886 the manuscript documents the continued legality and normalization of large-scale slave transactions despite decades of international pressure and earlier prohibitions on the transatlantic trade offering concrete evidence of how internal markets sustained the institution in its final phase. Official Cuban slave contract documenting the sale of thirty-eight enslaved individuals for the sum of 126000 pesetas formalized before a public notary or legal authority. Single manuscript leaf written in Spanish cursive in black ink on both recto and verso densely filled with names ages and relational identifiers. Measures 8.5" x 12.25". The text lists individuals sequentially including men women and children with repeated references to kinship structures such as mothers with multiple children indicating the sale of family groupings rather than isolated individuals. The script reflects extended passages detailing ownership exclusions and conditions of transfer. A partial watermark of the official coat of arms of Cuba is visible. By 1875 Cuba remained one of the last major slave societies in the Atlantic world with sugar production driving demand for large controlled labor forces. Even after Spain curtailed the official slave trade earlier in the century illegal importation persisted into the 1860s and alternative systems of coerced labor including Chinese indenture supplemented plantation workforces. The scale of this transaction demonstrates the consolidation and redistribution of enslaved labor within domestic markets while the inclusion of children underscores the long-term economic logic of slavery as a self-reproducing system. Moderate toning and foxing concentrated along the edges with numerous small closed wormholes a few affecting portions of the text. Light edge wear present. Overall in good condition. This document provides unusually extensive nominal data on a large enslaved population encompassing the roles of kinship valuation and labor organization in late Spanish colonial Cuba. unknown books
1738rif. 60003Mary Grosse Phillips Blair 1681-1738. Manuscript Document Estate Inventory Boston Mass. November 3 1738. 8 pp. folio. Mary Blair was widow of Capt. John Phillips and Capt. William Blair merchant. This inventory depicts a lavishly furnished mansion vast real estate holdings and a rich array of items in the shop -- suggesting that Mary Blair continued the mercantile trade after her husband's death in 1736. Also of note are enslaved persons Cato and Monday. Thomas Hancock was one of the administrators of the estate which was valued at over £28232. Another copy of the inventory exists in state records Suffolk County probate case 7223. Fine condition.
1738rif. 60003Mary Grosse Phillips Blair 1681-1738. Manuscript Document Estate Inventory Boston Mass. November 3 1738. 8 pp. folio. Mary Blair was widow of Capt. John Phillips and Capt. William Blair merchant. This inventory depicts a lavishly furnished mansion vast real estate holdings and a rich array of items in the shop -- suggesting that Mary Blair continued the mercantile trade after her husband's death in 1736. Also of note are enslaved persons Cato and Monday. Thomas Hancock was one of the administrators of the estate which was valued at over £28232. Another copy of the inventory exists in state records Suffolk County probate case 7223. Fine condition. books
1864rif. 1067529 leaves of blue lined paper written in ink on rectos only. 31.5x20 cm 12¼x8" set in custom-made half cloth folder .Minor aging old folds; near fine. Official court document from Bexar County Texas summarizing the case of "Jim Owen a free person of African descent thirty years of age a resident of said county and state" who "desires to choose an owner and mistress and has selected for his mistress Sephrony Kerr…" Owen states that "he was brought from the State of Illinois to his state in 1850 before he was of lawful age by one John H. Burrus… who has since said time assumed a kind of guardianship over your petitioner without lawful authority…" All seemed on track until John H. Burrus filed suit stating that he was the "owner of said petitioner Owen" and "proof was not made that said petitioner is a free man of African descent" and "the negro Jim Owen… is his slave that he was brought to this State by the respondent in January 1850 as is slave and has been so held and owned up to the present time…" A new trial was granted and Kerr and Owen's petition denied. An appeal was allowed contingent on paying to Burrus a surety bond of $1500. A fascinating glimpse into the legal morass surrounding slavery as the Civil War raged and the "peculiar institution" of slavery was soon to be ended by force of arms.
