Records of a Voyage to The Western Coast of Africa, in His Majesty's Ship Dryad, and of The Service on That Station for The Suppression of the Slave Trade in the Years 1830, 1831, and 1832
Edinburgh: William Tate, 1833. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo (4.25" x 7"). Very Good / No Jacket. Item #008300
Quarter brown paper spine, blue cloth boards. Rebacked with new spine and spine label, original boards and endpapers. iv, 267 pp., [5]. Four page list at rear of vessels engaged in the slave trade captured by His Majesty's Ship Dryad. Staining and scuffing to cloth. Light rubbing to joints and spine ends. Stamp of the Manchester Subscription Library to title page. Light foxing to interior. On 29 September, 1830, HMS Dryad set out from St. Helens for West Africa in an effort to prevent the slave trade--"that revolting traffic in our species, which continues, for the sake of pecuniary advantage, to stain with the deepest reproach, thousands of men professing acquaintance with the charitable and benevolent tenets of our religion." (p. 1). This account describes the voyage, local scenery and social conditions, and the state of the slave trade at the time.
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