[Rarebooks] Slavery in Jamaica

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

[SLAVERY AND THE ROAD TO ABOLITION].  The Slave Law of Jamaica,
With Proceedings and Documents Relative Thereto.  James Ridgway,
169, Piccadilly, London, 1828.  Modern 1/4 calf over marbled
boards, lightly rubbed, else a very good, clean copy. PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=76195
                                                         $ 750.00

An extensive documentary record of slavery in Jamaica leading up
to emancipation in 1838, centered on the 1816 slave code and the
initially disallowed 1826 code (ultimately accepted in 1831),
achieving "the greatest of the [abolitionists'] conquests".

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