Memoir of James Jackson, the attentive, and obedient scholar
Subtitle: who died in Boston, October 31, 1833, aged six years and eleven months
By: by his teacher, Miss Susan Paul
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Published by James Loring, 132 Washington Street.
Published: 1835
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: African American children; Biography; Children; Boys; Conduct of life; Death; Blind children; Juvenile poetry; School children; Racism; Sunday schools; Sabbath; Mothers and sons; Race relations
Notes: "The design of this memoir is, to present the incidents in the life of a little colored boy ... Let ... this little book do something towards breaking down that unholy prejudice which exists against color."--Preface, pages [v]-vi.

Copyright 1835 by James Loring.

With a half-title.

"The little blind boy."--prose explanation and poem, pages 84-85.

"Am I to blame?"--prose explanation and poem, pages 87-88.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.