Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Abolitionism, Emancipation, Manumission, Anti-Slavery activists and reformers, Slavery Agitation, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Free Produce, Anti-slavey Societies, Underground Railroad (UGRR), Free Soil Party, Colonization Societies, etc.
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Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Abolitionism, Emancipation, Manumission, Anti-Slavery activists and reformers, Slavery Agitation, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Free Produce, Anti-slavey Societies, Underground Railroad (UGRR), Free Soil Party, Colonization Societies, etc.
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![Blacks on John Brown. [Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles]. Benjamin Quarles](/pictures/thumb/3731999_1.jpg?v=1655066045)
Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles, editor and a noted authority on African American history. With a 7-page introduction and single-page commentary by Quarles at..... Read More about Blacks on John Brown. [Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles
![The National Security and the National Faith. Guaranties [sic] for the National Freedman and...](/images/noimage-req.png)
First edition? (A 21-page ed. was issued the same year in Boston by Wright & Potter). Less than six months after the Civil War had..... Read More about The National Security and the National Faith. Guaranties [sic] for the National Freedman and...
Widely-known as a prominent landscape architect, and the designer of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted also wrote three books on his impressions of..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy
Collected letters of newspaper editor, reformer, and key American abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison from 1822, at age 17, to his death in 1879. Most “historians..... Read More about The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison [6 volume set complete
Stearns was a Massachusetts abolitionist who spent six years in “Bleeding Kansas.” After the war he became a teacher, missionary, and plantation owner in Columbia..... Read More about The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...
First edition. A handsome copy. A review of the epistolary debate between two Baptist clergymen conducted in 1844–1845 in a Boston newspaper, the Christian Reflector..... Read More about A Review of the “Correspondence” of Messrs. Fuller & Wayland, on the Subject of American...
An unusual 1864 Civil War map distinguishing territory controlled by the Federal Union from that remaining in possession of the Confederacy. Together, areas tinted purple..... Read More about Map of the United States, Showing the Territory in Possession of the Federal Union, January, 1864
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
From the library of Fletcher Green, Southern Historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
Significantly expanded from the first edition, the most important book written by the esteemed historian John Hope Franklin. “[In 1947,] Alfred A. Knopf published his..... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. (Signed
A Springfield, Massachusetts minister, Peabody addresses his sermon to three ideas: a.) those who are born free should learn the worth of freedom b.) they..... Read More about The Duties and Dangers of Those Who Are Born Free. A Sermon Preached at the Annual Election of...
![Free Soil Party] Addresses and Proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory Convention of...](/pictures/thumb/3731041_1.jpg?v=1634827875)
Proceedings and anti-slavery resolutions adopted by the 1848 Ohio Free Territory Convention of the newly formed “Free Soil” Party. The party met in Columbus to..... Read More about Free Soil Party] Addresses and Proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory Convention of...
Scarce. Autobiography of Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853–1939) which describes his life of enslavement before the War and just after. Born in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Jordan’s..... Read More about On Two Hemispheres: Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself
Summary view of Confederate foreign policy in 1863 by Henry St. Paul, a Mobile and New Orleans attorney and Confederate soldier. After the Union capture..... Read More about Our Home and Foreign Policy. November, 1863
This copy bears the dual New York and London imprints, but has “Miller & Company” stamped at the foot of the spine. (Miller & Holman..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy
An important thesis and early history of African Americans in Ohio, specifically: the early years of slavery and the anti-slavery movement, the struggle for equality..... Read More about The Negro in Ohio 1802-1870
This is the bibliography only, the companion volume to Dumond’s 1961 Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1967)..... Read More about A Bibliography of Antislavery in America
Rare. Free Soil Party campaigning for Benjamin Franklin Newhall, abolitionist, politician, self-made businessman, stationmaster on the Underground Rail Road (UGGR) who helped formerly-enslaved African American..... Read More about For Representative to Congress. Second District. Benjamin F. Newhall, of Saugus. To the Voters of...
Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act by the great abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a leading advocate for civil rights for Black Americans. Here, Sumner..... Read More about The Landmark of Freedom. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, against the Repeal of the Missouri...
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
Author-poet Caspar Bruchhausen (1806-1891) was a homeopathist physician. The book’s more interesting poems (pp92-119) reveal his perspectives on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The..... Read More about Rhymes of the Times and Other Chimes
![An Appeal to the Methodists of Missouri by a Missouri Methodist. [Slavery in Missouri]. “By...](/pictures/thumb/3730451_1.jpg?v=1630610177)
An 1850 call for unity in the Methodist church in Missouri over the issue of slavery in the wake of the 1844 separation of the..... Read More about An Appeal to the Methodists of Missouri by a Missouri Methodist. [Slavery in Missouri
![“Zango; or The Slave.” [within:] The Weekly Visitor, and Ladies’ Museum. New Series Vol....](/pictures/thumb/3730720_1.jpg?v=1628186659)
Penultimate volume of a rare women’s periodical which began in 1817 and ended in 1823. The volume comprises a half year, 26 numbers, issued weekly..... Read More about “Zango; or The Slave.” [within:] The Weekly Visitor, and Ladies’ Museum. New Series Vol. VI
Memorial biography of Quaker educators and abolitionists Philip and Rachel Price, written and co-published by their son, Eli K. Price. Price inscribed, signed, and presented..... Read More about Memoir of Philip and Rachel Price [inscribed by their son and the book’s co-publisher, Eli K....
Anti-Republican and anti-John C. Fremont (1813–1890) attack during the 1856 presidential election. The author warned that the former advocated for free love and considered Blacks..... Read More about Infidelity and Abolitionism. An Open Letter to the Friends of Religion, Morality, and the...
