Research Catalog

Title

The suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 / by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, Ph.D. (Harv.) sometime fellow of Harvard University, professor in Wilberforce University.

Author

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

Publication

• New York ; London ; Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896.
• ©1896.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Longman, Green & Co., publisher.
• John Wilson and Son, printer.
• University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

Description

xi, [1], 335, [1] pages; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Series Statement

Harvard historical studies ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Harvard historical studies ; v. 1.

Subject

• Slave trade
• Slavery > United States
• Slave trade > United States

Note

• Series title page with series advertisement on verso, pages [i]-[ii].
• "Copyright, 1896, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College."--verso of title page.
• "University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Appendix A: A chronological conspectus of colonial and state legislation restricting the African slave-trade, 1641-1787 -- Appendix B: A chronological conspectus of state, national, and international legislation, 1787-1871 -- Appendix C: Typical cases of vessels engaged in the American slave-trade, 1619-1864 -- Appendix D: Bibliography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-325) and index.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
• Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introductory -- The planting colonies -- The farming colonies -- The trading colonies -- The period of the Revolution, 1774-1787 -- The Federal Convention, 1787 -- Toussaint L'Ouverture and anti-slavery effort, 1787-1807 -- The period of attempted suppression, 1807-1825 -- The international status of the slave-trade, 1783-1862 -- The rise of the cotton kingdom, 1820-1850 -- The final crisis, 1850-1870 -- the essentials of the struggle -- Appendices -- Index.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-D (Du Bois, W. Suppression of the African slave-trade... 1896)

LCCN

20023269

OCLC

• 433700082
• 433700082

Author

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, author.

Title

The suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 / by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, Ph.D. (Harv.) sometime fellow of Harvard University, professor in Wilberforce University.

Publisher

New York ; London ; Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896.

Copyright Date

©1896.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Harvard historical studies ; v. 1

Harvard historical studies ; v. 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-325) and index.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 3287

Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression 3648

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.1-D (accession no. B526318) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Longman, Green & Co., publisher.

John Wilson and Son, printer.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-D (Du Bois, W. Suppression of the African slave-trade... 1896)