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The Results of Emancipation
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Title: The Results of Emancipation
Author: tr. Mary Booth Augustin Cochin
Publisher: Walker Wise and Company, Boston
Published: 1863
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 3rd edition
Number of Pages: 412
Catalogs: Slavery, Abolition, French History
Description: Third American edition, translated from the French original "L'Abolition de l'Esclavage (1861) by Mary Booth. This volume is bound in publisher's brown embossed vertical wave grain cloth, with brown glazed endpapers. Largely in good condition with some light spotting on the front, and spine ends somewhat frayed. Corners slightly damaged with some board exposure. A prior listing price in pencil on front endpaper. Slight foxing on pages. As a part of a larger plea for emancipation and the abolition of slavery, Cochin explores the results of emancipation in French, English, Danish, Swedish, and Dutch colonies. His argument is bolstered through evidence of economic improvement post-emancipation, and the book includes studies of sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, and other exported goods from various colonies. This book was intended to have, and did have a crucial effect on American and French perceptions of slavery and emancipation. Hardcover, good condition, 412 pages, 12mo.
Author: tr. Mary Booth Augustin Cochin
Publisher: Walker Wise and Company, Boston
Published: 1863
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 3rd edition
Number of Pages: 412
Catalogs: Slavery, Abolition, French History
Description: Third American edition, translated from the French original "L'Abolition de l'Esclavage (1861) by Mary Booth. This volume is bound in publisher's brown embossed vertical wave grain cloth, with brown glazed endpapers. Largely in good condition with some light spotting on the front, and spine ends somewhat frayed. Corners slightly damaged with some board exposure. A prior listing price in pencil on front endpaper. Slight foxing on pages. As a part of a larger plea for emancipation and the abolition of slavery, Cochin explores the results of emancipation in French, English, Danish, Swedish, and Dutch colonies. His argument is bolstered through evidence of economic improvement post-emancipation, and the book includes studies of sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, and other exported goods from various colonies. This book was intended to have, and did have a crucial effect on American and French perceptions of slavery and emancipation. Hardcover, good condition, 412 pages, 12mo.
