Research Catalog

Title

Africans at Key West. : Message from the president of the United States, relative to the disposition of the Africans landed at Key West from a stranded Spanish vessel.

Author

United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams), creator.

Publication

• [Washington, D.C.] : [Publisher not identified], 1828.
• Washington [D.C.] : Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828.

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Additional Authors

• Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
• Cornell, Thomas F.
• United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.
• United States. Congress (20th, 1st session : 1827-1828). House.
• Gales & Seaton, printer.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

10 p.; 24 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Series Statement

U.S. 20th Congress, 1st session. House of Representatives. Document, no. 262

Uniform Title

House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 20th Congress, 1st session, no. 262.

Subjects

• Customhouses
• Florida
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Florida > Saint Augustine
• Customhouses > Florida > St. Augustine
• Enslaved persons > Florida
• Slave traders > Florida
• Shipwrecks > Florida

Genre/Form

Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• At head of title: 20th Congress, 1st session. [Doc. no. 262.] Ho. of Reps. Executive.
• "April 30, 1828. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary."
• Message, p. 3, signed: John Quincy Adams.
• "Papers relating to the introduction of slaves into the port of St. Augustine, "--Page 5-6, a letter from the Custom House, St. Augustine, signed: Thos. F. Cornell, deputy collector of the customs for the District of St. Augustine.

Indexed In (note)

• Shoemaker, R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-U (United States. President Adams. Africans at Key West)

OCLC

84314264

Author

United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams), creator.

Title

Africans at Key West. : Message from the president of the United States, relative to the disposition of the Africans landed at Key West from a stranded Spanish vessel.

Publisher

[Washington, D.C.] : [Publisher not identified], 1828.

Manufacturer

Washington [D.C.] : Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

U.S. 20th Congress, 1st session. House of Representatives. Document, no. 262

House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 20th Congress, 1st session, no. 262.

Indexed In:

Shoemaker, R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829, 35639

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 9, page 7979, column 1, row 2

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy is one of the items added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the Collection librarian and Lawrence Reddick was the curator. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection"; but lacks the NYPL perforated stamp and any other stamps or processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection.Bound in red cloth over boards, library binding with additional blank pages at the back, and gilt spine title.

Source

J854191. NN

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Place of Publication

United States District of Columbia Washington.

Added Author

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.

Cornell, Thomas F.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.

United States. Congress (20th, 1st session : 1827-1828). House.

Gales & Seaton, printer.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-U (United States. President Adams. Africans at Key West)