Research Catalog

Title

The suppressed book about slavery! : prepared for publication in 1857, never published until the present time.

Publication

New York : Carleton, publisher, 1864.

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Details

Additional Authors

Carleton, George Washington, 1832-1901

Description

432 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill.; 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature
• Slaves > United States > Social conditions
• African American soldiers
• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature > 1864
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• African Americans

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by Geo. W. Carleton, in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• Includes index.
• Published in time for the 1864 presidential election, the publisher states that the book was written in 1857 and the stereotype plates were made then. "The Book discloses the hideous skeleton of the institution which we have fondled and petted till it has almost been the death of us. It reveals the dark deeds of slavery, and opens to view its hideous purposes, its revolutionary premeditations."

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in pencil on title page "Robert Long. Phila. Oct. 24, 1911." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Things past and present -- Slaves, horses, and other cattle -- Slave life on the plantation -- Slave education and religion -- Domestic amusements in the slave states -- The slave power advacing -- Appendix A. Colorphobia in the free states -- Appendix B. The Rev. Judicious Trimmer, D.D. -- Appendix C. Domestic and foreign slave trade. Appendix D. Dough-face religion -- Postscript, 1864 -- Particular index.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.4-S (Suppressed book about slavery)

LCCN

18023780

OCLC

3443382

Title

The suppressed book about slavery! : prepared for publication in 1857, never published until the present time.

Imprint

New York : Carleton, publisher, 1864.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 10068

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.4-S (accession no. B519468) inscribed: in pencil on title page "Robert Long. Phila. Oct. 24, 1911." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-16777.

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Added Author

Carleton, George Washington, 1832-1901, publisher.

Long, Robert, active 1911, former owner, inscriber.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.4-S (Suppressed book about slavery)

IIR (Suppressed book about slavery)