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The equality of all men before the law : claimed and defended

Title
The equality of all men before the law : claimed and defended / in speeches by Hon. William D. Kelley, Wendell Phillips, and Frederick Douglass, and letters from Elizur Wright and Wm. Heighton.
Author
Kelley, William D. (William Darrah), 1814-1890
Publication
Boston [Mass.] : Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1865.

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TextUse in library Sc Rare 324.15-K (Kelley, W. D. The equality of all men before the law) c.1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
TextUse in library Sc Rare 324.15-K (Kelley, W. D. The equality of all men before the law) c.2Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Additional Authors
  • Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.
  • Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
  • Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885.
  • Heighton, William, 1800-
  • Stearns, Geo. L. (George Luther), 1809-1867
  • Rand, George Curtis, 1818 or 1819-1878
  • Carlisle, David, 1771-1835
  • Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
Description
43 pages; 23 cm
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Speeches.
  • History.
  • Bookplates (Provenance)
Note
  • Edited by Geo. L. Stearns.
  • Kelley's speech in the House of Representatives, Jan. 16, 1865: p. 5-28.
Indexed In (note)
  • Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
  • New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.
Contents
Speech of Hon. William D. Kelley ... January 16, 1865.--The immediate issue: a speech of Wendell Phillips at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Boston.--What the black man wants: speech of Frederick Douglass at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Boston.--Suffrage for the blacks sound political economy: shown in a letter to the "Boston daily advertiser", by Elizur Wright.--Reconstruction: a letter from William Heighton to George L. Stearns.
Call Number
Sc Rare 324.15-K (Kelley, W. D. The equality of all men before the law)
LCCN
12005307
OCLC
3762921
Author
Kelley, William D. (William Darrah), 1814-1890, author.
Title
The equality of all men before the law : claimed and defended / in speeches by Hon. William D. Kelley, Wendell Phillips, and Frederick Douglass, and letters from Elizur Wright and Wm. Heighton.
Publisher
Boston [Mass.] : Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1865.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, numbers 22713.
New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 5, page 3835, column 1, row 5-6
Local Note
Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of the items.
Copy 1 in Sc Rare 324.15-K (accession no. G228238) is one of the gifts added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer, collection librarian, & Arthur A. Schomburg, curator. Imperfect: brittle, bound in black cloth over boards, library binding, and gilt spine; probably was rebound because it includes a 1972 onward NYPL bookplate for: {28}the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Copy 2 in Sc Rare 324.15-K (accession no. G307524) includes an NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection." It's one of the gifts added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian, and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. Imperfect: bound in brown cloth over boards, library binding, with additional blank pages at the back and a gilt spine.
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Chronological Term
1865-1877
Place of Publication
United States Massachusetts Boston.
Added Author
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885.
Heighton, William, 1800-
Stearns, Geo. L. (George Luther), 1809-1867, editor.
Rand, George Curtis, 1818 or 1819-1878, printer.
Carlisle, David, 1771-1835, printer.
Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, curator.
Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, curator.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 324.15-K (Kelley, W. D. The equality of all men before the law)
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