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History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue

Title
History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue / compiled by Jacob R. Shipherd ; with an introduction by Prof. Henry E. Peck, and Hon. Ralph Plumb.
Publication
Boston : Published by John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Henry P.B. Jewett ; New York : Sheldon and Company, 1859.

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Additional Authors
  • Shipherd, Jacob R.
  • Plumb, Ralph, 1816-1903.
  • Peck, Henry E. (Henry Everard), 1821-1867.
  • Jewett, Henry P. B.
  • John P. Jewett & Co., publisher.
  • Sheldon & Company (New York, N.Y.), publisher.
  • Allen and Farnham, printer.
Description
viii, 280 p.; 23 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  • Bushnell, Simeon > Trials, litigation, etc
  • United States
  • Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, 1858
  • Fugitive slaves > Ohio
Note
  • The arrest of John, a fugitive slave of John G. Bacon of Kentucky, residing in Oberlin, Ohio, and his release from the hands of the officers by a number of citizens. Simeon Bushnell was accused of and tried for freeing the slave.
  • Title vignette: "View of the jail in Cleveland, Ohio, where the prisoners were confined."
  • "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by John P. Jewett and Company, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
  • "Cambridge: Allen and Farnham, electrotypers and printers."--printer statement, verso of title page.
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.
Call Number
Sc Rare 326.973F-S (Shipherd, J. R. History of the Oberlin-Wellington rescue)
LCCN
10034369
OCLC
  • 7162672
  • NYPGR7162672-B
Title
History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue / compiled by Jacob R. Shipherd ; with an introduction by Prof. Henry E. Peck, and Hon. Ralph Plumb.
Imprint
Boston : Published by John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Henry P.B. Jewett ; New York : Sheldon and Company, 1859.
Indexed In:
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 9393
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 326.973F-S (accession no. B593663) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
Local Note
Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-509, or the electronic resource.
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Added Author
Shipherd, Jacob R.
Plumb, Ralph, 1816-1903.
Peck, Henry E. (Henry Everard), 1821-1867.
John P. Jewett & Co., publisher.
Jewett, Henry P. B., publisher.
Sheldon & Company (New York, N.Y.), publisher.
Allen and Farnham, printer.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 326.973F-S (Shipherd, J. R. History of the Oberlin-Wellington rescue)
IIR (Shipherd, J. R. History of the Oberlin-Wellington rescue)
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