A narrative of all the robberies, escapes, &c. of John Sheppard : giving an exact description of the manner of his wonderful escape from the castle in Newgate ...by Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

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Publication date 1724

Topics Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724, Crime, Criminals

Publisher London: : Printed and sold by John Applebee...

Collection bplscdefoe; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

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Not in fact by Sheppard. Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Lee, Trent, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions

Printed from the same setting of type as prior editions, with altered t.p. -- cf. Moore 466 note


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Life of Jack Sheppard, the notorious house and gaol breaker
by Crawhall, Joseph, 1821-1896 (association); Zaehnsdorf Limited (binder)

Topics Chapbooks, Scottish, Chapbooks, English
Publisher [Glasgow and other locations : various publishers]
Collection thomasfisherchapbooks; thomasfisher; toronto
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A collection of approx. 600 chapbooks, mainly from the first half of the nineteenth century, although most are undated. Most are printed in Scotland; imprints include Glasgow, Paisley, Edinburgh, Stirling, Falkirk, Aberdeen, Ayr and Kilmarnock, as well as London, Sheffield, Newcastle, Manchester, York and Coventry. Most are anonymous but some titles attributed to authors such as Hannah More, Daniel Defoe, Robert Burns, John Bunyan, James Hogg and Allan Ramsay. Many of the titles are illustrated wtih woodcuts.

A JOURNEY TO THE WORLD IN THE MOON DANIEL DEFOE

A journey to the world in the moon, & cby Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731;

  Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Consolidator: or, memoirs of sundry transactions from the world in the moon

Publication date 1705





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A New journey to the world in the moon. Containing, I.A full description of the manner of the author's performing his journey; and his reasons why former lunarian travellers could not find their way thither: with an exact account of the different roads, for their future directionby Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, supposed author
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Publication date 1741Topics Voyages, ImaginaryPublisher London: Published by : C. CorbettCollection bplscdefoe; bostonpubliclibrary; americanaDigitizing sponsor Boston Public LibraryContributor Boston Public LibraryLanguage English

84 PAGES
Errata: p. 84

Attributed to Defoe; attribution not accepted by Moore

VOLUME THE THIRTEENTH. 
THE HISTORY 
AND REALITY OF APPARITIONS. 

THE NOVELS 

AND 

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS 

OP 

DANIEL DE FOE. 

WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, LITERARY 

PREFACES TO THE VARIOUS PIECES, ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES, ETC. 

INCLUDING ALL CONTAINED IN THE EDITION ATTRIBUTED TO 

THE LATE SIR WALTER SCOTT, 

WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS. 

VOL. XIII. 

THE HISTORY 
AND REALITY OF APPARITIONS. 

OXFORD: 

PRINTED BY D. A. TAXBOYS, 
FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. 

1840.
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ROBINSON CRUSOE







A BEAUTIFUL SUBSCRIPTION BASED LIMITED EDITION PRINT OF DANIEL DEFOE'S WORKS FROM 1903. SUBSCRIPTIONS WERE THE KICK STARTER OF 100 YEARS AGO!

 THIS IS SET NUMBERED 907 OF A LIMITED EDITION. 

THERE ARE SIXTEEN VOLUMES.

THIS IS VOL. 1 OF THREE VOLUMES OF HIS MOST FAMOUS BOOK; ROBINSON CRUSOE

A BEAUTIFUL EMBOSSED COVER WITH GOLD PRINT OF THE AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE
INSIDE PAGE LEAF OUT OF ORDER HAS A STAND OUT FRAME TO BLOCK OUT THE PRINT IN EACH EDITION, 

