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1945réf. A1-086Paris 30.10.1947 (DL 1945), Aimery Somogy éditeur in-8° 384 pp. rel. demi-bas. Dos 5 nerfs. Roman historique. Traduit de l’anglais par Albert Lehman. Introduction de l'éditeur pages 7 à 13.
1974réf. qq1937La Guilde du livre Toile d'éditeur 1974 In-8 (15.3 x 22 cm), toile d'éditeur rouge, 278 pages, exemplaire n°1672 ; des taches d'usage aux plats, intérieur frais, bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
1728réf. 100536Pamphlet 8vo modern full calf in the style of an 18th century Cambridge binding 32 pp.Very slight aging; in excellent condition. This is a rare first edition of a work that presents a complaint by British planters in the West Indies concerning the Assiento or agreement with Spain that gave Britain a virtual monopoly on the African slave trade. This agreement came out of the Treaty of Utrecht which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. This pamphlet indicates that the planters feared as a result of this agreement British slavers might be required to provide African slaves to the Spanish colonies which could result in insufficient numbers available for the West India plantations. The Assiento with Spain would mark the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade as a very powerful economic growth engine. Unfortunately this would translate into millions of Africans being taken from their homes. H. Whitridge books
1728réf. 100536Pamphlet 8vo modern full calf in the style of an 18th century Cambridge binding 32 pp.Very slight aging; in excellent condition. This is a rare first edition of a work that presents a complaint by British planters in the West Indies concerning the Assiento or agreement with Spain that gave Britain a virtual monopoly on the African slave trade. This agreement came out of the Treaty of Utrecht which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. This pamphlet indicates that the planters feared as a result of this agreement British slavers might be required to provide African slaves to the Spanish colonies which could result in insufficient numbers available for the West India plantations. The Assiento with Spain would mark the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade as a very powerful economic growth engine. Unfortunately this would translate into millions of Africans being taken from their homes. H. Whitridge
iv, [5]-186, [2]pp. 3 Works bound in one, 12mo (170 x 100 mm), cont. calf, gilt, a nice copy.
1994réf. MAROC7410115Maroc, Casablanca, Editions EDDIF, 1994, 13,5 x 21, 224 pages sous couverture illustrée. Préface de Ernest Gellner.
Société Antiesclavagiste de France. 1897. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur acceptable. Plaquette paginée de 594 à 624. Tampons et annotations de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en 1re page. Allocations distribuées par la Société Antiesclavagiste en 1897. Lettre de Mgr Jourdan de la Passadière aux évêques de France. Projet de colonisation en Abyssinie. Pénétration anglaise du Cap à Alexandrie. Lettres d'Afrique...
1897réf. RO40188451Société Antiesclavagiste de France. 1897. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. Plaquette paginée de 594 à 624. Tampons et annotations de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en 1re page.. . . . Classification Dewey : 326-Esclavage
1880réf. 37129Circa 1880. 1880. Good. - A slip of paper 2-3/8 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide is inscribed & signed in black ink: "Let us thank God for the Saxon Grit / Robert Collyer". The paper is mounted on a piece of cream-colored card of approximately the same size. The card is unevenly cut & both paper & card are slightly rippled from the mounting. Good. "Saxon Grit" is the title of an 1880 poem by Collyer about the Norman conquest of England in which the phrase recurs in each verse. Robert Collyer 1823-1912 was an English-born American Unitarian clergyman. He became a Methodist minister in England in 1849. Emigrating to The United States in the following year he found employment as a hammer maker in Pennsylvania and soon began preaching on Sundays while still employed at the factory. His earnest rugged simple style of oratory won him great popularity but his advocacy for the antislavery cause then frowned upon by the Methodist authorities aroused opposition. He was tried for heresy and his license was revoked. Continuing as an independent preacher he joined the Unitarian Church in 1859. In 1860 he organized and became pastor of the Unity Church the second Unitarian Church in Chicago. The church grew to become one of the strongest Unitarian churches in the West and Collyer was regarded as one of the foremost pulpit orators in the country. He left Chicago in 1879 and became pastor of the Church of the Messiah now renamed the Community Church in New York City. In 1883 he was a featured speaker at the convention of the American Woman Suffrage Association where he spoke movingly about his deceased wife and their struggles over "the woman question". Circa [1880]. unknown
1998504p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
réf. 1020195134.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1851réf. 106835Pamphlet 8vo wrappers 36 pp. Archival tape repair to back of front cover slight edgeware normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. Follows the general tone of a good deal of the abolitionist literature of the period. However while the author acknowledges the critical importance of slavery to America he suggests the issue needs to be debated with "calmness and candor" interestingly he indicates that the climate for these discussions appears to be improving. Charles C. Little and James Brown, books
