Research Catalog

Title

The equality of all men before the law : claimed and defended / in speeches by Hon. William D. Kelley, Wendell Phillips, and Frederick Douglass, and letters from Elizur Wright and Wm. Heighton.

Author

Kelley, William D. (William Darrah), 1814-1890

Publication

Boston [Mass.] : Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1865.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.
• Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
• Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885.
• Heighton, William, 1800-
• Stearns, Geo. L. (George Luther), 1809-1867
• Rand, George Curtis, 1818 or 1819-1878
• Carlisle, David, 1771-1835
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

43 pages; 23 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subjects

• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• African Americans > Politics and government

Genre/Form

• Speeches.
• History.
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• Edited by Geo. L. Stearns.
• Kelley's speech in the House of Representatives, Jan. 16, 1865: p. 5-28.

Indexed In (note)

• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Contents

Speech of Hon. William D. Kelley ... January 16, 1865.--The immediate issue: a speech of Wendell Phillips at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Boston.--What the black man wants: speech of Frederick Douglass at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Boston.--Suffrage for the blacks sound political economy: shown in a letter to the "Boston daily advertiser", by Elizur Wright.--Reconstruction: a letter from William Heighton to George L. Stearns.

Call Number

Sc Rare 324.15-K (Kelley, W. D. The equality of all men before the law)

LCCN

12005307

OCLC

3762921

Author

Kelley, William D. (William Darrah), 1814-1890, author.

Title

The equality of all men before the law : claimed and defended / in speeches by Hon. William D. Kelley, Wendell Phillips, and Frederick Douglass, and letters from Elizur Wright and Wm. Heighton.

Publisher

Boston [Mass.] : Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1865.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, numbers 22713.

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 5, page 3835, column 1, row 5-6

Local Note

Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of the items.

Copy 1 in Sc Rare 324.15-K (accession no. G228238) is one of the gifts added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer, collection librarian, & Arthur A. Schomburg, curator. Imperfect: brittle, bound in black cloth over boards, library binding, and gilt spine; probably was rebound because it includes a 1972 onward NYPL bookplate for: {28}the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Copy 2 in Sc Rare 324.15-K (accession no. G307524) includes an NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection." It's one of the gifts added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian, and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. Imperfect: bound in brown cloth over boards, library binding, with additional blank pages at the back and a gilt spine.

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Chronological Term

1865-1877

Place of Publication

United States Massachusetts Boston.

Added Author

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885.

Heighton, William, 1800-

Stearns, Geo. L. (George Luther), 1809-1867, editor.

Rand, George Curtis, 1818 or 1819-1878, printer.

Carlisle, David, 1771-1835, printer.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, curator.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, curator.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 324.15-K (Kelley, W. D. The equality of all men before the law)