THE ICONIC DIAGRAM
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CAREY, MATHEW.
“Plan of an African
Ship’s Lower Deck with Negroes in the Proportion of not quite one to ton . .”
Folded engraved plate of a slave’s ship’s hold, 5
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2
x 16
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inches (appearing in) The American
Museum. Two plates, including the latter. 628 pages. Thick 8vo, original calf-backed mar-
bled paper-covered boards; spine with raised bands and contrasting red and black labels;
edges moderately rubbed; a superior copy.
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1789
[5,000/7,500]
THE FIRST
A
MERICAN APPEARANCE OF THIS ICONIC SLAVE SHIP DIAGRAM
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A larger
scale version of this diagram would serve as the William Wilberforce and company’s presenta-
tion before Parliament in 1791, published the same year as the compilation “An Abstract of
the Evidence.” The diagram is accompanied by an article titled “Remarks on the Slave Trade”
by [Sir] W[illiam] Elford of the Plymouth Anti-Slavery Committee. This engraving was
issued separately as a broadside by Carey (see Shipton and Mooney, 21807). The ownership
stamp of W.C. Fowler appears on the title-page.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—
WEST INDIES.) PARLIAMENTARY
ENQUIRIES.
First Report of the
Commission of Inquiry into the
Administration of Criminal and Civil
Justice in the West Indies, Barbadoes,
Tobago, Grenada, (Dated the 16th
Day of May, 1825.)
310 pages. Folio,
calf-backed marbled paper-covered
boards; spine with five raised bands, gilt
rules with black morocco spine label, in
the style of the period. Old institutional
stamps with release.
London, 1825
[1,500/2,500]
A superbly detailed report on the structure of
the legal system in place in these colonies, with
explanations of the courts, forms of action and
remedies, crimes, punishments, police forces, slave
codes, manumission, reform measures, fees,
tables of cases, and tables listing names and
races of parties to the legal proceedings.
