[LESCALLIER (Daniel)]. Reflections on the plight of blacks i - Lot 585

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[LESCALLIER (Daniel)]. Reflections on the plight of blacks i - Lot 585
[LESCALLIER (Daniel)]. Reflections on the plight of blacks in our colonies. S.l.n., 1789. In-8, paperback, untrimmed, blue cover printed from At the time, tawny half-calf shirt and case (Patrice Goy). Original edition. VERY RARE AND EXCITING PLEA ON THE NEED FOR A TO ABOLISH SLAVERY, which the author presents as an institution vicious & unjust, and the slave trade, considered by him to be a even more reprehensible barbarity. Daniel Lescallier (1743-1822) was a colonial administrator at Santo Domingo, Grenada and Guyana. He proposes here an abolition progressive, but fiercely proscribing trafficking, and presents a variety of means of retaining possession of the colonies and the properties of the settlers, while trying to bring about the softening of the plight of the Negroes. The book ends with a Letter to Mr. Deputies of the Nation, through which the author launches a vibrant appeal: O! you, the elite of the most beautiful Nation & the most generous [...] deign to occupy yourselves a moment of the fate of 500 thousand farmers who are among the subjects of this vast empire, who by their work provide you with food and drink. pleasant & useful, which provide considerable resources to the Trade & National activity [...] (p. 69). Copy as published, stapled and untrimmed, with its cover bluish printed. Small traces of wine-coloured mould on the last four leaves. Small lack of paper on the cover.
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