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The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 23 (June 7, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains articles on the "Refuge of Oppression," a letter of John Quincy Adams, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and...

GLC08875.47

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 25 (June 21, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Contains an article on the moral effects of slavery on the master. Includes...

GLC08875.48

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 26 (June 28, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Includes articles on the "Refuge of Oppression" and women in the Anti-Slavery Society. Contains resolutions from the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society and other miscellaneous...

GLC08875.49

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 28 (July 12, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Includes a letter from William Goodell to John Quincy Adams, among miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as...

GLC08875.50

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 30 (July 26, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Includes an article on the Massachusetts Abolition Society and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general...

GLC08875.51

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 33 (August 16, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an article from the Anti-Slavery Lecturer and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent....

GLC08875.52

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 37 (September 13, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an article on the "Unprofitableness of Slavery: Loss of Planters' Tax on the Nation and on the North," and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor...

GLC08875.53

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 38 (September 20, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an article entitled "Blind Leaders of the Blind!," a letter from William Jay to Lewis Tappan, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac...

GLC08875.54

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 44 (November 1, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an "Address of the Western Reserve Anti-Slavery Convention," a dialogue discussing women and slavery, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor...

GLC08875.55

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 45 (November 8, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains a letter from John Pierpont, a diagram of Marlborough Hall during the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor...

GLC08875.56

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 48 (November 29, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains articles on "Free Negroes and Slaves," abolition in France, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson...

GLC08875.57

The Liberator. [Vol. 15, no. 38, whole no. 766 (September 19, 1845)]

Contains articles on "Slavery in the United States," and Cassius M. Clay, among miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, James Brown Yerrinton as printer, and Henry W. Williams as general agent. Discolored in creases.

GLC08875.58

The Liberator. [Vol. 16, no. 8, whole no. 789 (February 20, 1846)]

Contains an article on "The Grand Inquest, or Condemning Unheard. Twelve Short Chapters in Maryland Legislation," among miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, James Brown Yerrinton as printer, and Henry W. Williams as general agent...

GLC08875.59

[Good Works!...]

A sentiment by Charles Sumner: "Good works! Such even now is the Heavenly ladder on which angels are ascending & descending while weary Humanity on pillows of stone slumbers heavily at its feet."

GLC05508.240

[They are men by the grace of God and this is enough.]

Sentiment by Sumner written in the Senate Chamber.

GLC05508.241

Bound collection of 45 Congressional speeches of various people

Bound volume of printed speeches from Congress signed on the front pastedown by James K. Polk. Most pamphlets have been printed at Washington by Blair and Rives. This bound volume of printed speeches from Congress is signed on the front pastedown...

GLC05598

to Frank W. Ballard

Clay, an abolitionist, informs his friend Ballard that he was misrepresented by the New York Tribune. Discusses the possibility of New Mexico entering the Union as a free or slave state, and the Compromise of 1850. Defends himself from Horace...

GLC05692

to Amy Post

Douglass writes to Post, a New York abolitionist and suffragist. Had been to Post's home in Rochester, and regretted her absence. Relates that he and Helen, his wife (they married in January 1884) had for their honeymoon traveled through Chicago...

GLC05819

Twelve years a slave: narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the red river, in Louisiana.

Published in Auburn by Derby and Miller; Buffalo, New York by Derby, Orton and Mulligan; and Cincinnati, Ohio by Henry W. Derby. Woodcut illustrations. Northup dedicates the book to Harriet Beecher Stowe.

GLC05840

to May Delany

To "the daughter of the daughter of my friend who sheltered me forty and five years ago, when I was a man without a country, a stranger and or sojourner, with little money and few friends, shall now have my autograph. No effort of memory is required...

GLC05906

Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report to accompany bill S. Res. 12.

Committee rejection of a proposed amendment that would have granted women the right to vote, issued as Senate Report No. 523 (45th Congress, 3rd Session). Collateral with this is the minority report in support of the proposed amendment, with title...

GLC06081

Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1883 : on the twenty-first anniversary of emancipation, in the District of Columbia.

"What Abraham Lincoln said in respect of the United States is as true of the colored people as of the relations of those States. They cannot remain half slave and half free. You must give them all or take from them all. Until this half-and-half...

GLC06116

Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American...

Full title is: "Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust." Published by J. L. Nichols & Co. Co...

GLC06126.01

William Lloyd Garrison: the story of his life, told by his children

Published by The Century Co., New York. Illustrated with wood engravings. Volume 1 covers 1805-1835, Vol. 2 1835-1840, Vol. 3 1841-1860, and Vol. 4 1861-1879.

GLC00267.368

to Absalom Janes

Sherwood, President of Shurtleff College, writes to Colonel Janes, a trustee of Mercer University. He writes, "A lady from La. was visiting at Jacksonville a few days ago with a servant girl: an abolitionist decoyed her off & took her into Greene Co...

GLC00328