1836réf. 346520Washington D.C. 1836. 24th Congress 1st Session House Rep. No. 691. 24pp. 8vo. Disbound. 24th Congress 1st Session House Rep. No. 691. 24pp. 8vo. Many of the early anti-slavery efforts focussed on the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia as Congress had full control over the laws within the District thus obviating any argument over state's rights. Until "retroceded" back to Virginia in 1846 the city of Alexandria and its notorious slave market was considered part of the District of Columbia making slavery in the District of particular importance. Inundated with petitions calling for the abolition of slavery in the District in 1836 Congress passed the so-called Pinckney Resolution which asserted that Congress "ought not" to consider slavery in the District and created a gag rule whereby all petitions memorials or other resolutions on the subject would be automatically tabled. unknown books
1771réf. 143781771. The Almanack 1771 contains an advertisement offering a fourteen-year-old enslaved Black boy for sale in Boston documenting the commercial trafficking of enslaved children in colonial Massachusetts only five years before the Declaration of Independence. The notice states: "To be sold for want of employment a likely Negro Boy that won't drink rum he is about 14 years old." Its language reduces the unnamed child to age perceived suitability and drinking habits before offering him for sale preserving direct evidence of how slavery entered the ordinary commercial language and newspaper economy of eighteenth-century Boston. A second advertisement relating to slavery appears in the same issue. The Almanack. Boston 1771. Folio newspaper approximately 15 x 10 inches. The sale notice was printed among the newspaper's advertisements rather than as a report or editorial discussion of slavery placing the transaction within the periodical's routine marketplace of property labor and services. Particularly revealing is the seller's stated reason "for want of employment" which explicitly connects the proposed sale of the fourteen-year-old boy to the enslaver's assessment of his economic utility. Slavery remained legal in Massachusetts in 1771 even as the political disputes that would culminate in the American Revolution intensified in Boston. The advertisement predates the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution and the early 1780s freedom suits associated with the effective end of slavery in the Commonwealth. As a Boston notice offering an enslaved child for sale it provides specific evidence that human bondage and its newspaper marketplace formed part of New England life during the generation that articulated revolutionary claims concerning liberty. Overall foxing scattered soiling and several small edge tears; otherwise very good condition. unknown books
2002DJ in mylar; Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the Gospel teachings of brotherhood and charity? Slaves were considered the sexual property of their owners: what was the status within the Church of enslaved women and young male slaves who were their owners' sexual playthings? Is there any reason to believe that Christians shied away from the use of corporal punishments so common among ancient slave owners? Jennifer A. Glancy brings a multilayered approach to these and many other issues, offering a comprehensive re-examination of the evidence pertaining to slavery in early Christianity. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Glancy situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting. She argues that scholars have consistently underestimated the pervasive impact of slavery on the institutional structures, ideologies, and practices of the early churches and of individual Christians. The churches, she shows, grew to maturity with the assumption that slaveholding was the norm, and welcomed both slaves and slaveholders as members. Glancy draws attention to the importance of the body in the thought and practice of ancient slavery. To be a slave was to be a body subject to coercion and violation, with no rights to corporeal integrity or privacy. Even early Christians who held that true slavery was spiritual in nature relied, ultimately, on bodily metaphors to express this. Slavery, Glancy demonstrates, was an essential feature of both the physical and metaphysical worlds of early Christianity. ; 203 pages
1993Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). ; Emphasizing the variety of systems of servitude, the author surveys the development of chattel slavery and then describes several cases in which entire communities were subjected. Next he considers the theories by which the Greeks justified the enslavement of particular peoples, and points out the absence of slavery in some Greek conceptions of utopia. He also discusses such topics as the condition of slaves in the various poleis, the role played by slaves in political life and in civic defense, the rarity of genuine slave revolts, and the means by which slaves and Helots sometimes reached accommodation with their masters. ; Classical World Series; 8.3 X 5.4 X 0.4 inches; 128 pages
1988Old price sticker to ffep. Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Spine slightly sunned. Tiny stain to base of textblock. ; Emphasizing the variety of systems of servitude, the author surveys the development of chattel slavery and then describes several cases in which entire communities were subjected. Next he considers the theories by which the Greeks justified the enslavement of particular peoples, and points out the absence of slavery in some Greek conceptions of utopia. He also discusses such topics as the condition of slaves in the various poleis, the role played by slaves in political life and in civic defense, the rarity of genuine slave revolts, and the means by which slaves and Helots sometimes reached accommodation with their masters. ; 0.75 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 310 pages
