The Noble Slaves. Being an Entertaining History of the Surprising Adventures, and Remarkable Deliverances, from Algerine Slavery, of Several Spanish Noblemen and Ladies of Quality.

New-Haven: George Bunce, 1798.

Price: $800.00


About the item

Second American edition. iv, [5]-216 pp. 12mo. Rebound in half calf and marbled boards, black morocco lettering piece. Front free endpaper damaged with loss along fore-edge, corners of title-page creased with loss at lower corner, text toned and stained. ESTC W19009 (4 copies).

Item #307486

The second American edition of this tale of the horrors of slavery as experienced by white Christians, by the moralizing author Penelope Aubin (ca.1679-1738?). First published in London in 1722 as The Noble Slaves: Or the Lives and Adventures of Two Lords and Two Ladies. This New Haven edition is preceded by the Danbury, Connecticut, edition of 1797.