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Additional authors

1. John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.), publisher.
2. Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, publisher.
3. Sampson Low, Son & Co., publisher.
4. Boston Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.

Description

1. 306, [2] pages; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. Slavery > Law and legislation > United States
2. Slavery > United States > Controversial literature

Contents

1. Introduction -- ch. 1. The relation of master and slave -- ch. 2. Political results of the slave-holding system -- ch. 3. Economical results of the slave-holding system -- ch. 4. Personal results of the slave-holding system -- ch. 5. Legal basis of the slave-holding system -- Appendix.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4-H (Hildreth, R. Despotism in America. 1854)

Note

1. First published anonymously, Boston, 1840.
2. "Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry"--verso of title page.
3. "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by John P. Jewett and Company, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865, author.

Title

1. Despotism in America : an inquiry into the nature, results, and legal basis of the slave-holding system in the United States / by Richard Hildreth.

Publisher

1. Boston : Published by John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington ; London : Low and Company, 1854.

Copyright date

1. ©1854

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.4-H (accession no. B593839) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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1. Request Access to Special Collections Material
2. Full text available via HathiTrust (1968 facsimile).

Added author

1. John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.), publisher.
2. Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, publisher.
3. Sampson Low, Son & Co., publisher.
4. Boston Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.
5. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 11009326

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.4-H (Hildreth, R. Despotism in America. 1854)