1864rif. 1067529 leaves of blue lined paper written in ink on rectos only. 31.5x20 cm 12¼x8" set in custom-made half cloth folder .Minor aging old folds; near fine. Official court document from Bexar County Texas summarizing the case of "Jim Owen a free person of African descent thirty years of age a resident of said county and state" who "desires to choose an owner and mistress and has selected for his mistress Sephrony Kerr…" Owen states that "he was brought from the State of Illinois to his state in 1850 before he was of lawful age by one John H. Burrus… who has since said time assumed a kind of guardianship over your petitioner without lawful authority…" All seemed on track until John H. Burrus filed suit stating that he was the "owner of said petitioner Owen" and "proof was not made that said petitioner is a free man of African descent" and "the negro Jim Owen… is his slave that he was brought to this State by the respondent in January 1850 as is slave and has been so held and owned up to the present time…" A new trial was granted and Kerr and Owen's petition denied. An appeal was allowed contingent on paying to Burrus a surety bond of $1500. A fascinating glimpse into the legal morass surrounding slavery as the Civil War raged and the "peculiar institution" of slavery was soon to be ended by force of arms. books
1856rif. List3745Cape May New Jersey 1856. Folded sheet with letter on three of four pages measuring 8 ½ x 7 ¼ inches. Fine condition. In May 1856 Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts delivered his incendiary "Crime Against Kansas" speech condemning slavery's expansion into the territories and attacking the architects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Three days later Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina entered the Senate chamber and brutally assaulted him with a cane inflicting injuries severe enough to remove Sumner from public life for years. The attack became one of the defining symbolic episodes of the sectional crisis before the Civil War. Northern newspapers followed his condition closely and his empty Senate seat itself became a political emblem. Written from Cape May only two months after the attack while Sumner remained under physician supervision and uncertain whether full recovery would come quickly-or at all-Sumner writes here to a political ally in Massachusetts describing his physical and mental state: "My dear Sir "Pray do not think of any public reception for me. Let me come home to dear Massachusetts as I always have come quietly & at the proper time do what I can for the cause. This is best. Another reason for this course is the uncertain state of my health. I am still very feeble with such recurring ups & downs that my complete restoration seems sometimes far distant. My physician tells me I cannot be strong before September & then only by entire absence from all excitement. Perhaps not then. "Think of these things; & let us all join to stir Massachusetts in the good work forgetting men & remembering only the cause. "Ever sincerely yours Charles Sumner "P.S. From here I go to the mountains; but my address will be with Rev. Wm. H. Furness Phila. to Hon. J. Z. Goodrich" The letter gives a personal insight into the fallout of one of the most dramatic and violent political events of the antebellum sectional crisis. Sumner would return to politics three years later and the event would galvanize both Southern sympathizers to Brooks who sent him canes as tokens of gratitude and the Northern anti-slavery cause which considered Sumner a martyr. We find two other examples of letters by Sumner discussing the aftermath of the attack in all historical auction records.
1856rif. List3745Cape May New Jersey 1856. Folded sheet with letter on three of four pages measuring 8 ½ x 7 ¼ inches. Fine condition. In May 1856 Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts delivered his incendiary "Crime Against Kansas" speech condemning slavery's expansion into the territories and attacking the architects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Three days later Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina entered the Senate chamber and brutally assaulted him with a cane inflicting injuries severe enough to remove Sumner from public life for years. The attack became one of the defining symbolic episodes of the sectional crisis before the Civil War. Northern newspapers followed his condition closely and his empty Senate seat itself became a political emblem. Written from Cape May only two months after the attack while Sumner remained under physician supervision and uncertain whether full recovery would come quickly-or at all-Sumner writes here to a political ally in Massachusetts describing his physical and mental state: "My dear Sir "Pray do not think of any public reception for me. Let me come home to dear Massachusetts as I always have come quietly & at the proper time do what I can for the cause. This is best. Another reason for this course is the uncertain state of my health. I am still very feeble with such recurring ups & downs that my complete restoration seems sometimes far distant. My physician tells me I cannot be strong before September & then only by entire absence from all excitement. Perhaps not then. "Think of these things; & let us all join to stir Massachusetts in the good work forgetting men & remembering only the cause. "Ever sincerely yours Charles Sumner "P.S. From here I go to the mountains; but my address will be with Rev. Wm. H. Furness Phila. to Hon. J. Z. Goodrich" The letter gives a personal insight into the fallout of one of the most dramatic and violent political events of the antebellum sectional crisis. Sumner would return to politics three years later and the event would galvanize both Southern sympathizers to Brooks who sent him canes as tokens of gratitude and the Northern anti-slavery cause which considered Sumner a martyr. We find two other examples of letters by Sumner discussing the aftermath of the attack in all historical auction records. books
