1845

Stewart, Alvan, 1790-1849

Pamphlet

Title: A legal argument before the Supreme Court of the state of New Jersey... for the deliverance of 4,000 persons from bondage.

Delivered at the May term in Trenton, New Jersey. Challenges state laws concerning slavery because they contradict New Jersey's 1844 constitution which abolished slavery. Published by Finch & Weed, New York. Printed by S.W. Benedict.

GLC00267.069

1847

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: White slavery in the Barbary States.

Lecture given before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, 17 February 1847. Sumner argues that American slavery was based on white American racism. Published by William D. Ticknor and Company, Boston. Printed by Metcalf and Company, Cambridge.

GLC00267.070

1863

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

Book

Title: Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839.

First edition, first issue. Published by Harper & Brothers. Text is 337 pages followed by ten pages of advertisements for new Harper & Brothers' books.

GLC00267.072

1860

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

Book

Title: A journey in the back country.

Volume III of Our Slave States. Previous documentation indicates this is a first edition. Published by Mason Brothers. Introduction begins: "This is the third volume of a work, the first of which was a narrative of a journey in the sea-board districts of the older slave States; the second, of a rapid tour west of the Alleghanies, and of a winter spent in Texas. This volume concludes and somewhat focalizes the observations of those, its narrative being, in part, of the hill-country people, and mainly of those who are engaged in, or are most directly affected by, the great business of the…

GLC00267.073

1857

Helper, Hinton R., 1829-1906

Book

Title: The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it.

Cited as "Fourth thousand" above publisher information. Previous documentation indicates this is a first edition. Published by Burdick Brothers. Signed on inner front cover by B.B. Eldridge. Introduction states: "it has been no part of my purpose to cast unmerited opprobrium upon slaveholders, or to display any special friendliness or sympathy for the blacks... An irrepressibly active desire to do something to elevate the South to an honorable and powerful position among the enlightened quarters of the globe, has been the great leading principle... in the preparation of the present volume…

GLC00267.075

1867

Helper, Hinton R., 1829-1906

Book

Title: Nojoque; a question for a continent.

Published by George W. Carleton & Company. In the introduction, Helper states, "Were I to state here, frankly and categorically, that the primary object of this work is to write the negro out of America, and that the secondary object is to write him (and manifold millions of other black and bicolored caitiffs, little better than himself,) out of existence, God's simple truth would be told..." Includes several signatures and notes of ownership related to the Sperry family.

GLC00267.076

1845

Book

Title: History of the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; comprehending all the official proceedings of the General Conference.

Title continues: "the southern annual conferences, and the General Convention; with such other matters as are necessary to a right understanding of the case."

GLC00267.077

1857

Armstrong, George Dodd, 1813-1899

Book

Title: The Christian doctrine of slavery.

Published in New York by Charles Scribner. Justification of slavery based on the principles and history of Christianity.

GLC00267.078

1860

Kettell, Thomas Prentice, fl. 1852-1866

Book

Title: Southern wealth and northern profits, as exhibited in statistical facts and official figures: showing the necessity of union to the...

(title continues)... future prosperity and welfare of the republic. Published in New York by George W. and John A. Wood. In the introduction, Kettell remarks, "It was the principle of taxation without representation that the colonies resisted, and it is the principle of the 'irrepressible conflict,' based avowedly on a 'higher law,' that the South resists... A prompt retreat from this dangerous agitation within the shadow of the Constitution, is the only means of realizing the rich future, which will be the reward only of harmony, good faith, and loyalty to the constitution." Sixteen pages…

GLC00267.079

1856

Jagger, William, fl. 1856

Pamphlet

Title: To the people of Suffolk Co. Information, acquired from the best authority, with respect to the institution of slavery.

Suffolk County in New York. First edition. Printed by R. Craighead, New York.

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1847

Bushnell, Horace, 1802-1876

Pamphlet

Title: Barbarism the first danger. A discourse for home missions.

Claims that slavery has diminished southern society. Printed for the American Home Missionary Society, by William Osborn in New York. Bushnell was the pastor of the North Church in Hartford, Connecticut.

GLC00267.081

1889

Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908

Pamphlet

Title: My life in the south.

Biography of Stroyer, an freedman raised on a plantation in South Carolina and freed in 1864 by the Emancipation Proclamation. Stroyer was minister of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Salem. The introduction contains letters of support for Stroyer, who wrote this biography to raise money to further his education. Third edition. Printed by Salem Observer Book and Job Print, Salem, Massachusetts.

