2024-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/13/2024
Abstract of Evidence on the Abolition of Slave Trade, 1855, Cincinnati, by T. B. Mason, 118-pages. This an 1855 printing of the 1791 original of the Evidenced delivered before the House of Commons. The preface provides testimony of slave trade and laws regarding the slave trade. Of course present is the Slave Deck Plan of the slaver Brookes. Brookes was reportedly allowed to stow 454 African slaves, by allowing a space of 6 feet by 1 foot 4 inches to each man, 5 feet 10 inches by 1 foot 4 inches to each woman, and 5 feet by 1 foot 2 inches to each child.
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