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The Antelope: The Ordeal of the Recaptured Africans in the Administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams
by Noonan, John Thomas
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520033191
- ISBN 13
- 9780520033191
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, California, USA: University of California Press, 1977. BX4 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition. No additional printings are indicated on the copyright page. A tight, clean, sound copy in blue cloth covered boards with blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering and graphics on the spine with minor overall shelf wear with some tape staining on the outside surfaces of the front and back boards and front and back free endpapers from where the dust jacket was taped to the boards plus there are the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, the title page, and the back free endpaper. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear with some light fading on the spine plus there is a patch of light rubbing on the spine from a library label plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A book about American life in the 1820s and American legal history with the focus on the disposition of African slaves found on a ship in 1820 stopped by a US Treasury cutter off the Florida coast and the resulting legal haggling over whether the Africans were persons or property. Endnotes, indexed, 198p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 5.75"x8.75". Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW10647
- Title
- The Antelope: The Ordeal of the Recaptured Africans in the Administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams
- Author
- Noonan, John Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520033191
- ISBN 13
- 9780520033191
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction History American America United States US USA U.S. U.S.A. Slave Slaves Slavery African Africans Monroe James Adams John Quincy Antelope Slave Ship Slave Ships Politics Political Science 19th Century Nineteenth Century 1820 Florida C
- Bookseller catalogs
- Law & Criminality; History: World; History: World / Slavery & Abolition; Law & Criminality / History of Law;
- Size
- 5.75"x8.75"
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