We are excited to reintroduce Morris and his remarkable library with this new exhibit. Robert Morris (1825–1882) has long been known as the second Black person to become a lawyer in the United States. 他于1847年获得马萨诸塞州律师资格. 莫里斯深深卷入了19世纪美国的战争.S. civil rights movement and constantly agitated for full and equal rights for people of color. His legal career included filing the first major school desegregation case in the country (Roberts v. 波士顿市), 代表奴隶制度下的逃亡者, 并担任爱尔兰移民的首选律师.
自2017年春季展览以来， 罗伯特·莫里斯:律师 & 积极分子在英国，人们在不列颠哥伦比亚省的藏书中发现了近30多本莫里斯的书. 在跟随妻子凯瑟琳加入天主教会之后, Morris forged strong relationships with the young institution and early leaders like Father Robert Fulton. 1882年左右，他将自己的大部分藏书捐赠给了公元前. Most of the books featured in this exhibit are from that donation and are on generous loan from the John J. 电子游戏软件伯恩斯图书馆. We also are proud to display two items from the Morris collection at the Canton Historical Society in Canton, 麻萨诸塞州.
的 exhibit was curated by Laurel Davis and Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders Professor of Law. 它将一直开放到2023年8月. 珍本书室平日上午9点开放.m.–5:00 p.m. 的 展览目录 可下载. 更多关于莫里斯的信息，请访问我们的网站。 罗伯特·莫里斯:民权律师 & 反对奴隶制度的积极分子, at blairekidsarts.net/robert-morris.
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大卫•霍夫曼 法律电子游戏正规平台课程. 波士顿,1836年.
莫里斯的大部分法律书籍都没有找到, but we know he had them because 1) some are listed in an extant account book (including Wharton’s 美国刑法2)他特别将自己的法律书籍遗赠给了儿子小罗伯特(Robert Jr .). 在他的遗嘱中. This law title was discovered in the BC 法律图书馆 during the summer of 2021—Morris’s signature and bookplate can be found on the front pastedown. Hoffman’s popular textbook for law students included an extensive reading list and tips for studying and learning the law. Morris likely consulted it during his legal apprenticeship with Ellis Gray Loring.
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威廉•Goodell 美国奴隶法典. 纽约(1853年.
古德尔是废奴主义者和平权倡导者的领军人物. 在这本书里, he meticulously works through state statutes and cases to show how the American slavery and caste systems were created by the law. 古德尔看到了美国.S. Constitution as an antislavery document and felt that the government had a moral and legal duty to immediately abolish slavery. 莫里斯还拥有一本 古德尔的《奴隶制和反奴隶制 (1852)， 2017年展出.
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玛丽亚·韦斯顿·查普曼主编. 自由钟. 波士顿,1839 - 1857.
自由钟 was a gift book series sold at the annual Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar in Faneuil Hall to raise money for the abolitionist cause. 主要组织者, 玛丽亚·韦斯顿·查普曼, 征求反对奴隶制的文章, 诗, 以及收录在年度卷中的故事. 撰稿人包括Lydia Maria Child, 威廉·劳埃德·加里森, 亨利·沃兹沃思·朗费罗, 哈丽雅特·马提瑙, 和拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生. 查普曼和她的姐妹们也贡献了文章. 从1839年到1857年共出版了15卷. Six volumes belonging to Morris have been identified in the Burns collections, 包括编辑玛丽亚·韦斯顿·查普曼写给他的一封.
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J. R. 胡子, 杜桑·卢维杜尔的一生:海地的黑人爱国者. 伦敦,1853年.
Toussaint L’Ouverture was enslaved in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) before eventually leading a successful rebellion and independence movement. 他是莫里斯的英雄, who copied Wordsworth’s sonnet about the Haitian revolutionary into this book (given to him by wife Catharine on his 28th birthday).
莫里斯广泛阅读有关奴隶制的书籍, and his library includes the narratives and stories of those who had been held in bondage. 除了这本传记和 弗雷德里克·道格拉斯的故事，我们从现存的一封信中得知，他还拥有一份副本 《奥劳达·埃奎亚诺生活的有趣叙述这是废奴主义者和女权活动家莉迪亚·玛丽亚·查尔德送给他的.
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威廉·威尔斯·布朗， 黑人，他的祖先，他的天才和他的成就. 1863年，纽约.
Brown escaped from slavery in Kentucky and became a well-known abolitionist and writer. 在这本书里, he balks at the notion of white supremacy and outlines the achievements of Black Americans including 道格拉斯, 惠特利, 和莫里斯本人.
