A superior copy. Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel of Southern plantation slave life, first published in 1852. This..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....
Captioned the “Historian and Antislavery Lecturer of the Crisis”, this reprinted portrait commemorates Black abolitionist William Wells Brown (c.1814–1884), author of the 1847 best-seller, Narrative..... Read More about Portrait Print of Black Abolitionist and Writer, William Wells Brown, issued by Associated...
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
Number 8 from the Anti-Slavery Examiner. Kentucky reformer, Princeton graduate, and anti-slavery proponent, James Gillespie Birney (1792–1857), here responds to questions from South Carolina’s F.H...... Read More about Correspondence, between the Hon. F.H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress,...
Study of the publication and distribution through the mails of abolitionist and anti-slavery literature and newspapers. Examines the publications of such abolitionist journalists as Elihu..... Read More about The Controversy over the Distribution of Abolition Literature 1830-1860
1839 Letter by Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the influential book Democracy in America, here writing as a member of the French Chamber of Deputies..... Read More about 1839 Autograph Letter Signed by Alexis de Tocqueville concerning the Publication of his Report...
“Opposes bill proposing abolition, not of slavery, but of the slave trade, in the District of Columbia; ‘slavery ought not to exist in fact and..... Read More about Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives, Feb 28, 1849, on Slavery...
From the publishers: “In this volume the author studies the body of thought that developed in the Old South in defense of the institution of..... Read More about Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South
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Inscribed and signed by the lauded Black historian Benjamin Quarles who contributes an essay within. This book is a combination of documentary evidence and scholarly..... Read More about John Brown. Great Loves Observed. [inscribed
Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles, editor and a prolific and prominent Black American historian. With a 7-page introduction and single-page commentary by Quarles at..... Read More about Blacks on John Brown
Facsimile of the 1911 first edition. An account of the Christiana Riot, an incident of African American-led armed resistance which took place in 1851 in..... Read More about The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch
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This distinguished Black American historian discusses an unusual subject matter: How did African Americans in 19th-century America view the abolitionist John Brown? Inscribed and signed..... Read More about Allies for Freedom. Blacks and John Brown. [Inscribed Copy
This study examines the realities that the Free North held a substantial population who opposed the abolition of slavery, describing the history of this phenomenon..... Read More about Powder Keg. Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement 1831-1840
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Important biography of the only Southern white women to become abolitionist leaders. Lerner demonstrates how the Grimké sisters had to fight for their rights to..... Read More about The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery. [First Edition
African Americas during the American Civil War as slaves, as contraband; fugitives seeking freedom within the Union Army lines. Surprisingly scarce, Dumond is best-known for..... Read More about America’s Shame and Redemption
Biography of abolitionist Thomas Garrett (1789–1871) of Wilmington, Delaware, Underground Railroad Station Master and working colleague of celebrated Underground Railroad Conductor Harriet Tubman (c.1822–1913). Includes..... Read More about Station Master on the Underground Railroad. The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett. [signed by...
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
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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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
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 key 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
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...
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....
