The American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1837.
Illustrated anti-slavery almanac with extensive slavery and abolitionist content. Illustrations within include a scene depicting slave shackles hanging from a tree and a black man...
Anti-slavery
The Anti-Slavery History of the John Brown Year; Being the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society. [cover title]
Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society for the year ending May 1860. This annual titled on the cover in tribute to militant abolitionist John...
Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy.
First edition, in publisher’s original polished cloth, a collection of anti-slavery lectures by Amos A. Phelps (1805–1847), Congregational Minister in Boston and agent of the.....
A Side-Light on Anglo-American Relations, 1839-1858: Furnished by the Correspondence of Lewis Tappan and Others with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
The Tappan Papers; correspondence between noted New York abolitionist Lewis Tappan and other important figures from the 19th-century anti-slavery movement. The present work is described...
Free at Last. The Life of Frederick Douglass.
Bontemps’ biography of this extraordinary African American author, orator, and statesman, born a slave, self-educated, author of three autobiographies and a friend of Abraham Lincoln.....
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Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies]
With two copies only in OCLC, a very scarce early reprint edition of this biography from the “American Crisis Biographies” —written by one great African.....
Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from its Evil Sources, its Injustice, its Wrongs ... Together with Observations on Emancipation, and the Duties of American Citizens in Regard to Slavery.
Charles Elliott (1792–1869) Emigrated to America from Ireland and became a prominent minister within the Methodists of Ohio. “During the long debate within his church.....
Daniel O’Connell and the Committee of the Irish Repeal Association of Cincinnati.
Union Pamphlets 35: “Numerous of the rioters against the draft in the summer of 1863 were Irish laborers, hostile to the war and to the...
Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America.
A “definitive study of the intense development of the anti-slavery movement” and being a work of excellent scholarship. Dumond describes all scenarios of the movement;.....
An Historical Memoir of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. Compiled from the Minutes of the Society and Other Official Documents, by Edward Needles, and Published by Authority of the Society.
Memoir of the first American abolition society; scarce to commerce and with no auction records found over the last thirty years. The compiler, Quaker Edward.....
The Negro in Pennsylvania. Slavery - Servitude - Freedom, 1639-1861.
A specific study of the “legal, social, and economic history of the Pennsylvania negro in his rise from slavery to freedom.” Winner of the Justin.....
Two Quaker Sisters. From the Original Diaries of Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lucy Buffam Lovell.
Krichmar 1526: “From their diaries; concerning the woman suffrage movement in Rhode Island and of education in the early 19th century.” Schneider & Schneider (writing.....
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839.
Pierce Butler was a Georgia-born Philadelphian whose marriage to British actress Fanny Kemble was in discord as his ownership of Southern slaves clashed with her...
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Slave-Trading in the Old South. [1931 First Edition]
Described as the standard history of the domestic slave trade, Bancroft’s book was the “product of more than three decades of research [and] was the.....
My Bondage and My Freedom.
A facsimile edition from the “Ebony Classics” of the second of three autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass with a four-page Foreword.....
1865 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry Vincent, English Radical, while on Anti-Slavery Tour in America.
Ten line letter written by English reformer Henry Vincent while on tour in America, March 1865, espousing anti-slavery beliefs through public lecture. In this letter...
British Antislavery 1833-1870.
The British antislavery movement marked victories with British ending its involvement in the slave trade in 1807 and emancipation in Britain’s sugar colonies in 1833...
The Prostrate State. South Carolina Under Negro Government.
The Palmetto State in the years after the American Civil War, under the control of the powerful Radical Republicans. Historian Henry Steele Commager described Pike’s.....
Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837.
First hand reports of travels in the Caribbean and the effects of the abolition of slavery there by authors Rev. James A. Thome and J....
Pictures of Slavery in Church and State; Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc With an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery.
Critique of slavery in the American South by a Methodist Episcopal minister and Maryland native. Long’s controversial treatise, published by himself, drew on his own.....
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Drum. [Falconcrest Series]
The second book in the Falconcrest trilogy, preceded by Mandingo, and followed by Master of Falconhurst. The story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless...
The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864. [Inscribed by author]
The book studies, in part, the beginnings of slavery in Illinois Country (1719-1783), slavery in the Illinois Territory (1800-1818), the slavery question in the courts...
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[John Brown, Execution of:] The Iniquity: A Sermon Preached in The First Church, Dorchester, On Sunday, Dec. 11, 1859.
Two anti-slavery sermons preached by Nathaniel Hall 1805–1875) in Dorchester, Massachusetts just days after the December 2, 1859 execution of radical abolitionist John Brown. The...
The African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865.
A study of the American Colonization Society from 1816-1865 and the early colonies such as Liberia. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. 323pp. First edition...
The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States.
First edition of an important American Civil War-time work arguing for emancipation of slaves by noted American reformer and former congressman, Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877)...