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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—GREAT BRITAIN.) [PERSIA].
British gov-
ernment manumission certificate.
Folio leaf with the British flag and royal sigil;
Persian (Arabic script) on one side and English on the other; creased and a few wrinkles,
but otherwise quite fresh.
Tehran, circa 1929
[300/400]
Aware that slavery was rampant amongst the wealthy in Persia, the British government put pressure
on the Persian government to put an end to the slave trade. The Shah ordered the Majlis (parliament)
to act and offered freedom ipso facto to anyone who came onto Persian land or coastal waters, but the
British to distributed documents like this to be filled out and presented at the British Embassy.
Slavery continues to this day in parts of the Middle East as well as West Africa, on the cocoa planta-
tions where hundreds of children are enslaved for life because of family debt.
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(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
[500/750]
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 pep-
per into the eyes of other female slaves. The
point, arrived at in a rather roundabout fash-
ion: “If the people of England cannot get rid of
such an abuse as being taxed to support slav-
ery, what chance have they of getting rid of any
other?” Cohn 750.