Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BRITISH GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.) Group of nine Parliamentary papers dealing with slaves in the West Indies, and other British Colonies. In all, nearly one thousand pages of reports on the slave population in the West Indies, which at this time numbered nearly a half million. Uniform, tall folio, original self-wrappers, removed from larger volumes; condition varies but generally very good. should be seen. London, 1826-32

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Slaves in Demerara. 2nd June 1829 Sierra Leone Captured Slaves, 1808 Protectors of Slaves Reports, Demerara, Berbice, Trinidad, St.Lucia and the Cape of Good Hope, 12 June, 1829 (2 copies) Slave Population, each of His Majesty's Colonies, 18 July, 1828 Second Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry into the Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice in the West Indies, St. Vincent and Domenica, 18 April 1826 Papers Presented to Parliament by his Majesty's Command . . . for the Melioration of the Condition of the Slave Population in His Majesty's Possessions in the West Indies and on the Continent of South America. Part I, 1827 Papers Presented to Parliament, By his Majesty's Command . . . for the Melioration of the Condition of the Slave Population in His Majesty's Possessions in the West Indies and on the Continent of South America. 1832 Returns from all His Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies and the Isle of France, and the Cape of Good Hope, viz. The Number of Slaves Imported etc.