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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Fourth of July Orations, 1822-1843
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). Registry Department
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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v.29. Miscellaneous papers. -- v.30. Boston marriages, 1752-1809. -- v.31. Boston town records, 1784-1796. -- v.32. Aspinwall notarial records, 1644-1651. -- v.33. Selectmen's minutes, 1799-1810. -- v.34. Drake, F. S. The town of Roxbury. -- v.36. Boston town records, 1796-1813. -- v.37. Boston town records, 1814-1822. -- v.38. Selectmen's minutes, 1811-1818. -- v.39. Selectmen's minutes, 1818-1822.
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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v.29. Miscellaneous papers. -- v.30. Boston marriages, 1752-1809. -- v.31. Boston town records, 1784-1796. -- v.32. Aspinwall notarial records, 1644-1651. -- v.33. Selectmen's minutes, 1799-1810. -- v.34. Drake, F. S. The town of Roxbury. -- v.36. Boston town records, 1796-1813. -- v.37. Boston town records, 1814-1822. -- v.38. Selectmen's minutes, 1811-1818. -- v.39. Selectmen's minutes, 1818-1822.
Records Relating to the Early History of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). Registry Department
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Richard Potter
Author: John A. Hodgson
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his "Hindu" ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial "popular entertainment" status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his "Hindu" ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial "popular entertainment" status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history.
Records Relating to the Early History of Boston ...
Author: Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Oration Delivered in Faneuil Hall Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston on the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Wednesday, July 4, 1900
Author: Stephen O'Meara
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Documents of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). City Council
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
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An Oration Delivered at the Request of the Republicans of Boston, at Faneuil Hall, on the Fourth of July, 1822
Author: Andrew Dunlap
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: 1906, Boston town records, 1814-1822
Author: Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Dorchester annexed to Boston, Jan. 3, 1870; Roxbury annexed to Boston, Jan. 5, 1868.
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Dorchester annexed to Boston, Jan. 3, 1870; Roxbury annexed to Boston, Jan. 5, 1868.