![3732867] The Refuge or, Story of Archibald Thompson. [House of Refuge in Philadelphia]. Anon](/images/noimage-req.png)
The son of a Philadelphia house carpenter, Archibald is a wayward child whose thievery and lack of moral fibre lands him in detention in the..... Read More about The Refuge or, Story of Archibald Thompson. [House of Refuge in Philadelphia
Posthumously-published collection of poems written by the Quaker abolitionist, reformer, and poet Henry Simmons Kent (d. 1906), affiliated with the Swarthmore Friends of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania..... Read More about Poems
![3730196] The National Security and the National Faith. Guaranties [sic] for the National Freedman...](/pictures/thumb/3730196_1.jpg?v=1658610330)
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...
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
![3730742] The Church and Tobacco. M. D. M E. Poland](/pictures/thumb/3730742_1.jpg?v=1628131395)
Uncommon title with the goal of stamping out tobacco use by explaining its deleterious effects on health (“poison of nerve cells” being but one) as..... Read More about The Church and Tobacco
![3730102] An Appeal to Tax-Payers, In Opposition to the Existing Law for the Sale of Intoxicating...](/pictures/thumb/3730102_1.jpg?v=1620792373)
Scarce Philadelphia temperance tract railing against the traffickers of alcohol. Mullen connects alcoholism to sufferers of mental illness as well as highlighting an increase of..... Read More about An Appeal to Tax-Payers, In Opposition to the Existing Law for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors
![3729581] From Newgate to Dannemora. The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796-1848. W. David...](/pictures/thumb/3729581_1.jpg?v=1597517365)
Important study of prison reformers and prison history within the State of New York. An excellent resource. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1965). First edition. Illustrated..... Read More about From Newgate to Dannemora. The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796-1848
![3728404] [Sixteen Letters, 1865 to 1886, Incoming to Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888), “The...](/pictures/thumb/3728404_1.jpg?v=1579546258)
Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888) was known as “The Seaman’s Friend” as he devoted his time establishing safe houses for mariners (first in New York City..... Read More about Sixteen Letters, 1865 to 1886, Incoming to Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888), “The Seaman’s...
![3727305] William Wells Brown: Author & Reformer. (Signed by John Hope Franklin). William Edward...](/pictures/thumb/3727305_1.jpg?v=1542657643)
First edition of this first biography of William Wells Brown, “Kentucky-born slave who became a self-educated writer and advocate of abolition, temperance, and international peace.”..... Read More about William Wells Brown: Author & Reformer. (Signed by John Hope Franklin
![3727256] The Mind of Frederick Douglass. Waldo E. Martin Jr](/pictures/thumb/3727256_1.jpg?v=1542657641)
From the publishers: “Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost Black American in the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator..... Read More about The Mind of Frederick Douglass
![3726167] 1849 Autograph Letter Signed by Theodore Dwight seeking recommendations for his...](/pictures/thumb/3726167_1.jpg?v=1534362339)
Autograph letter signed by author, abolitionist, and newspaper editor Theodore Dwight (1796–1866) seeking the recommendation of a clergyman for his Dwight’s American Magazine and Family..... Read More about 1849 Autograph Letter Signed by Theodore Dwight seeking recommendations for his Dwight’s...
![3726062] 1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of...](/pictures/thumb/3726062_1.jpg?v=1534362329)
Letter from Philadelphia reformer Roberts Vaux (1786–1836) touching on two concerns: education and temperance. Vaux writes briefly here “to the President, and Members, of the..... Read More about 1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of Education...
![3725799] [Women’s Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen...](/pictures/thumb/3725799_1.jpg?v=1534362322)
This pamphlet on nursing and charity work by German philanthropist and social reformer Amalie Sieveking (1794–1859) reports on the activities of the Weiblichen Vereins für..... Read More about Women’s Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen des...
![3725199] W. C. T. U. Entertainment on Saturday Ev’g, April 9, ‘87 to be Held at Massasoit...](/pictures/thumb/3725199_1.jpg?v=1642543470)
There is an old saying that you’ll catch more flies with teaspoon of honey than with a barrel of vinegar. But, what if you are..... Read More about W. C. T. U. Entertainment on Saturday Ev’g, April 9, ‘87 to be Held at Massasoit Hall,...
