The Algerine Captive (Masterworks of Literature Series) - Hardcover

Tyler, Royall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0808400487 ISBN 13: 9780808400486

Publisher: New College & Univ Pr, 1970

Synopsis

Publisher: Hartford, Printed by Peter B. Gleason and Co Publication date: 1816 Subjects: Slavery -- Africa, North Algeria -- Description and travel New England -- Social life and customs Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

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Review:

"American literature cannot be charged with poverty while it has such valuables [as Royall Tyler] uninvested in its forgotten repositories."--Evert A. Duyckinck

""American literature cannot be charged with poverty while it has such valuables [as Royall Tyler] uninvested in its forgotten repositories.""--Evert A. Duyckinck

About the Author:

Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1757 to Royall Tyler and Mary (Steele) Tyler, Tyler attended the Boston Latin School, Yale and then Harvard, where he earned a reputation as a quick-witted joker. After graduation, he briefly served in the Massachusetts militia under John Hancock during the abortive Rhode Island expedition. In late 1778, he returned to Harvard to study law, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1780. He opened a practice in Braintree, Massachusetts, eight miles outside of Boston. After a brief stint in suppressing the 1787 Shays's Rebellion, Tyler moved to Boston and boarded in the house of Elizabeth Palmer. After unsuccessfully courting Abigail Adams for many years, in 1794, he wed the Palmers's daughter, Mary Palmer, took her to his new home in Vermont, and with her had eleven children. In 1801, Tyler was appointed to the Supreme Court of Vermont as an assistant judge, and was later elected chief justice. In 1812 he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate. In 1826, he died in Vermont, of facial cancer that he had suffered from for ten years.

About this edition

• Publisher: New College & Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0808400487
• ISBN 13: 9780808400486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: Cook Don Lewis