GLC00267.083

1918

Phillips, Ulrich B., 1877-1934

Book

Title: American negro slavery: a survey of the supply, employment and control of negro labor as determined by the plantation regime

Published by D. Appleton and Co, New York, London. Once the definitive and apologetic account of slavery impeding innovation. Phillips was a Professor of American History at the University of Michigan.

GLC00267.084

1929

Phillips, Ulrich B., 1877-1934

Book

Title: Life and labor in the old south

First edition. Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston.

GLC00267.085

1910

Nieboer, H.J., 1873-1920

Book

Title: Slavery as an industrial system; ethnological researches, by Dr. H. J. Nieboer

Second edition. Geared towards world-wide survey of slavery. Published by Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague.

GLC00267.086

1860

Book

Title: The Yankee slave-dealer; or, an abolitionist down South. A tale for the times by a Texan.

Pseudonymous proslavery novel concerning the converted opinion of a visiting northern abolitionist. Published for the author in Nashville, Tennessee. Previous documentation notes this is a first edition.

GLC00267.087

1860

O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847

Pamphlet

Title: Daniel O'Connell upon American slavery: with other Irish testimonies.

Anti-Slavery tracts no. 5, new series. Published by the American Anti-slavery Society.

GLC00267.088

1870

Lyman, Theodore, 1833-1897

Pamphlet

Title: Papers related to the Garrison mob.

Describes the October 1835 mob which kept William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper, from having a meeting where Mr. George Thompson, an abolitionist, was to speak. Garrison had to be put in the jail to be protected from the mob. Printed by Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

GLC00267.089

1837

Keep, John, fl. 1837

Pamphlet

Title: An address, delivered December 22, 1837, in the village of Lockport, N.Y. commemorative of the martyrdom of Rev. E. P. Lovejoy, who was killed by the mob...

Title continues, "... in the city of Alton, Ill., on the night of November 7, 1837." Elijah P. Lovejoy was a Presbyterian minister, editor of a religious newspaper who was killed by a pro-slavery mob. Keep was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church. First edition. Printed by George Reese, Lockport, New York.

GLC00267.090

1837

Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887

Pamphlet

Title: Remarks of Henry B. Stanton in the Representatives Hall... on the subject of slavery.

Delivered on 23 and 24 February before the Committee of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. Published by Isaac Knapp in Boston. Protests the Gag rule passed by Congress which stated that slavery in the District of Columbia could not be discussed in the House of Representatives.

GLC00267.092

1855

Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860

Book

Title: The trial of Theodore Parker for the "misdemeanor" of a speech in Faneuil Hall against kidnapping, before the circuit court of the United States...

(title continues)... at Boston, April 3, 1855. With the defence. Published for the author. Other works by Parker are listed on the last two pages.

GLC00267.096

1819

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Pamphlet

Title: A memorial to the Congress of the United States on the subject of restraining the increase of slavery in new states to be admitted into the Union.

Memorial from the citizens of Boston. "Prepared in pursuance of a vote of the inhabitants of Boston and its vicinity, assembled at the State house, on the third of December, A.D. 1819." Committee composed of Daniel Webster, George Blake, Josiah Quincy, James T. Austin, and John Gallison. Printed by Sewell Phelps, printer, no. 5, Court Street, Boston.

GLC00267.097

1844

Allen, George, 1792-1883

Pamphlet

Title: An appeal to the people of Massachusetts, on the Texas question

Appeals to the people to oppose the annexation, arguing that adding Texas to the Union will further entrench and empower the institution of slavery. Suggests holding a convention. Attributed to "A Massachusetts Freeman." Printed by Charles C. Little & James Brown.

GLC00267.104

19 February 1847

New Jersey Legislature

Printed document

Title: Resolution of the legislature of New Jersey, in relation to the extension of slavery.

29th Congress, 2d session, Senate document # 153. Resolution declares that the New Jersey legislature will make every effort to keep slavery out of newly annexed territories.

GLC00267.119.01

1848

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Horace Mann, of Mass., on the right of Congress to legislate for the territories of the United States, and its duty to exclude slavery therefrom.

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives on 30 June 1848. Opposes the Mexican War and the extension of slavery. Printed by J. & G. S. Gideon, Washington, D.C. First edition.

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