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Additional authors

1. Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884
2. J.B. Yerrinton and Son, printer.

Description

1. 104 pages; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. Enslaved persons > United States > Biography
2. African American authors > Biography
3. African Americans > Biography
4. Inscriptions (Provenance)
5. Black author
6. Slavery > Missouri
7. African American abolitionists > Biography
8. Ink stamps (Provenance)
9. Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography
10. Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 > Travel

Genre/Form

1. Ink stamps (Provenance)
2. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Call number

1. *WIY 97-5

Note

1. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five, by Josephine Brown, in the clerk's office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
2. "Boston: J.B. Yerrinton and Son, printers."--verso of title page.
3. "While at school in France, I was often beset by my fellow students to know the history of my father, whom they heard was a fugitive from American despotism. To satisfy their curiosity, I wrote out the first ten chapters of the following pages, as I had heard the incidents related. On returning to America last August, and finding that the narrative of my father's life, written by him, and published some years ago, was out of print, I determined to supply its place; and therefore have added a few more chapters to those written while abroad. Josephine Brown. Boston, Mass."--Preface.
4. The source material used by Josephine Brown was William Wells Brown's 1847 autobiography, "Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave / Written by himself."

Indexed in (note)

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

Additional formats (note)

1. Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Source (note)

1. from Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." With ink stamp: on title page and page 104 "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Brown, Josephine.

Title

1. Biography of an American bondman / by his daughter.

Publisher

1. Boston : Published by R.F. Wallcut, 21 Cornhill, 1856.

Copyright date

1. ©1855

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Additional formats

1. Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-B (accession no. B591190) inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." With ink stamp: on title page and page 104 "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.) Suppl. 293

Source

1. Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-B (Brown, J. ...American bondman), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections Material
2. Full text available via HathiTrust (Duke University copy)
3. Plain text PDF available via the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Project

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884, publisher.
2. J.B. Yerrinton and Son, printer.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.
4. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

LCCN

1. 77364829

Research call number

1. *WIY 97-5
2. Sc Rare C 83-61
3. Sc Rare 326.92-B (Brown, J. ...American bondman)