Author: Hannah Crafts
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0759527644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right. When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. Her compelling story provides a fascinating view of American life in the mid-1800s and the literary conventions of the time. Written in the 1850's by a runaway slave, THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE is a provocative literary landmark and a significant historical event that will captivate a diverse audience.
The Bondwoman's Narrative
Author: Hannah Crafts
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0759527644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right. When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. Her compelling story provides a fascinating view of American life in the mid-1800s and the literary conventions of the time. Written in the 1850's by a runaway slave, THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE is a provocative literary landmark and a significant historical event that will captivate a diverse audience.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0759527644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right. When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. Her compelling story provides a fascinating view of American life in the mid-1800s and the literary conventions of the time. Written in the 1850's by a runaway slave, THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE is a provocative literary landmark and a significant historical event that will captivate a diverse audience.
The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America
Author: Benson John Lossing
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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History of the Indian Tribes of North America
Author: Thomas Loraine McKenney
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages :
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Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of Making it a Benefit to the World
Author: Richard Price
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Edward Eberstadt & Sons
Author: Michael Vinson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157100
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After working in western-U.S. and South American gold mines at the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Eberstadt (1883–1958) returned to his home in New York City in 1907. Through luck and happenstance, he purchased an old book for fifty cents that turned out to be a rare sixteenth-century Mexican imprint. From this bit of serendipity, Eberstadt quickly became one of the leading western Americana rare book dealers. In this book Michael Vinson tells the story of how Edward Eberstadt & Sons developed its legendary book collection, which formed the backbone of many of today’s top western Americana archives. Although the firm’s business records have not survived, Edward and his sons, Charles and Lindley, were all prodigious letter writers, and nearly every collector kept his or her correspondence. Drawing upon these letters and on his own extensive experience in the rare book trade, Vinson gives the reader a vivid sense of how the commerce in rare books and manuscripts unfolded during the era of the Eberstadts, particularly in the relationships between dealers and customers. He explores the backstory that scholars of art history and museology have pursued in recent decades: the assembling of cultural treasures, their organization for use, and the establishment of institutions to support that use. His work describes the important role this key bookselling firm played in the western Americana trade from the early 1900s to Eberstadt & Sons’ dissolution in 1975. From Yale University and the American Antiquarian Society to the Newberry Library and the Huntington Library, the firm of Edward Eberstadt & Sons has left its mark in western Americana repositories across the nation. Told here for the first time, the Eberstadt story reveals how one family’s business and legacy have shaped the study of the American West.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157100
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After working in western-U.S. and South American gold mines at the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Eberstadt (1883–1958) returned to his home in New York City in 1907. Through luck and happenstance, he purchased an old book for fifty cents that turned out to be a rare sixteenth-century Mexican imprint. From this bit of serendipity, Eberstadt quickly became one of the leading western Americana rare book dealers. In this book Michael Vinson tells the story of how Edward Eberstadt & Sons developed its legendary book collection, which formed the backbone of many of today’s top western Americana archives. Although the firm’s business records have not survived, Edward and his sons, Charles and Lindley, were all prodigious letter writers, and nearly every collector kept his or her correspondence. Drawing upon these letters and on his own extensive experience in the rare book trade, Vinson gives the reader a vivid sense of how the commerce in rare books and manuscripts unfolded during the era of the Eberstadts, particularly in the relationships between dealers and customers. He explores the backstory that scholars of art history and museology have pursued in recent decades: the assembling of cultural treasures, their organization for use, and the establishment of institutions to support that use. His work describes the important role this key bookselling firm played in the western Americana trade from the early 1900s to Eberstadt & Sons’ dissolution in 1975. From Yale University and the American Antiquarian Society to the Newberry Library and the Huntington Library, the firm of Edward Eberstadt & Sons has left its mark in western Americana repositories across the nation. Told here for the first time, the Eberstadt story reveals how one family’s business and legacy have shaped the study of the American West.
Travels Through the Interior Parts of America
Author: Thomas Anburey
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820
Author: Roger Eliot Stoddard
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105221X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
"A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105221X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
"A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.
The Doctrina Breve
Author: Juan de Zumárraga
Publisher:
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Famous American Negroes
Author: Langston Hughes
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 147
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 147
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The North American Aboriginal Port-folio
Author: James Otto Lewis
Publisher:
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Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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