Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Carleton, George Washington, 1832-1901

Description

1. 432 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill.; 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. Slavery > United States > Controversial literature
2. Slaves > United States > Social conditions
3. African American soldiers
4. Slavery > United States > Controversial literature > 1864
5. Inscriptions (Provenance)
6. African Americans

Genre/Form

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Contents

1. Things past and present -- Slaves, horses, and other cattle -- Slave life on the plantation -- Slave education and religion -- Domestic amusements in the slave states -- The slave power advacing -- Appendix A. Colorphobia in the free states -- Appendix B. The Rev. Judicious Trimmer, D.D. -- Appendix C. Domestic and foreign slave trade. Appendix D. Dough-face religion -- Postscript, 1864 -- Particular index.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4-S (Suppressed book about slavery)

Note

1. "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by Geo. W. Carleton, in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
2. Includes index.
3. Published in time for the 1864 presidential election, the publisher states that the book was written in 1857 and the stereotype plates were made then. "The Book discloses the hideous skeleton of the institution which we have fondled and petted till it has almost been the death of us. It reveals the dark deeds of slavery, and opens to view its hideous purposes, its revolutionary premeditations."

Indexed in (note)

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

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in pencil on title page "Robert Long. Phila. Oct. 24, 1911." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Title

1. The suppressed book about slavery! : prepared for publication in 1857, never published until the present time.

Imprint

1. New York : Carleton, publisher, 1864.

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 10068

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.4-S (accession no. B519468) inscribed: in pencil on title page "Robert Long. Phila. Oct. 24, 1911." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local note

1. Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-16777.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Access to Special Collections Material
3. Full text available via HathiTrust

Added author

1. Carleton, George Washington, 1832-1901, publisher.
2. Long, Robert, active 1911, former owner, inscriber.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 18023780

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4-S (Suppressed book about slavery)
2. IIR (Suppressed book about slavery)