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Away they go, sweeping round the course with lightning speed, while every spectator's eye is strained, and every countenance flushed with intense anxiety."

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

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Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

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Away they go, sweeping round the course with lightning speed, while every spectator's eye is strained, and every countenance flushed with intense anxiety."
Names
Steward, Austin, 1794-1860 (Author)
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Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1861
Place: Rochester, N.Y.
Publisher: Allings & Cory
Edition: 3rd
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 326.92-S
Topics
Slavery -- New York (State)
Horse racing
Spectators
Genres
Illustrations
Physical Description
Engravings
Type of Resource
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11674682
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 93051980-c60b-012f-d00e-58d385a7bc34
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Item timeline of events

  • 1794: Creator Born
  • 1860: Creator Died
  • 1861: Issued (Approximate)
  • 2013: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Away they go, sweeping round the course with lightning speed, while every spectator's eye is strained, and every countenance flushed with intense anxiety."" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1861. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-74a9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Away they go, sweeping round the course with lightning speed, while every spectator's eye is strained, and every countenance flushed with intense anxiety."" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-74a9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1861). Away they go, sweeping round the course with lightning speed, while every spectator's eye is strained, and every countenance flushed with intense anxiety." Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-74a9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Away they go, sweeping round the course with lightning speed, while every spectator's eye is strained, and every countenance flushed with intense anxiety."