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[ABOLITION]. BISSETTE, Cyrille (1795–1858). Pétition a la Chambre des Députés [contre l’administration colonial de la Martinque]. Paris: Poussielgue, 1846.
8vo, 27pp. pamphlet. Original printed wrappers (small shelf sticker and some small erasures on front cover, covers detached from text block but spine still intact).
A RARE PAMPHLET regarding the French colony, Martinique, which Bissette represented as one of two men of color elected to represent the Caribbean colonies in the French Parliament; the other being Francois Perrinon who represented Guadeloupe. Bissette, serving in the French National Assembly from 1848 to 1851, would persuade the French government in 1848 to end slavery in the French West Indies. Sabin 5652 (mentioned in footnote).