Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865.
“This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky..... Read More about Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865
“This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky..... Read More about Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865
Signed in type at its conclusion as “Justitia” e.g., the author Albert Gallatin Hawes (1804-1849) who was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. This copy was..... Read More about Letter to the Honorable Mr. Hawes, in reply to His Strictures on the Graduates of the Military...
Pocket-sized folding song sheet for soldiers at Camp Zachary Taylor near Louisville, Kentucky. The camp was in existence for three years during WWI, becoming the..... Read More about Songs of the Soldiers, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky
Senator and slaveholder Henry Clay of Kentucky discusses slavery in the the District of Columbia, the impediments to the immediate abolition of slavery, and the..... Read More about Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the Subject of Abolition Petitions. Delivered in the Senate...
Number 8 from the Anti-Slavery Examiner. Kentucky reformer, Princeton graduate, and anti-slavery proponent, James Gillespie Birney (1792–1857), here responds to questions from South Carolina’s F.H...... Read More about Correspondence, between the Hon. F.H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress,...
Rare first edition. Controversial novel in favor of lynching, written by Southern woman author, Hallie Erminie Rives (1874–1956). The book concerns issues of slavery and..... Read More about Smoking Flax
Collected letters of southern attorney, planter, and slaveholder, James Gillespie Birney, who was active in the African American colonization movement before becoming an ardent abolitionist..... Read More about Letters of James Gillespie Birney 1831-1857. [2 volumes
Autobiography of author, editor, and antislavery activist Henry Walton Bibb (1815–1854), enslaved from birth in Shelby County, Kentucky. This 1969 facsimile reprint of Bibb’s autobiography..... Read More about Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave. Written by Himself
First edition of this first biography of William Wells Brown, “Kentucky-born slave who became a self-educated writer and advocate of abolition, temperance, and international peace.”..... Read More about William Wells Brown: Author & Reformer. (Signed by John Hope Franklin