Research Catalog

Title

The ebony idol ...

Author

Flanders, G. M., Mrs.

Publication

New York : D. Appleton & Company ..., 1860.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Description

283 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

When the Reverend Carey brings a fugitive slave named Caesar to the New England village of Minton, the town is torn apart between pro- and anti-slavery factions.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

• Enslaved persons > United States > Fiction
• Abolitionists > United States > Fiction
• Abolitionists
• Slavery
• Enslaved persons
• New England > Fiction
• New England
• United States
• Northeastern States

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• Name of author supplied from Wright.
• "Satire on an abolitionist organization."--Wright
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by D. Appleton & Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Indexed In (note)

• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Call Number

NBO (Flanders, G. M. Ebony idol)

LCCN

06041131

OCLC

2175129

Author

Flanders, G. M., Mrs.

Title

The ebony idol ...

Publisher

New York : D. Appleton & Company ..., 1860.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 908

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 3, page 2533, column 2, row 1

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of this book. Copy in Sc Rare Fic-F (Flanders, G. M. Ebony idol) (accession no. G14791) is a gift added or transferred to the Schomburg collection during Catherine A. Latimer's tenure as collection librarian. It's originally part of the 135 Street Branch, Circulation Department; it includes NYPL's bookplate of Reference Collection of Negro Literature on page [2] of the cover, as well as various ink stamps of: "Division of Negro Literature and History," "Property of the City of New York" and "The New York Public Library: Circulation Department, 135 Street Branch, 103 West 135th St." It also contains early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection and perforated stamps or seals. The book is Library-bound in full grey & black checkered patterned cloth over boards and a gilt spine. G.K. Hall's entry for this item includes a printing date of "August 31, 1931," which indicates that this item may have been re-cataloged.

The second copy in Sc Rare F 96-4 is a post-Lawrence Reddick addition to the collection with the sun-faded original cover bound in full brown or purple cloth over boards and a gilt decorative spine.

Source

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-F (Flanders, G. M. Ebony idol) Gift; G14791. NN

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Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948 collection librarian.

Other Form:

Online version: Flanders, G.M., Mrs. Ebony idol . New York: D. Appleton, 1860 (OCoLC)654469690

Research Call Number

NBO (Flanders, G. M. Ebony idol)

Sc Rare F 96-4

Sc Rare Fic-F (Flanders, G. M. Ebony idol)