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Additional authors

1. Mallalieu, Willard F. (Willard Francis), 1828-1911
2. Hunt & Eaton, publisher
3. Cranston & Stowe, publisher

Description

1. xiv, 161, [1] pages : portrait; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative title

1. House of bondage
2. Charlotte Brooks and other slaves

Subject

1. Albert, Octavia V. Rogers 1853-approximately 1889
2. Albert, Octavia V. Rogers 1853-approximately 1889 -- Portraits
3. Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography
4. Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions
5. Freed persons -- United States -- Biography
6. Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography
7. Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century
8. Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century
9. Plantation life -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century
10. Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century
11. Enslaved persons -- Religious life -- History -- United States -- 19th century
12. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana

Contents

1. 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

1. Sc Rare 326.973-A (Albert, O. V. R. House of bondage)

Note

1. "Copyright, 1890, by Hunt & Eaton, New York."--verso of title page.

Indexed in (note)

1. Lib. Company. Afro-Americana (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. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-approximately 1889.

Title

1. 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

1. New York : Hunt & Eaton ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1890.

Copyright date

1. ©1890.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. Lib. Company. Afro-Americana (2nd ed.), Suppl. 31

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 326.973-A (accession no. B389756) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Source

1. 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:

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

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. 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.
2. Mallalieu, Willard F. (Willard Francis), 1828-1911.
3. Hunt & Eaton, publisher.
4. Cranston & Stowe, publisher.
5. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 10033441

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.973-A (Albert, O. V. R. House of bondage)
2. *WIY 97-2