Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Group of 29 government documents dealing with slavery. 8vo, disbound; condition generally fine; two from the library of Henry Dilworth Gilpin, U.S. Attorney General under Martin Van Buren who handled the Amistad case. Washington, 1828-50 and 1867

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Spanish Slave Ship Fenix. 21st Congress, 2nd Session, House Ex. Doc. 54. 1831 Message of the President . . . in Relation to the Abuse of the Flag of the United States in Subservience to the African Slave Trade. 28th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. Deals with American ships seizing slaves from Portuguese ships with the intent to free them. 1844 Free Colored Seamen: Majority and Minority Reports. 27th Congress, 3rd Session, House Ex. Doc. 80. 1843. Report of South Carolina's seizure of free blacks and its law requiring containment of all free black seamen while in South Carolina ports Colonization Society. Memorial . . . for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States. 20th Congress, 1st Session, House Ex. Doc. 99. With extensive information on the conditions in Liberia. 1828 Africans Taken in the Amistad. Message from the President. 26th Congress, House Ex. Doc. 185. 1840 and many others.