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Reminiscences of an abolitionist : thrilling incidents, heroic actions, and wonderful escapes of fugitive slaves, in connection with the anti-slavery Underground Railroad of the United States, related by its President, Levi Coffin : with portrait of Levi Coffin, and facsimile of autograph.

Title
  1. Reminiscences of an abolitionist : thrilling incidents, heroic actions, and wonderful escapes of fugitive slaves, in connection with the anti-slavery Underground Railroad of the United States, related by its President, Levi Coffin : with portrait of Levi Coffin, and facsimile of autograph.
Published by
  1. London : Dyer Brothers, 21, Paternoster Square, [1877?]
Author
  1. Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877.

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Additional authors
  1. Dyer Brothers, publisher.
Description
  1. 207, [1] p. : port.; 18 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  1. Bookplates (Provenance)
  2. Underground Railroad > Indiana
  3. Slavery > Indiana > History > 19th century
  4. Underground Railroad > Ohio
  5. Abolitionists > United States > Biography
  6. Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century
  7. Publishers' advertisements > England > London
  8. Fugitive slaves > United States
  9. Slavery > Ohio > History > 19th century
  10. Slavery and the church > Society of Friends
  11. Quakers > United States > Biography
  12. Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877 > Portraits
  13. Dillingham, Richard, -1850
  14. Fairbank, Calvin, 1816-1898
  15. Slavery > North Carolina > History > 19th century
  16. Quaker abolitionists > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Publishers' advertisements – England – London.
  2. Bookplates (Provenance)
Call number
  1. Sc 326.973F-C (Coffin, L. Reminiscences of an abolitionist. 1877)
Note
  1. With a half-title.
  2. "For a list of Dyer Brothers' penny popular biographies, see advertisement at the end of this book."--verso of half-title page.
  3. Frontispiece portrait included in pagination.
  4. Publisher's advertisements, p. [1] at end.
  5. An abridgement and condensation of the 1876 American edition of: The reminiscences of Levi Coffin.
Provenance (note)
  1. with the bookplate: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Author
  1. Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877.
Title
  1. Reminiscences of an abolitionist : thrilling incidents, heroic actions, and wonderful escapes of fugitive slaves, in connection with the anti-slavery Underground Railroad of the United States, related by its President, Levi Coffin : with portrait of Levi Coffin, and facsimile of autograph.
Imprint
  1. London : Dyer Brothers, 21, Paternoster Square, [1877?]
Provenance
  1. Copy in Sc 326.973F-C (accession no. J854284) with the bookplate: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
Added author
  1. Dyer Brothers, publisher.
  2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research call number
  1. Sc 326.973F-C (Coffin, L. Reminiscences of an abolitionist. 1877)
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