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Educational laws of Virginia : the personal narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass, a southern woman, who was imprisoned for one month in the common jail of Norfolk, under the laws of Virginia, for the crime of teaching free colored children to read.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection LC2802.V8 D68
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Douglass, Margaret.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Douglass, Margaret--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Douglass, Margaret.
- Trials (Breach of the peace)--Virginia.
- Trials (Breach of the peace).
- African Americans--Education--Virginia.
- African Americans.
- Education--Virginia.
- Education.
- Women teachers.
- African Americans--Education.
- Virginia.
- Women teachers--Virginia.
- Physical Description:
- 65 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Published by John P. Jewett & Co., 1854.
- Notes:
- Frontispiece portrait engraved by Sartain after a daguerreotype by Root.
- Cited in:
- Dumond, D.L. Antislavery in Amer., p. 48
- Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 3238
- OCLC:
- 82346013
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