Research Catalog

Title

White and black under the old régime / by Victoria V. Clayton ; with introduction by Frederic Cook Morehouse.

Author

Clayton, Victoria V. (Victoria Virginia)

Publication

• Milwaukee ; New York : The Young Churchman Co. ; London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1899]
• ©1899.

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Additional Authors

• Morehouse, Frederic Cook, 1868-1932
• Young Churchman Co., publisher.
• Sampson Low, Marston & Company, publisher.

Description

195, [1] pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• African Americans > Alabama
• Alabama > Social life and customs
• Slavery > Alabama
• Alabama > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
• Clayton, Henry DeLamar, 1827-1889
• Clayton, Victoria V (Victoria Virginia)

Note

• "Copyright by The Young Churchman Co. 1899."--verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

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

Contents

Introduction -- Author's preface -- 1. Parentage and history of early days -- 2. Other events of childhood ; School days ; Close of school life -- 3. Return home -- 4. The Kansas episode ; Seeing the country -- 5. Return to Alabama ; Home incidents ; Mutterings of war ; Incidents at Pensacola ; Extempore manufacturing -- 6. Home trials and labors ; Cloth making ; Various illustrative incidents -- 7. Close of the war ; Incidents of Reconstruction ; Extract from Judge Clayton's charge to the grand jury ; Beginning life over -- 8. Becoming a slaveholder again ; Last days of General Clayton.

Call Number

Sc 917.61-C ((Clayton, V. White and black under the old régime)

OCLC

• 1943203
• NYPGR1943203-B

Author

Clayton, Victoria V. (Victoria Virginia), author.

Title

White and black under the old régime / by Victoria V. Clayton ; with introduction by Frederic Cook Morehouse.

Publisher

Milwaukee ; New York : The Young Churchman Co. ; London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1899]

Copyright Date

©1899.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 917.61-C (accession no. B571413) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Morehouse, Frederic Cook, 1868-1932, writer of introduction.

Young Churchman Co., publisher.

Sampson Low, Marston & Company, publisher.

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

Research Call Number

Sc 917.61-C ((Clayton, V. White and black under the old régime)

AN (Clayton) (Clayton, V. V. H. White and black under the old régime)