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A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States : with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor : and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of colour : including memoirs of facts on the interior traffic in slaves, and on kidnapping : illustrated with engravings
- Title
- A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States : with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor : and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of colour : including memoirs of facts on the interior traffic in slaves, and on kidnapping : illustrated with engravings / by Jesse Torrey, Jun. physician, author of a series of essays on morals and the diffusion of knowledge.
- Author
- Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Published by the author. John Bioren, printer, 1817.
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- Description
- vii, [2], 10-94 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subject
- Note
- Plates drawn by Alexander Rider and engraved by Alexander Lawson, and Goodman & Piggot.
- "Restless appeal to the human heart"--poem by William Cowper, p. [63].
- "A picture of Africa at home"--p. [65]-83. Includes excerpts from Mungo Park's Travels in the interior districts of Africa.
- "Additional note"--p. [85]-94.
- Indexed In (note)
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
- Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
- Shaw, R.R. American bibliography
- Provenance (note)
- is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 326.4-T (Torrey, J. Portraiture of domestic slavery. 1817)
- OCLC
- 778669
- NYPGR778669-B
- Author
- Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834.
- Title
- A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States : with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor : and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of colour : including memoirs of facts on the interior traffic in slaves, and on kidnapping : illustrated with engravings / by Jesse Torrey, Jun. physician, author of a series of essays on morals and the diffusion of knowledge.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : Published by the author. John Bioren, printer, 1817.
- Indexed In:
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 10347Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 96290Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 42311
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare 326.4-T (accession no. B572168) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Cowper, William, 1731-1800.Park, Mungo, 1771-1806 Travels in the interior districts of Africa.Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834, publisher.Bioren, John, 1773-1835, printer.Rider, Alexander, active 1810-1834, illustrator.Goodman & Piggot, engraver.Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846, engraver.Ford Collection.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 326.4-T (Torrey, J. Portraiture of domestic slavery. 1817)SEKK (Torrey, J. Portraiture of domestic slavery)