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Title

Slavery in South Carolina and the ex-slaves, or, The Port Royal Mission / by Mrs. A.M. French, editress of the "Beauty of holiness."

Author

French, A. M. (Austa Malinda), 1810-1880.

Publication

New York : Winchell M. French, 5 Beekman Street, MDCCCLXII. [1862]

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Additional Authors

• Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
• French, Winchell M.
• Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938
• Burridge, William H.

Description

xii, 13-312 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

• Slavery in South Carolina and the ex-slaves
• Port Royal Mission

Subjects

• Freed persons > South Carolina
• Freed persons > South Carolina > Beaufort County
• Slavery > South Carolina
• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature > 1862

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Winchell M. French, In the Office of the Clerk of the United States Court, for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• Some illustrations by William H. Burridge and Mary Hallock Foote.
• "At Port Royal--1861" by John Greenleaf Whittier, p. 21-22.

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

Introduction -- ch. 1. Port Royal -- ch. 2. The first contrabands -- ch. 3. The land of tears -- ch. 4. Meeting on board -- ch. 5. Landing -- ch. 6. First converse with ex-slaves -- ch. 7. Beaufort -- ch. 8. Vegetation of this latitude -- ch. 9. Government's time and claims -- ch. 10. Cruelty reigns -- ch. 11. The mission to Port Royal -- ch. 12. The vacant homes -- ch. 13. Slavery a sealed book -- ch. 14. Slavery a vice -- ch. 15. Slaves held from necessity --ch. 16. Bond and free servants -- ch. 17. Free labor -- ch. 18. Heart service -- ch. 19. Southern chivalry -- ch. 20. Incidents in slave woman's life -- ch. 21. Results to poor woman -- ch. 22. Woman and civilization -- ch. 23. Crushed intellects -- ch. 24. The inner life of the pious -- ch. 25. The genius of slavedom -- ch. 26. Avarice or poverty -- ch. 27. Embittered springs -- ch. 28. The apostles of slavery -- ch. 29. Prayers of ex-slaves -- ch. 30. Amalgamation -- ch. 31. Out of lying -- ch. 32. Manliness -- ch. 33. Energy of the colored -- ch. 34. Negro quarters -- ch. 35. Prejudice against color -- ch. 36. The Southerner -- ch. 37. Inner and outer life -- ch. 38. The true debasement -- ch. 39. Heart chastity -- ch. 40. Northern chivalry -- ch. 41. The task-masters -- ch. 42. Truthfulness of the colored -- ch. 43. Knowledge of the colored -- ch. 44. Shall the bond go free? -- ch. 45. Appreciation of all men -- ch. 46. The waste of life -- ch. 47. Ingratitude -- ch. 48. Is woman woman? -- ch. 49. Absentees -- ch. 50. The bitterness of slavery -- ch. 51. Unsanctified indignation -- ch. 52. Hunter's proclamation -- ch. 53. Capture and passage.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973A-F (French, A. M. w. Slavery in South Carolina)

LCCN

12002003

OCLC

2029896

Author

French, A. M. (Austa Malinda), 1810-1880.

Title

Slavery in South Carolina and the ex-slaves, or, The Port Royal Mission / by Mrs. A.M. French, editress of the "Beauty of holiness."

Imprint

New York : Winchell M. French, 5 Beekman Street, MDCCCLXII. [1862]

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 3839

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.973A-F (accession no. B389135) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 At Port Royal--1861.

French, Winchell M., printer.

Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938, illustrator.

Burridge, William H., engraver.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973A-F (French, A. M. w. Slavery in South Carolina)