Lot n° 566
Estimation :
75 - 100
EUR
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Result
: 220EUR
PRICE (Hannibal). On the rehabilitation of the black race by - Lot 566
PRICE (Hannibal). On the rehabilitation of the black race by the Republic of Haiti. Port-au-Prince, Impr. J. Verrollot, 1900, grand 8°, XVII-736 p., brown half-skin, back with 5 threaded nerves (rubbed rel., leg. blunt corners). First edition. Born in Jacmel in 1841, Hannibal Price worked as a farmer, merchant and industrialist. Member of Parliament in 1876, he presided over the Chamber of Deputies and went into exile twice. In 1890 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States. He died of typhoid in Baltimore in 1893 before completing the final editing of his essay "On the Rehabilitation of the Black Race by the Republic of Haiti", written in a hurry. Among the reasons for his decision to write, Price mentions the need to respond to a work "which presented the Republic of Haiti in such an odious light that I cannot (...) dispense myself from examining this indictment, lest I pass for not having dared to contradict its assertions (...)". Unusual.
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