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CARMICHAEL (A.C.) Mrs - Domestic manners and social condition of the white, coloured, and Negro population of the West Indies London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co (1833) 2 vols. 1st ed., viii, (3) - 336pp, (2 blank): iv, (3) - 338pp, complete thus, with the half title in the first volume (none issued to the second) and blank leaf in volume one. 8vo, original cloth backed boards with printed paper spine labels, uncut. Very clean."The writer was the wife of a planter and resided in St Vincent and Trinidad for five and a half years commencing in 1821. The writer is extremely pro-colonial, whitewashes the estate owners of all charges brought against them and finds little that is good in the negro character." Ragatz
Author CARMICHAEL (A.C.) Mrs

Price: £800.00

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