Fw: Niemcewicz

[Henryk Baran]

Colleagues, I wonder if anyone can help Dr. Wiencek. If so, perhaps you
could reply directly to him, off-list, but with a copy to me? Thank you.
Henryk Baran
University at Albany, SUNY
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hbaran at bellatlantic.net
hbaran at albany.edu
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Wiencek" <hsw at cstone.net>
To: <hbaran at albany.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 4:24 PM
Subject: Niemcewicz


> Dear Prof. Baran,
> I wonder if you can help me.  I am interested in the writings of Julian
> Ursyn Niemcewicz on the subject of slavery in America.  A brief note in
> Budka's translation of "Under Their Vine and Fig Tree" says that
> Niemcewicz wrote "an unpublished narrative" entitled "The Orphan
> Pretender of The Picture of the Times" in which he compared American
> slaves and Polish peasants.  I wonder if this work has since been
> published and (I hope) translated into English.  Can you put me in touch
> with a Niemcewicz scholar who might be able to answer this question?  I
> am writing a book about George Washington and his slaves, and I wonder
> if Niemcewicz made comments of Washington's slaves in "The Orphan
> Pretender."
>
> With best wishes,
> Henry Wiencek
> Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
> Charlottesville, Virginia
>
>

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