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The black man : his antecedents, his genius, and his achievements

Title: The black man : his antecedents, his genius, and his achievements / by William Wells Brown.
Author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.
Publication: New York : Thomas Hamilton, 48 Beekman Street ; Boston : R.F. Wallcut, 221 Washington St., 1863.

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Description

288 p.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

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Note

"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by William Wells Brown, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
"Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry."--verso of title page.
"Memoirs of the author"--p. 11-29.

Indexed In (note)

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Memoir of the author -- The black man and his antecedents -- The black man, his genius and his achievements. Benjamin Banneker -- Nat Turner -- Madison Washington -- Henry Bibb -- Placido -- Jeremiah B. Sanderson -- Toussaint L'Ouverture -- Crispus Attucks -- Dessalines -- Ira Aldridge -- Joseph Cinque -- Alexandre Dumas -- Henri Christophe -- Phillis Wheatley -- Denmark Vesey -- Henry Highland Garnett -- James M. Whitfield -- Andre Rigaud -- Frances Ellen Watkins -- Ex-President Roberts -- Alexander Crummell -- Alexandre Petion -- Martin R. Delany, M.D. -- Robert Small -- Frederick Douglass -- Charles L. Reason -- Charlotte N. Forten -- William H. Simpson -- Jean Pierre Boyer -- James M'Cune Smith, M.D. -- Bishop Payne -- William Still -- Edwin M. Bannister -- Leonard A. Grimes -- President Geffrard -- George B. Vashon -- Robert Morris -- William J. Wilson -- John Mercer Langston -- William C. Nell -- John Sella Martin -- Charles Lenox Redmond -- George T. Downing -- Robert Purvis -- Joseph Jenkins -- John S. Rock -- William Douglass -- Elymas Payson Rogers -- J. Theodore Holly -- James W.C. Pennington -- A man without a name -- Samuel R. Ward -- Sir Edward Jordan.

Call Number

QPF (Brown, W. W. Black man)

LCCN

14014043

OCLC

2795519

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Title

The black man : his antecedents, his genius, and his achievements / by William Wells Brown.

Imprint

New York : Thomas Hamilton, 48 Beekman Street ; Boston : R.F. Wallcut, 221 Washington St., 1863.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 1723

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 920-B (copy 2) (accession no. B545608) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Nelson.

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Added Author

Hamilton, Thomas, 1822-1865, publisher.

Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884, publisher.

Boston Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.

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

Research Call Number

QPF (Brown, W. W. Black man)

Sc Rare 920-B (Brown, W. W. Black man)

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