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A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States : with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor : and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of colour : including memoirs of facts on the interior traffic in slaves, and on kidnapping : illustrated with engravings

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A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States : with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor : and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of colour : including memoirs of facts on the interior traffic in slaves, and on kidnapping : illustrated with engravings / by Jesse Torrey, Jun. physician, author of a series of essays on morals and the diffusion of knowledge.
Author
Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834.
Publication
Philadelphia : Published by the author. John Bioren, printer, 1817.

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Additional Authors
  • Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
  • Park, Mungo, 1771-1806
  • Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834
  • Bioren, John, 1773-1835
  • Rider, Alexander, active 1810-1834
  • Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846
  • Goodman & Piggot, engraver.
  • Ford Collection.
Description
vii, [2], 10-94 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subjects
Note
  • Plates drawn by Alexander Rider and engraved by Alexander Lawson, and Goodman & Piggot.
  • "Restless appeal to the human heart"--poem by William Cowper, p. [63].
  • "A picture of Africa at home"--p. [65]-83. Includes excerpts from Mungo Park's Travels in the interior districts of Africa.
  • "Additional note"--p. [85]-94.
Indexed In (note)
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
  • Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
  • Shaw, R.R. American bibliography
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Call Number
Sc Rare 326.4-T (Torrey, J. Portraiture of domestic slavery. 1817)
OCLC
  • 778669
  • NYPGR778669-B
Author
Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834.
Title
A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States : with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor : and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of colour : including memoirs of facts on the interior traffic in slaves, and on kidnapping : illustrated with engravings / by Jesse Torrey, Jun. physician, author of a series of essays on morals and the diffusion of knowledge.
Imprint
Philadelphia : Published by the author. John Bioren, printer, 1817.
Indexed In:
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 10347
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 96290
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 42311
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 326.4-T (accession no. B572168) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Park, Mungo, 1771-1806 Travels in the interior districts of Africa.
Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834, publisher.
Bioren, John, 1773-1835, printer.
Rider, Alexander, active 1810-1834, illustrator.
Goodman & Piggot, engraver.
Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846, engraver.
Ford Collection.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 326.4-T (Torrey, J. Portraiture of domestic slavery. 1817)
SEKK (Torrey, J. Portraiture of domestic slavery)
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