AS WELL IT HAS AN ILLUSTRATION AND ONION SKIN OVERLAY FLYLEAF WITH PRINT OF RC FINDING HIS FIRST FOOTPRINT IN THE SAND

v. 1-3. The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe -- 
v. 4. The history of the life and surprising adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell. -- 
v. 5. Memoirs of a cavalier. -- 
v. 6. The life, adventures, and piracies of the famous Captain Singleton. -- 
v. 7-8. The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders. --
 v. 9. A journal of the plague year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. -- 
v. 10-11. The history and remarkable life of the truly honourable Colonel Jacque, commonly called Colonel Jack. -- 
v. 12-13. The fortunate mistress; or, A history of the life of Mademoiselle De Beleau, known by the name of the Lady Roxana. -- 
v. 14. A new voyage round the world by a course never sailed before. -- 
v. 15. Due preparations for the plague, as well for soul as body. --
 v. 16. The king of pirates, being an account of the famous enterprises of Captain Avery, with lives of other pirates and robbers

IT IS NOT A COMPLETE SET OF HIS WORKS RATHER IT IS HIS MORE POPULAR AND WELL KNOWN WORKS OF POPULAR HISTORIES.

The History of the Devil: Ancient and Modern by Daniel Defoe
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Publication date 1822

Publisher G. Walker

Collection americana

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Book from the collections of Harvard University

Language English

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Notes

First edition published in London, 1726, under title: The political history of the devil.

A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR

The works of Daniel Defoe

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by Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731; 

Maynadier, Howard, 1866-1960

Publication date 1903

Publisher New York : Sproul

Collection americana

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Book from the collections of Harvard University

Language English

Volume 9
"Limited for sale in America and Europe to one thousand numbered and registered sets."
This set number 907

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Reopening the Economy is a Death Sentence for Workers

by NEGIN

Every morning for the last two months, I’ve checked the news in my home state of Florida with growing concern.

First came the photos of unemployed people lining up to file for benefits in person, denied access to an overburdened system. Then came the news that only a tiny percentage of unemployment claims were paid out by late April.

Now, barber shops and nail salons are reopening, even as the state saw its deadliest week yet. Altogether, the news paints a horrifying picture of a government cruelly uninterested in protecting human life.

The overwhelming majority of Americans continue to support social distancing and stay at home orders. But right-wing forces across the country are demanding an end to life-saving lockdowns, cheered on by a White House well aware of how devastating the loss of life could be.

The government estimates a death count as high as 3,000 people a day. Despite those horrifying numbers, some states are encouraging employers to report workers who are afraid that returning to their jobs could amount to a death sentence, kicking them off unemployment.

As other countries have shown with far more grace, the alternative isn’t shutting down forever — it’s investing in testing and social safety nets.

Senegal, which has 50 ventilators for its population of 16 million, is building more through 3D printing, all while it trials a $1 testing kit. The world took note of South Korea’s quick and vigorous testing system. Countries across Europe have relied on existing social safety nets to prevent the mass layoffs we’ve seen here in the U.S.

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo provided necessary perspective: “We know how to bring the economy back to life,” he said. “What we do not know is how to bring people back to life.”

By contrast, the Trump administration’s callousness has become more evident than ever.

Experts have been sidelined in favor of fumbling volunteers from private equity and venture capital firms, who botched the procurement of medical supplies. And when Trump finally invoked the Defense Production Act, it was to force meatpacking workers — who are mostly Latinx and Black — to work through unsafe conditions at the very plants that have emerged as outbreak hotspots.

Indeed, those demographics may help explain the government’s willingness to risk lives.

It seems like no coincidence that the far-right pushback became stronger as evidence mounted showing the virus disproportionately killing already marginalized people of color, especially black Americans. And it was hard to miss the Nazi slogan prominently displayed at a “re-open” protest in Illinois, or the Confederate flags featured as far north as Wisconsin.

Government disregard for vulnerable lives is hardly new. Who can forget the New Orleans residents stranded on their rooftops after Hurricane Katrina? Or the disabled New Yorkers left stranded for days after Hurricane Sandy?

Every level of the U.S. government has shown, time and again, that the default setting is to leave the vulnerable behind. But Americans themselves are challenging that approach.

