Research Catalog

Title

The Negro problem solved, or, Africa as she was, as she is, and as she shall be : her curse and her cure / by Rev. Hollis Read.

Author

Read, Hollis, 1802-1887.

Publication

New York : A.A. Constantine, 1864.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Constantine, A. A.
• Roberts, William, approximately 1829-
• Orr, Nathaniel
• Holman, John (Printer), printer.
• Bricher & Russell, engraver.

Description

418 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill.; 20 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

• Negro problem solved
• Africa as she was, as she is, and as she shall be

Subjects

• African Americans > Colonization > Africa
• Black race
• Africa > Civilization

Note

• With added wood-engraved title page.
• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by Hollis Read, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Holman, printer and stereotyper, cor. Centre and White Sts."--verso of title page.
• Wood engravings by: W. Roberts, N. Orr, and Bricher & Russell.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time

Provenance (note)

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

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.8C-R (Read, H. Negro problem solved)

OCLC

• 14023738
• NYPGR14023738-B

Author

Read, Hollis, 1802-1887.

Title

The Negro problem solved, or, Africa as she was, as she is, and as she shall be : her curse and her cure / by Rev. Hollis Read.

Imprint

New York : A.A. Constantine, 1864.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), Suppl. 1805

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 68154

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.8C-R (accession no. B526986) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

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Added Author

Constantine, A. A., publisher.

Holman, John (Printer), printer.

Roberts, William, approximately 1829- engraver.

Orr, Nathaniel, engraver.

Bricher & Russell, engraver.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.8C-R (Read, H. Negro problem solved)

BKB (Read, H. Negro problem solved)