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... Read More
Anti-slavery
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... Read More
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... Read More
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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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
Frederick Douglass’ Civil War. Keeping Faith in Jubilee.
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
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
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
The Mind and Heart of Frederick Douglass: Excerpts from Speeches of the Great Negro Orator.
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
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... Read More
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, written by himself.
[Title continues:] Published for the Frederick Douglass Historical and Cultural League, in preparation for the One Hundredth Anniversary of Douglass’ first Public Appearance in the... Read More
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. [Three Volumes (of Four)]
First three (of four and a later supplement) volumes of the extensive writings of Frederick Douglass with pithy and explanatory footnotes and a full-length biography... Read More
“The System of Colonial Law” Compared with the Eternal Laws of God; and with the Indispensable Principles of the English Constitution.
Important anti-slavery tract by a leading British abolitionist, Granville Sharp (1735–1813). The tract was published shortly before Parliament passed the An Act for the Abolition... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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.... Read More
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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... Read More
Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner.
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
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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... Read More
Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution: In a Correspondence Between the Rev. Richard Fuller of Beaufort, S.C., and the Rev. Francis Wayland, of Providence, R.I.
Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution reprints an epistolary debate between two Baptist clergymen conducted in 1844–1845 in a Boston newspaper, the Christian Reflector... Read More
Archy Lee.
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