Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hickok & Blood, printer.

Description

1. 60 pages; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. African Americans > Civil rights
2. African Americans > Colonization > Liberia
3. Free African Americans > Civil rights > Pennsylvania
4. Free African Americans > Suffrage
5. Citizenship > United States
6. Inscriptions (Provenance)
7. African Americans > Suffrage
8. Free African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc
9. African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc
10. Constitutional law > United States

Genre/Form

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Contents

1. Preface -- pt. 1. Political condition of the free blacks before the adoption of the Constitution -- pt. 2. Political rights of the free blacks under the federal Constitution -- pt. 3. Political rights of the free blacks in Penn'a.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 323.4-D (Denny, J. F. Essay on the political grade)

Note

1. Printer statement precedes place of publication on title page.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
2. Checklist of American imprints

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in ink on title page "Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Denny, John F., 1798-1850, author.

Title

1. An essay on the political grade of the free coloured population under the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of Pennsylvania : in three parts / by John F. Denny, Esq.

Publisher

1. Chambersburg, Pa. : Printed by Hickok & Blood, 1836.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), Suppl. 592
2. Checklist of American imprints, 37082

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 323.4-D (accession no. K273034) inscribed: in ink on title page "Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added author

1. Hickok & Blood, printer.
2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 323.4-D (Denny, J. F. Essay on the political grade)