[ABOLITION] 21 Issues Anti-Slavery Reporter 1829-1830

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• Lot Description

  Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. Sammelband of 21 issues. No. 44-59 and 61-63. London: Bagster & Thomas, January 1829-April 1830 and June-July 1830.  

   

  8vo. Contemporary one-quarter calf with marbled boards, smooth spine gilt letters. 

   

  A collection of issues of the important abolitionist periodical The Anti-Slavery Reporter from the critical period shortly before the Slavery Abolition Act was passed in 1833. 

   

  The present volume appears to have belonged to the prominent slaveowner Thomas Deane, who likely received the issues monthly and had them bound later. Thomas Deane was from a prominent Bristol family with sugar refinery interests in the Caribbean, one of the trades most heavily dependent on enslavement. Perhaps he subscribed to keep informed about potential threats to his business model. 

   

  Having already achieved the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in 1807, the primary focus of British abolitionists in this period was the abolition of slavery in the colonies. Much of the content of these issues concerns slavery in Mauritius, Jamaica, Haiti, the Bahamas, and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Reporting also includes articles on the "Civil Rights of Free Black and Coloured in Habitants of our Colonies" (June 1829), global anti-slavery conventions and meetings, and an extensive account of the General Meeting of the Society with remarks by William Wilberforce (June 1830). 

   

  A fine compilation of issues. 

   

  Complete List: 

  1. No. 44; Vol. II, No. 20, January 1829. 24 pp. 

  2. No. 45; Vol. II, No. 21, February 1829. 20 pp. 

  3. No. 46; Vol. II, No. 22, March 1829. 12 pp. 

  4. No. 47; Vol. II, No. 23, April 1829. 24 pp.

  5. No. 48; Vol. II, No. 24, May 1829. 18 pp.

  6. No. 49; Vol. III, No. 1, June 1829. 16 pp.

  7. No. 50; Vol. III, No. 2, July 1829. 16 pp.

  8. No. 51; Vol. III, No. 3, August 1829. 20 pp. 

  9. No. 52; Vol. III, No. 4, September 1829. 28 pp.

  10. No. 53; Vol. III, No. 5. October 1829. 16 pp.  

  11. Supplement to the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter, for October, 1829, No. 53. 38 pp.

  12. No. 54; Vol. III, No.6, November 1829. 12 pp. 

  13. No. 55; Vol. III, No. 7, December 1829. 20 pp. 

  14. No. 56; Vol. III, No. 8, January 1830. 8 pp. 

  15. No. 57; Vol. III, No. 9, February 1830. 8.pp. 

  16. No. 58; Vol. III, No. 10, March 1830. 28 pp.

  17. No. 59; Vol. III, No. 11, April 1830. 32 pp. 

  [No ISSUE 60]

  18. No. 61; Vol. III, No. 13, June 1830. 40 pp.

  19. Supplement to the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter, No. 61, For June 1830. 16 pp.

  20. No. 62; Vol. III, No. 14, July 1830. 16 pp.

  21. No. 63; Vol. III, No. 15, July 1830 [sic - back-to-back issues of July 1830]. 15 pp.  

   

  [African Americana, African American History, Black History, Slavery, Enslavement, Abolition, Emancipation] [Pamphlets, Publications, Ephemera, Books, Rare Books, Tracts]

  Condition

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  Tear and losses to pp.481/482 in issue 48.

  Lacking No. 60

• Provenance

  Thomas Deane (ownership inscription to Nos. 44-45, 48, 55-56, 58-59, & 61-63). 

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