Silvia Dubois : a biografy of the slav who whipt her mistres and gand her fredom / by C. W. Larison, M.D. ; edited with a translation and introduction by Jared C. Lobdell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larison, Cornelius Wilson, 1837-1910.

Contributor:

Dubois, Silvia, 1788 or 1789-1889.

Lobdell, Jared, 1937- editor, writer.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers

The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dubois, Silvia, 1788 or 1789-1889.

Dubois, Silvia.

Enslaved women--United States--Biography.

Enslaved women.

United States.

Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.

Enslaved persons.

African American women--Biography.

African American women.

English language--Phonetic transcriptions.

English language.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvii, 117 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 124 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Summary:

This book may be mostly history or it may be mostly folklore, but it is in any case well worth reading. It is a colloquy an extended interview- with a long foreword by the interviewer and two appendices, one of them mine, and it is the product of a meeting between two 'originals' of the sort that seem to have been commoner in the last century than in this.

Contents:

Foreword / by Cornelius W. Larison

The Reminiscences of Silvia Dubois

Appendix I: Further Reminiscences

Appendix II: Other Documents Relating to Silvia Dubois or Her Master

Silvia Dubois, a Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistress and Gand Her Freedom (Original Text)

Notes:

"This book may be mostly history or it may be mostly folklore ... It is a colloquy-an extended interview-with a long foreword by the interviewer and two appendices."

Reprint. Originally published : Ringos, N.J. : C. W. Larson, 1883.

"Whenever possible, the volumes in this set were reproduced directly from original materials. When availability, physical condition of original texts, or other circumstances prohibited this, volumes or portions of volumes were reset."--Publisher's Note.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1989

ISBN:

0195052390

0195052676

OCLC:

15696706