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SPRINGER, Norman. Het bloedschip. Bussum, C. de Boer Jr., (1971). Wrappers. 206 pp. Novel on the 'Golden Bough', with captain and slave-driver Black Yankee Swope. [Boeknr.: 27303 ]

€ 15,00

SPRUIT, Ruud. Zout en slaven. De geschiedenis van de Westindische Compagnie. (Houten, De Haan, 1988). Wrappers. With many illustrations. 143 pp. [Boeknr.: 6608 ]

€ 15,00

St. CLAIR, Thomas Staunton. A residence in the West Indies and America, with a narrative of the expedition to the island of Walcheren. London, Richard Bentley, 1834.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title-labels to spines. With 5 woodengravings and 6 aquatint plates. XIV,(1),395; XII,382 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of H.M. McCance. - 'The author, of Scotch descent, had been born at Gibraltar while his father, a British officer, had been stationed there. His brothers and he also entered service and, in 1805 he was ordered to Demerara, where he held a command for some three years. Contains interesting accounts of his life and peoples there, but nothing whatever regarding the West Indies proper excepting a few pages on Barbados, to which he was invalided for a short time, and several on St. Kitts, where a brother was stationed, both points of call on his return to Scotland in 1808. Gives a secondhand version of the spectacular British attack on Martinique in 1808, at which time one brother was killed' (Ragatz p.234). Dealing with Indians, slaves, Dutch settlements, etc. in Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo and visit to Walcheren in The Netherlands. With pictures of: a runaway negro, Canoe and Arrawaka Indians, Indian village on the Corantine, view on the Demerara River, etc. - (Some pencil annotations). - Scarce.Sabin 75025; Abbey, Travel, 679; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 814. [Boeknr.: 30912 ]

€ 850,00

St. JOHN, Spenser. Hayti or the Black Republic. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1884.Original decorated green cloth. With folding map. XIV,343 pp. First edition. - St. John wrote this account of Haiti after spending several years there as a chargé d'affaires and later, resident minister. Included are chapters on population, voodoo worship and cannibalism, and a general description of the country and its history. The book caused outrage because of its sensational tales of vodoo and cannibalism and is described as 'a savagely hostile account' in O.D.N.B.Cundall 507; Afro-Americana 9066. [Boeknr.: 36744 ]

€ 225,00

STANLEY, Henry Morton. Mijne zwarte metgezellen en hunne zonderlinge verhalen. Naar het Engelsch door Johs. Dyserinck. Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes, 1894.Original pictorial brown cloth (rubbed). With illustrations by Walter Buckley. (12),367 pp. First published in London in 1893: My dark companions and their strange stories. - Entertaining collection of legends as told to Stanley by Central African tribes-people. [Boeknr.: 31719 ]

€ 65,00

STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam (in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America. From the year 1772 to the year 1777). Transcribed for the first time from the original 1790 manuscript. Edited, and with an introduction and notes, by Richard Price & Sally. Price. Baltimore & London, Johns Hopkins Univiversity Press, (1988). 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations and plates. XCVII,708 pp. The present edition is based on Stedman's personal copy of the 1790 manuscript rather than on the heaily edited first published edition of 1796. [Boeknr.: 28894 ]

€ 65,00

STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Narrative, of a five years' expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, and roots, with an account of the Indians of Guiana and negroes of Guiana. 2nd edition corrected. London, J. Johnson and Th. Payne, 1813.2 volumes. 4to. Old tree calf (skilfully rebacked), with red and green title labels to spines. With aquatint frontispiece, engraved vignettes on both titles, 3 folding maps and 77 aquatint plates (including a large folding view of Paramaribo) after designs by the author by William Blake, Bartolozzi, Holloway a.o, all finely later coloured by hand. XVIII, 423, (5); IV, 419, (5) pp. First published in London in 1796, this is a reissue of the second edition of 1806; with armorial bookplate of Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet (1755-1838) and a British banker and politician. The book has gone through more than twenty editions in six languages; it shows the impact made at the time by Stedman's Narrative of his experiences in Guiana. - Captain John Gabriel Stedman, an officer in the Scots Brigade in Holland, volunteered for service against the negroes in Dutch Guiana. While out there he to all intents married the subject of plate 8, Joanna, a Mulatto, and had a son by her, who became a midshipsman in the British Navy, but died young. 'While he did his duty as a soldier .. he does not disguise his sympathy with the rebels .. His description of the cruelties practised on the negroes, and of the moral deterioration resulting to their masters, forms one of the most vivid indictments of slavery that have ever been penned' (DNB). The engravings show the habitations of both the natives and the Europeans, local flora and fauna, ships, forts, tools, battle plans, and map of the erea. Thanks to his diary we know a lot about everyday life in 18th century Suriname. 'Without a doubt, the Narrative is the most important account of plantation society in the New World. We learn about the way the colonists interacted with each other and how slaves were treated. This book, together with Voltaire's Candide, among others, created the idea that the treatment of slaves in Suriname was more inhumane than that in surrounding countries. In Stedman we read and see for the first time how gruesome the punishments sometimes meted out to slaves were' (Carl Haarnack, Buku Bibliotheca Surinamica).- Occasionally some staining, otherwise a fine later coloured copy.Sabin 91075; Work p.350; Abbey, Travel, 719; Cox II, p.285; Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 6452. [Boeknr.: 37828 ]

