BRIDGES REV GEORGE WILSON (3 resultados)

Half-Leather. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Vol.1 only of 2 of the rare 1st Edition. First Edition, First Issue, dated 1827. "One of the best known histories of a Caribbean island.The book was taken off the market by court order following action brought against the publisher concerning Volume 2 by two free persons of color, Lescesne and Escoffery, who had been deported from Jamaica unjustly, because of the libel it contained on them." (Ragatz) Bridges' history provides information on Jamaica from the earliest times to 1826, including chapters on the British administration and slavery". The second volume was dated 1828(?). This volume of xix+604 pages contains a long appendix on the History of Slavery. Bookplate of Mabel Nembhard (author of several articles in the publication 'Caribbeana', published around 1914-16. The original Jamaican Nembhard was Dr John Nembhard (1711-1777).I quote Mabel: 'according to family tradition Dr. Nembhard was Dutch and descended from a famous general; some say he was a natural son of Prince Eugene of Savoy, who certainly was at The Hague from Nov. 1710 to Jan. 1711.' Dr John developed the Konigsberg estate in St Mary's, Jamaica, and made a considerable fortune. The Jamaican estates stayed in the family until the 1830's, but were then sold at low prices as sugar prices collapsed and the use of slave labour became illegal.The Nembhards mostly returned to England). Book clean, tight in half leather with gilt ornate raised bands; titling labels missing. Endpapers marbled and no other marks or signatues. A very few spots of foxing. Though only one volume this first edition first issue very rare especialy in this condition.

2 vols. xii + 604pp + xii + 505pp + [1] errata. 1st ed., second issue. Clean in modern quarter calf. Half titles and title pages a little foxed. Title pages with small h/s partially erased. The author was strongly in favour of slavery and anti Methodist. The book was taken off the market by court order following action brought against the publisher by two free persons of colour, Lescesne and Escoffery, who had been deported from Jamaica unjustly, because of the libel it contained about them. (Ragatz).

First edition. 28pp. Stitched, as issued. A little creased and somewhat toned and marked, especially at front and end, and to fore-edges. Small marginal loss to final leaf. An impassioned, caustic and colonial response the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, by Rev. George W. Bridges (1788-1863), Anglican clergyman, rector of Mandeville, Jamaica, opponent of missionaries and defender of slavery, best known for his partially libellous The Annals of Jamaica (London, 1828). The Annals, published when abolition was increasingly advocated by an evangelical movement in Britain, represented the minority viewpoint of a white colonist in the West Indies - himself the owner of several slaves - outnumbered by enslaved and free black residents, and warned of inevitable ruin for Jamaica in the event of the Anti-Slavery Society securing the abolition of the practice. Emancipation Unmask'd, published in the wake of that abolition, and the 1831-2 Jamaican revolt, represents his final attempt at securing colonial supremacy over the island and its newly-emancipated majority. Whilst often making arguments referencing political economy, the previous writings of latter-day abolitionists such as Henry Brougham, and practicalities of colonial security, the work is entirely imbued with diabolical undertones, and often explicit white supremacism of wholly racist foundations. It should be no surprise, therefore, that Bridges' opposed apprenticeship and encourages extensive immigration from 'the over-burthened parishes and half-starving communities of Great Britain' via the 'establishment of an Emigration Company', leading to 'a permanent increasing class of labourers, producing an agricultural population, and eventually a tenantry, drawing ample measures from a country where riches are unrivalled.' Rare. OCLC and COPAC together locates just five institutional copies in the UK (BL, Cambridge, Glasgow, Southampton and St. Andrews), and a single copy elsewhere (Jamaica). Sabin 7822. Size: 8vo.