Maum Guinea, and her plantation "children" : a story of Christmas week with the American slaves / by Mrs. Metta V. Victor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885.

Contributor:

Orr, Nathaniel, engraver.

Burt, Robert K., printer.

Luke, W. H., binder.

Beadle and Company, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plantation life--Louisiana--Fiction.

Plantation life.

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Enslaved women--Fiction.

Enslaved women.

Louisiana--Fiction.

Louisiana.

Genre:

Love stories.

Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[2], iv, [5]-215, [7] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Half-title: Maum Guinea

Place of Publication:

London: 44, Paternoster Row ; New York: 141, William Street : Beadle and Company, [1861] (London : Robert K. Burt, printer, Holborn Hill)

Summary:

A tale of slave life on a Louisiana estate at Christmas time near the start of the Civil War.

Notes:

Engravings by Nathaniel Orr.

On title page, publisher precedes places of publication; printer statement from title page verso.

Date of publication from NSTC.

Signatures: [A-B]⁸ C-O⁸ (O8 blank).

Publisher's advertisements on p. [217]-[220].

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy imperfect: half-title wanting; all after p. 215 wanting.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has binder's stamp ("BOUND BY W.H. LUKE.") on front pastedown.

Cited in:

NSTC, Series II, 2F18348, 2V3352

OCLC:

2471786