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The house of bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and other slaves : original and life like, as they appeared in their old plantation and city slave life : together with pen pictures of the peculiar institution, with sights and insights into their new relations as freedmen, freemen, and citizens

Title

The house of bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and other slaves : original and life like, as they appeared in their old plantation and city slave life : together with pen pictures of the peculiar institution, with sights and insights into their new relations as freedmen, freemen, and citizens / by Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert ; with an introduction by Rev. Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu, D.D.

Author

Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-approximately 1889.

Publication

New York : Hunt & Eaton ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1890.
©1890.

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Description

xiv, 161, [1] pages : portrait; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

House of bondage
Charlotte Brooks and other slaves

Subjects

Note

"Copyright, 1890, by Hunt & Eaton, New York."--verso of title page.

Indexed In (note)

Lib. Company. Afro-Americana (2nd ed.)

Additional Formats (note)

Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Source (note)

from Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

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

Contents

ch. 1. Charlotte Brooks -- ch. 2. Charlotte's story -- ch. 3. Aunt Charlotte's friends -- ch. 4. Cruel masters -- ch. 5. Great tribulations -- ch. 6. A kind mistress -- ch. 7. Broken-down freedmen -- ch. 8. The curse of whisky -- ch. 9. John and Lorendo -- ch. 10. A converted Catholic -- ch. 11. Prison horrors -- ch. 12. Sallie Smith's story -- ch. 13. In the woods -- ch. 14. Uncle Stephen Jordan -- ch. 15. Counterfeit free papers -- ch. 16. Uncle Cephas's story -- ch. 17. A colored soldier -- ch. 18. Negro government -- ch. 19. The colored delegates -- ch. 20. A touching incident.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973-A (Albert, O. V. R. House of bondage)

LCCN

10033441

OCLC

5507218
NYPGR5507218-B

Author

Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-approximately 1889.

Title

Publisher

New York : Hunt & Eaton ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1890.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Lib. Company. Afro-Americana (2nd ed.), Suppl. 31

Additional Formats

Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-A (accession no. B389756) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Source

Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-A (Albert, O. V. R. House of bondage), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Mallalieu, Willard F. (Willard Francis), 1828-1911.

Hunt & Eaton, publisher.

Cranston & Stowe, publisher.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973-A (Albert, O. V. R. House of bondage)

*WIY 97-2

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