Refutacion de la Campaña de Acusaciones Contra Las Tropas Francesas de Color en Los Territorios Renanos Ocupados

(Paris): (Imprimerie Carlos Courmont), n.d. [1920s]. Octavo in pale yellowish olive-green thin paper wrappers; 58p, footnotes, 22cm Minor edge wear to original paper wraps, now housed in a modern cardboard binding in the common institutional style wherby back strip is stapled into original spine withough and taped with heavy cloth tape to original wrappers within. Small illegible stamp marks to upper and outer edges. Number stamp but no other institutional markings. Double bound. Ex-library stamp on fore-edge and small tear on top edge of last two leaves. Interior of cover is identical to exterior. Very good+ overall. Paperback.

In Spanish. Rare, No copies located in WorldCat, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), or Spain's REBIUN or CCPB. FThe item's original printed front wrap typography is replicated on the title page suggesting the pamphlet was issued by itself and not as an addendum to a larger document. Lack of indicators of serialization as well as the presence of printed printer's imformation to rear wrapper recto further substantiate the 'independence' of this very rare piece. A refutative compilation of legal and philosophical arguments from various international sources on the justification of troops of color fighting on the front in World War 1 (The Great War). Sections entitled: Actitud de las tropas de color. Los testimonios oficiales americanos; Actitud de la poblacion local; La campania alemana y la opinion negra; Situacion sanitaria de tropas de color." // Race-relations in Europe during and shortly after The Great War (World War One). Black soldiers on the front in World War One. Colonialism. Imperialism, racism. Franchophone Africa, Black Military History; Black Legal History. Equal Rights.