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Additional authors

1. Williams, Ranson G.
2. Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
3. American Anti-Slavery Society.
4. Juvenile Anti-slavery Society.

Publication date

1. No. 1 [1836]-v. 4, no. 2 [1839].

Description

1. volumes : illustrations; 12 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subject

1. Slavery
2. Antislavery movements
3. Bookplates (Provenance)
4. Inscriptions (Provenance)
5. Publishers' cloth bindings
6. Juvenile literature > Periodicals
7. Printed wrappers (Binding)
8. Periodicals
9. Poetry
10. Juvenile works
11. Fiction
12. United States
13. Bible stories > Periodicals
14. Slavery > United States > Juvenile poetry > Periodicals
15. Antislavery movements > United States > Periodicals
16. Slavery > United States > Juvenile fiction > Periodicals
17. Children's stories > Periodicals
18. Children's poetry > Periodicals
19. Juvenile Anti-slavery Society Periodicals

Genre/Form

1. Fiction.
2. Juvenile works.
3. Periodicals.
4. Poetry.
5. Printed wrappers (Binding)
6. Juvenile literature – Periodicals.
7. Publishers' cloth bindings.
8. Inscriptions (Provenance)
9. Bookplates (Provenance)

Call number

1. Sc Rare C 83-27

Note

1. Prose, stories and poems.
2. Vol. 2 has imprint: New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Office no. 143 Nassau Street. 1837. Vol. 3 has imprint: New York: Published by The American Anti-Slavery Society, no. 143 Nassau Street. 1838.
3. A compilation and reissue, in three volumes, each with separate title page and table of contents, of nos. 1-36 of the Slave's friend.
4. Some wood engravings signed: A [i.e, Alexander Anderson?].
5. Description and constitution of the Juvenile Anti-Slavery Society, v. 2, no. 5.
6. Vol. 1: viii, 2, 12, 3-4, [2], 16, [4], 16, [4], 16, [4], 16, [4], 16, [4], 16, [4], 16, [4], 16, [4], 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4 p.; v. 2: viii, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2,16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4 p.; vo. 3: viii, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2. 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4, 2, 16, 3-4. Each volume also paged continuously within volume. Pagination includes printed wrappers for each number bound in.
7. In brown cloth. Variant grains of cloth noted.

Indexed in (note)

1. Kelly, R.G. Children's periodicals of the United States
2. Pomeroy, J.R. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870), wood engraver and illustrator: an annotated bibliography
3. Checklist of American imprints
4. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
5. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
6. Danky, J.P. African-American newspapers and periodicals: a national bibliography
7. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Numbering (note)

1. Some issues also carry whole numbering, eg. v. 2, no. 2 = whole no. 14.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available on microfilm & digital form; Researchers are restricted to microfilm Sc Micro R-898 [pt. 1] or electronic resource.

Source (note)

1. A.A. Schomburg;

Linking entry (note)

1. Also issued in an annual compilation. "The first twelve numbers of The slave's friend have been bound, and they make a very pretty volume. They can be purchased at the Anti-Slavery depositories. The price is twenty-five cents."--The Slave's friend, v. 2, no. 2, p. 2 of wrapper.

Title

1. The Slave's Friend.

Publisher

1. New-York : Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Office corner of Nassau and Spruce Streets, opposite City Hall, 1836-

Current frequency

1. Monthly

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. Kelly, R.G. Children's periodicals of the United States, p. 408-411
2. Pomeroy, J.R. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870), wood engraver and illustrator: an annotated bibliography, 1749
3. Checklist of American imprints, 40187
4. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 82114
5. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 9465
6. Danky, J.P. African-American newspapers and periodicals: a national bibliography, 5420

Numbering

1. Some issues also carry whole numbering, eg. v. 2, no. 2 = whole no. 14.

Indexed in:

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 8, page 7128, column 1, row 3-4

Additional formats

1. Also available on microfilm & digital form; Researchers are restricted to microfilm Sc Micro R-898 [pt. 1] or electronic resource.

Linking entry

1. Also issued in an annual compilation. "The first twelve numbers of The slave's friend have been bound, and they make a very pretty volume. They can be purchased at the Anti-Slavery depositories. The price is twenty-five cents."--The Slave's friend, v. 2, no. 2, p. 2 of wrapper.

Local note

1. The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has an incomplete run of the periodicals; some issues are gifts by A. A. Schomburg, and some are purchases, some periodical or compilations have accession no. and some do not, which indicates that these items were added to at various period, from Catherine A. Latimer to post Lawrence Reddick tenure as curator. Some issues bear various NYPL bookplates; some have perforated stamps, star symbols & other ink stamps.
2. Researchers are restricted to microfilm Sc Micro R-898 [pt. 1] or electronic resource.

Source

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.5-S (Slave's friend); vol. X Gift; A.A. Schomburg; G86898. NN
2. Copy in Sc Rare 326.5-S (Slave's friend); vol. II no. 1 (Whole no. 13) - vol. II no. XII (Whole no. 24) E175001. NN
3. Copy in Sc Rare 326.5-S (Slave's friend); vol. II , no. II (Whole no. 14) D577727. NN
4. Copy in Sc Rare 326.5-S (Slave's friend); vol. II , no. V (Whole no. 17) D577728. NN
5. Copy in Sc Rare 326.5-S (Slave's friend); vol. III , no. 1 (Whole no. 25) Gift; A.A. Schomburg; G114872. NN
6. Copy in Sc Rare 326.5-S (Slave's friend); vol. III , no. VII (Whole no. 31) Gift; A.A. Schomburg; G80526. NN
7. Copy in Sc Rare 326.5-S (Slave's friend); no. X Gift; A.A. Schomburg; G86898. NN

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Place of publication

1. United States New York New York.

Added author

1. Williams, Ranson G., publisher.
2. Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, engraver.
3. American Anti-Slavery Society.
4. Juvenile Anti-slavery Society.

Other editions:

1. Slave's friend (New York. N.Y. : Annual)

Other form:

1. Slave's friend (OCoLC)1606950

LCCN

1. 2016227776

Research call number

1. Sc Rare C 83-27 Library has: no. 8
2. Sc Rare 326.5-S (Slave's friend) Library has: no. 1-12; vol. 2, no. 1 (Whole no. 13) - vol. 2, no. 12 (Whole no. 24); vol. 3, no. 1 (Whole no. 25), vol. 3, no. 7 (Whole no. 31)