Research Catalog

Title

The African preacher : an authentic narrative / by the Rev. William S. White, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Virginia.

Author

White, William S. (William Spotswood), 1800-1873

Publication

• Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, no. 265 Chestnut Street, [1849]
• ©1849

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mitchell, A. W. (Alexander W.)
• Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Board of Publication, publisher.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

139 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 16 cm

Donor/Sponsor

• Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
• Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Jack, Uncle, 1746?-1843
• Jones, James, 1772-1848
• African American clergy > Virginia > Biography
• African Americans > Virginia > Religion
• Freed persons > Virginia > Biography
• Enslaved persons > Virginia > Biography
• Slaveholders > Virginia > Biography
• Clergy > Virginia > Biography
• Clergy
• African American clergy
• African Americans > Religion
• African Americans
• Freed persons
• Enslaved persons
• Slaveholders
• Virginia
• United States

Genre/Form

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Biographies.

Note

• "Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1849, by Alexander W. Mitchell, M.D. In the office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."--copyright statement, verso of title page.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in digital form.

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92 (Jack) W (White, W. S. African preacher)

LCCN

08036558

OCLC

16940199

Author

White, William S. (William Spotswood), 1800-1873, author.

Title

The African preacher : an authentic narrative / by the Rev. William S. White, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Virginia.

Publisher

Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, no. 265 Chestnut Street, [1849]

Copyright Date

©1849

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 9, page 8264, column 2, row 3

Additional Formats

Also available in digital form.

Local Note

The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of this item, and the frontispiece illustration differs in each copy; Copy 1 (accession no. G94925) is a gift, probably added to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian. The book bears an NYPL bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection" on pages [2] of the cover, NYPL's perforated stamp, and early processing marking of the original collection; Library bound in red cloth over boards and a gilt spine. The frontispiece illustration is signed: Vollum.

Copy 2 (accession no. B594156) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926; the book also includes an NYPL bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection" on pages [2] of the cover, NYPL's perforated stamp, and early processing marking of the original collection. It's library bound in blue cloth over boards and a gilt spine; probably added to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian. The frontispiece illustration is signed: Croome.

Source

Copy 1 in Sc Rare 326.92 (Jack) W (White, W. S. African preacher) Gift; G94925. NN

Copy 2 in Sc Rare 326.92 (Jack) W (White, W. S. African preacher) Purchase; Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926; B594156 NN

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Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Added Author

Mitchell, A. W. (Alexander W.), copyright holder.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Board of Publication, publisher.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948 collection librarian.

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

Other Form:

Online version: White, William Spottswood, 1800-1873. African preacher. Philadelphia, Presbyterian board of publication [©1849] (OCoLC)867199396

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92 (Jack) W (White, W. S. African preacher)