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..... Read More about A Side-Light on Anglo-American Relations, 1839-1858: Furnished by the Correspondence of Lewis...
Biography of this famed Massachusetts abolitionist written by Archibald Grimké, civil rights leader, high-level officer in the NAACP, and a noted lawyer. The son of..... Read More about William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist
Captioned the “Historian and Antislavery Lecturer of the Crisis”, this reprinted portrait commemorates Black abolitionist William Wells Brown (c.1814–1884), author of the 1847 best-seller, Narrative..... Read More about Portrait Print of Black Abolitionist and Writer, William Wells Brown, issued by Associated...
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This distinguished Black American historian discusses an unusual subject matter: How did African Americans in 19th-century America view the abolitionist John Brown? Inscribed and signed..... Read More about Allies for Freedom. Blacks and John Brown. [Inscribed Copy
Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles, editor and a prolific and prominent Black American historian. With a 7-page introduction and single-page commentary by Quarles at..... Read More about Blacks on John Brown
![“Albany Atlas Extra—February, 1848.”] The Utica Convention. Voice of New-York!! Proceedings...](/images/noimage-req.png)
The Utica Convention of 1848 resulted in the formation of the Free Soil Party who opposed the expansion of slavery into Western territories. The pamphlet..... Read More about “Albany Atlas Extra—February, 1848.”] The Utica Convention. Voice of New-York!! Proceedings...
African Americas during the American Civil War as enslaved people, as “contraband”; as fugitives seeking freedom within the Union Army lines. Surprisingly scarce, Dumond is..... Read More about America’s Shame and Redemption
Pierce Butler was a Georgia-born Philadelphian whose marriage to British actress Fanny Kemble was in discord as his ownership of enslaved African Americans clashed with..... Read More about Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel of Southern plantation slave life, first published in 1852. This fine press edition..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....
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..... Read More about 1865 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry Vincent, English Radical, while on Anti-Slavery Tour in...
Scarce and important text on the fight to prevent the spread of slavery in western States and especially Missouri. Rufus King (1755-1827) was a Federalist..... Read More about The Substance of Two Speeches, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the Subject of...
“Opposes bill proposing abolition, not of slavery, but of the slave trade, in the District of Columbia; ‘slavery ought not to exist in fact and..... Read More about Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives, Feb 28, 1849, on Slavery...
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..... Read More about British Antislavery 1833-1870
Biography of abolitionist Thomas Garrett (1789–1871) of Wilmington, Delaware, Underground Railroad Station Master and working colleague of celebrated Underground Railroad Conductor Harriet Tubman (c.1822–1913). Includes..... Read More about Station Master on the Underground Railroad. The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett. [signed by...
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,...
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...... Read More about Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the...
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Scarce anti-slavery sermon directed to the senior class of 1862 and given by John W. Scott, president of this small Presbyterian college located near Pittsburgh..... Read More about Anti-Slavery Sermons:] The Times, and Signs of the Times. Baccalaureate Sermon, to the Graduating...
Two affecting letters touching on slavery, separation by war between men of common English ancestry, and themes of loss and suffering. Both letters are addressed..... Read More about 1851 and 1861 St. Helena Island Autograph Letters Signed to Dr. Robert Stephenson, Summerfield, Ohio
This study examines the realities that the Free North held a substantial population who opposed the abolition of slavery, describing the history of this phenomenon..... Read More about Powder Keg. Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement 1831-1840
Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at Virginia’s Hampton Institute for African Americans and Native Americans; this title published almost a...... Read More about Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...
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..... Read More about The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864....
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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..... Read More about John Brown, Execution of:] The Iniquity: A Sermon Preached in The First Church, Dorchester, On...
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Inscribed and signed by the lauded Black historian Benjamin Quarles who contributes an essay within. This book is a combination of documentary evidence and scholarly..... Read More about John Brown. Great Loves Observed. [inscribed
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Printed on the title-page’s verso is the map “Colony of Liberia on the West Coat of Africa” with an inset plan of the town of..... Read More about Map of Colony of Liberia on the West Coat of Africa within:] Address of the Managers of the...
Winner of the Julian Messner Award for the “Best Book Combatting Intolerance in America.” An interpretation of the life story of Frederick Douglass “—a man..... Read More about There Was Once a Slave ... The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass
