1905 Rare Work on the Status of Black American in Virginia in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries.

A very scarce academic work, not available in trade at the time of cataloging and none in the auction history. A very fine work investigating primary resource documents, including Colonial Charters, Laws Relating to the Import of Negroes, Slavery Laws, Case Law Involving Fugitive Slaves, Insurrection, Trials of Negroes, Regulations of Emancipation, etc.,

West, Gerald Montgomery. The Status of the Negro in Virginia During the Colonial Period. Submitted as One of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Political Science, Columbia College. William R. Jenkins. New York. 1905. 76pp

Good, crisp copy in wraps, removed from a sammelband at some point with attendant flotsam on spine, etc, and lean to binding. Begins with title, potentially lacking wraps.