First edition. With frontispiece coloured map. 8vo. Original blue cloth frayed at spine extremities and with a very little pale patching to boards. Gilt cover vignette. Press cutting pasted to verso of of front free endpaper. [iv], 216, [1 ad]pp. London, W.R. Chambers, 1857.
The author cites witnessing a slave auction as the prime motivation for this overview of slavery in the United States. He examines the political dimensions and include a chapter on the Kansas-Nebraska Affair and the Missouri Compromise. In the final pages the author foreshadows the Civil War that broke out just four years later.
Sabin, 11806.
