Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 138
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--JUVENILE.) SADLER, S.W. The Slave Dealer of the Coanza, a Naval Story. Chromolithographic frontispiece.127 pages, plus two pages of advertisements. 12mo, original brown cloth blocked in black with the title in gilt on the upper cover and spine. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1874]

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A boy's tale, based on innumerable real-life instances of slavers continuing the trade long after the 1807 ban, and after emancipation in the West Indies.