Research Catalog

Title

The nation's sin and punishment, or, The hand of God visible in the overthrow of slavery / by a chaplain of the U.S. Army, who has been, thirty years, a resident of the slave states.

Author

Hodgman, Stephen Alexander, 1808-1887

Publication

• New York : M. Doolady, agent, 49 Walker St. : American News Company, 121 Nassau Street, 1864.
• New York : R. Craighead, printer, 1864.
• ©1864.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Doolady, Michael
• Craighead, Robert
• Dill, Vincent L.
• American News Company, publisher.

Description

274 pages; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Nation's sin and punishment
• Hand of God visible in the overthrow of slavery

Subject

• United States. Army > African American troops
• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature
• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature > 1864
• United States > History > Participation, African American. > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

Ink stamps (Provenance)

Note

• Attributed to Stephen A. Hodgman in Halkett & Laing.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1864, by Stephen A. Hodgman. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Stereotyped by Vincent Dill, no. 24 Beekman St., N.Y."--verso of title page.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

• with ink stamp on page [5]: "Friends' Library Cherry Street." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Dedication -- Author's introduction -- 1. Wars ; Just or unjust -- 2. What is slavery -- 3. Origin of African slavery -- 4. Early opposition to slavery -- 5. The middle passage -- 6. The last crime of slavery -- 7. The expiation -- 8. The "malum in se" theory -- 9. Christianity versus slavery -- 10. The voice of blood -- 11. Rachel's lamentation -- 12. Enslavement of the mind -- 13. Breeding slaves for market -- 14. The marriage altar thrown down -- 15. The proclamation -- 16. How to dispose of the liberated slaves -- 17. Religious character of the Negro -- 18. The colored regiments -- 19. Author's experience among the rebels -- 20. Conclusion ; hree parties.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973-H (Hodgman, S. A. Nation's sin and punishment)

LCCN

11009328

OCLC

• 4630113
• NYPGR4630113-B

Author

Hodgman, Stephen Alexander, 1808-1887, author.

Title

The nation's sin and punishment, or, The hand of God visible in the overthrow of slavery / by a chaplain of the U.S. Army, who has been, thirty years, a resident of the slave states.

Publisher

New York : M. Doolady, agent, 49 Walker St. : American News Company, 121 Nassau Street, 1864.

Manufacturer

New York : R. Craighead, printer, 1864.

Copyright Date

©1864.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 4867

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-H (accession no. B499072) with ink stamp on page [5]: "Friends' Library Cherry Street." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Doolady, Michael, publisher.

American News Company, publisher.

Craighead, Robert, printer.

Dill, Vincent L., stereotyper.

Friends' Library (Philadelphia, Pa.), former owner.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973-H (Hodgman, S. A. Nation's sin and punishment)

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