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...
Erected in Philadelphia in 1838 by the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society as a public forum to discuss civil rights and other great matters, Pennsylvania Hall was... Read More about History of Pennsylvania Hall, which was Destroyed by a Mob, on the 17th of May, 1838
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...
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.” Includes..... Read More about The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written During the Crisis 1800-1860
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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
The illustrated dust jacket shows Harriet Tubman, rifle at her side, pointing and leading the way to her people from enslavement to freedom. Carter G.... 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
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 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...
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 about The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United...
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
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 about Two Quaker Sisters. From the Original Diaries of Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lucy Buffam Lovell
Anti-slavery lectures of British abolitionist George D. Thompson (1804–1878) collected and with an historical introduction to his career by American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)... Read More about Lectures of George Thompson, With a Full Report of the Discussion Between Mr. Thompson and Mr....
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 about Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy
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...
Extracts from speeches by Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, C.C. Burleigh. New York: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860. 12mo, 23pp. Self-titled wraps, sewn... Read More about No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State. An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts....
Lawyer, politician and financier, Fessenden would become President Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury in July of 1864. “His firm stance against slavery and its expansion..... Read More about Speech of Hon. W.P. Fessenden, of Maine, On the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia,...
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 about Daniel O’Connell and the Committee of the Irish Repeal Association of Cincinnati
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
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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...
Scarborough’s book attempts to separate myth from reality when documenting the plantation manager and his role in the Southern agricultural economy. The work, to a...... Read More about The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South
