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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>

Collection Data

Names: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 (Author); Anelay, Henry, 1817-1883 (Illustrator); A.G. Brown & Co. (Publisher); N. Orr & Co. (Engraver); Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938 (Former owner)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1880; Place: Boston; Publisher: A.G. Brown & Co.
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc Rare 917.5-B (Brown, W. W. My southern home. 1880)
Topics: African Americans -- Southern States; Slavery -- Southern States; Authors, Black
Genres: Illustrations
Notes: Statement of responsibility: "Copyright 1880, by Annie G. Brown."--verso of title page.; Statement of responsibility: "Electrotyped and printed by Duffy, Cashman & Co., Fayette Court, Boston."--verso of title page.; Content: Publisher's advertisements, final [2] pages: "The negro in the American rebellion ... . Nearly 400 pages. Handsomely bound in cloth. ..."--p. [2], 4th count; "The rising son ... . Price $2.00 per copy."--p. [3], 4th count.; Content: Includes illustrations by H. Anelay; one engraving by N. Orr Co.; Citation/reference: Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 1727; Ownership: Copy in Sc Rare 917.5-B (accession no. B593784) with ink stamp on p. [1] at end: "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
Physical Description: Extent: Vii, [1], 253, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.; Copy in Sc Rare 917.5-B lacks final leaf with publishers' advertisements.; Engravings
Type of Resource: Still image; Text
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPG814130302-B; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b10712436; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1c364360-c619-012f-7489-58d385a7bc34