€ 8750,00

STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Poste de Magdenberg sur la Tempaty-crique. (Paris, 1798). Engraving by Tardieu l'ainé. Ca. 7,5 x 13 cm. From: Stedman, Voyage à Surinam. - Sugar plantation Maagdenberg near the Commewijne. [Boeknr.: 17749 ]

€ 35,00

STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Vue de la rade et de la ville de Paramaribo. (Paris, 1798).Engraved panoramic view of Paramaribo with a large Dutch vessel in the foreground, by Tardieu l'ainé. Ca. 16 x 41,5 cm. From the French edition of John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam. - Fine decorative view of Paramaribo with ships in the roadstead. [Boeknr.: 14147 ]

€ 375,00

STERLING, Dorothy. Ahead of her time. Abby Kelly and the politics of anti-slavery. (New York, W.W. Norton & Comp., 1991). Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With plates. 436 pp. Abby Kelley Foster (1811 - 1887) was an American abolitionist and radical social reformer active from the 1830s to 1870s. She became a fundraiser, lecturer and committee organizer for the influential American Anti-Slavery Society. [Boeknr.: 29322 ]

€ 20,00

SUGAR PLANTATION, WEST INDIES. A VISIT TO THE WEST INDIES - THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR. London, 1876.9 woodengravings on 3 leaves (each ca. 31 x 22,5 cm). From: The Graphic. An illustrated weekly Newspaper. - Depicting: Tree and chapel of Christopher Columbus, Havana. The manufacture of sugar: Cutting the cane, Carting home the cane, Water cart and plantation well, Putting cane on conductor, Grinding the cane, Boiling and testing the juice, Night patrol going round the plantations, In the purging house-cutting and crushing the sugar, In the boiler room - feeding the fires with 'bagazo'. [Boeknr.: 30979 ]

€ 95,00

TABACCO PLANTATION. Tabak. Leipzig, Otto Wachsmuth, (ca. 1895).Chromo-lithographed plate. Ca. 64 x 87 cm. Goering-Schmidt. Ausländische Kulturpflanzen. - Schoolplate depicting a large view of a tobacco plantation with black workers and white masters and on the left side parts of a a tobacco plant. In the background a harbour view with sailing ship.- (With paper sticker of Retel's Bureau voor Schoolinstallatie, Rijswijk, pasted on the name of the publisher). - Very decorative plate. [Boeknr.: 35857 ]

€ 150,00

TANG, Dirk J. Met Hollandse bedaardheid. Hoe Nederland tussen 1800 en 1873 slavernij in de koloniën afschafte. Zuthphen, Walburg Pers, 2021. Wrappers. With plates. 189 pp. 'The first brave Dutch people who, from the early nineteenth century, campaigned for the abolition of slavery and the slowness with which the government finally responded to the call'. [Boeknr.: 36495 ]

€ 15,00

TANG, Dirk J. Slavernij. Een geschiedenis. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2013. Pictorial boards. With many coloured illustrations. 237 pp. [Boeknr.: 33090 ]

€ 35,00

TEN LITTLE NIGGERS. 10 kleine nikkertjes.. (No pl., ca. 1940).Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial boards. With 10 folding coloured plates, with four-line rhyming texts within decorative border. Ten Little Niggers is an American children's song from 1868. The song is a countdown rhyme in which a company of ten little black people becomes smaller with each verse. It was originally released in 1868 as Ten Little Injuns, starring Native Americans, and was released a year later as Ten Little Niggers. The song was performed in popular minstrel shows in America. The song was released as a children's picture book alongside sheet music. The book spread to many European countries via England and Germany. The oldest known Dutch edition is Tien kleine nikkertjes from 1877. - Scarce.Jeroen Kapelle & Dirk Tang, Zwart, p.44-47. [Boeknr.: 37807 ]

