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Paterson Daily Guardian [Vol. VI, no. 905 (19 October 1859)]

Attempting to clarify news of the raid on Harpers Ferry. States the previous days news was unclear as to the specifics of the events, and gives new details available. John Brown, "the hero of numberless border skirmishes in Kansas," attacked...

GLC08827

[Adjutant General's Office general orders no. 1: Emancipation Proclamation]

Includes obliterated property stamp on page one. Possibly the first army printing of the final proclamation. Binding is extremely fragile.

GLC08852

New-York times. [Vol. 14, no. 4251 (May 11, 1865)]

One newspaper issue of New-York times, dated May 11, 1865. Reports Queen Victoria's condolence to Mrs. Lincoln as well as other expressions of sympathy from international heads of state on the assassination of President Lincoln. Also contains an...

GLC08835

The Abolitionist

Volume 1, numbers 1 - 11 of a monthly magazine advocating the abolition of slavery. The eleven issues are bound together in one book. Includes articles from numerous sources on emancipation, colonization and many other evangelical and slavery...

GLC08844

The War in Texas...

Anti-slavery and anti-Mexican war sentiments.

GLC08846

Case of Passmore Williamson. Report of the proceedings on the writ of Habeas Corpus, issued by the Hon. John K. Kane, judge of the district court of the United States...

(title continues)... for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in the case of the United States of America Ex. Rel. John H. Wheeler vs. Passmore Williamson, including the several opinions delivered; and the arguments of counsel, reported by Arthur...

GLC08853

Narrative of facts in the case of Passmore Williamson

Relates the story of Passmore Williamson, an abolitionist who was imprisoned for helping a slave named Jane escape her master while in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Because Jane was already in the North, Williamson informed her she was free and...

GLC08854

New-York Daily Tribune. [Vol. 22, no. 6786 (January 3, 1863)]

One newspaper issue of New-York Daily Tribune, dated January 3, 1863. Prints the Emancipation Proclamation on page four. This is among the early printings of the Proclamation in a newspaper. Other news includes the Battle of Murfreesboro with map...

GLC08862

Letter of Gerrit Smith to President Schmucker.

Smith discusses his and Schmucker's shared disapproval of the Colonization Society. Defends the Anti-Slavery Society against Schmucker's criticism. Also covers Schmucker's opinions of temperance. Contains several spots of water damage in former...

GLC08873

Collection of abolitionist newspapers [Decimalized .01-.59]

A collection of early anti-slavery and abolitionist newspapers, including issues of The Emancipator, the National Anti-Slavery Standard, and the Liberator. Some of the papers are edited by William Lloyd Garrison; others by Edmund Quincy & James...

GLC08875