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SLAVERY - BELISARIO, A. M. A Report of the Trial

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Middletown, [CT.]: Printed by Tertius Dunning, 1812. 12mo (177 x 120 mm). Contemporary boards with contemporary paper covering, ink signature of Clarissa Pride to upper board and poem in her hand to lower board. Condition: lightly foxed; boards with light stains and abrasions. Provenance: Clarissa Pride, (signatures to both upper cover and front free endpaper). first american edition of this scarce judicial rarity; with early poem penned on lower cover. Hodge, a Tortola plantation owner, was tried and hanged for the brutal flogging and abandonment of his slave, Prosper, who was left to die without aid over a week's period. The case is further extraordinary in that the prosecution's chief witness was a free black woman, Perreen Georges, despite the fact that it was illegal for a black to testify against a white. ABPC reports no copies sold. Sabin 4425.

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