Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868

Description

1. iv, 60 pages; 24 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative title

1. Octoroon; or, Inside views of southern domestic life
2. Inside views of southern domestic life

Subject

1. Slaveholders
2. Multiracial people > United States > Biography
3. Slave narratives
4. Biographies
5. Sex
6. Enslaved women > Social conditions
7. Picquet, Louisa, 1828?-
8. Sexual violence
9. Sexual practices
10. Inscriptions (Provenance)
11. United States
12. Slavery
13. Enslaved persons > United States
14. Enslaved women > United States > Social conditions
15. Slaveholders > Sexual behavior > United States
16. Slave trade > United States
17. Sex crimes > United States
18. Black author

Genre/Form

1. Slave narratives.
2. Inscriptions (Provenance)
3. Biographies.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.92-P (Picquet, L. Octoroon. 1861)

Note

1. Title on cover: Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: a Tale of Southern Slave Life.
2. Related to H. Mattison by Louisa Picquet. cf. p. 6.

Indexed in (note)

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available in microfiche and in digital form. Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-552 or the electronic resource.

Author

1. Picquet, Louisa, 1828?-

Title

1. Louisa Picquet, the octoroon; or, Inside views of southern domestic life / By H. Mattison.

Publisher

1. New York : Published by the author, nos 5 & 7 Mercer Street, 1861.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 7, page 5921, column 1, row 4

Additional formats

1. Also available in microfiche and in digital form. Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-552 or the electronic resource.

Local note

1. The copy in the Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division of the Schomburg Center is a pre-1926 gift by A. A. Schomburg, added to the collection during Catherine A. Latimer's tenure as collection librarian. It includes a handwritten inscription on the verso of the original cover: "Presented to the Schomburg Collection by A.A. Schomburg." It's imperfect: disbound, treated, each page mended and encapsulated in mylar, and rebound or post-bind in red cloth over boards and gilt, black leather spine label. Some of the text may be lacking, and it lacks the NYPL bookplate but has NYPL's perforated stamp and early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection.

Source

1. Gift; G27388. NN

Connect to:

1. Internet Archive, State Library of Pennsylvania
2. NYPL Digital Collections
3. Request Access to Special Collections Material
4. Plain text PDF available via the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Project
5. Full text available via Internet Archive (State Library of Pennsylvania copy)

Local subject

1. Black author.

Place of publication

1. United States New York (State) New York.

Added author

1. Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868, author, publisher.
2. Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948 curator.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, donor.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.92-P (Picquet, L. Octoroon. 1861)