Research Catalog

Title

Slavery in the United States of America : its national recognition and relations from the establishment of the confederacy to the present time : a word to the North and the South / by Henry Sherman.

Author

Sherman, Henry, 1808-1879

Publication

• Hartford : J.O. Hurlburt, publisher, 1858.
• [Hartford] : Case, Lockwood, and Company, printers, 1858

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, bookplate.

Description

xvi, [9]-187 pages; 18 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• United States
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• 1783-1865
• Politics and government
• Slavery > United States
• United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865

Genre/Form

• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by Henry Sherman, in the office of the Clerk's of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Connecticut."-- t.p. verso.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Contents

Slavery under the Constitution -- Slavery outside of the Constitution -- The repeal of the Missouri compact.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973-S (Sherman, H. Slavery in the United States)

LCCN

11002777

OCLC

4877036

Author

Sherman, Henry, 1808-1879, author.

Title

Slavery in the United States of America : its national recognition and relations from the establishment of the confederacy to the present time : a word to the North and the South / by Henry Sherman.

Publisher

Hartford : J.O. Hurlburt, publisher, 1858.

Manufacturer

[Hartford] : Case, Lockwood, and Company, printers, 1858

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 8, page 6786, column 1, row 2

Local Note

The copy in the Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division of the Schomburg Center is a pre-1926 gift transferred to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian. It includes NYPL's bookplate of Reference Collection of Negro Literature, as well as various stamps like: "Division of Negro Literature and History;" Property of the City of New York;" and "The New York Public Library: Circulation Department, 135 Street Branch, 103 West 135th St." which indicate, this item was originally part of of the 135 Street Branch's Circulation Department. It also includes an inscription on the preliminary page before the title: "Hon. J.J. Crittenden, U.S.S with regards of the author, Jan. 1859." It's imperfect: water-stained, library-bound in red cloth over boards and a gilt spine.

Source

Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-S (Sherman, H. Slavery in the United States) Gift; G66490. NN

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Chronological Term

1783-1865

Place of Publication

United States Connecticut Hartford.

Added Author

Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, bookplate.

Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan), 1787-1863 former owner.

Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948 collection librarian.

Other Form:

Online version: Sherman, Henry, 1808-1879. Slavery in the United States of America. Hartford : J.O. Hurlburt, 1858 (OCoLC)867815154

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973-S (Sherman, H. Slavery in the United States)

IIR (Sherman, H. Slavery in the United States)