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Avenia: or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and Infringement on the Rights of Man . . . Written in Imitation of Homer's Iliad. THOMAS BRANAGAN.

Avenia: or, A Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and Infringement on the Rights of Man . . . Written in Imitation of Homer's Iliad.

Philadelphia: Printed for Silas Engles; New York: Samuel Wood, 1808. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Stoddard & Whitesell 772; American Bibliography 8076; Sabin 7375. A long narrative poem set in Africa and Grenada depicting the horrors of the slave trade, which Thomas Branagan (1774-1843) had witnessed first hand on slave... More

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An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts . . . on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts . . . on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies.

Boston: James Munroe, 1844. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Myerson A17.1.a; BAL 5199. Emerson's famous condemnation of slavery in the United States and commemoration of the West Indian emancipation. From the library of Walter Wallace, with his bookplate on the front paste-down. More

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The Algerine Captive; or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner Among the Algerines. ROYALL TYLER.

The Algerine Captive; or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner Among the Algerines.

Hartford: Printed by Peter E. Gleason, 1816. Edition: Second American edition; the first was published in Walpole, New Hampshire in 1797. Bibliographical References: BAL 20738; Wright I, 2629; American Bibliography 39136. ¶ An interesting novel by playwright, poet and jurist Royall Tyler (1757-1826), the story of American physician Updike Underhill... More

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