Charles F. Heartman collection of material relating to Negro culture, 1791-1839.

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Charles F. Heartman collection of material relating to Negro culture, 1791-1839.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70972576

Titles are Anecdotes and memoirs of William Boen, a Colored man, who lived and died near Mount Holly, N.J., 1834; An address delivered before the Ladies' Anti-slavery Society of Philadelphia by James Forten (1836); Incidents in the life of the Rev. J. Asher, pastor of Shiloh (Colored) Baptist Church, Philadelphia (1850); Narrative of the life and adventures of Paul Cuffe, a Pequot Indian during thirty years spent at sea and in traveling in foreign lands (1839); The "extinguisher" extinguished or David M. Reese, M.D., and "Used Up" By David Ruggles, a man of color; together with some remarks upon a late production, entitled An address on slavery and against immediate emancipation with a plan of their being gradually emancipated and colonized in thirty-two years by Heman Howlett (1834); A memoir presented to the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race by Prince Saunders (1818); Thoughts and sentiments on the evils of slavery or, the Nature of servitude as admitted by the law of God compared to the modern slavery of the Africans in the West Indies, in an answer to the advocates for slavery and oppression, addressed to the Sons of Africa, by a Native (1791); and An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade by Peter Williams delivered in the African Church, in the city of New York (1808).

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John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8061669

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Williams, Peter, 1780?-1840

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Boen, William, 1735-1824

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Ruggles, David, 1810-1849

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Heartman, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1883-1953

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Bibliographer and author; operated auction and bookselling business from Pelican Galleries in New Orleans, La., and Book Farm in Hattiesburg, Miss. From the description of Charles F. Heartman collection of material relating to Negro culture, 1791-1839. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70972576 Charles Frederick Heartman (1883-1953) emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1911. He was in the auction and bookselling business, operating primarily from the Pelican G...

Saunders, Prince, -1839

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Cuffe, Paul, 1795 or 1796-

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Cugoano, Ottobah

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Forten, James, 1816 or 1817-

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Asher, Jeremiah, 1812-1865

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Asher was born on October 13, 1812 in North Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut to free parents, Reuel and Jerusha Asher. Reuel's father was an African named Gad who, at the age of four, had been captured on the coast of Guinea and shipped to captivity in Connecticut. Purchased by a ship carpenter named Titus Bishop in Connecticut, Gad was treated relatively well as a slave. After some forty years of bondage he was offered his freedom if he would fight in the American Revolution. Gad seized ...

Howlett, Heman

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