Courtship Choice of Husbands & Wives Slave kneeling 1824 life advice rare book Mozambique Boston Harbor Showing All Dredging

Boston Harbor Showing All Dredging of Channels to 1902

Original owners name Susanna Harris stamped on front cover

There is text/ possibly other images on the back because it was extracted from an illustrated periodical from the 19th century

including two by the famous pin-up artist Petty

Fascinating lot of fourteen (14) antique 19th century trade cards relating to African Americans and the racist caricature of this era

Courtship Choice of Husbands & Wives Slave kneeling 1824 life advice rare book Mozambique Boston Harbor Showing All Dredging(Old Books, 19th Century Books, Leather Books, Religion, Christianity, Marriage, Courtship, home management, managing servants, religous slavery). Religious Courtship or Discourses on the Choice of Husbands & Wives. Published 1824, London by Thos. Kelley. W. Swift, engraver. 311 pages. Text in English. Illustrated with 5 engraved plates. Engraved frontis [a rare slavery image often not found in other (later?) examples] & half title, plus three further