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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

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Names: Rainsford, Marcus, fl. 1805 (Author); Rainsford, Marcus, fl. 1805 (Artist); Barlow, James (18th cent.) (Engraver)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1805; Place: London; Publisher: Albion Press printed: published by James Cundee
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc Rare 972.94-R (Rainsford, M. Historical account of the black empire of Hayti)
Topics: Haitians; Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804
Genres: Books; Illustrations
Notes: Ownership: This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Physical Description: Extent: Xxiii, [1], 467, [13] p., [13] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., facsims., maps, port. ; 27 cm. (4to); Copy in Sc Rare 972.94-R (accession no. B498945) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "Alexander Calvin Pearson. The gift of his uncle George G[...?] Babington Oct. 1855." ; inscribed: in ink on title page "Jos. Atkinson Aug. 1 1880." ; With the ink stamp: "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street."; Engravings
Type of Resource: Text; Still image; Cartographic
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR2514606-B; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11733829; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7b9ab880-c618-012f-4b17-58d385a7bc34

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