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Richard, Henry MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH STURGE
London S.W. Partridge & A.W. Bennett, 1864 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good
plain red cloth, xix, 622, (4) adverts., portrait frontis., (albumin print of Sturge from a drawing by W. Willis) title page vignette, some shelf wear, upper corners bumped, light wear to corners, small area of worming in gutter between frontis and t.p., small area of worming at rear involving foot of 4 pp of ads and one blank endpaper, some marks on edges, rear endpapers toned. Joseph Sturge, (1793-1859) founder of the British and Foreigh Anti-Slavery Society, was a Quaker who spent his life engaged in radical political actions supporting pacifism, working class rights, and the universal emancipation of slaves. In 1834 Sturge and Thomas Harvey sailed to the West Indies to study the apprenticeship system 'Apprenticeship' , defined by the British Emancipation Act of 1834, was the widely criticised intermediate stage on the route to emancipation. The pair traveled about the West Indies talking directly to apprentices, proprietors , and others directly involved. They visited Antigua and Jamaica. Upon their return they published, THE WEST INDIES (1837) and exposed the cruelty and injustice of apprenticeship. While in Jamaica Sturge helped to found the Jamaican free village of Sturge Town. Sturge died in Birmingham in 1859. Sturge made a visit to the US in 1841. His trip is chronicled in his book , A Visit to the United States in 1841. London, 1842. See Sabin 93263 . The book is concerned with slavery and aboilition.
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225.00 USD
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