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

53 c   (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Ducôte, Alfred; engraver. An Emancipated Negro. Lithograph, 14 x 10 1 / 2 inches; minor foxing, mount remnants at corners on recto. [London]: Thomas McLean, 1833 [500/750] This print was issued as part of the debate over the United Kingdom’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, which ended slavery throughout the British empire. It depicts an emaciated man desperately hunting an insect, exclaiming “Food!!!” Supporters of slavery would sometimes pretend to show concern that freed slaves would face starvation. The Victoria & Albert Museum credits the original artist as famed caricaturist George Cruikshank, though his name does not appear in the print. 53 52 c   (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) A Very New Pamphlet Indeed, being the Truth Addressed to the People at Large . . . Respecting the Slave Trade. 15 pages. 12mo, later cloth-backed boards, minor soiling; minimal wear and foxing to contents. London, 1792 [400/600] An anonymous hostile reply toWilliamWilberforce and other British abolitionists, dismissing their evidence of the extreme cruelty of the slave trade before the House of Lords in 1791. It twice mocks abolitionists as “the Old Jewry Society” (pages 4 and 8), and accuses them of using their cause to install a republican government in England.This pro-slavery pamphlet was circulated enough to merit a response from the famous radical Thomas Paine.Afro-Americana 10765; Ragatz, page 469; Sabin 99320. PRO-SLAVERYVOICES: LOTS 52 - 57