Research Catalog

Title

The hireling and the slave, Chicora, and other poems / by William J. Grayson.

Author

Grayson, William J. (William John), 1788-1863.

Publication

Charleston, S.C. : McCarter & Co., publishers, 116 Meeting Street, 1856.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McCarter & Co., publisher.
• Bancroft Collection.
• Ford Collection.

Description

xv, [6], 22-169, [1] p.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

• Hireling and the slave
• Chicora

Subjects

• Working class > Poetry
• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature > 1856
• Slavery > Poetry
• Slavery > Justification
• Indians of North America > Poetry

Note

• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, by McCarter & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Notes to The hireling and the slave"--p. [153]-169.
• Last page blank.

Indexed In (note)

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

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

The hireling and the slave -- Chicora -- The poet's reward -- The lament of Fezzan for her chief -- Threescore years and seven -- Notes to The hireling and the slave.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-G (Grayson, W. J. Hireling and the slave. 1856)

LCCN

22004789

OCLC

• 2198380
• NYPGR2198380-B

Author

Grayson, William J. (William John), 1788-1863.

Title

The hireling and the slave, Chicora, and other poems / by William J. Grayson.

Imprint

Charleston, S.C. : McCarter & Co., publishers, 116 Meeting Street, 1856.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 4235

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-G (accession no. B545605) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 1856.

Added Author

McCarter & Co., publisher.

Bancroft Collection.

Ford Collection.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-G (Grayson, W. J. Hireling and the slave. 1856)

NBI (Grayson, W. J. Hireling and the slave. 1856)