(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) CRUIKSHANK GEORGE Slavery in the Wes

Sale 2408 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 562

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. Slavery in the West Indies. Woodcut illustration of a kneeling woman being beaten by a slave owner. 8 pages, small 8vo. Original self-wrappers; removed from a larger volume; paper lightly and evenly toned. London, 1830

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first separate issue, originally appearing in the pages of the Westminster Review, Number 22 for 1 January 1830, written by Robert Howard, with a postscript. A political chapbook, railing on about allocation of money for the relief of West Indian proprietors, while reporting on the trial of one Esther Hubner, a slave owner for having beaten a slave woman to death, with accounts of her having rubbed pepper into the eyes of other female slaves. The point, arrived at in a rather roundabout fashion: "If the people of England cannot get rid of such an abuse as being taxed to support slavery, what chance have they of getting rid of any other?" Cohn 750.