Search results for: 'SLAVE TRADE'
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SLAVERY. An Act to Prevent the Importation of Slaves, by any of His Majesty's Subjects, into any Islands, Colonies, Plantations, and or Territories belonging to any Foreign Sovereign, State, or Power;[London : 1806]
The parliamentary act banning all slave trading outside the British Empire, paving the way for the complete abolition of the slave trade the following year. The death of Pitt in January 1806 led to the appointment of the abolitionist government led by Lord Grenville and Charles James Fox, who introduced the bill soon after, at a time of relative weakness... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 135092
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![Opinions of Henry Brougham, Esq., on Negro Slavery: With Remarks; [bound with:] Correspondence between Mr. George Hibbert and the Society of Friends; [and:] British Colonial Slavery.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/135084.jpg)
SLAVERY. Opinions of Henry Brougham, Esq., on Negro Slavery: With Remarks; [bound with:] Correspondence between Mr. George Hibbert and the Society of Friends; [and:] British Colonial Slavery.London : 1826; [1833; 1833]
First edition of all three pamphlets, the copies of the pro-slavery Hibbert family. George Hibbert (1757-1837) was a merchant whose correspondence with the Quakers comprises the second pamphlet, and his son Nathaniel (1794-1865) wrote the "Remarks" on Brougham in the first pamphlet; the third pamphlet was published by the Committee of West India Planters... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 135084
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SLAVERY. A Plan For improving the Trade at Senegal. Addressed to The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.London : 1763
First edition. An anonymous proposal to liberate and enfranchise the slaves in Senegal, recently captured from the French in 1758, and set up there a democratic government with British law. Arguing that free labourers are far more productive than those enslaved, and refuting any inherent idleness among the Africans, the author argues this will be a... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 117460
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[SLAVERY] CAMPBELL, John. Candid and impartial Considerations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade; the comparative importance of the British and French islands in the West-Indies: with the value and consequence of St. Lucia and Granada, truly stated. Illustrated with copper plates.London : 1763
First edition of the first-named, fourth of the second which was first published Antigua, 1750 under the pseudonym of "An Old Planter". John Campbell (17081775), was a highly successful historian and miscellaneous author, Johnson thought well of him and praised the usefulness of his knowledge, also describing him as "the richest author that ever grazed... Learn More£5,250.00Stock Code: 132583
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SNELGRAVE, William. A new Account of some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave-Trade,London : 1734
First edition of Snelgrave's account of slavery and of the capture of his ship by pirates (pages 193-288. "The author, a slaving captain, traded at Whydah in 1727 and 1730; he complains that the Dahomean conquest has ruined the slave trade there." (Hogg). He makes several references to his trips to Antigua in connection with the slave trade. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 134659
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CAREY, Henry Charles. The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign:Philadelphia : 1853
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "To Signor Giulio with the respects of the author". Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879) was hailed by his contemporaries as "the political economist of the age" (Sartain's Magazine), and his earlier work, The Credit System (1838), was considered "the best work on the credit system that has ever... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 117176
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POSTLETHWAYT, Malachy. In Honour to the Administration. The Importance of the African Expedition considered: with Copies of the Memorials,London : 1758
First edition of a work promoting the Africa trade by Malachy Postlethwayt (1707-1767), writer and government publicist under Robert Walpole's administration, from 1743-46 a member of the Royal Africa Company, and compiler of the Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce. "The trade of Africa, as well to the French as the English, is the great foundation... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 121137
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BARING, Alexander. Speech in the House of Commons,London : 1823
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on behalf of the pro-slavery Committee of West Indian Merchants to the anti-abolitionist John Gladstone on the title page. The merchant and banker Alexander Baring (1773-1848), founder of the Baring Brothers bank and financier for the Louisiana purchase, was a noted opponent of the ending of slavery, influenced... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 129890
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LYTTELTON, George, Lord. The Works.London : 1776
Third and best octavo edition (with the index), first published in 1774 and gathering various political pieces, Lyttelton's "Letters from a Persian in England to his friend in Ispahan", his very popular Dialogues of the Dead, co-written with the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, a smattering of poems, and a collection of letters to his father Sir Thomas... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 116436
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THOMPSON, T. Perronet - JOHNSON, L. G. General T. Perronet Thompson. 1783-1869.1957
First edition. Thompson had a fascinating life. He was a middie with Gambier in the Isis, before transferring to the Army in 1806. He served in Whitelock's campaign to Buenos Aires, and in the latter stages of the Peninsular War saw "action against the French at Nivelles, Nive, Orthez, and Toulouse" (ODNB). A convinced abolitionist, from 1808 to 1810... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 63597
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PITT, William, the Younger. Autograph letter signed ("W Pitt") to William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland.Downing Street : 1787
Autograph letter signed to Pitt's close advisor William Eden, at the time at the height of his influence as envoy to France, in which Pitt attempts to gauge potential French support for the early Abolitionist movement spearheaded by his friend and political ally, William Wilberforce. "You have had a letter from my friend Wilberforce, on a scheme which... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 122705
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MELON, Jean François. Essai politique sur le commerce.[Paris : 1736
Third and best edition, the second authorised edition overall, of this important critique of John Law's système; a handsomely bound copy from the library of the Château de la Roche-Guyon. First published in three or four issues in Rouen in 1734, it was pirated in Amsterdam in 1735 before being published in its present form.
Jean Francois Melon... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 134999
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DEW, Thomas R. Essay on the Interest of Money, and the Policy of Laws against Usury.Shellbanks : 1834
First edition in book form, presentation copy, inscribed on the rear wrapper "From the Author to Wm Short". The recipient was the American ambassador William Short (1759-1849), who served as US Minister to France from June 1790 to May 1792, to the Netherlands from June to December 1792, and to Spain from 1794 to 1795; he was later a successful Kentucky... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 123171
