| Editorial: | Librairie de Charles Gosselin, |
| Ciudad: | Paris |
| Año: | 1835. |
| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Medidas: | 14x22. |
| Paginación: | 2 vols., 2l., viii + 369pp.; 2l., 334pp. |
Contemporary quarter leather.
Although largely forgotten by posterity, the French liberal aristocrat Gustave de Beaumont (1802 - 1866) was the co-author of 'Du Systeme Penitentiaire aux Etats-Unis', and had accompanied Alexis de Tocqueville on their nine month journey through the United States. In this novel he denounces not simply the institution of slavery, but the racism that underlies it. The extensive apendices contain a 74 page essay on the 'Condition du nègre esclave aux États-Unis', and a 90 page note 'Sur l'état ancien et la condition présente des tribus indiennes de l'Amériquye du Nord.'
Foxing in preliminaries, (occasional minor foxing in the text); otherwise attractive copies of this early and important work on Black slavery.