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Additional authors

1. Ellerton & Henderson, printer.

Description

1. p. [149]-164; 21 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Series statement

1. Negro slavery ; no. 15

Uniform title

1. Negro slavery ; no. 15.

Alternative title

1. Negro slavery. No. XV

Subject

1. Slavery > Jamaica > Controversial literature
2. Slaves > Jamaica > Social conditions
3. De La Beche, Henry T (Henry Thomas), 1796-1855

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4G-N (Negro slavery)

Note

1. At head of caption title: Negro slavery. No. XV.
2. "An account ... written by H. T. De la Beche, Esq. ... the proprietor of a sugar estate in the parish of Clarendon, called Halse Hall where he resided during the whole of 1824."--p. [149].
3. Refers on p. 150 to "the second report of the Anti-Slavery Society, made on the 30th April 1825."
4. "Note to p. 153. Spanish law of manumission."--p. 162-164.
5. Text printed in two columns, with the exception of the "Note to p. 153. Spanish law of manumission."
6. Place of publication and printer statement from colophon, p. 164.
7. Signatures: Q⁸

Indexed in (note)

1. Ragatz, L.J. Guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834
2. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Title

1. A Planter's view of the condition of the Negroes in Jamaica in 1824.

Imprint

1. [London] : Ellerton and Henderson, printers, Gough Square, London, [1825?]

Series

1. Negro slavery ; no. 15
2. Negro slavery ; no. 15.

Indexed in:

1. Ragatz, L.J. Guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834, p. 447
2. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 8248

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.4G-N (accession no. B526634) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local note

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.4G-N bound with the full series of pamphlets (nos. 1-14, 16-17) in a volume with the spine title "Negro Slavery", and a typewritten list of the pamphlets bound at the front of the volume, with their reference page in Ragatz. NN

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Added author

1. Ellerton & Henderson, printer.
2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4G-N (Negro slavery)