1887 CHINESE SLAVERY. The Story of a Slave Girl in China. Rare Missionary Work.

A very scarce work on the practice of female domestic slavery in China during the 19th century. A first-hand account by a medical missionary who witnessed it first-hand. Very attractive and illustrated throughout.  Scarce. No copies in the trade or at auction. Four copies traced institutionally with just one in the U.S. [Peabody Essex Museum].  Macdonald, Roderick. A-FA; or, the Story of a Slave Girl in China. London. Charles H. Kelly. c.1887. 77pp. A very good copy, bound in cloth, generally  solid, with generally bright pages.