Research Catalog

Title

Educational laws of Virginia : the personal narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass, a southern woman, who was imprisoned for one month in the common jail of Norfolk, under the laws of Virginia, for the crime of teaching free colored children to read.

Author

Douglass, Margaret Crittenden.

Publication

Boston : Published by John P. Jewitt & Co. ; Cleveland, O. : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1854.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888
• Sartain, John, 1808-1897
• John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.), publisher.
• Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, publisher.

Description

65, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Douglass, Margaret Crittenden > Trials, litigation, etc
• Women teachers > Virginia
• Free African Americans > Virginia
• African Americans > Virginia
• African American children > Virginia
• African American children > Education > Virginia
• Trials (Breach of the peace) > Virginia
• African Americans > Education > Virginia
• Douglass, Margaret Crittenden > Portraits
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Education > Virginia
• Free African Americans > Education > Virginia

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• In printed paper wrappers.
• Last page blank.
• Frontispiece portrait engraved by Sartain after a daguerreotype by Root.

Indexed In (note)

• Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of upper wrapper "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 370.975-D (Douglass, M. Educational laws of Virginia)

LCCN

14019470

OCLC

• 5388116
• NYPGR5388116-B

Author

Douglass, Margaret Crittenden.

Title

Educational laws of Virginia : the personal narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass, a southern woman, who was imprisoned for one month in the common jail of Norfolk, under the laws of Virginia, for the crime of teaching free colored children to read.

Imprint

Boston : Published by John P. Jewitt & Co. ; Cleveland, O. : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1854.

Indexed In:

Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America, p. 48

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 3238

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare (accession no. B524177) inscribed: in ink on recto of upper wrapper "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 microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-1147.

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Added Author

John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.), publisher.

Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, publisher.

Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer.

Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 370.975-D (Douglass, M. Educational laws of Virginia)