Research Catalog

Title

Experience and personal narrative of Uncle Tom Jones : who was for forty years a slave : also The surprising adventures of Wild Tom, of the island retreat, a fugitive Negro from South Carolina.

Author

Jones, Thomas H.

Publication

Boston : Published by Farwell & Co., at no. 32 Congress Street, 1858.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865
• J.E. Farwell & Co., publisher.

Description

[5], 8-54 p. : ill., port.; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

• Surprising adventures of Uncle Tom Jones, for forty years a slave
• Surprising adventures of Uncle Tom
• Adventures of Wild Tom, of the island retreat

Subjects

• Enslaved persons > South Carolina > Fiction
• Enslaved persons > North Carolina > Social life and customs
• Enslaved persons > North Carolina > Social conditions
• Enslaved persons > North Carolina > Biography
• Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions
• African Americans > North Carolina > Biography
• African Americans > North Carolina > Social conditions
• African Americans > South Carolina > Fiction
• Slavery > South Carolina > Fiction
• Slave narratives
• Carter, Thomas (Slave)
• North Carolina > Social conditions
• Fugitive slaves > North Carolina > Biography
• Plantation life > North Carolina
• Jones, Thomas H > Portraits
• Black author
• Slavery > United States
• North Carolina > Social life and customs
• Fugitive slaves > South Carolina > Fiction
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Plantation life > South Carolina > Fiction
• Slavery > North Carolina

Genre/Form

• Slave narratives.
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Imprint from recto of upper wrapper.
• Illustrated wrappers.
• Jones' narrative was first published in Boston, 1850, under the title: The experience of Thomas Jones.
• "Wild Tom, of the island retreat"--p. [29]-54, is an extract from the novel "Archy Moore, the white slave" by Richard Hildreth.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of upper wrapper "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92-J (Jones, T. H. Experience...of Uncle Tom Jones. 1858)

LCCN

91899130

OCLC

26098646

Author

Jones, Thomas H.

Title

Experience and personal narrative of Uncle Tom Jones : who was for forty years a slave : also The surprising adventures of Wild Tom, of the island retreat, a fugitive Negro from South Carolina.

Imprint

Boston : Published by Farwell & Co., at no. 32 Congress Street, 1858.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-J (accession no. B511684) inscribed: in ink on recto of upper wrapper "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865 Archy Moore, the white slave.

J.E. Farwell & Co., publisher.

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

Caption Title

Surprising adventures of Uncle Tom Jones, for forty years a slave

Running Title

Surprising adventures of Uncle Tom

Adventures of Wild Tom, of the island retreat

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92-J (Jones, T. H. Experience...of Uncle Tom Jones. 1858)