Research Catalog

Title

An historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the republic on Negroes as slaves, as citizens, and as soldiers : Read before the Massachusetts historical society, August 14, 1862 / by George Livermore.

Author

Livermore, George, 1809-1865.

Publication

Boston : Printed by John Wilson and Son, 1862.

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Details

Additional Authors

John Wilson and Son, printer.

Description

xiv, [2], 215, [1] p.; 25 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

• African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History
• African Americans > History > To 1863.
• Slavery > Political aspects > United States
• Slavery > United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• African American soldiers > History
• United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783
• United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
• United States > History > Participation, African American. > Revolution, 1775-1783

Genre/Form

• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Supplement (p. [217]-236), issued 1863, has cover-title: Supplementary note and index to be added to the first edition of "An historical research, by George Livermore."
• Also published (without supplement) in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1863, v. 6, p. 86-248.

With (note)

• Copy in Sc Rare 973.3-L is bound with its supplement: Supplementary note and index to be added to the first edition of "An historical research, by George Livermore." Boston : John Wilson & Son, [1863?]

Source (note)

• of Sidney Lapidus;

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of third preliminary endleaf "C. C. Moreau Esq. with the compliments of George Livermore." ; Inscribed: in ink on recto of second prelim. free endleaf "Presented to Arthur A. Schomburg Esq. in appreciation of his valuable services to the cause of Negro research. By his friend and coworker John E. Bruce 'Grit' 2/17/15" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• Copy in Sc Rare D 15-10 (Lapidus Collection) -- Author's presentation copy -- inscribed in ink, on upper free end leaf, "Thomas Gaffield Esg : With the kind regards of George Livermore."

Binding (note)

• Copy in Sc Rare D 15-10 (Lapidus Collection) rebound in half brown leather with marbled paper boards.

Call Number

IEC (Livermore, G. Historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the republic. 1862)

LCCN

04019507

OCLC

23122417

Author

Livermore, George, 1809-1865.

Title

An historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the republic on Negroes as slaves, as citizens, and as soldiers : Read before the Massachusetts historical society, August 14, 1862 / by George Livermore.

Imprint

Boston : Printed by John Wilson and Son, 1862.

With:

Copy in Sc Rare 973.3-L is bound with its supplement: Supplementary note and index to be added to the first edition of "An historical research, by George Livermore." Boston : John Wilson & Son, [1863?] NN

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 973.3-L (accession no. B547534) inscribed: in ink on recto of third preliminary endleaf "C. C. Moreau Esq. with the compliments of George Livermore." ; Inscribed: in ink on recto of second prelim. free endleaf "Presented to Arthur A. Schomburg Esq. in appreciation of his valuable services to the cause of Negro research. By his friend and coworker John E. Bruce 'Grit' 2/17/15" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Copy in Sc Rare D 15-10 (Lapidus Collection) -- Author's presentation copy -- inscribed in ink, on upper free end leaf, "Thomas Gaffield Esg : With the kind regards of George Livermore." NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 973.3-L accompanied by [1] p. (on sheet folded to [4] p.) handwritten letter from George Livermore to Chares E. Moreau, Esq. of New York, dated Boston, Nov. 27, 1858. In the letter, Livermore thanks Moreau for facilitating "Mr. Richardson" to hand Livermore his "Washington Diary." The letter is mounted on a guard preceding the leaf with Livermore's presentation note to Moreau ; Accompanied by [25] leaves of plates bound in to the volume with twenty-four portraits of American statesmen, facing entries in the text related to them, and one portrait of an enslaved woman tipped in at end, clipped from p. 41 of an unknown edition of the Family Christian almanac. The order of plates is as follows: Edward Everett, Jefferson Davis, Louis McLane, William Gaston, Benjamin Franklin, James Otis Jr., John C. Calhoun, Robert Morris, Marquis de Lafayette, John Quincy Adams, Roger Sherman, John Randolph, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, William Sprague, Israel Putnam, John Stark, John Jay, Nathanael Green, George Washington, Henry Laurens, William Henry Harrison, John Hancock, Andrew Jackson, James Duane, the enslaved woman.

Binding

Copy in Sc Rare D 15-10 (Lapidus Collection) rebound in half brown leather with marbled paper boards. NN

Source

Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2015. Copy in Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books

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Added Author

John Wilson and Son, printer.

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

Bruce, John Edward, 1856-1924, former owner, inscriber.

Moreau, C. C. (Charles C.), 1835-1908, former owner.

Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.

Research Call Number

IEC (Livermore, G. Historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the republic. 1862)

QPF (Livermore, G. Historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the republic)

Sc Rare D 15-10 (Lapidus Collection)

Sc 973.3-L (Livermore, G. Historical research)

Sc Rare 973.3-L (Livermore, G. ...Opinions of the founders of the Republic on Negroes)