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Letters from a man of colour, on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania.
- Title
- Letters from a man of colour, on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania.
- Author
- Forten, James, 1766-1842.
- Publication
- [Pennsylvania] : [publisher not identified], [1813]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Restricted use | Sc Rare 323.4-F (Forten, J. Letters from a man of colour) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- 11, [1] pages; 20 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Inscriptions (Provenance)
- African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc > Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania > General Assembly > Senate
- Pennsylvania > General Assembly > House of Representatives > Act to prevent the migration of people of color
- Black author
- African Americans > Civil rights > Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania > Emigration and immigration
- Genre/Form
- Inscriptions (Provenance)
- Note
- Caption title.
- Last page blank.
- Five letters "suggested by the promulgation of a late bill, before the Senate of Pennsylvania, to prevent the emigration of people of colour into this state."--cf. page [1]. 'An act to prevent the migration of people of color' was reported in the House of Representatives on March 20, 1813. It is not indexed in the Senate journals, but is tagged in the index to the House journals as unfinished business.
- Each letter is signed "A man of colour" [i.e., James Forten]; the first is dated April 1813.
- Indexed In (note)
- Shaw, R.R. American bibliography
- Provenance (note)
- inscribed: in pencil on p. [1] "A. Schomburg." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 323.4-F (Forten, J. Letters from a man of colour)
- OCLC
- 26121486
- Author
- Forten, James, 1766-1842.
- Title
- Letters from a man of colour, on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania.
- Publisher
- [Pennsylvania] : [publisher not identified], [1813]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Indexed In:
- Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 28931
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare 323.4-F (accession no. B594310) inscribed: in pencil on p. [1] "A. Schomburg." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Local Note
- Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-897 [pt. 1-A]
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 323.4-F (Forten, J. Letters from a man of colour)