Research Catalog

Title

Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a native of Africa, who was enslaved in childhood, and died in Boston, January 3, 1815--aged 65 years. / By a lady of Boston. ; [Two lines of Scripture texts].

Author

Webb, Mary, 1768?-1861

Publication

Boston : published by James Loring, 132 Washington Street, 1832.

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Additional Authors

• Loring, James, 1770-1850
• Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

[4], iii, [2], 10-108 p. : 1 frontispiece; 16 cm

Donor/Sponsor

• Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
• Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

Chloe Spear.

Subjects

• Enslaved persons > Massachusetts
• Biographies
• United States
• Massachusetts
• Christian biography
• Conversion
• Children > Books and reading
• Sunday school literature
• Family members
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Spear, Chloe, 1750?-1815
• African American women > Biography
• Enslaved persons > Massachusetts > Biography

Genre/Form

• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Biographies.

Note

• "When a book is put into the hands of young persons, in the form of a memoir or narrative, it is common to hear them ask, 'Is it true?' In reply to this interrogation respecting the following little historical sketch, we say, it is true ... the avails of the copy-right will be devoted to the benefit of schools in Africa"--Preface, p. i-iii, signed, "a member of the Second Baptist Church in Boston," and dated Boston, May, 1832.
• Caption and running title: Chloe Spear.
• "Attributed to Mary Webb, who died May 24, 1861 at Boston in her 93rd year, by the New York Public Library."--NUC pre-1956. The Library Company of Philadelphia copy has presentation inscription: Mrs. Lucy G. Marsh from the author Miss Mary C. Webb. Boston.
• Frontispiece signed: A [i.e. Alexander Anderson?].
• "Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by James Loring, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• In plain boards with cloth spine. Bears printed label, "Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear" on upper cover.

Indexed In (note)

• Checklist of American imprints
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in digital form, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the electronic resource.

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92-M ( Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear)

LCCN

14015962

OCLC

4255215

Author

Webb, Mary, 1768?-1861, author.

Title

Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a native of Africa, who was enslaved in childhood, and died in Boston, January 3, 1815--aged 65 years. / By a lady of Boston. ; [Two lines of Scripture texts].

Publisher

Boston : published by James Loring, 132 Washington Street, 1832.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Checklist of American imprints, 13714

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), Suppl. 2461

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 5, page 4486, column 1, row 6

Additional Formats

Also available in digital form, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the electronic resource.

Local Note

The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of this item. G.K. Hall's entry for these books includes a "March 21, 1944" cataloging date, which indicated that these books are part of some of the items re-cataloged during Lawrence Reddick's period. Copy 1 (accession no. G93528) is a gift, probably added to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian. The book bears two NYPL bookplates of Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection on pages [2] & [3] of the cover, NYPL's perforated stamp, and early processing marking of the original collection. The book is imperfect: treated, water stained, library-bound in navy cloth over boards and a gilt spine, and includes a "Jan. 29, 1948" re-bounding date ink stamp on page [3] of the cover.

Copy 2 in Sc Rare 326.92-M (accession no. B499081) inscribed in ink on the title page, after the author's statement: "Mary Webb who died May 24, 1861, at Boston in the 93d year of her age." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. This copy also bears an NYPL bookplate of Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection on pages [2] of the cover, NYPL's perforated stamp, and early processing marking of the original collection. The book is imperfect: treated, loose preliminary page, library-bound in red cloth over boards and a gilt spine, and bears a "Jan. 19, 1928" bounding date ink stamp on page [3] of the cover.

Source

Copy 2 in Sc Rare 326.92-M (Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear) Purchase; Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926; B499081. NN

Copy 1 in Sc Rare 326.92-M (Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear) Gift; G93528. NN

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Place of Publication

United States Massachusetts Boston.

Added Author

Loring, James, 1770-1850, publisher.

Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, engraver.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948 collection librarian.

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

Added Title

Chloe Spear.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92-M ( Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear)