The house of bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and other slaves : original and life like, as they appeared in their old plantation and city slave life : together with pen pictures of the peculiar institution, with sights and insights into their new relations as freedmen, freemen, and citizens
- Title
- The house of bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and other slaves : original and life like, as they appeared in their old plantation and city slave life : together with pen pictures of the peculiar institution, with sights and insights into their new relations as freedmen, freemen, and citizens / by Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert ; with an introduction by Rev. Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu, D.D.
- Published by
- New York : Hunt & Eaton ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1890.
- ©1890.
- Author
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Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. | FormatBook/Text | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc Rare 326.973-A (Albert, O. V. R. House of bondage) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Additional authors
- Description
- xiv, 161, [1] pages : portrait; 19 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Alternative title
- House of bondage
- Charlotte Brooks and other slaves
- Subject
- Albert, Octavia V. Rogers 1853-approximately 1889
- Albert, Octavia V. Rogers 1853-approximately 1889 -- Portraits
- Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography
- Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions
- Freed persons -- United States -- Biography
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography
- Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century
- Plantation life -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century
- Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century
- Enslaved persons -- Religious life -- History -- United States -- 19th century
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana
- Contents
- ch. 1. Charlotte Brooks -- ch. 2. Charlotte's story -- ch. 3. Aunt Charlotte's friends -- ch. 4. Cruel masters -- ch. 5. Great tribulations -- ch. 6. A kind mistress -- ch. 7. Broken-down freedmen -- ch. 8. The curse of whisky -- ch. 9. John and Lorendo -- ch. 10. A converted Catholic -- ch. 11. Prison horrors -- ch. 12. Sallie Smith's story -- ch. 13. In the woods -- ch. 14. Uncle Stephen Jordan -- ch. 15. Counterfeit free papers -- ch. 16. Uncle Cephas's story -- ch. 17. A colored soldier -- ch. 18. Negro government -- ch. 19. The colored delegates -- ch. 20. A touching incident.
- Call number
- Sc Rare 326.973-A (Albert, O. V. R. House of bondage)
- Note
- "Copyright, 1890, by Hunt & Eaton, New York."--verso of title page.
- Indexed in (note)
- Lib. Company. Afro-Americana (2nd ed.)
- Additional formats (note)
- 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)
- from Arthur A. Schomburg;
- Provenance (note)
- is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Author
- Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-approximately 1889.
- Title
- The house of bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and other slaves : original and life like, as they appeared in their old plantation and city slave life : together with pen pictures of the peculiar institution, with sights and insights into their new relations as freedmen, freemen, and citizens / by Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert ; with an introduction by Rev. Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu, D.D.
- Publisher
- New York : Hunt & Eaton ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1890.
- Copyright date
- ©1890.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Indexed in:
- Lib. Company. Afro-Americana (2nd ed.), Suppl. 31
- Additional formats
- 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
- Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-A (accession no. B389756) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Source
- Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-A (Albert, O. V. R. House of bondage), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.
- Connect to:
- Local subject
- Black author.
- Added author
- ch. 1. Charlotte Brooks -- ch. 2. Charlotte's story -- ch. 3. Aunt Charlotte's friends -- ch. 4. Cruel masters -- ch. 5. Great tribulations -- ch. 6. A kind mistress -- ch. 7. Broken-down freedmen -- ch. 8. The curse of whisky -- ch. 9. John and Lorendo -- ch. 10. A converted Catholic -- ch. 11. Prison horrors -- ch. 12. Sallie Smith's story -- ch. 13. In the woods -- ch. 14. Uncle Stephen Jordan -- ch. 15. Counterfeit free papers -- ch. 16. Uncle Cephas's story -- ch. 17. A colored soldier -- ch. 18. Negro government -- ch. 19. The colored delegates -- ch. 20. A touching incident.
- Mallalieu, Willard F. (Willard Francis), 1828-1911.
- Hunt & Eaton, publisher.
- Cranston & Stowe, publisher.
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- LCCN
- 10033441
- Research call number
- Sc Rare 326.973-A (Albert, O. V. R. House of bondage)
- *WIY 97-2