€ 325,00

THOMAS, Hugh. The slave trade. The history of the Atlantic slave trade: 1440-1870. (London, Picador, 1997). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With plates. 925 pp. - A comprehensive study. [Boeknr.: 33087 ]

€ 30,00

THOMAS, Hugh. The slave trade. The history of the Atlantic slave trade: 1440-1870. (London, Papermac, 1997). Wrappers. With plates. 925 pp. - A comprehensive study. [Boeknr.: 32121 ]

€ 20,00

TUNISIA. COMPAGNIE TUNISIENNE FONCIÈRE, AGRICOLE & INDUSTRIELLE. Paris, Jacques Bélon, (ca. 1890).Share with decorated border and nice view of a plantation, with all 30 coupons attached. Ca. 30 x 40,5 cm. Signed by two administrateurs. The plantation includes ca. 20,000 hectares of estates, in Tunisia, of which mostly suitable for growing vines. [Boeknr.: 31067 ]

€ 45,00

UZARSKI, Adolf. Die Geschichte von den 10 kleinen Negerbuben in heiteren Reimen und vielen bunten. Mainz, Jos. Scholz, (1925).Sm. 4to. Original pictorial boards. Leporello with 15 coloured plates. Scholz' Ku�nstler-Bilderbu�cher: "Klipp-Klapp"-Kettenbu�cher. - Adolf Uzarski (1885 - 1970) was a German writer, artist, and illustrator associated with the New Objectivity movement. His art was caricatural in style and sharply satirical of bourgeois society. In 1942, condemned as a degenerate artist by the Nazis, he was forbidden to paint. He was described as one of the 'few convincing examples of expressionist art in children's literature' (Halbey). - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 37806 ]

€ 325,00

VELTKAMP, Joannes. Het journaal van Joannes Veltkamp (1759-1764). Een scheepschirurgijn in dienst van de admiraliteit van Amsterdam. Tekst en hertaling Rosanne Baars. Zwolle, WBooks, 2014. 4to. Boards. With many coloured illustrations. 159 pp. Jaarboek Vereeniging Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum. - The ship surgeon Joannes Veltkamp (1733-1818) from Zwolle made four trips to the Mediterranean and the Caribbean between 1759 and 1764. Veltkamp made some extremely rare drawings of working Christian slaves in Algiers, a sugar cane plantation on St. Eustatius and the keelhauling of a crew member. This is the first integral edition of Joannes Veltkamp's travelogue. [Boeknr.: 33637 ]

€ 25,00

VERBURG, Go. Ibubesi het kaffertje. Nijkerk, G.F. Callenbach, (1958).Original pictorial boards. With illustrations by Corrie van der Baan. 94 pp. First edition. - Goris (Go) Verburg (1920 - 1965) was a Dutch author of children's novels and novels for adults. As a journalist he made many trips to the then colonial states. The storyline and word choice of many novels can be called problematic from a later, modern perspective. [Boeknr.: 37809 ]

€ 18,00

VERITÉ, Marcelle. De zwarte knaap en de tovenaar. Vrij vertaald door Jan Vercammen. Brussel, Amsterdam, De Kinkhoren, Desclée de Brouwer, 1948.4to. Original boards with pictorial dust-jacket. With illustrations by Elisabeth Ivanovsky. (26) pp. First edition published in Bruges in 1948: Conte noir pour enfant blanc. - Children's book: The black guy and the magician. The influence of Russian illustrations in Flanders was partly due to the Russian Elisabeth Ivanovsky, who worked in Belgium, and drew many beautiful books (Jeroen Kapelle & Dirk Tang, Zwart, p. 77). - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 37805 ]

