Gilbert Hunt
Subtitle: the city blacksmith
By: Barrett, Philip, 1838-1900
Contributors: Hoyt, Ralph, 1806-1878; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; African American blacksmiths; Slaves; Theaters; Accidents
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Notes: Title from TEI header.

This electronic edition has been transcribed from a photocopy provided by the Library of Virginia.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Transcribed from a photocopy of: Gilbert Hunt : the city blacksmith / by Philip Barrett, author of "Flowers by the wayside," &c. Richmond : James Woodhouse, 1859. 34 p. "A young gentleman ... proposes publishing a brief sketch of Gilbert's life and labors - the proceeds of which are to be appropriated to the aid of this magnanimous old Negro."  cf. Advertisement from the Richmond whig, May 13th, 1859: p. [4]. "The blacksmith's night [poem] by Rev. R. Hoyt": p. [33]-34. "The burning of the Richmond theatre": p. [20]-31.

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