1834rif. 31598Philadelphia 1834. 3pp. Later annotation at head of first page. Scarce letter on the Liberian colonization movement by one of its founders. Writing to Hawes a member of Parliament and a committee member of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade Cresson wishes for success in the British anti-slavery action off the coast of Sierra Leone writing "I hope that you may yet enjoy the satisfaction of crushing one of the worst & most unacceptable of the slave markets in existence that at Gallinas." After mentioning the travels of the colonial governor of Liberia he writes: ". I have been gratified to learn from several highly respectable sources that such a Colony as you propose located either at the mouth of the Cape Mount River or even a little more to the Northward say at Sugaree & provided with a good supply of trade goods to exchange with the natives would have a powerful tendency to break up the monopoly now enjoyed by the Spanish Slavers. My letters from Africa state that the demand is so great in Cuba from the ravages of Cholera among their ill-fed human cattle as to have rendered the shipments from the Gallinas during the past year almost unprecedented. It appears that the benevolent efforts of your Govt. are not likely to extirpate the evil until commercial & agricultural colonies shall be substituted for cruisers." The letter continues with news from their consul at Liberia before turning to American politics: ". political affairs engrossing the entire energies of the nation. The excitement is painfully great . Our military chieftan Jackson by his acts of unauthorized assumption has called forth a burst of indignation which cannot subside until we get rid of the offender." The letter concludes with an introduction for Gerard Ralston. Cresson a noted Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist was among the most ardent supports of colonization the movement to relocate former slaves and free African Americans to colonies in Liberia. In 1833 Cresson and the Philadelphia Young Men's Colonization Society a branch of the American Colonization Society founded Port Cresson in Liberia. However the colony was attacked in 1835 by Bassa tribesmen incited by Spanish slave traders and destroyed. unknown
1834rif. 31598Philadelphia 1834. 3pp. Later annotation at head of first page. Scarce letter on the Liberian colonization movement by one of its founders. Writing to Hawes a member of Parliament and a committee member of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade Cresson wishes for success in the British anti-slavery action off the coast of Sierra Leone writing "I hope that you may yet enjoy the satisfaction of crushing one of the worst & most unacceptable of the slave markets in existence that at Gallinas." After mentioning the travels of the colonial governor of Liberia he writes: ". I have been gratified to learn from several highly respectable sources that such a Colony as you propose located either at the mouth of the Cape Mount River or even a little more to the Northward say at Sugaree & provided with a good supply of trade goods to exchange with the natives would have a powerful tendency to break up the monopoly now enjoyed by the Spanish Slavers. My letters from Africa state that the demand is so great in Cuba from the ravages of Cholera among their ill-fed human cattle as to have rendered the shipments from the Gallinas during the past year almost unprecedented. It appears that the benevolent efforts of your Govt. are not likely to extirpate the evil until commercial & agricultural colonies shall be substituted for cruisers." The letter continues with news from their consul at Liberia before turning to American politics: ". political affairs engrossing the entire energies of the nation. The excitement is painfully great . Our military chieftan Jackson by his acts of unauthorized assumption has called forth a burst of indignation which cannot subside until we get rid of the offender." The letter concludes with an introduction for Gerard Ralston. Cresson a noted Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist was among the most ardent supports of colonization the movement to relocate former slaves and free African Americans to colonies in Liberia. In 1833 Cresson and the Philadelphia Young Men's Colonization Society a branch of the American Colonization Society founded Port Cresson in Liberia. However the colony was attacked in 1835 by Bassa tribesmen incited by Spanish slave traders and destroyed. unknown books
1789rif. 40544Hempfield Westmoreland County Pennsylvania 1789. Folio leaves folded to oblong 7.5" x 9." Plain wraps with manuscript title detached but present. 44 pp including: 1-title 35 hand-paginated with entries 1-tally page and 1-assessors' certification 6 blank. Toned some splitting along spine folds light chipping at edges. Good. In March 1780 Pennsylvania enacted "An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery" requiring "That all persons as well Negroes and Mulattoes as others who shall be born within this state from and after the passing of this act shall not be deemed and considered as servants for life or slaves; and that all servitude for life or slavery of children in consequence of the slavery of their mothers in the case of all children born within this state from and after the passing of this act as aforesaid shall be and hereby is utterly taken away extinguished and for ever abolished." Persons born in Slavery before the date of the Act would remain as slaves. This inventory of taxable property is a Who's Who of Hempfield Township in western Pennsylvania consisting of an alphabetical list of the heads of households for the township. Each entry includes the number of servants under columns headed "Negro & Mulatto Slaves" or "Negroes"; land by deed warrant or location; improvements; number of horses horned cattle mills stills houses/lots and outlots; and value of the property in pounds shillings and pence. Several entries have "Single Man" written across the first few columns. The total taxable property in this return is £12850.3.9. Five entries have a "1" under the "Negroes" column including: William Perry Esq.; James Guthry who notes F 30; Alexander McDowall; David D.P. Marchant; Christian Rhodabough who notes 1-30. Other entries have an "X" in the "Negroes" column. The assessor is listed on the last page as Robert Flemman; Robert McKee 1771-1850 and Robert Taylor are his assistants. "Hempfield's early settlers were Germans from southeastern Pennsylvania. The