Workers at General Electric protested to switch production to ventilators, a move that could save jobs and lives. Teachers have promised more strikes if schools open against medical advice.

Nurses, in addition to treating the sick, have faced “re-open” protesters head on. And they’ve stood outside the White House, reading the names of their colleagues killed by government inaction and demanding more protections.

Add these actions to the wave of strikes and sickouts from essential workers across the country, and a clear picture emerges: The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable. But workers understand the sanctity of human life, and will fight for it.

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Racism, Animal Rights and Eugene Debs

by JON HOCHSCHARTNER COUNTERPUNCH MAY 15, 2020

I was excited to read The Universal Kinship, a 1906 book by John Howard Moore, which argues the ethical implications of Darwinism is some form of animal liberation. Unfortunately, the text is marred by the pseudo-scientific racism that seems to have been popular at the time.

My interest primarily stemmed from Eugene Deb’s praise for the book. “It is impossible for me to express my appreciation of your masterly work,” the labor leader was quoted as saying in advertisements for the text. “It is simply great, and every socialist and student of sociology should read it. I have carried it in my grip over the past few thousand miles and its essence is in my heart.”

Way back when, I edited a blog called Species and Class, which sought to make connections between the animals’ and workers’ movements. I’d never come across anything to suggest Debs had progressive views about nonhumans. Sure, he recognized his connectedness with all living beings, in a famous statement to the court after his conviction for violating the Sedition Act. But I assumed that was a meaningless platitude.

I’m still not sure about Debs’ species politics. However, I can say The Universal Kinship is an animal-liberationist book. At times, Moore seems oddly positive about the transformations wrought by domestication. He rhapsodizes about the temperamental superiority of dogs over wolves, as an example. But the overall thrust of the text is clear.

For instance, Moore writes: “The creophagist and the hunter exemplify the same somnambulism, are the authors of the same kind of conduct, and belong literally in the same category of offenders, as the cannibal and the slave-driver. To take the life of an ox for his muscles, or to kill a sheep for his skin is murder, and those who do these things or cause them to be done are murderers.”

Moore argues humanity should treat animals according to the Golden Rule. He encourages readers to imagine how their perspective would change if there were a more dominant species on the planet than Homo sapiens. Moore clearly sees animal rights as a worthy complement to abolitionism, women’s suffrage and socialism.

“All beings are ends; no creatures are means,” he says. “The Life Process is the End — not man, nor any other animal temporarily privileged to weave a world’s philosophy. Nonhuman beings were not made for human beings any more than human beings were made for nonhuman beings.”

Unfortunately, as I mentioned before, there’s a passage filled with racist social Darwinism to match every progressive sentiment. Moore refers to Aryans as incomparable. He gives serious consideration to a biologist who believes that if black and white people were snails, they’d be classified as different species.

Moore frequently suggests Africans are evolutionarily closer to other primates than Europeans are. “The anthropoid races, in the shape of their heads and faces and in the general form and structure of their bodies, and even in their habits of life, resemble in a remarkable manner the lowest races of human beings,” he writes. “This resemblance is recognized by the negro races, who call the gorilla and chimpanzee ‘hairy men,’ and believe them to be descendants of outcast members of their own species.”

One must assume this pseudo-scientific racism was common at the time. After all, the text was endorsed by a number of notable progressives, besides Debs. In the same advertisements, authors Mark Twain and Jack London gave positive testimony about the book. Animal-rights pioneer Henry Salt hailed it as best anti-speciesist text he’d ever read.

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Jon Hochschartner is the author of a number of books about animal-rights history, including The Animals’ Freedom Fighter, Ingrid Newkirk, and a forthcoming history of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.



