Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
, 1855. 117pp. Folding woodcut frontis. 12mo. Modern brown cloth, paper label. Old institutional stamp on titlepage. VG. Later edition, after the first of 1791. A synopsis of the evidence presented to the House of Commons on the slave trade. The abstract includes detailed information regarding the horrific conditions African captives endured on their trans-Atlantic voyage. The woodcut frontispiece offers a cross-section of a slave ship, with images of slaves inside stacked like livestock. Reprinted by the American Reform Tract and Book Society as propaganda for the Abolitionist movement.
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