Research Catalog

Title

A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African prince / as related by himself.

Author

Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw.

Publication

Leeds : Printed by Davies and Booth, at the Stanhope Press, Vicar-Lane, 1814.

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Additional Authors

• Shirley, Walter, 1725-1786.
• Davies and Booth, printer.

Description

32 p.; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Enslaved persons > New York (State) > New York > Biography
• Black people > England > Biography
• Black people > Africa > Biography
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw
• Slavery > New York (State) > New York
• Black author

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Preface signed: W. Shirley [i.e. Walter Shirley].
• "Davies and Booth, Printers, Leeds."--colophon, p. 32.
• Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare B-Gronniosaw (Gronniosaw, J.A. U. Narrative...)

OCLC

28573921

Author

Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw.

Title

A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African prince / as related by himself.

Imprint

Leeds : Printed by Davies and Booth, at the Stanhope Press, Vicar-Lane, 1814.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare B-Gronniosaw (accession no. B519562) inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Shirley, Walter, 1725-1786.

Davies and Booth, printer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare B-Gronniosaw (Gronniosaw, J.A. U. Narrative...)