- 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
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.