name Hempfield was taken from Hempfield Township in Lancaster County which was formed in 1729 as an English place name. Hempfield Township in Lancaster County derived their name from the production of hemp. In 1818 Lancaster County divided Hempfield Township into East and West Hempfield. The settlers from Lancaster County that came to this area gave the same name to our Township where some of the early settlers had resided. Agriculture was the base for the settlers in the early days. The Township was known for the stills and distilleries where farmers refined the substantial grain output." "Naming & Establishing Hempfield Township" accessed at official website of Hempfield Township 25 February 2025. Two notable individuals listed are Henry Aleshouse 1757-1837 and Michael Huffnagle 1753-1819. Aleshouse was Captain of the Continental Army from 1776-1780 and prisoner of war during his service; Major in the Pennsylvania Militia in 1783; member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1802-1805 1812-15 1817-1818; and Pennsylvania State Senate from 1819-1826. Huffnagle was prothonotary for Westmoreland County Captain in the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolutionary War one of the first lawyers admitted to the Westmoreland County bar Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions and Clerk of the Orphan's Court and Agent for Forfeited Estates. Of the slave owners Dr. David Marchant Marchand 1746-1809 was a Captain in the American Revolution local doctor and founder of the first hospital west of the Allegheny Mountains; William Perry Esq. 1745-1793 was a sheriff of Westmoreland County from about 1777-1789 Treasurer of Westmoreland County from 1783-1788 County Sheriff in 1779 and Captain of a company of rangers with the Westmoreland Militia. Some of the surnames listed are: Alesworth Aultman Berger Brisby Beer Barnheart Bell Campbell Condon Cough Crookshank Clingahsmith Davison Errit Fullerton Jenkins Kimble McCurdey Russell Robison Shotts Shull Taylor Turner Wagley Waterson Yokey and others. unknown
1789rif. 40544Hempfield Westmoreland County Pennsylvania 1789. Folio leaves folded to oblong 7.5" x 9." Plain wraps with manuscript title detached but present. 44 pp including: 1-title 35 hand-paginated with entries 1-tally page and 1-assessors' certification 6 blank. Toned some splitting along spine folds light chipping at edges. Good. In March 1780 Pennsylvania enacted "An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery" requiring "That all persons as well Negroes and Mulattoes as others who shall be born within this state from and after the passing of this act shall not be deemed and considered as servants for life or slaves; and that all servitude for life or slavery of children in consequence of the slavery of their mothers in the case of all children born within this state from and after the passing of this act as aforesaid shall be and hereby is utterly taken away extinguished and for ever abolished." Persons born in Slavery before the date of the Act would remain as slaves. This inventory of taxable property is a Who's Who of Hempfield Township in western Pennsylvania consisting of an alphabetical list of the heads of households for the township. Each entry includes the number of servants under columns headed "Negro & Mulatto Slaves" or "Negroes"; land by deed warrant or location; improvements; number of horses horned cattle mills stills houses/lots and outlots; and value of the property in pounds shillings and pence. Several entries have "Single Man" written across the first few columns. The total taxable property in this return is £12850.3.9. Five entries have a "1" under the "Negroes" column including: William Perry Esq.; James Guthry who notes F 30; Alexander McDowall; David D.P. Marchant; Christian Rhodabough who notes 1-30. Other entries have an "X" in the "Negroes" column. The assessor is listed on the last page as Robert Flemman; Robert McKee 1771-1850 and Robert Taylor are his assistants. "Hempfield's early settlers were Germans from southeastern Pennsylvania. The name Hempfield was taken from Hempfield Township in Lancaster County which was formed in 1729 as an English place name. Hempfield Township in Lancaster County derived their name from the production of hemp. In 1818 Lancaster County divided Hempfield Township into East and West Hempfield. The settlers from Lancaster County that came to this area gave the same name to our Township where some of the early settlers had resided. Agriculture was the base for the settlers in the early days. The Township was known for the stills and distilleries where farmers refined the substantial grain output." "Naming & Establishing Hempfield Township" accessed at official website of Hempfield Township 25 February 2025. Two notable individuals listed are Henry Aleshouse 1757-1837 and Michael Huffnagle 1753-1819. Aleshouse was Captain of the Continental Army from 1776-1780 and prisoner of war during his service; Major in the Pennsylvania Militia in 1783; member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1802-1805 1812-15 1817-1818; and Pennsylvania State Senate from 1819-1826. Huffnagle was prothonotary for Westmoreland County Captain in the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolutionary War one of the first lawyers admitted to the Westmoreland County bar Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions and Clerk of the Orphan's Court and Agent for Forfeited Estates. Of the slave owners Dr. David Marchant Marchand 1746-1809 was a Captain in the American Revolution local doctor and founder of the first hospital west of the Allegheny Mountains; William Perry Esq. 1745-1793 was a sheriff of Westmoreland County from about 1777-1789 Treasurer of Westmoreland County from 1783-1788 County Sheriff in 1779 and Captain of a company of rangers with the Westmoreland Militia. Some of the surnames listed are: Alesworth Aultman Berger Brisby Beer Barnheart Bell Campbell Condon Cough Crookshank Clingahsmith Davison Errit Fullerton Jenkins Kimble McCurdey Russell Robison Shotts Shull Taylor Turner Wagley Waterson Yokey and others. unknown books
rif. 234106Saint-Thomas [Antilles], 18 janvier 1743 in-folio, 12 pp. couvertes d'une écriture lisible (environ 20/25 lignes par page), en feuilles, cousu.
