Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. [WELD, THEODORE DWIGHT.] Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States of North America; Being Replies to Questions Transmitted by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society. 280 pages. Tall 8vo, original glazed end-papers present with a presentation from "From Friends of England to Friends of the Monthly Meeting of New Bedford, 1848". London: Thomas Ward, 1841

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first and only edition with an intriguing presentation: "From Friends of England to Friends of the Monthly Meeting of New Bedford, 1848," suggesting that the bearer brought it to the 1848 meeting from England on behalf of Friends there. Prints questions and answers on slavery in the United States--following six years after British emancipation in the West Indies in 1834. "What is the number of slaves held in the different states of the American Union? From what states are slave exported for sale and what is the number from each state?" There are 34 such questions and several at the end are specific about Texas.