Dreadful riot on Negro Hill! "O! read wid tention de melancoly tale, and e send you yelling to you bed! "A copy of an intercepted letter from Phillis to her sister in the country, describing the late riot on Negro-Hill. Bosson, Augur 32, 18016 [i.e., 1816]. Dear Sisser, I hab sad tidings to enform you--O! a few night since I taught my lass day surely come--a great number de white truckerman got angre ... and threten to demolesh all de brack peeple housen!

ID 19036
Title Dreadful riot on Negro Hill! "O! read wid tention de melancoly tale, and e send you yelling to you bed! "A copy of an intercepted letter from Phillis to her sister in the country, describing the late riot on Negro-Hill. Bosson, Augur 32, 18016 [i.e., 1816]. Dear Sisser, I hab sad tidings to enform you--O! a few night since I taught my lass day surely come--a great number de white truckerman got angre ... and threten to demolesh all de brack peeple housen!
Contributors
Signed Author Phillis.
Pseudonym
Firms
Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination 1
Date of Publication 1816
Edition Statement
Edition Number 1
Date of First Publication 1816
Imprint
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing Boston US
Format Broadside (bs)
Length (cm) 27
Width (cm)
Price (pound)
Price (shilling)
Price (pence)
Total Price (in pence)
Non-UK Price
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Sources
Shelfmarks
Notes From AAS:
Verse in twenty-eight stanzas, footnote, and postcript [sic]; first line: "Twas ten o'clock or dareabout.
Followed by: Notice. Pompey's advertisement. 100 dollar reward!
Colored relief cuts of Phillis and her daughter; text in three columns; printed area measures 40.5 x 23.2 cm.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Hand-Verified No
Verified No
Attempted Verification Yes

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Phillis, Pompey. Dreadful riot on Negro Hill! "O! read wid tention de melancoly tale, and e send you yelling to you bed! "A copy of an intercepted letter from Phillis to her sister in the country, describing the late riot on Negro-Hill. Bosson, Augur 32, 18016 [i.e., 1816]. Dear Sisser, I hab sad tidings to enform you--O! a few night since I taught my lass day surely come--a great number de white truckerman got angre ... and threten to demolesh all de brack peeple housen!The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 19036, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/19036. Accessed 2024-05-06. 

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