McCord David James

[cover title] Africans at Home. From the Forthcoming Number of "Southern Quarterly Review." In Advance

[Charleston, SC?]: 1854. Original Wrappers. near Good binding. Item #9864

Octavo. 28 pp. Removed from volume, lacking rear wrapper. Ex-library with rubber-stamps on the chipped and detached front wrapper and above the caption title on p. 2. Generally worn.

An apologist for slavery, McCord declares that the condition of Africans, even with Christianity present "the disgusting picture of a people, whose savage and shocking barbarities, and loathsome habits, and horrid crimes, are supposed to establish a condition so preferable to that of slavery to white man, that the fleets of civilized Europe and American, are employed to maintain and perfect them in it" (p. 28). Includes excerpts from: Abrege de l'Histoire generale des voyages. Paris, 1780-1801, an abridgment by Jean-Francois de La Harpe of the compilation by abbe Prevost; and from: Beecham, John, 1787-1856. Ashantee and the Gold Coast. London, 1841. Remarkably uncommon with only 8 institutions reporting ownership according to OCLC. LCP, Afro-Americana 6188.

Price: $250.00