[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. A group of 3 British pre-Civil War publications related to American slavery, comprising:
Sale 994 - African Americana
Feb 23, 2022
11:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$300 -
$500
Sold for $219
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Lot Description
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. A group of 3 British pre-Civil War publications related to American slavery, comprising:
The Gentleman's Magazine: For February 1743. London: E. Cave, 1743. 8vo. Two engravings. (Toned, occasional spotting.) Disbound. With article on p. 93: "From the Memoirs of an unfortunate Young nobleman return'd from a Thirteen Years Slavery in America, where he had been sent by the wicked Contrivances of his cruel Uncle."
[With:] The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal. (No. L.) October, 1815. Edinburgh and New York: Abraham Paul and Eastburn, Kirk & Co., 1816. 8vo. (Toned, some offsetting.) Original publisher's blue wrappers (light wear to edges, tears with tape repairs at hinges).
With an extensive article (pp. 315-345) reporting on the Committee of the African Institution regarding the establishment of a Slave Registry in the British Colonies. The article opens, "we ought regularly to have devoted this article to the consideration of the Annual Report of the African Institution, and other publications more immediately connected with it. But the subject announced in the title is of such great importance, and so urgently pressed upon our attention by its approaching discussion in Parliament, that we are obliged to interrupt the usual course of our proceeding and devote ourselves, for the present, exclusively to the question of the Registry.
[Also with:] The Edinburgh Review. Vol. XLII, No. II. New York: Leonard Scott & Co., April 1844. 8vo. (Offsetting, occasional spotting.) Original publisher's blue wrappers (label affixed to front wrapper). American edition. With article "Slavery in the United States."
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