1836réf. 346520Washington D.C. 1836. 24th Congress 1st Session House Rep. No. 691. 24pp. 8vo. Disbound. 24th Congress 1st Session House Rep. No. 691. 24pp. 8vo. Many of the early anti-slavery efforts focussed on the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia as Congress had full control over the laws within the District thus obviating any argument over state's rights. Until "retroceded" back to Virginia in 1846 the city of Alexandria and its notorious slave market was considered part of the District of Columbia making slavery in the District of particular importance. Inundated with petitions calling for the abolition of slavery in the District in 1836 Congress passed the so-called Pinckney Resolution which asserted that Congress "ought not" to consider slavery in the District and created a gag rule whereby all petitions memorials or other resolutions on the subject would be automatically tabled. unknown
1851réf. 106835Pamphlet 8vo wrappers 36 pp. Archival tape repair to back of front cover slight edgeware normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. Follows the general tone of a good deal of the abolitionist literature of the period. However while the author acknowledges the critical importance of slavery to America he suggests the issue needs to be debated with "calmness and candor" interestingly he indicates that the climate for these discussions appears to be improving. Charles C. Little and James Brown,
1771réf. 143781771. The Almanack 1771 contains an advertisement offering a fourteen-year-old enslaved Black boy for sale in Boston documenting the commercial trafficking of enslaved children in colonial Massachusetts only five years before the Declaration of Independence. The notice states: "To be sold for want of employment a likely Negro Boy that won't drink rum he is about 14 years old." Its language reduces the unnamed child to age perceived suitability and drinking habits before offering him for sale preserving direct evidence of how slavery entered the ordinary commercial language and newspaper economy of eighteenth-century Boston. A second advertisement relating to slavery appears in the same issue. The Almanack. Boston 1771. Folio newspaper approximately 15 x 10 inches. The sale notice was printed among the newspaper's advertisements rather than as a report or editorial discussion of slavery placing the transaction within the periodical's routine marketplace of property labor and services. Particularly revealing is the seller's stated reason "for want of employment" which explicitly connects the proposed sale of the fourteen-year-old boy to the enslaver's assessment of his economic utility. Slavery remained legal in Massachusetts in 1771 even as the political disputes that would culminate in the American Revolution intensified in Boston. The advertisement predates the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution and the early 1780s freedom suits associated with the effective end of slavery in the Commonwealth. As a Boston notice offering an enslaved child for sale it provides specific evidence that human bondage and its newspaper marketplace formed part of New England life during the generation that articulated revolutionary claims concerning liberty. Overall foxing scattered soiling and several small edge tears; otherwise very good condition. unknown
1815réf. 201561815. Manuscript fiscal records from antebellum Virginia documenting the taxation and valuation of enslaved African Americans as property within the legal and economic system of slavery. Dating from 1815 to 1854 the records span nearly four decades and demonstrate the routine bureaucratic mechanisms through which enslaved people were enumerated assigned monetary value and incorporated into county and state taxation alongside land horses clocks and other forms of personal property. The documents provide direct evidence of the administrative infrastructure underlying slavery in Virginia during the decades preceding the Civil War. The earliest record dated April 1 1815 concerns the property of Jacob Campbell and is headed "A list of land & slaves owned by Jacob Campbell the first day of April 1815." An associated receipt provides a particularly stark example of the economic treatment of enslaved people enumerating eight individuals according to gender and age categories and assigning them monetary values totaling $2170. Rather than identifying the individuals as members of families or communities the fiscal record reduces them to demographic classifications and assessed financial values for purposes of property accounting. A later tax receipt for Robert L. Berry and John Berry of Washington County Virginia dated 1848 similarly includes "Slaves" among taxable "Revenue" categories alongside horses clocks and land. The juxtaposition illustrates the legal status imposed upon enslaved African Americans: human beings were entered into the same fiscal accounting system used for other forms of privately held property. The final record a Washington County tax receipt issued to Miss Francis Jane Irby in 1854 includes "Black" titheables among taxable categories together with personal property salary land and a road levy. Virginia's system of tithables had long provided a mechanism for counting certain members of the population for taxation including enslaved African Americans. The terminology and structure of the receipt demonstrate how racial classification was embedded directly within ordinary local fiscal administration. Taken together the records trace the persistence of this system from the aftermath of the War of 1812 through the decade immediately preceding the Civil War. They document slavery not through political argument or retrospective testimony but through the ordinary paperwork of government and property ownership: lists valuations assessments and receipts. Particularly significant is the 1815 valuation of eight enslaved people at a combined $2170 providing direct evidence of the conversion of individual human lives into quantified financial assets. Virginia was central to the development and expansion of slavery in British North America and the early United States. The arrival of Africans at Point Comfort in Virginia in 1619 marked an early and consequential moment in the history of Africans in English North America while slavery subsequently became deeply embedded in the colony and state's economic and legal institutions. By the 1860 federal census more than one-third of Virginia's population was enslaved. Records such as these reveal the administrative dimension of that system: local authorities and property owners routinely recorded enslaved African Americans as taxable economic assets making racial slavery part of the ordinary machinery of government. Group of manuscript fiscal records from Washington County Virginia 1815-1854 ranging in size from approximately 6.75 x 2 inches to standard letter size. Includes the 1815 Jacob Campbell list and associated valuation receipt the 1848 Robert L. and John Berry tax receipt and the 1854 Francis Jane Irby tax receipt. Original folds and creasing minor foxing and a small chip to the lower left corner of one document; docketing on versos. Text remains clear and legible. