A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States: With Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, without Impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour: Including Memoirs of Facts on the Interior Traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnapping.
Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1817.
First edition. 94 pp. with five engraved plates and frontis. Recent quarter leather with marbled paper sides, black title label lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with occasional offsetting and a few minor stains, small loss to inner hinge at p. 85.
A rare abolitionist work by a Philadelphia physician. He interviewed slaves and observers of the slave trade, getting first-hand accounts of being kidnapped and sold into bondage.
Price: $3,000.00
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