Quarto. (58)pp. Cummins' artistic treatment of the slave trade collects correspondence held at the American Antiquarian Society dated between 1846 and 1863. These letters, at once professional and factual in tone, document the entrepreneurial activities of buyers and sellers at slave markets. As the letters progress, so do the correspondents' anxieties about the market viability of the slave trade, their intensely racist and inhumane commentary now fully weaponized in favor of white supremacy and capital gain. Cummins matches this historical trace with images based on a diagram of a slave ship cargo hold. As business matters decline, the bodies on display begin to disappear until, finally, only a blank square remains. Bound in half black leather with black paper over boards, in the manner of a financial ledger. Fine. Housed in slipcase.