Research Catalog

Title

The freedmen's book / By L. Maria Child.

Author

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.

Publication

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1865.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ticknor and Fields, publisher.
• University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
• Welch, Bigelow & Co., printer.

Description

[2], vi, 277, [1], 21, [3] p.; 18 cm.

Summary

Biographical essays prepared "expressly" for freedmen.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Freed persons
• Freed persons > United States
• African Americans
• Freed persons > United States > Biography
• African Americans > Biography
• Publishers' advertisements > Massachusetts > Boston
• Publishers' catalogs > Massachusetts > Boston
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Genre/Form

• Publishers' advertisements – Massachusetts – Boston.
• Publishers' catalogs – Massachusetts – Boston.
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by L. Maria Child, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge."--verso of title page.
• "The names of the colored authors are marked with an asterisk."-- Contents, p. [v].
• Publisher's catalog and advertisements, final 21 and [3] p.

Indexed In (note)

• Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on slip mounted to recto of endleaf preceding title page "From L. Maria Child." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Ignatius Sancho / L. Maria Child -- Extracts from the tenth Psalm -- Prejudice reproved / Lydia H. Sigourney -- Benjamin Banneker / L. Maria Child -- Ethiopia / Frances E.W. Harper -- The hour of freedom / William Lloyd Garrison -- William Boen / L. Maria Child -- Anecdote of General Washington -- Prayer of the slave / Bernard Barton -- Toussaint L'Ouverture / L. Maria Child -- The aspirations of Mingo / Mingo, a slave -- Bury me in the free land / Frances E.W. Harper -- Phillis Wheatley / L. Maria Child -- A pertinent question / Frederick Douglass -- The works of Providence / Phillis Wheatley -- The dying Christian / Frances E.W. Harper -- Kindness to animals / L. Maria Child -- James Forten / L. Maria Child -- The meeting in the swamp / L. Maria Child -- A reasonable request / Peter Williams -- The slave poet / George Horton, a slave -- Ratie / Mattie Griffith -- The kingdom of Christ / James Montgomery -- Progress of emancipation in the British West Indies / L. Maria Child -- The last night of slavery / James Montgomery -- Madison Washington / L. Maria Child -- Extract from the Virginia bill of rights -- Praise of creation / George Horton -- Frederick Douglass / L. Maria Child -- How the good work goes on / [L. Maria Child] -- Dedication hymn / J.M. Whitefield -- A prayer / John G. Whittier -- William and Ellen Crafts / L. Maria Child -- Spring / George Horton -- The good grandmother / Harriet Jacobs -- The colored mother's prayer -- William Costin -- Education of children / L. Maria Child -- Thank God for little children / Frances E.W. Harper -- Sam and Andy / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- John Brown / L. Maria Child -- The air of freedom / Frances E.W. Harper -- Emancipation in the District of Columbia / James Madison Bell -- The laws of health / L. Maria Child -- President Lincoln's proclamation of emancipation / Frances E.W. Harper -- New-Year's Day on the islands of South Carolina / Charlotte L. Forten -- Song of the Negro boatmen at Port Royal, S.C. / John G. Whittier -- Extracts from speech to colored people in Charleston / Hon. Judge Kelly -- Black Tom / a Yankee soldier -- Letter from a freedman / Jourdon Anderson -- Colonel Robert G. Shaw / Eliza B. Sedgwick -- Advice from an old friend / L. Maria Child -- Day of Jubilee / A.G. Duncan.

Call Number

Sc Rare 973.77-C (Child, L. M. F. Freedmen's book)

LCCN

12002981

OCLC

1024593

Author

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.

Title

The freedmen's book / By L. Maria Child.

Imprint

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1865.

Indexed In:

Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature 3199

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 2278

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 973.77-C (copy 1) (accession no. B526390) inscribed: in ink on slip mounted to recto of endleaf preceding title page "From L. Maria Child." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-12828 no. 62.

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Added Author

Ticknor and Fields, publisher.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

Welch, Bigelow & Co., printer.

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 973.77-C (Child, L. M. F. Freedmen's book)

IEC (Child, L. M. F. Freedmen's book)