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BENEZET, Anthony. - Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants. With an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects. New edition.
London, J. Phillips, 1788.Original boards (rubbed), uncut. With woodcut on title-page depicting a medallion of a slave in chains with the text 'Am I not a man and a brother'. XV,131,(1) pp.First published in Philadelphia in 1771. - Contains an inquiry into the rise and progress of the West-African slave trade, 1442 to 1771, including a general account of Guinea, the Ivory-, Gold- and Slave-Coast, Benin, Kongo and Angola and chapters on the slave-trade by the Portuguese and English, and chapters on the treatment of the slaves in the North American colonies and in the West Indies. Benezet (1713-1784), a French-born Quaker and Philadelphia resident, was one of the chief early anti-slave trade agitators in the New World, his views influenced those of English abolitionists William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. Appended is an extract from Granville Sharp's Representation of the injustice and dangerous tendency of tolerating slavery, first published in 1769 - An important, very early, comprehensive American indictment of the slave trade and slavery.Cardinall 377; Sabin 4689, Ragatz p.479; Hogg 1734; Work p.257; Afro-Americana 1084.
EUR 544.50 [Appr.: US$ 590.94 | £UK 464 | JP„ 92989] Booknumber: 11460
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SEEMANN, E.A. - Preussische Košnigsschlošsser in Berlin und Potsdam
Leipzig, Seemann. 1992. Hardcover with dustjacket. AS NEW.
EUR 24.00 [Appr.: US$ 26.05 | £UK 20.5 | JP„ 4099] Booknumber: 026056
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