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Additional authors

1. Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.
2. Hill and Leonard, printer.
3. Curtis Publishing Company, copyright holder.
4. P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, copyright holder.

Description

1. [6], 307, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. African Americans > Fiction
2. Slavery > United States > Fiction
3. Enslaved persons > United States > Fiction

Contents

1. Aunt Tempe's triumph -- Aunt Tempe's revenge -- The walls of Jericho -- How Brother Parker fell from grace -- The trousers -- The last fiddling of Mordaunt's Jim -- A supper by proxy -- The trouble about Sophiny -- Mr. Groby's slippery gift -- Ash-cake Hannah and her Ben -- Dizzy-headed Dick -- The conjuring contest -- Dandy Jim's conjure scare -- The memory of Martha -- Who stand for the Gods -- A lady slipper -- A blessed deceit -- The brief cure of Aunt Fanny -- The Stanton coachman -- The Easter wedding -- The finding of Martha -- The defection of Maria Ann Gibbs -- A judgment of Paris -- Silent Sam'el -- The way of a woman.

Call number

1. Sc Rare C 81-29

Note

1. "Copyright, 1903, by Dodd, Mead and Company. Copyright, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, by the Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1900, by P.F. Collier & Son."--verso of title page.
2. "Published September, 1903."--verso of title page.
3. "Hill and Leonard. New York City, U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.
4. Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Title

1. In old plantation days / by Paul Laurence Dunbar ; author of "Lyrics of lowly life," "Poems of cabin and field," "Lyrics of the hearthside," etc. ; illustrated.

Imprint

1. New York : Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1903.

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare Fic-D (Dunbar, P. In old plantation days) (accession no. B545626) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local note

1. Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-1536 [pt. A-3]. NN

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1. Request Access to Special Collections Material

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.
2. Hill and Leonard, printer.
3. Curtis Publishing Company, copyright holder.
4. P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, copyright holder.
5. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 32003486

Research call number

1. Sc Rare C 81-29
2. Sc Rare Fic-D (Dunbar, P. In old plantation days)