Search Results: Slavery from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, 1970). Facsimile of the 1860 first edition published in Boston by the American Tract Society; The Black Heritage Library Collection. 8vo; original black cloth; spine silver gilt; no dustwrapper; pp. (ii) + 102. Some spotting to endpapers. Very good condition. A treatise on the history of the slave trade and its abolition, the original publication of which coincided with the increasing tension between the states of the Union on the eve of the American Civil War. Clark argues against any revival of the trade, and expresses America's guilt at the continuation of an internal trade in the human species by several states. .

(New York: Checkmark Books, 2001). 277 x 214 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. (vi) + 458, incl. index; monochrome illustrations in text. Wraps very slightly shelf-soiled, with a little curl to corners. Very good condition. "The history of the enslavement of African Americans in North America stretches from the beginning of European colonization and lasted until the end of the Civil War. An Eyewitness History of Slavery in America recounts this history by examining, chapter by chapter, many of its aspects: the slave catchers and their coffles in Africa, the crowded slave ships that transported Africans along the triangular trade routes to America, slave auctions, life and labor on the plantation, escape attempts and insurrections, and finally the Civil War and eventual emancipation. The authors capture the complexities and the extent of slavery and document the wide differences in the ways people reacted to this terrible institution. An Eyewitness History of Slavery in America provides… Read More

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1974). 203 x 134 mm; wraps; pp. xviii + 219, incl. index; maps. Good to very good condition. Spine sunned; upper wrapper a little scratched; page edges somewhat browned; previous owner's name signed on half-title. "This is an extremely important book ... It is the most detailed, comprehensive, and best study yet published on African slavery in eighteenth-century North America." - Jack P. Greene, Journal of American History .

(London: Penguin Books, 2000). Edited by Sara Salih. 196 x 127 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xli + (i) + 115; facsimile title page from the third edition of 1831. Previous owner's discreet book label on first page. Fine condition. The life story of Mary Prince, employed as a domestic servant by Thomas Pringle, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society. "Mary Prince recalls that in the slave market in Bermuda, where she was put up for sale, the buyers' talk 'fell like cayenne on the fresh wounds of our hearts'. During her life as a slave she was taken from Bermuda to Turks Island and Antigua, eventually arriving in London where, in 1828, she reported the cruelty of her master and mistress to the Anti-Slavery Society. The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first life of a black woman to be published in Britain. This extraordinary testament of ill-treatment and survival was a protest and a rallying-cry for emancipation that provoked two libel actions and ran into three… Read More

(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997). With an Introduction by Lore Metzger. 208 x 140 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. xv + (i) + 78. Near fine. "As Aphra Behn's career inspired women, especially writers, Oroonoko was taken up as a weapon by reformers in the long battle against the slave trade. Over the years reprinted, translated, serialized, dramatized, and imitated, it remains a unique work - a popular tale that introduces powerful themes onto the literary stage." .

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000) 0253337771. Large 8vo; original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. 244; profusely illustrated. Fine condition. "This is a lavishly illustrated story of a typical slave ship and its last voyage on the triangular trade between Denmark-Norway, the Gold Coast in Africa, and the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. The wreckage of the Fredensborg was discovered off the coast of Norway in 1971, more than 200 years after it sank in 1768. ... This is the triangular trade made specific and personal based on the records and artifacts of the best documented slave vessel ever discovered." .

(New York: Schocken Books, 1969). 200 x 135 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. xxxvi + (ii) + 335, incl. index. Good to very good condition. Wraps somewhat sunned; corners of upper cover a little creased. First published in 1896. This edition with a new introduction by A. Norman Klein. '"How far in a state can a recognized moral wrong safely be compromised?" This question, coming in the last paragraph of the monograph with which Harvard opened its Harvard Historical Series in 1896, clearly can have but one answer. The book demonstrates how "that system of bargaining, truckling, and compromising with a moral, political and economic monstrosity, which makes the history of our dealing with slavery in the first half of the nineteenth century so discreditable to a great people," led straight to the Civil War; and it closes with DuBois' ever-relevant words: "It behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done."' .

(London: Oxford University Press, 1923, 1st edition). 8vo; original burgundy cloth; spine gilt; pp. vi + (ii) + 528, incl. index; plates with tissue guards. Corners and edges a little bumped; ownership inscription dated August 1929 on half-title, and owner's name signed on title page; some browning and light spotting to endpapers and final leaves. Good to very good condition. "This book makes no pretence of extending the bounds of historical knowledge. There is very little that is new in its materials or ideas. Its only excuse lies in the fact that, except for Leslie Stephen's admirable summary in the Dictionary of National Biography, there is nothing in modern literature to recall the memory of Wilberforce and his work to the present generation. Harford's Recollections (1865), Colquhoun's Wilberforce and his Friends (1866), and Stoughton's short Life (1880), are all out of print. The 'official' biography, by two of Wilberforce's sons, Robert and Samuel (2nd… Read More