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Covid-19, Big Ag and the Failing Food System

by RASHID NURI MAY 18, 2020 COUNTERPUNCH

Photograph Source: Cullen328 – CC BY-SA 3.0

Big Ag has separated humankind from the process of creating food that sustains existence. This separation has been done for material gain. Big Ag has interrupted the most natural relationship, a spiritual relationship, between humanity and the land. This human/land connection supersedes all religions. It is humankind’s association with land that feeds us and fortifies people to grow and expand civilization. It is this divine relationship that has been interrupted by the economic agenda of Big Ag. That agenda, like in most industry, is to monetize human need, with little or no concern for people’s wellbeing.

This COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the contradictions existing in our food system. We have a hyper-concentration in the distribution of food throughout the country. There is grand irony in hearing one of the leaders of Big Ag express dismay at the current state of affairs.

John Tyson is a third-generation scion and board chairman of the family business that bears his name. Tyson Foods, headquartered in Springdale Arkansas, is the world’s second largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork. Tyson exports the largest percentage of beef out of the United States. Their revenues exceed $40 billion annually.

“The food supply chain is breaking,” wrote board chairman John Tyson in a full-page advertisement published simultaneously in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. “There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed,” Tyson wrote.

President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order that invoked the Defense Production Act and commanded meat processing facilities to remain open. An analysis by Business Insider found at least 4,585 Tyson workers in 15 states have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and 18 have died. Trump’s order has prioritized meatpacker profits over the health and safety of workers, many of whom are immigrants, and created coronavirus hotspots.

The food system is broken! Where are the solutions? We need a comprehensive Small Farm and Urban Agriculture Homestead Act to support local food economies!! Some tentative steps have been taken. We have to go further.

Senator Cory Booker, joined by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ro Khanna, has introduced a bill to phase out large-scale factory farming by 2040. The question is what will replace the current modalities of production? Access to land, labor, capital (both infrastructure and funding) and regulatory support has to shift from Big Ag to small farmers who live in the neighborhoods that they serve. There are billions of dollars already committed to the food system in the form of subsidies, education and research and other resources, that can fund a new food system that is more efficient, healthy and humane.

As it stands, the business of farming and ranching is increasingly concentrated, with few growers occupying much larger acreage. The number of farms in the U.S. peaked in 1935, at 6.8 million.  By 2016, there were only 2.1 million farms, occupying the same number of acres.  Large farms “eat up” smaller ones, by having greater access to land, equipment and markets. The small farmers that have weathered the onslaught of commercial farming are finding it difficult to survive.  According to a 2016 USDA report, 59 to 78 percent of small farms, those with gross incomes up to $349,999, were operating in the red in 2015.  On the other hand, farms with incomes of $1-5 million and above were more likely to bring in profits averaging 25%.

Building sustainable communities begins with a focus on infrastructure, equity and food self-sufficiency. Big Ag is highly scalable, but not replicable. They have the ability to become larger, but the possibility of their facilities and infrastructure being replicated are slim. However, the local food production provided by small farms and urban agriculture is highly replicable. Small farms and urban agriculture can address many of the issues faced by humanity and expand a very productive pre-industrial, regenerative local food economy.

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Rashid Nuri is the author of Growing Out Loud.

Reopen the  Economy; or Charge of the Right Brigade

by MARSHALL SAHLINS 

COUNTERPUNCH MAY 18, 2020

Half a shop, half a bar,
Half a school onward.
Into the Virus of Death
Goad the Sick Hundreds.
“Forward the Right Brigade,
Charge on your cards,” he said.
Into the Virus of Death
Goad the sick hundreds.

“Forward the Right Brigade!”
Was there a MAGA dismayed?
Not that the shoppers knew
POTUS had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to buy and die.
Into the Virus of Death
Goad the sick hundreds.

Covid to the Right of them,
Covid to the Left of them,
Covid in front of them
Slaughtered and sundered.
Stormed at with goods to sell,
Boldly they shopped and well.
Into the Virus of Death
Rode the sick hundreds.

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Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Chicago. His books include: Stone Age Economics, The Western Illusion of Human Nature and On Kings (with David Graeber).