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Déportation et naufrage de J.J. Aymé, ex-Législateur, suivis du tableau de vie et de mort des déportés, a son départ de la Guyane, avec quelques observations sur cette colonie et sur les nègres.
by AYMÉ, Jean Jacques
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- first
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About This Item
Paris, Chez Maradan, Libraire, (1800).. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, contemporary wrappers laid into dark-brown morocco folding case with pink moiré sides, spine with gilt letter. Uncut. Light foxing in 2 quires. In fine condition. Old signature ("S. Murray"?) on half title. 269 pp., (13 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION. Following the coup d'état on 18 Fructidor 1797, Aymé and many other deputies to the French legislature were deported to French Guiana - later site of the notorious penal colony that included Devil's Island, where Alfred Dreyfus was incarcerated. In this work Aymé (1752-1818) tells of the coup and recounts in detail the horrendous conditions in French Guiana. Pages 174-88 are devoted to a description of the blacks there, including their religious beliefs, their attitude toward white men, and their behavior following the abolition of slavery in Cayenne. The unnumbered leaves at the end contain a table of those deported from France with Aymé on La Vaillante, with their professions, ages and fates on the trip. Mortality rates were appallingly high. In 1799, Aymé managed to escape on the American vessel Gothenburg, but was shipwrecked off the Scottish coast. When he made his way back to France, Napoleon appointed him to Directeur des droits réunis du départ for Gers. An English translation was published in London, 1800: Narrative of the Deportation to Cayenne and Shipwreck on the Coast of Scotland. *** Sabin 2521. JCB III, ii, 443. Huntress 132C. Bell A381. Howgego I, 595 (L37): listing it as a source on French Guiana; I, 482 (H25), listing it as a source on Guiana.
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- Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books
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- Title
- Déportation et naufrage de J.J. Aymé, ex-Législateur, suivis du tableau de vie et de mort des déportés, a son départ de la Guyane, avec quelques observations sur cette colonie et sur les nègres.
- Author
- AYMÉ, Jean Jacques
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Paris, Chez Maradan, Libraire, (1800).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- French Revolution, South America, French Guiana, shipwrecks, blacks, slavery, slaves, Africans, African Americans, Afro-Americans, travel, Devil's Island, Ile du Diable, Alfred Dreyfus, Abolition of slavery, Cayenne, Atlantic Ocean, Americas
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