Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) STEDMAN, JAMES GABRIEL. Curious Adventures of Captain Stedman, during An Expedition to Surinam, in 1773, including the Struggles of the Negroes and the Barbarities of the Planters, Dreadful Executions, the Manner of Selling Slaves . . . Large engraved folding frontispiece. 12mo, 28 pages, disbound; caption on the plate cropped closely obscuring a few words (understandable in context). London: Tegg, circa 1808-10
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An anti-slavery chapbook, with an exceptionally graphic engraving of a slave being whipped by two other slaves. While many of the chapbooks of this period were loosely based on real events, this little reduction of the two volume Stedman "Narrative" is quite faithful to Stedman's Narrative and his description of the cruelties of the Surinam slave plantation owners.