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1910réf. 55667The Hague Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff 1910. Thick 8vo. xx 474 pp. Title in red & black 1 large folding colour map at rear. Quarter-black cloth over printed boards textblock reinforced w/ gray linen foxing & spotting to endpapers & first few leaves minor worming to gutter margin of first leaves edgewear rubbing still G reference copy from the library of Andrew W. Lind. Second edition substantially revised & expanded of this seminal work on the history of slavery in primitive societies from ethnological and economic viewpoints. Nieboer 1873-1920 argues that slavery in primitive societies such as among Pacific Northwest Coast Indians other North American Indian tribes Eskimos Australian aborigines Polynesian cultures Melanesia and others not only established that slaves were not just the physical property of their owners but that they also could be commanded to perform labors and that their status was recognized by the society of the slave holder. Martinus Nijhoff, hardcover
1815réf. 201561815. Manuscript fiscal records from antebellum Virginia documenting the taxation and valuation of enslaved African Americans as property within the legal and economic system of slavery. Dating from 1815 to 1854 the records span nearly four decades and demonstrate the routine bureaucratic mechanisms through which enslaved people were enumerated assigned monetary value and incorporated into county and state taxation alongside land horses clocks and other forms of personal property. The documents provide direct evidence of the administrative infrastructure underlying slavery in Virginia during the decades preceding the Civil War. The earliest record dated April 1 1815 concerns the property of Jacob Campbell and is headed "A list of land & slaves owned by Jacob Campbell the first day of April 1815." An associated receipt provides a particularly stark example of the economic treatment of enslaved people enumerating eight individuals according to gender and age categories and assigning them monetary values totaling $2170. Rather than identifying the individuals as members of families or communities the fiscal record reduces them to demographic classifications and assessed financial values for purposes of property accounting. A later tax receipt for Robert L. Berry and John Berry of Washington County Virginia dated 1848 similarly includes "Slaves" among taxable "Revenue" categories alongside horses clocks and land. The juxtaposition illustrates the legal status imposed upon enslaved African Americans: human beings were entered into the same fiscal accounting system used for other forms of privately held property. The final record a Washington County tax receipt issued to Miss Francis Jane Irby in 1854 includes "Black" titheables among taxable categories together with personal property salary land and a road levy. Virginia's system of tithables had long provided a mechanism for counting certain members of the population for taxation including enslaved African Americans. The terminology and structure of the receipt demonstrate how racial classification was embedded directly within ordinary local fiscal administration. Taken together the records trace the persistence of this system from the aftermath of the War of 1812 through the decade immediately preceding the Civil War. They document slavery not through political argument or retrospective testimony but through the ordinary paperwork of government and property ownership: lists valuations assessments and receipts. Particularly significant is the 1815 valuation of eight enslaved people at a combined $2170 providing direct evidence of the conversion of individual human lives into quantified financial assets. Virginia was central to the development and expansion of slavery in British North America and the early United States. The arrival of Africans at Point Comfort in Virginia in 1619 marked an early and consequential moment in the history of Africans in English North America while slavery subsequently became deeply embedded in the colony and state's economic and legal institutions. By the 1860 federal census more than one-third of Virginia's population was enslaved. Records such as these reveal the administrative dimension of that system: local authorities and property owners routinely recorded enslaved African Americans as taxable economic assets making racial slavery part of the ordinary machinery of government. Group of manuscript fiscal records from Washington County Virginia 1815-1854 ranging in size from approximately 6.75 x 2 inches to standard letter size. Includes the 1815 Jacob Campbell list and associated valuation receipt the 1848 Robert L. and John Berry tax receipt and the 1854 Francis Jane Irby tax receipt. Original folds and creasing minor foxing and a small chip to the lower left corner of one document; docketing on versos. Text remains clear and legible. Overall very good condition. unknown
1957163 pages. Index. "The first book to take seriously the ethical and religious aspects of slavery in the formative period of the United States." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear to unmarked book. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy. Book
1853196p. Issued by the publisher without the Conclusion, p. 197-200. Hardcover Good condition, lacking leaf preceding t.p., endpapers chipped
