Barclay, James J.:

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AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE OF THE HOUSE OF REFUGE FOR COLORED JUVENILE DELINQUENTS, ON SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1848. James Barclay was a prominent advocate for prison reform in Philadelphia. In this dedicatory address he explains that although a shelter for juvenile delinquents had been established in the city in the 1820s:"The means at the disposal of the managers did not warrant the outlay requisite for the construction of buildings to accommodate the colored children....Great will be your reward, sweet your gratification, when you behold those whom you have assisted in rescuing from vice and woe, industrious, useful and happy. May you not find among them a Sancho, a Wheatley, a Banneker, and a Roberts, persons not unknown to fame."Also included in the pamphlet is a detailed description of the proposed layout of the building.The present work is surprisingly rare. OCLC locates copies at only two institutions, Whittier College and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. We locate two further copies at Harvard and the Library Company of Philadelphia. Not in Work or Blockson; not at the American Antiquarian Society.

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