Research Catalog

Title

Proceedings of the Colored National Convention, held in Rochester, July 6th, 7th and 8th, 1853.

Author

Colored National Convention (1853 : Rochester, N.Y.)

Publication

Rochester : Printed at the Office of Frederick Douglass' Paper, 1853.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
• Office of Frederick Douglass' Paper, printer.

Description

57, [1] pages; 23 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

• National Council of the Colored People
• African Americans > Congresses
• African Americans civil rights
• African Americans > Civil rights > Congresses
• African Americans > Social conditions
• African Americans > Economic conditions
• African Americans > Colonization > Africa
• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature

Genre/Form

• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• This convention was one in a series of annual, and then less frequent, conventions organized by free blacks in the United States between 1830 and 1861. Cf. Bell, H. A survey of the Negro convention movement, 1830-1861 (New York, 1969). The names applied to these Conventions varied, especially during the 1840s and 50s when the meetings were less regular.
• "For the purpose of improving the character, developing the intelligence, maintaining the rights, and organizing a union of the colored people of the free states, the national convention does hereby ordain and institute the 'National Council of the Colored People.'"--pages 18-19.
• Letter from Frederick Douglass to Mrs. Stowe, pages 33-38.
• Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

• with ink stamp on title page: "Jas. G. Bennett. Herald Building." ; inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 323.4-C (Colored National Convention. Proceedings. 1853)

OCLC

29838046

Conference

Colored National Convention (1853 : Rochester, N.Y.)

Title

Proceedings of the Colored National Convention, held in Rochester, July 6th, 7th and 8th, 1853.

Publisher

Rochester : Printed at the Office of Frederick Douglass' Paper, 1853.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 323.4-C (accession no. B594304) with ink stamp on title page: "Jas. G. Bennett. Herald Building." ; inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Office of Frederick Douglass' Paper, printer.

Bennett, James Gordon, 1795-1872, former owner.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 323.4-C (Colored National Convention. Proceedings. 1853)