rif. 8192Saint-Denis (Ile Bourbon), 1810. 10 pp. manuscrites.
1667rif. PHO-2095Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1667, 2 tomes en in-4, veau brun, dos à nerfs orné avec titre et tomaison, (Reliure de l'époque), manques aux coiffes, coins émoussés, début de fente L'illustration, gravée sur cuivre, comprend 2 titres-frontispices, 3 cartes au premier tome et 14 planches au second dont la planche figurant un couple nu, la gravure des armoiries de Harlay manque
rif. 245233Paris, Pagnerre, 1843 2 volumes in-8, (6)-390 pp. et (4)-488 pp., 8 pp. de Catalogue Pagnerre, demi-veau cerise, dos à nerfs orné, roulettes dorées et fleurons à froid, couverture verte imprimée conservée (reliure moderne).
1840rif. 1132391840. First Edition. SLAVERY BUXTON Thomas Fowell. The African Slave Trade and its Remedy. London: John Murray 1840. Octavooriginal brown clothuncut and partially unopened; pp.14 viii 3 6-273 274-276 i ii-vi 277 278-582. $2800.First expanded and revised edition of British abolitionist Buxton's powerful call for an end to the slave trade the first to include his extensive and influential Remedy two major works that followed the lead of Wilberforce in calling for treaties and commerce to end the slave trade and outlined a way to ""secure the regeneration of Africa through agricultural development"" with large folding map a handsome copy in original cloth.Quaker Thomas Buxton was in Parliament when in 1824 Wilberforce asked him to become his successor. ""In 1789 Wilberforce had begged Parliament to 'make reparation to AfricaÉ by establishing a trade upon true commercial principlesÉ Fifty years later Buxton redeveloped this appeal in The African Slave TradeÉ To support his vision Buxton formed the African Civilization Society July 1839."" In this first expanded edition of African Slave Trade 1839Ñthe first to include his RemedyÑBuxton argues for the ""agricultural colonization of West Africa and the development of a broad-based commerce that could undercut the economic dominance of the illicit slave trade"" Hopkins Peter Thonning 615. He documents the horrors of the Middle Passage to show that despite all efforts to end the slave trade ""twice as many human beings are now its victims as when Wilberforce and Clarkson entered upon their noble task."" And in Remedy he further develops his argument: showing how ""legitimate commerce would put down the Slave Trade by demonstrating the superior value of man as a laborer on the soil to man as an object of merchandise.""With African Slave Trade and its Remedy Buxton powerfully ""synthesized contemporary currents of thought developed the arguments about the relationship between abolition and African improvement more systematically than before and then catapulted them to national prominenceÉ His views prevailed. The belief that the only way to suppress the African slave trade was to promote 'legitimate commerce' and that this new trade would launch Africa on the road to moral and material progress became the conventional wisdom in mid-19th-century Britain."" Among those he convinced was David Livingstone who as ""an unknown medical student attended the 1840 meeting of the African Civilization Society where Buxton first announced his remedy for the slave trade. What Livingstone heard on that occasion helped inspire a lifetime of work and travel on the continent"" Mann Slavery and the Birth of an African City 88-90. First expanded and revised edition: first to include Buxton's Remedy which was issued separately in 1839. Precedes the first American edition. With folding map of ""Central Africa."" Paginated as issued without loss of text. With 14-page ""Prospectus of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa"" preceding title page. Sabin 9685. Goldsmith's 31743. Kress C5121 See Goldsmith's 31181; Kress C4818; Blockson 9121. Interior fresh with light foxing to folding map as often front inner paper hinge starting but very sound mild rubbing and toning to bright original cloth. A desirable near-fine copy. hardcover