€ 75,00

VOORDUIN, G.W.C & J.E. van HEEMSKERCK VAN BEEST. West-Indië. Suriname. Plantages Jagtlust en Suzanna's Daal. Amsterdam, Frans Buffa en Zonen, (ca. 1860).Chromolithographed plate by J.E. van Heemskerck van Beest. Ca. 38 x 48,5 cm. From: Gezigten uit Neerland's West-Indien. - The sugar mill at Suzanna's Daal is powered by a steam engine. Interestingly, Voorduin mentions that Portuguese emigrants from Madera were hired on this plantation. They lived separately from the slave population who also worked on the plantation. The large coffee shed falls on the Jagtlust coffee plantation (Carl Haarnack, Buku Bibliotheca Surinamica). The views are drawn by Gerard Wernard Catharinus Voorduin (1830-1910), a Dutch lieutenant-commander, who spent six years in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles and lithographed by the Dutch sea-officer and artist Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest (1828-1894). ' A splendid series of large scale finely coloured views' (Landwehr, Coloured plates, 465). - Tear repaired, lower margin strengthened otherwise fine. Cat. NHSM I, p.276; Koeman, Suriname, 71-72; Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 7265; Daalder, Tekenen op zee, p.24-25 and 69-72. [Boeknr.: 32288 ]

€ 650,00

VOORST, Jan van. Huwelyks-zangen voor ... Jan van Voorst, oud opperbestuurder van Nederlands Africa; met ... Willemina Aletta Kien; in den echt vereenigd binnen Utrecht den 1 van slachtmaand 1757. Utrecht, Willem en W. Henrik Kroon, 1757.4to. With large engraved vignette after C.F. Fritzsch by T. Crajenschot on title page, title page printed in red and black. 26 pp. Wedding poems on the occasion of the wedding of Jan van Voorst and Willemina Aletta Kien, Utrecht 1757. With contributions by N. Kien, A. de Bucquoy, J.A. van Wachendoff and W. Kroon with allusions to the 17 years on the Gold Coast and Elmina. 'Jan van der Voorst was directeur-generaal in Elmina van 1747 tot 1754. Hij moest veel onderhandelen met de Ashanti over de moeilijkheden in de toevoer van tot slaaf gemaakten naar Elmina. Na zijn diensttijd als belangrijkste man op Elimina, zorgde Van Voorst goed voor zichzelf, want in 1764 liet hij 275 tot slaaf gemaakten naar Suriname verschepen, waar ze voor 103.939 gulden werden verkocht, zo'n 375 gulden per persoon. Een jaar later kocht Jan van Voorst Janskerkhof 13 in Utrecht, nu een van de panden van de Universiteit Utrecht, waar religiewetenschappen huist' (Slavernij en de stad Utrecht p.15-16). - Rare. [Boeknr.: 37793 ]

€ 375,00

VRIJMAN, L.C. Slavenhalers en slavenhandel. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1937. Half cloth. With 15 plates. 156 pp. - (Patria). [Boeknr.: 720 ]

€ 15,00

WALES, S.H. State sovereignty and slavery. Speech delivered at Bridgeport, Conn., March, 1865. Pending the State election. New York, MacDonald & Swank, 1867.Original printed wrappers, with ornamental border. 16 pp. First edition. - 'Here, now, is an opportunity presented to us in the proposed Constitutional Amendment to do an act of justice to a degraded race and to remove the greatest stain which history has fixed upon our national character'. [Boeknr.: 20275 ]

€ 60,00

WALLE, Johan van de. Een vlek op de rug. Amsterdam, E. Querido, 1966. Wrappers. 255 pp. Novel on slavery in the Caribbean. [Boeknr.: 33170 ]

€ 15,00

WALVIN, James. Black Ivory. A history of British slavery. London, Fontana Press, (1993). Wrappers. With plates. XII,365 pp. [Boeknr.: 33150 ]

€ 18,00

WATTEAU, Antoine. Actors of the Comédie-Francaise. Engraving showing five figures: two women, two men, and a black boy. Ca. 6,5 x 8,5 cm. Image after the painting made between 1711-1718 now in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg by the French painter and draughtsman Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721). His works are often based on scenes from plays from the French and Italian Commedia dell'Arte. [Boeknr.: 37817 ]

€ 75,00

WELCH, Pedro L.V. Slave society in the city. Bridgetown. Barbados 1680-1834. Kingston, Ian Randle, (2003). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XV,253 pp. [Boeknr.: 26893 ]

€ 35,00

WETHERELL, Elizabeth. De kleine hoveniersters. Uit het Engelsch (vertaald) door H. Jonker. Schiedam, H.A.M. Roelants, (1868).Original green cloth (sl. soiled), with gilt illustration on front, spine gilt. With chromolithographed frontispiece by Emrik & Binger depicting an old black man giving a little girl a watering can and 3 other chromolithographed plates. 231 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in London the same year Three little spades. - Susan Bogert Warner's novel, written under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell (1819-1885) is a juvenile on children learning to garden. [Boeknr.: 37569 ]

