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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382175266
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Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Author: Jared Sparks
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: John A. Hodgson
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his "Hindu" ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial "popular entertainment" status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history.

Author: New Hampshire
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Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Author: Wisconsin. State Library
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Author: Mortimer D. Schwartz
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Charles Jacob Babbitt
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: Charles Jacob Babbitt
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 158477293X
Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Babbitt, Charles J. Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws Statutory Revisions, Compilations, Codes, Etc., and Constitutional Conventions of the United States and its Possessions and of the Several States to May, 1912. [Boston]: The Trustees of the State Library of Massachusetts, [1912]. 634 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002041289. ISBN 1-58477-293-X. Cloth. $125. * A hand-list of statute law defining the location of the text of every legislative session that has occurred in the United States and its possessions to 1912, including every volume containing session laws or revisions and compilations of laws. Compiled for the State Library of Massachusetts by Charles J. Babbitt under the direction of Charles F.D. Belden, the State Librarian at the time of the compilation. The historical and bibliographic details provided include a synopsis of the political situation that warranted the statute when applicable, as well as format and collation of the noted volume.