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A concise narrative of the barbarous treatment experienced by American prisoners in England and the West-Indies, &c. / Written by a young man who was prisoner nearly six months in the island of Barbadoes, and five in England. ; Interspersed with anecdotes, remarks, &c. &c. ; [One line of quotation].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coffin, R. S. (Robert Stevenson), 1797-1827.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 37290.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coffin, R. S. (Robert Stevenson), 1797-1827.
- Coffin, R. S.
- History.
- United States--History--War of 1812--Personal narratives.
- United States.
- United States--History--War of 1812--Prisoners and prisons.
- Genre:
- Songs.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 24 pages ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Narrative, &c.
- Place of Publication:
- Danville [Vt.]: : Printed by Ebenezer Eaton., 1816.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Caption title: Narrative, &c.
- A subsequent edition, published at Hanover, N.H. in 1816 (not in Shaw & Shoemaker), names R. Stevenson Coffin as author. In his autobiography, The life of a Boston bard (Mount Pleasant, N.Y., 1825), p. 65-66, Coffin describes the circumstances of the first printing.
- Attributed to Simeon Coleman in Shaw & Shoemaker. Laid in the American Antiquarian Society copy is a letter from M.M. Stocker of Danville, dated April 18, 1921, recounting the local tradition of the appearance of "Simeon Coleman" in that town. The name is likely a corruption of "Stevenson Coffin" through oral transmission, and Stocker's letter is presumably the source for the Shaw & Shoemaker entry.
- "The following song was written by the author of this narrative, on board the prison-ship Vestal, in the West-Indies, December, 1814. Song."--p. 23-24.
- "Errata."--p. 24.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 37290).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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