Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 336

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(HAITI.) [ANON.] A Particular Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo, Begun in August, 1791, translated from the French. The Fourth Edition, With Notes and an Appendix extracted from Original Papers. 32 pages, modern plain blue wrappers; paper evenly toned. London, 1792

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the fourth edition with additions. Basically a polemic intended to frighten the British public and turn them away from the abolitionists, Wilberforce and Clarkson who were trying to put and end to slavery in the British colonies in the West Indies. Sabin, 58932; Work, 349.