Revisionist biography of radical abolitionist and anti-slavery martyr, John Brown (1800–1859) who was executed after his failed attempt to capture the federal arsenal at Harpers..... Read More about John Brown, 1800-1859. A Biography Fifty Years After
Biography of this famed Massachusetts abolitionist written by Archibald Grimké, civil rights leader, high-level officer in the NAACP, and a noted lawyer, among many other..... Read More about William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist
Reprint of the 1838 book describing the dedication, opening proceedings, and very brief existence of Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia, a newly built abolitionist venue destroyed..... Read More about History of Pennsylvania Hall, which was Destroyed by a Mob, On the 17th of May, 1838. [facsimile...
Study of the Quakers’ role in the abolition of slavery, beginning in the 17th century and up to the end of the American Civil War..... Read More about Quakers and Slavery in America
Important collection of anti-slavery correspondence of abolitionists Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895), his wife, Angelina Grimké Weld (1805–1879), and her sister, Sarah Grimké, who lived with..... Read More about Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké Weld and Sarah Grimké, 1822-1844
Unrecorded circular proposing new policies to enable the gradual abolition of the African slave trade in Portugal, reprinted from the 1810 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Friendship..... Read More about Slave Trade. Copy of the Tenth Article of the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance between His...
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
First edition, in publisher’s original polished cloth, a collection of anti-slavery lectures by Boston abolitionist Amos A. Phelps. This copy with an inscription on the..... Read More about Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy. [American Anti-Slavery Society stencil mark plus Pennsylvania...
Substantial anthology of writings and speeches from the great New England antislavery reformer and editor of The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison. This presentation copy inscribed..... Read More about Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison. With an Appendix
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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...
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 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....
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
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...
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...
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 about Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
