Research Catalog

Title

The black gauntlet : a tale of plantation life in South Carolina / by Mrs. Henry R. Schoolcraft.

Author

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, Mrs.

Publication

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860.

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Details

Additional Authors

J.B. Lippincott & Co., publisher.

Description

x, [1], 12-569, [1] p.; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Slavery > Fiction
• South Carolina > Social life and customs > Fiction
• Southern States > Fiction
• Slavery > Justification

Note

• A pro-slavery novel, part of the "plantation literature" genre of books, which were written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's cabin."
• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by Mrs. Henry R. Schoolcraft, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

Indexed In (note)

• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875

Provenance (note)

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

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-S (Schoolcraft, Mrs. H.R. Black gauntlet)

LCCN

08002045

OCLC

• 6496411
• NYPGR6496411-B

Author

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, Mrs.

Title

The black gauntlet : a tale of plantation life in South Carolina / by Mrs. Henry R. Schoolcraft.

Imprint

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860.

Indexed In:

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 2162

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-S (Schoolcraft, Mrs. H.R. Black gauntlet) (accession no. B545613) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

J.B. Lippincott & Co., publisher.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-S (Schoolcraft, Mrs. H.R. Black gauntlet)