Research Catalog

Title

The Fugitive Slave Bill : its history and constitutionality ; with an account of the seizure and enslavement of James Hamlet, and his subsequent restoration of liberty.

Publication

New-York : William Harned, 61 John Street. Price $2 a hundred; single copies, 5 cents, 1850.

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Additional Authors

• Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873.
• Gray, John A. (John Abercrombie), 1818-1903
• Harned, William
• American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.

Description

36 p.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

• Civil liberty outraged
• History and unconstitutionality of the Fugitive slave bill

Subject

• Hamlet, James
• United States
• Fugitive slaves > United States
• Slavery > United States

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Preface signed and dated: Office of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, ... October 7, 1850. ... Lewis Tappan, Cor. Sec.
• "John A. Gray, printer, 79 Fulton, cor. of Gold street."--colophon.

Indexed In (note)

• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

• 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 326.973F-A (American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Fugitive slave bill)

OCLC

79664223

Title

The Fugitive Slave Bill : its history and constitutionality ; with an account of the seizure and enslavement of James Hamlet, and his subsequent restoration of liberty.

Imprint

New-York : William Harned, 61 John Street. Price $2 a hundred; single copies, 5 cents, 1850.

Indexed In:

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 26125

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 269

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.973F-A (copy 1) (accession no. B883990) inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-2983 or the elctronic resource.

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Added Author

American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.

Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873.

Gray, John A. (John Abercrombie), 1818-1903, printer.

Harned, William, publisher.

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

Caption Title

Civil liberty outraged

Running Title

History and unconstitutionality of the Fugitive slave bill

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973F-A (American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Fugitive slave bill)