Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

4 c   (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Beaufoy, Henry. The Speech . . . on a Bill for Regulating the Conveyance of Negroes from Africa to the West-Indies. [4], 37 pages. Small 8vo, later cloth-backed boards, minor soiling; minimal wear and foxing to contents. London: J. Phillips, 1789 [400/600] The arguments of a British Minister of Parliament against the slave trade. Beaufoy cites detailed statistics on the cramped conditions aboard slave vessels similar to those presented by Thomas Clarkson and the plan of the slave ship Brooks, which was first engraved nine months after Beaufoy’s June 1788 speech. Includes “Observations on the Evidence . . . Respecting theTranspotation of African Slaves,” with a separate title page but continuous pagination.Afro-Americana 995; Sabin 4166. 5 c   (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Coughtry, Jay. The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807. xiii, 361 pages. 8vo, publisher’s cloth-backed boards, minimal wear; internally clean, with dust jacket. Philadelphia:Temple University, [1981] [200/300] An important work, long out of print. Contains a useful appendix of all known slaving voyages out of Rhode Island. Blockson 9804. 6    (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Bibb, Henry. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of . . . an American Slave, Written by Himself. Numerous text illustrations. [2], 204, [3] pages, 12mo, publisher’s pictorial gilt cloth, minor wear; moderate foxing; pencil inscriptions on endpapers. NewYork: Published by the author, 1849 [5,000/7,500] first edition . HenryWalton Bibb (1815-1854) lived under slavery in Kentucky until escaping in 1842 to Detroit.There he became a successful abolitionist author and lecturer, moving to Canada in 1850 to avoid the effects of the Fugitive Slave Law.This popular narrative of his slavery and escape begins “I was brought up in the Counties of Shelby, Henry, Oldham, and Trimble. Or, more correctly speaking . . . I was flogged up.”He offers an eloquent account of tyrannical masters and mistresses, multiple escapes and beatings, and his separation from his wife and daughter.With an introduction by abolitionist Lucius Matlack.Afro-Americana 1152; Sabin 46866n;Work, page 311. 6 LIVES UNDER SLAVERY: LOTS 6 - 18