Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of color : to which is added, a selection of pieces in poetry /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New-York :
Mahlon Day,
1837.
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| Edition: | Second edition, much enlarged. |
| Series: | Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
Spinelli's law library reference shelf. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Biographical sketches: Francis Williams
- Jasmin Thomaszeau
- Ingatius Sancho
- Attoba Cugoano
- A short account of Phillis Wheatley
- Poor Sarah
- Alice, the Negro
- The generous Negro
- A short account of the life of Capt. Paul Cuffee
- Solomon Bayley
- An account of his daughter Margaret
- Solomon Bayley's night thoughts
- Clarinda
- Naimbana
- Margaret Ann Crutchfield
- Memoir of John Williams' remarkable affliction
- Zilpah Montjoy
- Belinda Lucas
- Gustavus Vassa
- Toussaint L'Ouverture
- History of Billy and Jenny
- Cornelius
- Life of Simon Wilhelm
- Some account of Lucy Cardwell
- Rebecca Jackson
- Jehudi Ashmun
- Stephen Kiah
- Sarah Draper
- Lott Carey. Part II. Interesting anecdotes: Ebedmeleck's kindness
- The good master and his faithful slave
- Ezekiel Coston
- An anecdote
- The coloured foundling
- Louis Desrouleux
- The grateful Negro
- The faithful Negress
- Coffin
- Job Ben Solomon
- Anthony William Amo
- Beronicius
- James Derham
- The sweep and the tomb stones
- Benjamin Banneker
- Anecdote of two Negroes in France
- Uncle Harry
- Two petitions
- Cully's description of George Washington at the time of his marriage
- Colored population in Philadelphia
- Free people of color
- Colored people of Cincinnati
- The happy Negro
- The hospitable Negro woman
- Emancipation in the West Indies
- Genuine gratitude in a liberated slave
- Important project
- Northern and Southern states contrasted
- Encouraging facts
- A colored infant school
- Irrouba
- Belinda
- An extract of a letter from S.G.
- Negro slave
- Agnes Morris
- Illustration of the effects of slavery on the hearts of those who enforce its cruelties
- Maryland trade
- Stephen Dutton
- "Man does not feel for man"
- Speculation
- Liberality
- The Negro martyr
- The African chief
- The African boy
- The slave-taker
- The two boys
- The little Bostonian
- Extraordinary exertions to obtain liberty
- Abraham
- John Mosely
- Nancy Pitchford
- William Bowen
- Epitaph of a colored person
- Copy of a letter from Solomon Bayley to Daniel Cooledge
- Gratitude of a slave
- Anthony Benezet
- Thomas Shipley
- Shelter of colored orphans in Philadelphia
- Extracts of Governor Ritner's message
- An affecting story
- Sarah Hoar
- Slave trade
- Blessed feelings from an act of justice
- Extraordinary munificence
- Kidnapping
- Temptation resisted and honesty rewarded
- Anecdotes of two Indians from Dyllwin's Reflections
- The good old Indian
- The faith of a poor blind woman
- African schools in New-York
- Letters from Hayti by a late female pupil of the N.Y. African school
- Extracts of letters from Charles W. Fisher of Baltimore
- New-York African school for boys
- Snow storm
- Quashi
- Exhortation of a Mexican Indian to his son.
- The injured Africans
- Termination of slavery in the state of New-York
- A valedictory address by a scholar of the New-York African School. Part III. Pieces in poetry: The morning dream
- Real sorrows, a sketch from life
- Lines by A.A. while travelling in Virginia
- Lines by Ezra Darby
- The first psalm
- Lines written on reviewing the condition of Afric's sable children
- On African slavery
- Night, by Montgomery
- The present moment, by the same
- Verses written by the late Divie Bethune
- Lines supposed to be written by an African prince
- The little chimney sweeper
- Susan and Jack
- Recollections of childhood from an English paper
- The orphans
- Difference of color
- Washington City prison
- The Negro's complaint.