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The college of life : or, Practical self-educator, a manual of self-improvement for the colored race forming an educational emancipator and a guide to success. Giving examples and achievements of successful men and women of the race as an incentive and...

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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
Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930 (Author)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909 (Author)
Gay, Joseph R (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1900
Place: [United States?]
Publisher: [s.n.]
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 030-N (Northrop, H. D. The college of life)
Topics
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
African Americans -- Biography
African Americans -- Education
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Books
Illustrations
Notes
Statement of responsibility: by Henry Davenport Northrop, Joseph R. Gay, and I. Garland Penn ; embellished with hundreds of superb engravings.
Physical Description
Extent: [17]-704 p., 58 p., 705-720 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Barcode: 33433034100119
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR8719601-B
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11594282
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 52b1b710-c6df-012f-eecd-58d385a7bc34
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