LIST 63 SLAVERY & THE SLAVE TRADE

he found the slaves well treated and contented (Clark III, 441).
Sabin 341; Work p.283 (other ed.).
5 ALEXANDER, James Edward. Transatlantic
sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting
scenes in North and South America, and the West
Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian
emigration. London, Richard Bentley, 1833.
2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with green and
red morocco labels on spines. With two etched
frontispieces, etched map and 8 etched plates by W.
Heath. XXIII,384; XIII,320 pp. € 975,00
First edition. - 'The author, a well-to-do unattached military officer, went to the new
world in 1831. He visited the Guiana coast, the West India islands (Barbados,
Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincent, Jamaica, Cuba), the Mississippi valley and
that of the St. Lawrence and the eastern part of the United States. His account ..
consists of brief descriptions and keen observations on local life and society. .. The
author opposes sudden emancipation and holds that the planters had not been given
fair hearings. Supports them as against the abolitionists in a temperate, reasonable
manner, an entire chapter being devoted to their defence' (Ragatz p.215).. - (Names
cut from printed title-pages).
Sabin 735; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 801; Clark III,3.
6 ALLARD, Paul. Esclaves, serfs et mainmortables.
Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée. Bruxelles, Alfred
Vromant & Cie, Paris, Sanard & Derangeon, 1894. Original
half cloth (spine dam.). 296 pp. - (Stamp on title-page).
€ 30,00
7 ALLEN, James Lane. The blue-grass region of
Kentucky and other Kentucky articles. New York,
Macmillan Comp., 1900. € 35,00
Original decorated cloth, top edge gilt. With 16 plates.
301 pp. - Including a chapter: Uncle Tom at home.