The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. The Forms of Slavery that Prevailed in Ancient Nations, Particularly in Greece and Rome. The African Slave Trade and the Political History of Slavery in the United States.

William O. Blake

H. Miller, Columbus, O., 1859

[An important early history of American Slavery by an Abolitionist Writer] xvi [17]-832 pages, frontispiece, numerous plates, 25 cm.  Bound in publisher's worn, embossed, black leather. Tear down spine hinge. Marbled edges and end pages. Toning, spotting throughout.  Sabin 5800.  Sold with all faults. Blake describes the history of slavery in antiquity and the British isles, and focuses on American slavery, Constitution, the annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, the Missouri Compromise, and Troubles in Kansas, etc.  Includes an infamous image of the "Decks of a slave ship," showing the human cargo lined in a hold.