Legal argument in the New Jersey Supreme Court for the immediate abolition of slavery made by Alvan Stewart “to test the institution of slavery in..... Read More
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..... Read More
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
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..... Read More
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..... Read More
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..... Read More
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... Read More
The author studies in detail how the American Civil War affected the thinking and views of Frederick Douglass, the former slave who became one one... Read More
Krichmar 1526: “From their diaries; concerning the woman suffrage movement in Rhode Island and of education in the early 19th century.” Schneider & Schneider (writing..... Read More
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... Read More
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..... Read More
The third autobiography authored by Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American 19th century American author, orator, and reformer. This edition noted for its ten-page Introduction... Read More
With a colorful dust jacket design by James Barkley, selections from the speeches, writings, and texts of Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American orator, author... Read More
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..... Read More
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
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
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..... Read More
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
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..... Read More
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... Read More
Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at the Hampton Institute for African-Americans and native Americans; this title published almost a decade... Read More
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
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)... Read More
Archy Lee was a slave brought to California who became fugitive when he realized his master would return him to Mississippi. He was caught in... Read More
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
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![Drum. [Falconcrest Series]. Kyle Onstott.](/pictures/thumb/3727337_1.jpg?v=1542657645)
![[John Brown, Execution of:] The Iniquity: A Sermon Preached in The First Church, Dorchester, On Sunday, Dec. 11, 1859. Nathaniel Hall, 1805–1875.](/pictures/thumb/3727847_1.jpg?v=1541628074)
