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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Autobiography written by this important Black feminist preacher. Foote’s text “attacks racism and other social abuses, the subordination of women, especially in the spiritual realm..... Read More about A Brand Plucked from the Fire. An Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Julia A.J. Foote
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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
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
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...
Six-Guns 323: “Somehow one loses confidence in a biographer who does not know how to spell his subject’s name correctly. His name was spelled Quantrill..... Read More about Charles W. Quantrell, a True History of His Guerrilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas Border...
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
Large, almost life-size portrait of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), abolitionist, reformer, orator, and author, taken from a photograph showing Douglass as an elder statesman. Associated Publishers..... Read More about Large Portrait Print of Frederick Douglass, issued by the Associated Publishers, a Black...
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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
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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...
The Utica Convention of 1848 resulted in the formation of the Free Soil Party who opposed the expansion of slavery into Western territories. The pamphlet..... Read More about “Albany Atlas Extra—February, 1848.”] The Utica Convention. Voice of New-York!! Proceedings...
Enslaved from birth, the biography of Timothy Thomas Fortune who ascended to become the “dean of Negro journalists in America. The program and methods proposed..... Read More about T. Thomas Fortune: Militant Journalist
Documentary account of a general agricultural Southern farm, a non-cotton, sugar, or rice plantation. Such farms “... constituted a most important element in the general..... Read More about Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839. Edited with an Introduction 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
Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel of Southern plantation slave life, first published in 1852. This fine press edition..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....
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Scarce anti-slavery sermon directed to the senior class of 1862 and given by John W. Scott, president of this small Presbyterian college located near Pittsburgh..... Read More about Anti-Slavery Sermons:] The Times, and Signs of the Times. Baccalaureate Sermon, to the Graduating...
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Printed on the title-page’s verso is the map “Colony of Liberia on the West Coat of Africa” with an inset plan of the town of..... Read More about Map of Colony of Liberia on the West Coat of Africa within:] Address of the Managers of the...
