(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Drake Richard Revelations of a Slave

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Drake, Richard. Revelations of a Slave Smuggler: Being the Autobiography of . . . an African Trader for Fifty Years. 3 folding plates. xi, [2], 10-100 pages. 8vo, original illustrated wrappers, minor wear and foxing; minor foxing to contents, short tape repair to frontispiece; uncut. New York: Robert M. De Witt, [1860]

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Probable second edition with additional leaf of statistical information. A fictionalized saga of the illegal slave trade. The frontispiece plate is a 16 1/2 x 22-inch engraving of the popular 1835 painting by François-Auguste Biard, here titled "Slave Market Scene on the Kambia River, Coast of Africa." Other plates are titled "Scene in the Hold of the Blood-Stained Gloria (Middle Passage)" and an adaptation of the plan of the slave ship Brookes. The inside rear wrapper has an illustrated advertisement for a new edition of "the Life, Trial and Execution of Capt. John Brown." Howes D474; Sabin 20865 (both for first edition of 98 pages); Wright, American Fiction 792.