Research Catalog

Title

Poems by a slave in the island of Cuba, recently liberated / translated from the Spanish, by R.R. Madden, M.D. ; with the history of the early life of the negro poet, written by himself ; to which are prefixed two pieces descriptive of Cuban slavery and the slave-traffic, by R.R.M.

Author

Manzano, Juan Francisco, 1797-1854.

Publication

London : Thomas Ward and Co., 27, Paternoster Row; and may be had at the Office of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 27, New Broad Street, 1840.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886.
• Thomas Ward and Company, publisher.
• British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, bookseller.
• Johnston & Barrett, printer.

Description

[7], ii-v, [4], 10-188 p.; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

Poems, written in slavery, &c. &c. &c.

Subjects

• Slavery > Cuba
• Slavery > Cuba > History
• Slave trade > Cuba
• Slaves > Cuba > Biography
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Slavery > Cuba > Poetry
• Black author
• Blacks > Cuba > Biography
• Slavery and the church > Cuba
• Slavery > Law and legislation > Cuba
• Manzano, Juan Francisco, 1797-1854
• Slaves > Cuba > Social conditions

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Johnston & Barrett, printers, 13, Mark Lane, London."--printer statment, colophon, p. 188.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on verso of first free endleaf "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Slave-trade merchant -- The sugar estate -- The life of the Negro poet -- The poems of the Negro poet -- Ode to death -- Ode to calumny -- Ode to religion -- Thirty years -- The cucuya, or fire-fly -- The clock that gains -- The dream -- A specimen of in-edited Cuban poetry -- Appendix: Questions addressed to Senor — of Havana, by R.R. Madden ; Questions respecting the state of religion in Cuba, addressed to Senor — of the Havana, by R.R. Madden ; Necessity of seperating the Irish in America from the sin of slavery ; Bartholomew Las Casas ; Evils of the Cuban slave trade ; Condition of slaves in Cuba ; Laws for the protection of slaves in Cuba ; Emancipation of slaves in Cuba ; Glossary.

Call Number

Sc Rare 861-M (Manzano, J. F. Poems...)

LCCN

01013046

OCLC

3617472

Author

Manzano, Juan Francisco, 1797-1854.

Title

Poems by a slave in the island of Cuba, recently liberated / translated from the Spanish, by R.R. Madden, M.D. ; with the history of the early life of the negro poet, written by himself ; to which are prefixed two pieces descriptive of Cuban slavery and the slave-traffic, by R.R.M.

Imprint

London : Thomas Ward and Co., 27, Paternoster Row; and may be had at the Office of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 27, New Broad Street, 1840.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 861-M (accession no. B526355) inscribed: in ink on verso of first free endleaf "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Researchers are restricted to microform copy in Sc Micro R-1319.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886.

Thomas Ward and Company, publisher.

British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, bookseller.

Johnston & Barrett, printer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 861-M (Manzano, J. F. Poems...)