The Rootless.
Waters Turpin was a native of the town of Oxford, Eastern Shore, Maryland; an educator at Lincoln University and Morgan State, a novelist and playwright..... Read More about The Rootless
Anti-slavery
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Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition]
Published after Mandingo and Drum, the continuing story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless themes of slave-breeding and slavery in the antebellum South as..... Read More about Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition
Anthony Benezet. From the Original Memoir: Revised, with Additions.
Biography of early American abolitionist and Quaker educator, Anthony Benezet (1713–1784) of Philadelphia. In 1775, Benezet was the founder of one of the world’s first..... Read More about Anthony Benezet. From the Original Memoir: Revised, with Additions
Still’s Underground Rail Road Records. Revised Edition. With a Life of the Author. Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts for Freedom. Together with Sketches of Some of the Eminent Friends of Freedom, and Most Liberal Aiders and Advisers of the Road.
Revised edition of William Still’s The Underground Rail Road, first published in 1872 and here re-published by the author himself a with a new 64-page..... Read More about Still’s Underground Rail Road Records. Revised Edition. With a Life of the Author. Narrating...
The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Signed by the Author]
With the publisher’s booklet. Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning treatment of the story of the Virginia slave insurrection of Nat Turner which he led, the massacre that..... Read More about The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Signed by the Author
Negroes and Their Treatment in Virginia from 1865 to 1867.
McConnell documents the upheaval and revolution as black Americans in Virginia transitioned from slaves to full citizenship. Within: “Public Opinion in Virginia in Regard to..... Read More about Negroes and Their Treatment in Virginia from 1865 to 1867
The Underground Rail Road. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c, Narrating the Hardships, Hair-breadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their efforts for Freedom, as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author; Together With Sketches of some of the Largest Stockholders, and Most Liberal Aiders…
Still’s monumental work, approaching 800 pages, documented the efforts and frequent successes of fugitive slaves to seek freedom as they made their way north along..... Read More about The Underground Rail Road. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c, Narrating...
Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832.
Study of Virginia’s retreat from rising anti-slavery and abolitionist sentiments of the late 18th and early 19th centuries to a defense of slavery in the..... Read More about Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832
Friend Anthony Benezet.
Biography of early American abolitionist and Quaker educator, Anthony Benezet (1713–1784) of Philadelphia. In 1775, Benezet was the founder of one of the world’s first..... Read More about Friend Anthony Benezet
The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written During the Crisis 1800-1860.
Anthology of ante-bellum American letters concerning free and enslaved African Americans and anti-slavery activities, edited by Carter G. Woodson, the “father of black history.” This..... Read More about The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written During the Crisis 1800-1860
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Contemporaries [Anti-Slavery History].
Collection of biographical sketches of American literary figures and others, including some Transcendentalists and/or other abolitionists: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier..... Read More about Contemporaries [Anti-Slavery History
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823.
A sequel to Davis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. This second book is described as, “The most profound study of..... Read More about The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.
Exceptionally handsome copy of this classic work on observations of Southern life in antebellum America. While Olmsted is known today for his landscape architecture, he..... Read More about The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States....
The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch.
An account of the Christiana Riot, an incident of African American-led armed resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just over the..... Read More about The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story Is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work.
Book-length exposition of the sources and facts underlying the fictional narrative of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s enormously influential anti-slavery novel first published in..... Read More about A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story Is...
The Liberty Bell. By Friends of Freedom. [1856: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; William Lloyd Garrison; Maria Weston Chapman; Harriet Beecher Stowe]
Important and long-lived abolitionist literary annual or gift book edited by Maria W. Chapman and published by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair sponsored by the Boston..... Read More about The Liberty Bell. By Friends of Freedom. [1856: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; William Lloyd...
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The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison [6 volume set complete].
Collected letters of newspaper editor, reformer, and seminal American abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison from 1822, at age 17, to his death in 1879. “[M]ost historians..... Read More about The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison [6 volume set complete
Harriet Tubman.
From the Dedication, in part: “To My Wife, Alyse. This is the book you help me to do,—the one that the white publishers would not..... Read More about Harriet Tubman
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 about Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...
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;..... Read More about Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America
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..... Read More about The Negro in Pennsylvania. Slavery - Servitude - Freedom, 1639-1861
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..... Read More about The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864....
Speeches, Lectures, and Letters.
Compilation of anti-slavery speeches delivered by celebrated orator and abolitionist, Wendell Phillips (1811–1884). “They will serve, therefore at least, as a contribution to the history..... Read More about Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
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..... Read More about An Historical Memoir of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; 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..... Read More about A Side-Light on Anglo-American Relations, 1839-1858: Furnished by the Correspondence of Lewis...