[Rarebooks] FS: African-American History Owned by a Slave-owner

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $2000 NET

[AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY Owned by a Slave-owner]. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM: 
OR REPOSITORY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN FUGITIVE PIECES, &C PROSE AND 
POETICAL. Volume VI, July to December 1789. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 
1789. First Edition. Octavo (5" x 8-3/8") bound in contemporary sheep 
with gilt rules on the spine and a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine 
label; [iv], [5]-492, 46, [6] pages. Includes the July - December 1789 
issues of this, one of the most important miscellaneous magazines of the 
eighteenth century. This volume is dedicated to George Washington. 
Includes one text illustration of a black boy born without arms and 20 
articles on African Americans including William Stanhope Smith's "Essay 
of the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and figure in the human 
species" and Ben Franklin's "Address to the Public from the Pennsylvania 
Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free 
Negroes, unlawfully held in Bondage." An interesting insight into the 
mindset of 18th-century America as regards people of African descent. A 
46-page section at the end records the doings of the Continental 
Congress, followed by a six-page index. Other articles include an 
account of the Society of Drunkards in Pennsylvania; An account and 
illustration of the deformed African-American boy called Prince; Letter 
regarding the pre-European fortifications found in Kentucky and 
Muskingum; The benefits of exercise in preference to medicine; William 
Penn's description of Pennsylvania; Account of the effects of elecricity 
in paralytic cases by Benjamin Franklin; Experiments on the cultivation 
of the poppy plant and the method of procuring opium; Remarkable case of 
a belly musket ball wound in a seaman where his feces came out his 
belly; The discovery of Vinland/America by Icelanders in the 11th 
century; The impracticability of a north west passage; Whether poor 
people should receive an education or not; Oration in praise of 
drunkenness; A column on the horrid custom of eating human flesh in 
Sumatra; etc. SIGNED on the dedication page: "John Gladstone/1790 - 
Liverpool" with his Fasquel House bookplate on the front pastedown. A 
spectacular copy, Fine and fresh inside and out, with a fine association 
to boot.

John Gladstone's wealth was based on trade with Calcutta and later 
Virginia tobacco and American grain. He acquired large sugar plantations 
in Jamaica and British Guiana where he used slave labor. When the slave 
trade was abolished in the British Empire in 1833, he was active in 
obtaining compensation for slave owners. He himself received the modern 
equivalent of millions of dollars for the 2,508 slaves he owned across 
nine plantations. After the abolition of slavery, Gladstone used 
Indentured servants from India to work in slavery-like conditions in his 
sugar plantations. He he was the father of William Ewart Gladstone, 
Prime Minister under Queen Victoria, one of the most significant 
politicians of the 19th century. (#017254)        $2,500.00

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