Title Information
Title
Hard Scrabble, or, Miss Philises bobalition
Name: Personal
Name Part
Rutter, William
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
bookseller
Type of Resource
text
Genre (rbgenr)
Broadsides
Origin Information
Place
Place Term: Code (MARC Country Code)
mau
Place
Place Term: Text
Boston
Publisher
W. Rutter?
Date Issued
1824?
Issuance
monographic
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Physical Description
Form (marcform)
print
Extent
1 broadside ; 24 x 20 cm.
Abstract
Poem about an anti-Negro riot at Hard Scrabble or Hardscrabble, a suburb of Providence, R.I., in 1824.
Note
In form, a parody of the nursery rhyme, "O! dear, what can the matter be". The two characters, Pomp[ey] and Phillis, are mentioned on p. 15-16 of Hard-Scrabble calendar (Providence, 1824), which refers to the "shuffling" dances performed in that neighborhood as "the zig zag movements of Pomp and Phillis, when engaged in treading the 'minuet de la court'" (Joseph L. Tillinghast, for the defense in the ensuing trial)
Note
Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold wholesale and retail at No. 152, Ann-Street--Boston. The printer may have been William Rutter.
Note
Printed area measures: 18.9 x 16.7 cm.
Note
Not in Shoemaker.
Subject
Geographic Code (MARC Geographic Area Code)
n-us-ri
Subject (LCSH)
Name: Personal
Name Part
Phillis
Topic
Poetry
Subject (LCSH)
Name: Personal
Name Part
Pompey
Topic
Poetry
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
African Americans
Topic
Poetry
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Political satire, American
Geographic
Rhode Islan
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Riots
Geographic
Rhode Island
Geographic
Providence
Subject
Topic
Parodies
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Hardscrabble (Providence, R.I.)
Topic
Poetry
Subject
Geographic
Providence (R.I.)
Topic
History
Temporal
Riot, 1824
Topic
Poetry
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Rhode Island
Topic
Race relations
Topic
Poetry
Subject
hierarchicalGeographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
city
Boston
Related Item: Host (displayLabel="Collection:")
Title Information
Title
Committee on Slavery and Justice
Identifier: COLID
17
Identifier: URI
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/slaveryandjustice
Record Information
Record Content Source (marcorg)
RPB
Record Creation Date (encoding="marc")
910710
Record Identifier (source="RPB")
b19503830
Identifier: METSID
116109332115189
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