A classic, well illustrated reference. A “definitive study of the intense development of the anti-slavery movement” and being a work of excellent scholarship. Dumond describes..... Read More about Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America
Concerns lengthy communiques concerning accusations and affidavits by various Portuguese slavers that American-flagged vessels—whalers, barques, and so forth—were abducting their enslaved sailors or “cargo.” President..... Read More about Message of the President of the United States, Communicating…Information in Relation to the...
Anti-slavery petition to Congress by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the Mid-Atlantic states seeking the suppression of “...the African slave trade..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on The African...
Political speech on Manifest Destiny. by former New York governor William H. Seward, delivered in 1844 before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Union College..... Read More about Elements of Empire in America
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In the U.S. Presidential election of 1852, committeemen of the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention opposed the abolition of slavery. They decried their party’s alignment with..... Read More about Slavery:] Address to the Democratic Electors of Massachusetts, from the State Committee appointed...
Senator and slaveholder Henry Clay of Kentucky discusses slavery in the the District of Columbia, the impediments to the immediate abolition of slavery, and the..... Read More about Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the Subject of Abolition Petitions. Delivered in the Senate...
Rare. Early Republic sermon concerning Joseph Mountain, an escaped enslaved African American executed for the capital crime of raping a young white girl. An estimated..... Read More about The Intent of Capital Punishment. A Discourse Delivered in the City of New-Haven, October 20,...
One of the most significant and mysterious revolts in American history, “Nat Turner’s Revolt” is understood through a voluminous collection of documentary material; accounts, transcripts..... Read More about The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831. A Compilation of Source Material
Author’s Copy. Thirty-six page scholarly paper on Quakers and slavery by Haverford College history professor and later librarian, Allen Clapp Thomas (1846–1920), read in abstract..... Read More about The Attitude of the Society of Friends Toward Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...
Sermon in support of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 by Rev. John C. Lord, leading conservative Presbyterian theologian, delivered at the Central Presbyterian Church..... Read More about “The Higher Law,” in its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill. A Sermon on the Duties Men...
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,...
Exasperated letter from Marcus Morton (1784–1864), former Democratic Massachusetts governor and Supreme Court judge, decrying the state of the Democratic party. Morton opposed the extension..... Read More about 1851 Autograph Letter Signed by Marcus Morton, Massachusetts Governor, Supreme Court Judge, and...
“This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky..... Read More about Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865
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“Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was the latter who first reflected the image of the Lincoln that was to live.” (Author’s..... Read More about Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author
Civil War-era oration delivered on Independence Day in 1863 to a northern audience evoking the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution..... Read More about 1863 Civil War-Era Independence Day Oration preceding a Public Reading of the Declaration of...
“This interesting analytical study of slavery in Mississippi gives a more complete picture of the actual conditions under which slaves lived than does any other..... Read More about Slavery in Mississippi
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...
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“Governor Harding of Utah Territory 1862-1863, gave this talk to the Utah Territorial Legislature on February 28, 1863. He briefly discusses polygamy [pp5—9] and polygamy..... Read More about Admission of the State of Deseret into the Union; Polygamy; Slavery, etc.] In the Senate of the...
Memorial supporting the rights of slaveholders by 220 citizens of Washington, D.C. who “...do not desire the enactment of any law for the extinction of..... Read More about Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the District of Columbia, adverse To any legislation on the...
President Monroe transmits the reports of U.S. Attorney General William Wirt relating “...to any persons (citizens of the United States) who have been charged with..... Read More about Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting, In pursuance of a resolution of...
“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...
Discourse by this Transcendentalist and Boston Unitarian minister on the American Civil War with some remarks on Black Americans and slavery: “And even as regards..... Read More about Discourse on The Aspects of the War, Delivered in The Indiana-Place Chapel, Boston, on Fast Day,...
Fifth Edition of the author’s most important book published in 1947, the same year he joined the faculty of Howard University. “That year Alfred A...... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. [Fifth edition, inscribed and signed by...
Illustrated edition of Up from Slavery, Black educator and race leader Booker T. Washington’s critically acclaimed autobiography, first published in 1901 and translated into 18..... Read More about Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver...
Described as the standard history of the domestic slave trade, Bancroft’s book was the “product of more than three decades of research [and] was the..... Read More about Slave Trading in the Old South