This recently identified book is one reason why we consider Morris one of the first self-conscious African American collectors of the African American experience. 他有惠特利, 道格拉斯, 关于非洲的书籍, 以及一系列关于废奴和争取平等权利的作品. 他还拥有, is featured in, and supported the creation of William Cooper Nell’s 美国独立战争中的有色人种爱国者 (波士顿，1855年)，我们在2017年展出了它.
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沃伦·李·高斯， 一个士兵被囚禁在安德森维尔的故事, 美女岛, 和其他叛军监狱. 波士顿,1867年.
Goss was a Union soldier from 麻萨诸塞州 who was held captive two different times during the war. Michael Vorenberg教授, 布朗大学历史学副教授, wondered if there was some thematic resonance for Morris between the prison narratives written by captured White U.S. soldiers like Goss and pre-war slavery narratives written by Black Americans. 沃伦伯格教授还指出，这本书, 还有另外两本最近被确认为莫里斯的书——詹姆斯·帕顿的 新奥尔良的巴特勒将军 乔尔·T. 赫德利的 格兰特和谢尔曼——这是为了“拥有一套关于内战的古怪书籍”.” Morris likely owned other books on the topic, either lost to the ages or yet to be discovered.
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西尔维斯特贾德, 玛格丽特. 波士顿,1845年.
Judd’s novel has been called the “first book of the American Renaissance” and “the closest thing we have to a transcendental novel.” It includes an amusing note in Morris’s hand expressing his displeasure at someone who borrowed his book and wrote in the margins.
莫里斯现存的大部分作品都是非虚构的, 加上适量的诗歌, 他确实买过小说，比如 玛格丽特. 他还拥有 时辰之道詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀(James Fenimore Cooper)的刑事法庭剧; 时间与人, 哈丽雅特·马提瑙’s work of historical fiction inspired by Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner; and three novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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乔瓦尼·巴蒂斯塔·尼科利尼， 耶稣会的历史. 伦敦,1854年.
尼可利尼是意大利诗人和剧作家. 莫里斯买了他的 耶稣会的历史 in 1854, roughly around the time he began attending the local Catholic parish at his wife Catharine’s behest. 由于这次搬家以及他经常代理爱尔兰移民客户, he had strong connections to 电子游戏软件 (founded in 1863) and early leaders like Father Robert Fulton. 莫里斯家族也资助了不列颠哥伦比亚省, 包括他们把他的书捐赠给这所年轻的学校.
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罗伯特·莫里斯的账簿. 波士顿,1854 - 55.
莫里斯的账簿上有他的案件记录, 包括路易斯·海登的一个, 波士顿著名的地下铁路“售票员”. 它还记录了他在1854年和1855年的部分时间里购买的书籍. 一小部分，比如尼科利尼的 耶稣会的历史哈里特·比彻·斯托的 外国土地的阳光回忆艾伦·路易斯·钱德勒家 这个，那个或其他理查德·希尔德雷思的 美国的专制在不列颠哥伦比亚省的藏品中被发现. 还有很多人，比如大仲马的 三个火枪手，尚未浮出水面. 如果一个人假设这个收集速度在过程中, 说, 30年, 莫里斯的藏书可能超过1个,000册藏书.
从马萨诸塞州坎顿市的坎顿历史学会慷慨借出
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莫里斯的逃亡奴隶营救试验剪贴簿. 波士顿,1851年
1851年2月, Shadrach Minkins was arrested in downtown Boston at his job and taken to the courthouse to begin the process of forcing him back to his enslaver in Kentucky. 莫里斯跑到法院为他辩护. 在初步诉讼后, 法庭被清空。, 混乱爆发了, 明金斯被扫地出门. 他最终安全抵达加拿大. 很快, Morris and six others were indicted for aiding in the escape of a fugitive in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act. 莫里斯于1851年11月被无罪释放. He kept this scrapbook of clippings and notes about his trial and the trials of the other accused rescuers.
从马萨诸塞州坎顿市的坎顿历史学会慷慨借出
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从埃文·申克曼的收集，BC法律类2001年.
的 exhibit takes a sneak peek into the personal collection of Evan Shenkman, BC Law 2001. 埃文专注于开拓律师和民权领袖. 项目包括:由Macon B签署的遗嘱认证文件. 艾伦是美国第一位成为律师的黑人. 艾伦于1845年获得律师资格, 比罗伯特·莫里斯早两年, and he also practiced in Boston before moving to Charleston; a writ signed by Wentworth Cheswell, 美国第一位黑人司法官员.S.; a calling card of Belva Lockwood (1830–1917), the first woman admitted to practice before the Supreme Court; and a letter from Annette Abbott Adams (1877–1956), the first woman to serve as a federal prosecutor and the first to sit on the California Court of Appeals.
