[Rarebooks] fa: EAST & WEST INDIAN SUGAR - DUTIES - SLAVES - JOSEPH MARRYAT 1823

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Joseph Marryat: A Reply to the Arguments Contained in Various Publications, Recommending Equalization of the Duties on East & West Indian Sugar. London: Printed for J.M. Richardson, 1823. FIRST EDITION. Recent heavy paper wraps; 8vo; [3]-111, [1] pp. Goldsmiths 23815; Kress C.1111. Bound without the half-title page; small deaccession stamps of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, on the verso of the title page ("Verwijderd Uit Bibl. I.I.S.G."), no other library marks; some toning to the leaves; otherwise clean and sound, firmly bound.

A pamphlet that presents the case against the equalization of duties on East and West Indian sugar, in part by endeavoring to prove that East India sugar was a slave-grown, not a free-grown, commodity. The author, Joseph Marryat (1757-1824), was a less than wholly unbiased observer; as well as being the head of mercantile and shipping concerns with lucrative interests in the West Indies, he was agent for Trinidad and Grenada, and an outspoken opponent of the abolition of the slave trade. A self-made paradigm of the rags-to-riches story, he dropped dead in his office a year after this pamphlet was published. He was the father of the novelist Captain Frederick Marryat.