Sorrows of slavery lamented
On offer at the Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs sale held by Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on September 28 is an anti-slavery broadside: 'The Sorrows of Yamba, or, the Negro Woman’s Lamentation. To the Tune of Hosier’s Ghost'.
Believed to be from c.1800, the single sheet, 5½ x 14in (14 x 35cm) with four woodcuts, is headed …