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Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of colour
- Title
- Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of colour / compiled by A. Mott.
- Author
- Mott, Abigail, 1766-1851.
- Publication
- York : Printed and sold by W. Alexander & Son, Castlegate; sold also by Harvey and Darton, W. Phillips, E. Fry, and W. Darton, London; R. Peart, Birmingham; D.F. Gardiner, Dublin, 1828.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc Rare 920-M (Mott, A. Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes. 1828) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, [1], 252 p.; 19 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Note
- Signatures: A⁶ B-L¹² M⁶
- Indexed In (note)
- Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
- Provenance (note)
- is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Biographical sketches: Francis Williams -- Jasmin Thoumazcau -- Ignatius Sanchi -- Attobah Cugoano -- Phillis Wheatley -- Poor Sarah -- Alice, the Negro -- The generous Negro -- Captain Paul Cuffee -- Solomon Bayley -- Margaret Ann Crutchfield -- John Williams -- Zilpha Montjoy -- Belinda Lucas -- Gustavus Vassa -- Toussaint L'Ouverture -- Billy and Jenny -- Cornelius -- Simeon Wilhelm -- Lucy Cardwell -- Lott Carey.
- pt. 2. Interesting anecdotes: Ebed-melech's kindness -- The good master and his faithful slave -- An anecdote -- The coloured foundling -- Louis Desrouleaux -- The grateful Negro -- The faithful Negress -- Coffin -- Job Ben Solomon -- Anthony William Amo -- James Derham -- Benjamin Bannaker -- Anecdote of two Negroes in France -- Uncle Harry -- The happy Negro -- The hospitable Negro woman -- Irrouba -- Belinda -- An extract of a letter from S.G. -- Negro slave -- Agnes Morris -- Illustration of the effects of slavery on the hearts of those who enforce its cruelties -- Maryland trade -- Stephen Dutton -- Man does not feel for man -- The Negro martyr -- The African chief -- The African boy -- The slave-taker -- The little Bostonian -- Extraordinary exertions to obtain liberty -- Abraham -- John Mosely -- Nancy Pitchford -- Sarah Hoar -- Extraordinary munificence -- Anecdotes of two Indians -- The good old Indian -- The faith of a poor blind woman -- Quashi -- Exhortation of a Mexican Indian to his son -- A slave set free by a coloured woman -- African schools in New-York -- Letters from Hayti, by a late female pupil of the New-York African School -- Extracts from letters of Charles W. Fisher, of Baltimore -- New-York African School for Boys -- A valedictory address by a scholar of the New-York African School.
- pt. 3. Pieces of poetry: The morning dream -- Lines by a traveller in Virginia -- Lines supposed to be written by an African prince -- White man to his slave -- Stanzas from the poem of Mialma.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 920-M (Mott, A. Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes. 1828)
- OCLC
- 13166385
- Author
- Mott, Abigail, 1766-1851.
- Title
- Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of colour / compiled by A. Mott.
- Imprint
- York : Printed and sold by W. Alexander & Son, Castlegate; sold also by Harvey and Darton, W. Phillips, E. Fry, and W. Darton, London; R. Peart, Birmingham; D.F. Gardiner, Dublin, 1828.
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Indexed In:
- Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 51111
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare 920-M (accession no. B541571) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Phillips, William, 1775-1828, bookseller.Fry, E. (Edmund), active 1815-1841, bookseller.Darton, William, 1781-1854, bookseller.Peart, R., bookseller.Gardiner, D. F. (Bookseller in Dublin, Ireland), bookseller.W. Alexander & Son, printer, bookseller.Harvey & Darton (London, England), bookseller.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 920-M (Mott, A. Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes. 1828)