SLAVE SHIPS AND SLAVING With an Introduction by Capt. Ernest H. Pentecost, R.N.R.

Dow George Francis

Published by Salem, MA. Marine Research Society 1927

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First Edition, LIMITED ISSUE, ONE OF 97 COPIES ON SPECIAL PAPER OF WHICH ONLY 87 WERE OFFERED FOR SALE, and Marine Research Society publication fifteen. Illustrated with 50 black and white plates from numerous contemporary sources. 4to, publisher's original black cloth ruled and lettered in gilt on the spines, the covers of fine marbled paper over boards, t.e.g., in the scarce original slipcases. A very handsome and well preserved copy of this important publication, the text-block very fine indeed, the black spine cloth just very slightly mellowed as is typical, very mild rubbing to the extremities of the boards, the slipcase with just a few little rubs too and still uncommonly fresh. FIRST EDITION, NUMBERED AND LIMITED ISSUE OF THE DEFINITIVE TEXT ON THE SUBJECT BY A LEADING ANTIQUARIAN FOR THE FAMED MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY OF THE PEABODY MUSEUM. "The long, grim story of the slave trade is a tragic historical narrative. This darkest and most heartless era in African-American history saw millions of Africans kidnapped and sold into bondage in the West Indies, the American colonies, and later, the United States. This history is recalled firsthand in this extraordinary shocking collection of commentaries by ships' doctors and captains as well as written testimonies for a parliamentary committee investigating the slave trade. Accounts vary from sympathetic to indifferent as the narrators relate horrifying events and conditions of extreme cruelty." - Editorial review, Dover reprint. Seller Inventory # 31986

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Title: SLAVE SHIPS AND SLAVING With an Introduction...

Publisher: Salem, MA. Marine Research Society 1927

Binding: Hardcover