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

40 c   (SLAVERYANDABOLITION.) Pease, Joseph. A Hand-Bill Addressed to the Mem- bers of the Anti-Slavery Convention. Letterpress broadside, 15 1 / 4 x 9 inches to sight, with address panel, cancelled stamp, and printed docketing on verso; two small early paper repairs, folds. Not examined outside of double-sided frame. [London]: W.H. Cox, 17 June 1843 [500/750] A circular letter denouncing the English anti-slavery convention for their lack of results: “What have you done? Nothing; except making the simple declaration that you can do nothing.” Pease promises that the following Monday, several Members of Parliament would address the convention with “the remedy for annihilating Slavery and the Slave Trade.” A new letter from the venerable Thomas Clarkson was also promised. Pease concludes with a review of the history of abolitionism, which had by that point resulted only in a large increase in the number of enslaved people in the Americas, and suggests that economic subsidies for West Indian planters were the root of the evil. The letter is headed “Ewart, Villiers, Brotherton, Hindley,” the names of some of Pease’s allies in Parliament. 2 examples in OCLC, and none others known at auction. 41 c   (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Armistead,Wilson. A Tribute for the Negro, being a Vindication of the . . . Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind. 12 plates. xxxv, 564 pages plus [4] pages of publisher’s advertisements. 8vo, publisher’s deluxe gilt pictorial morocco featuring the “Am I Not a Man and a Brother” image on the front board, rubbed at extremities; hinge split after page xii; early bookplate and 1860 inscription on front endpapers. Manchester:William Irwin, 1848 [2,000/3,000] first edition , one of an unspecified limited issue, in full morocco with two additional plates.Wilson Armistead (1819-1868) was a Quaker merchant from Leeds who devoted much of his energies and profits to the anti-slavery movement.TheTribute showed the abilities and humanity of the African race by combining excerpts from works by people of African descent with short biographical sketches. Included are Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Ignacio Sancho, James Pennington, Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Paul Cuffe,WilliamWells Brown, and dozens more. Illustrations include an example of Toussaint Louver- ture’s handwriting, a portrait of the young Frederick Douglass, and a portrait of Cinque, leader of the Amistad captives.Afro-Americana 655; Sabin 2007;Work, page 570. 41 40