Research Catalog

Title

For freedom : a biographical story of the American Negro / by Arthur Huff Fauset ; drawings by Mabel Betsy Hill.

Author

Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983

Publication

• Philadelphia : Franklin Publishing and Supply Co., 1934
• ©1927

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hill, Mabel Betsy
• Franklin Publishing and Supply Company, publisher.
• Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, bookplate.

Description

193 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, music; 20 cm

Summary

"Fauset was a noted civil rights activist, educator, anthropologist and folklorist, half-brother to the novelist Jessie Redmon Fauset and an active figure in the Harlem Renaissance. For Freedom was his first book, essentially a history of the American Negro written for black school children. The book provided biographical sketches of Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington Carver (among others), illustrated throughout, with a special section at the end entitled The New Negro, highlighting many of the Harlem Renaissance figures who were Fauset's contemporaries. Given what was likely available to black school children at the time, Fauset's book was ground-breaking work."--Descriptions from Lorne Bair Rare Books, bookseller

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Biographies
• African Americans > History
• African Americans > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• Music in text.
• "1934 printing revised to date"--Page 4

Indexed In (note)

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

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro F-12828, no. 94.

Contents

1. The First Slaves -- 2. More about the First Slaves -- 3. The Slave of the Boston Massacre -- Crispus Attucks, 1723?)-1770 -- 4. The Slave Poet -- Phillis Wheatley, 1754 -1784 -- 5. Negro Soldier in the Revolution -- 6. Benjamin Banneker, 1731-1806 -- 7. Sojourner Truth, 1777 -1883 -- 8. The Underground Railroad -- 9. Frederick Douglass, 1817 -1895 -- 10. The Negro Becomes a Citizen -- 11. Blanche Kelso Bruce, 1841-1898 -- 12. Booker T. Washington, 1858 (1859?)-1915 -- 13. George Washington Carver, 1864 -- 14. The Negro Explorer at the North Pole -- Matt Henson -- 15. The Negro Sings -- 16. Roland Hayes -- 17. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, 1872-1906 -- 18. Negro Artists -- 19. William E. Burghardt Du Bois, 1868 -- 20. Alain Leroy Locke, 1887 -- 21. The New Negro -- Poets, Artists, Writers.

Call Number

Sc 920-F (Fauset, A. For freedom. 1934)

OCLC

9135351

Author

Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983, author.

Title

For freedom : a biographical story of the American Negro / by Arthur Huff Fauset ; drawings by Mabel Betsy Hill.

Publisher

Philadelphia : Franklin Publishing and Supply Co., 1934

Copyright Date

©1927

Edition

Revised to date.

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. 3, page 2474, column 3, row 1

Additional Formats

Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro F-12828, no. 94.

Local Note

The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of the book. Copy 1 (accession D628055) is one of the books transferred to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. This item was part of the James Weldon Johnson Collection at the 135 Street Branch's Circulation Department. The book bears NYPL's perforated stamp, evidence of branch processing marking, as well as various ink 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." The book is library-bound in light blue cloth over boards and a gilt spine.

Copy 2 (accession D868534) is one of the books transferred to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. This item was also part of the 135 Street Branch's Circulation Department. The book bears various ink 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." It contains a 1940 onward bookplate of: "The Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History," NYPL's perforated stamp and early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection. The book is library-bound in black cloth over boards and a gilt spine.

Source

Copy 1; D628055 . NN

Copy 2; D868534. NN

Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Added Author

Hill, Mabel Betsy, illustrator.

Franklin Publishing and Supply Company, publisher.

Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Other Form:

Online version: Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983. For freedom. Rev. to date. Philadelphia : Franklin Pub. and Supply Co., [1934, ©1927] (OCoLC)742328540

Research Call Number

Sc 920-F (Fauset, A. For freedom. 1934)