Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Redpath, James, 1833-1891
2. Watts, James W., -1895
3. Boston Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.

Description

1. 312 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 20 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. Enslaved persons > United States > Biography
2. Black people > Biography
3. Black race
4. Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography
5. Geffrard, Fabre Nicolas, 1806-1879 > Portraits
6. Black author
7. Free African Americans > Biography
8. Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
9. African Americans > Biography

Contents

1. 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 -- Joseph Carter -- James Lawson -- Capt. Callioux -- Capt. Joseph Howard.

Call number

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

Note

1. Frontispiece portrait of Fabre Geffrard engraved by J.W. Watts from a photograph by Grice Bros. Port au Prince.
2. "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.
3. "Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry"--verso of title page.
4. Dedicated "to the advocates and friends of Negro freedom and equality, wherever found."
5. "Memoir of the author."--p. [11]-30.
6. "Opinions of the press."--p. 311-312.

Provenance (note)

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

Author

1. Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Title

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

Imprint

1. Boston : James Redpath, publisher, 221 Washington Street, 1863.

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 920-B (accession no. B545607) 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. Redpath, James, 1833-1891, publisher.
2. Boston Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research call number

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