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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
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