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Additional authors

1. Shirley, Walter, 1725-1786.
2. Davies and Booth, printer.

Description

1. 32 p.; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. Enslaved persons > New York (State) > New York > Biography
2. Black people > England > Biography
3. Black people > Africa > Biography
4. Inscriptions (Provenance)
5. Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw
6. Slavery > New York (State) > New York
7. Black author

Genre/Form

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Call number

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

Note

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

Provenance (note)

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

Author

1. Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw.

Title

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

Imprint

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

Provenance

1. 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

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Shirley, Walter, 1725-1786.
2. Davies and Booth, printer.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research call number

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