Research Catalog

Title

Jamaica : its past and present state / by James M. Phillippo, of Spanish Town, Jamaica ; twenty years a Baptist missionary in that island.

Author

Phillippo, James M. (James Mursell), 1798-1879.

Publication

London : John Snow, Paternoster Row, MDCCCXLIII. [1843]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Snow, John, 1806 or 1807-1890
• William Clowes and Sons, printer.

Description

xvi, 487, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Black people > Jamaica
• Black people > Jamaica > Social conditions
• Slavery > Jamaica
• Missions > Jamaica
• Jamaica > Description and travel

Note

• With a half-title.
• "London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street."--printer statement, verso of title page.

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

ch. 1. Christianity -- ch. 2. Sketch of the island -- ch. 3. Physical aspects of the country -- ch. 4. Vegetable and animal productions -- ch. 5. Divisions, etc. -- ch. 6. Population, etc. -- ch. 7. Government -- ch. 8. Commerce -- ch. 9. White inhabitants -- ch. 10. People of colour and free Blacks -- ch. 11. sect. 1. Political condition of the Black population ; sect. 2. Abolition of the slave trade ; sect. 3. The apprenticeship system ; sect. 4. Total emancipation -- ch. 12. Intellectual character of the Black people under slavery -- ch. 13. Social condition -- ch. 14. Moral state and aspects of society -- ch. 15. Religious state -- ch. 16. Religious state, continued -- ch. 17. Principal instrumental causes to which these great results are to be attributed -- ch. 18. Increased claim of the missionary societies, especially on the sympathies and benevolence of the Christian world -- Appendix.

Call Number

Sc Rare 266-P (Phillippo, J. M. Jamaica: its past and present state)

LCCN

06034771

OCLC

• 1904506
• NYPGR1904506-B

Author

Phillippo, James M. (James Mursell), 1798-1879.

Title

Jamaica : its past and present state / by James M. Phillippo, of Spanish Town, Jamaica ; twenty years a Baptist missionary in that island.

Imprint

London : John Snow, Paternoster Row, MDCCCXLIII. [1843]

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 8155

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 266-P (accession no. B389105) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 266-P imperfect; lacking half-title page.

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Added Author

Snow, John, 1806 or 1807-1890, publisher.

William Clowes and Sons, printer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 266-P (Phillippo, J. M. Jamaica: its past and present state)

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