€ 65,00

WIENCEK, Henry. The Hairstons. An American faimily in black and white. New York, St. Martin's Press, (1999). Half cloth, with dust-jacket. XX,361 pp. [Boeknr.: 32111 ]

€ 25,00

WILSON MOORE, Rachel. Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore, kept during a tour to the West Indies and South America, in 1863-64. With notes from the diary of her husband; together with his memoir. (Edited by) George Truman. Philadelphia, T. Ellwood Zell, 1867.Original cloth, spine gilt. 274 pp. First edition. - Journal of her keen observations of life in the Caribbean, including visits to plantations. She was shocked by the state of slavery. With visits to Nassau, Havana, St. Thomas, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad, etc.Sabin 50430; Afro-Americana 6787; Theakstone, Vicorian & Edwardian women travellers, p.190. [Boeknr.: 36709 ]

€ 275,00

WINTER, Nicolaas Simon van. Monzongo, of de koninglyke slaaf. Treurspel. Amsterdam, Pieter Meijer, 1774.Sm.8vo. Modern marbled boards. With engraving on title-page by Reinier Vinkeles. (4),86 pp. The play, Monzongo, the royal slave, a tragedy, was written in 1765 by the Amsterdam merchant and poet Nicolaas Simon van Winter (1718-1795). In the introduction he writes that he was touched by the slave revolt that broke out in the plantation colony of Berbice in 1763 and the cruel punishments that had been carried out after its crushing. This was the first reaction on the revolt in Berbice. His tragedy, however, did not take place in a Dutch plantation colony, but in Spanish America about the conquest of Mexico in 1519. Van Winter realized that the banishment of slavery would take some time, but hoped that his poetic work would help to bring it to an end. (Some staining, last blank leaf dam.). - Rare.Muller, America, p.305; not in Suriname-Catalogus U.B. Amsterdam; Michiel van Kempen, Een geschiedenis van de Surinaamse literatuur, p.242. [Boeknr.: 36387 ]

€ 395,00

WOODMAN, H.D. (Ed.). Slavery and the Southern economy. Sources and readings. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, (1966). Wrappers. X,261 pp. The Forces in American Economic Growth Series. - Slavery and the planter; slavery and the nonslaveholder; slavery and the slave; slavery and economic development; legacy of slavery. [Boeknr.: 20339 ]

€ 25,00

ZEE, Henri van der. 's Heeren slaaf. Het dramatische leven van Jacobus Capitein (1717-1747). (Amsterdam), Balans, 2000. Wrappers. With portrait. 176 pp. Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (ca. 1717 - 1747) was a Dutch Christian minister of Ghanaian birth who was one of the first known sub-Saharan Africans to study at a European university and one of the first Africans to be ordained as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. He is credited with spreading the use of the written word in his native Ghana. Though a former slave, Capitein wrote a dissertation defending the right of Christians to keep slaves. [Boeknr.: 2815 ]

€ 18,00

ZIEL, H.F. de. Johannes King. Life at Maripaston. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1973. Wrappers. With portrait and map. VIII,142 pp. VKI. - The Matuari Bush Negro Johannes King (c. 1830-1898) taught himself to read and write at an advanced age. [Boeknr.: 19744 ]

€ 30,00

ZIMMERMANN, (Eberhard August Wilhelm) von. Taschenbuch der Reisen, oder unterhaltende Darstellung der Entdeckungen des 18ten Jahrhunderts. Jahrgang II. Leipzig., Gerhard Fleischer, 1803.Sm.8vo. Original boards (sl. rubbed). With frontispiece depicting Johanna from Suriname, portrait of Charles Marie de la Condamine, folding map of the West-Indies by Arrossmith, and 9 engravings (8 folding. (6),304 pp. Almost entirely devoted to the West-Indies: Chatoyer, ein Oberhaupt der schwarzen Carraiben auf St. Vincent, nebst seinen fünf Frauen; Die Maron-Neger schliessen auf Jamaica Frieden mit den Engländern; Frelawny Town, die Stadt der Maron-Neger auf Jamaica; Marsch gegen die Maron-Neger im holländischen Gujana; etc. With fine plates , 2 plates taken from Stedman, Suriname. - (Browned). [Boeknr.: 17501 ]

€ 175,00

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