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Plymouth Church. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher selling a slave

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1232549


Item data

Title

Plymouth Church. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher selling a slave

Collection

The tragedy of the Negro in America : a condensed history of the enslavment, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the Negro race in the United States of America

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1897
Place: Cambridge, Mass.
Publisher: [s.n.]

Library Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 973-S

Subjects

African Americans
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
Plymouth Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Slave trade
Abolitionists

Genres

Illustrations

Physical Description

Engraving

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR2905488-B
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11734919
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 455e2a50-c62a-012f-b707-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1897

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MLA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Plymouth Church. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher selling a slave" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1897. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/455e2a50-c62a-012f-b707-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1897). Plymouth Church. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher selling a slave Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/455e2a50-c62a-012f-b707-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Plymouth Church. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher selling a slave" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/455e2a50-c62a-012f-b707-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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