![An Appeal to the Methodists of Missouri by a Missouri Methodist. [Slavery in Missouri]. “By...](/pictures/thumb/3730249_1.jpg?v=1614219488)
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
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...
![Fugitive Slave Act:] The Great Union Meeting in Philadelphia, On the 21st of November, 1850....](/pictures/thumb/3730133_1.jpg?v=1614219487)
Rare tract in support of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, printing an address and a letter by George M. Dallas (1792–1864) of Philadelphia, late..... Read More about Fugitive Slave Act:] The Great Union Meeting in Philadelphia, On the 21st of November, 1850....
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...
Monograph on slavery in Canada from a legal perspective by Canadian lawyer, judge, and historian, William Renwick Riddell (1852–1945). Includes chapters on “Before the Conquest,”..... Read More about The Slave in Canada
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...
One of the most significant and mysterious slave revolts in American history, “Nat Turner’s Revolt” is understood through a voluminous collection of documentary material; accounts..... Read More about The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831. A Compilation of Source Material
Speech opposing the emancipation of slaves delivered by Congressman John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky. Crittenden argues that Kentuckians do not need to prove their loyalty..... Read More about Speech of Hon. John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, on Emancipation. Delivered in the House of...
“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
![Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author]. Benjamin Quarles, 1904–1996](/pictures/thumb/3729979_1.jpg?v=1611683832)
“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
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...
![Admission of the State of Deseret into the Union; Polygamy; Slavery, etc.] In the Senate of the...](/pictures/thumb/3729750_1.jpg?v=1607364601)
“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 James Monroe hereby transmits the reports of U.S. Attorney General William Wirt relating “...to any persons (citizens of the United States) who have been..... 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...
Lincoln University printed matter—a small broadside and a student newspaper—promoting a campus visit, book signing, and lecture by Black novelist and university instructor, David Bradley..... Read More about Lincoln University Broadside and Newspaper for a Lecture by David Bradley, author of the...
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
A documentary account of Black antebellum armed slave resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just over the Mason-Dixon line, in reaction..... Read More about Resistance at Christiana, The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, September 11,...
