February 2, 1846

Chappell, Absalom Harris, 1801-1878

Printed document

Title: Resolutions of the legislature of Georgia

[Title continued] in opposition to the principles of certain resolves of the legislature of Massachusetts in relation to an amendment of the constitution on the subject of federal representation. Copy of a resolution by the Georgia Legislature, printed for the twenty ninth Congress. The resolution is in opposition to a call by the Massachusetts legislature to repeal the three fifths voting clause of the Constitution. Likely printed in Washington, D.C. First edition.

GLC00267.006

1830

Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858

Pamphlet

Title: Slave trade.

Mercer reports for "the committee to whom were referred the memorial of the American Society for colonizing the free people of color of the United States; also, sundry memorials from the inhabitants of the State of Kentucky, and a memorial from certain free people of color of the State of Ohio..." The bulk of the report consists of appendices on the American Colonization Society, Liberia and material from earlier Congresses relating to the slave trade and colonization. 21st Congress, 1st session, House Doc. 348. Removed from previous binding; cover is missing.

GLC00267.035

1834

Grosvenor, Cyrus P., 1792-1879

Pamphlet

Title: Address before the Anti-Slavery Society of Salem and the vicinity in the south meeting-house, in Salem, February 24, 1834.

Highlights criticism of enslavers and their source of labor. "We at the North work for our own support, with no dishonor and with essential benefit to ourselves...; and the gentlemen of the South need not think it too much to go and do likewise. If they are ashamed of labor... we may be ashamed of them." First edition. Printed by W & S. B. Ives Observer Press.

GLC00267.011

August 1857

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

Printed document

Title: Compensated emancipation

[Title continued] a speech by Gerrit Smith, in the National Compensation Convention, held in Cleveland, Ohio, August 25, 26 and 27, 1857. First edition. Smith, a former United States Representative from New York, writes: "The sin of extending the area of slavery, and of encouraging the slaveholders to multiply their investments in human flesh, lies at the door of the North as well as at the door of the South. Northern commerce has connived at, and openly upheld, Slavery." Location of printing is not cited.

GLC00267.012

1902

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

Header Record

Title: The anti-slavery papers of James Russell Lowell.

First edition. No. 141 of a Limited edition of 525 copies. Uncut and unopened. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company.

GLC00267.013

1863

Cairnes, John Elliott, 1823-1875

Book

Title: The Slave-power: Its character, career and probable designs: Being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the America contest.

Second edition. Published by Macmillan and Company. Contains pencil notes on title page. Includes dedication to John Stuart Mill: "...the opportunity of connecting my name in public with that of one from whose works I have profited more largely than from those of any other living writer, was one which I could not easily forego."

GLC00267.014

1791

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.

Book

Title: An abstract of the evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790 and 1791...

(title continues)... on the part of the petitioners for the abolition of the slave trade. Pamphlet bound as a book. With a note "Printed at the expense of the society in Newcastle for promoting the abolition of the slave-trade. Includes one illustration: a damaged and torn folding woodcut of slave ship, with lower portion missing. Contains a list of witnesses examined by the House of Commons regarding the slave trade.

GLC00267.028

1816

Urquhart, Thomas, fl. 1816

Pamphlet

Title: A letter to Wm Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. on the subject of Impressment; calling on him and the philanthropists of this country ...

Title continues "... to prove those feelings of sensibility they expressed in the cause of humanity on negro slavery, by acting with the same ardor and zeal in the cause of British seamen." First edition. Published for the benefit of the Maritime Society. Printed by J. Gillet, London. Published by R. S. Kirby, London.

GLC00267.029

1837

Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society

Pamphlet

Title: Fifth annual report of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, with some account of the annual meeting, January 25, 1837.

First edition. Printed by Isaac Knapp. List of lifetime members of the Society on the back cover. Contains a report and proceedings of the annual meeting, which began on 25 January. One section of the report states: "Abolitionists may not, therefore, slumber at their post, or relax a single effort. It is true, a mighty change has been wrought in individual sentiment within the last five years, favorable to the right of our colored countrymen; but public sentiment is still powerfully enlisted on the side of slavery."

GLC00267.051

1839

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

Pamphlet

Title: Remarks on the slavery question, in a letter to Jonathan Phillips Esq.

Attacks colonizationists like Senator Henry Clay, "who dream of removing slavery by the process of draining it off to another country; a process about as reasonable as that of draining the Atlantic." He also argues that colonization confirms racial prejudice implicit in race-based slavery. Published by James Munroe and Company, Boston. Printed by Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge. First edition.

GLC00267.052

1851

Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856

Pamphlet

Title: Slavery in the United States: its evils, alleviations and remedies.

Reprinted from the North American Review. Sees colonization as the only solution to slavery. "Were legal slavery abolished at the South, it would probably be centuries before it could be abolished from the Southern mind." Believes abolitionist pressure is counter- productive: "Whatever important ends slavery agitation at the North may have accomplished, it has paralyzed and struck down the southern friends of freedom." First edition. Printed by Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, Massachusetts.

GLC00267.056

1864

Murphy, John, 1812-1880

Pamphlet

Title: Proceedings of the bench and bar of Baltimore, upon the occasion of the death of the Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Prints speeches of Maryland lawyers and judges eulogizing Taney. Includes speeches of William Price, District Attorney, Judge Giles, Mr. Wallis, William Schley, Judge Merrick, Andrew Sterett Ridgely, and Reverdy Johnson, an abolitionist who discusses Taney's decision on the Dred Scott case in 1857 and relates some anecdotes. Printed by John Murphy & Co.

GLC00267.059

1865

Baker, Godwin & Co.

Pamphlet

Title: The unjust judge. A memorial of Roger Brooke Taney, late Chief Justice of the United States.

Contains a critical review of Taney's career and his decision in the Dred Scott case, where he upheld the existing slavery laws. Discusses the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as they relate to the issue of slavery in the United States.

GLC00267.060

1857

Nott, Samuel, 1788-1869

Pamphlet

Title: Slavery and the remedy; or, the principles and suggestions for a remedial code.

"Fifth edition: with a review of the decision of the supreme court in the case of Dred Scott." First edition published after Dred Scott, with a review of the case. Nott is an apologist for the court. Reminds readers of the possibility of secession if the decision favored the abolitionist cause, and reminds them also of American racism. The rest of the book is a treatise on the reasons for and law of slavery. Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, and Crocker and Brewster, Boston.

GLC00267.061

1840

Slade, William, 1786-1859

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the right to petition; the power of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia;...

Title continues, "...the implied faith of the north and the south to each other in forming the constitution; and the principles, purposes, and prospects of abolition." Slade, a Congressman from Vermont, protests the Gag rule, which prohibited the issue of slavery in the District of Columbia from being discussed in the House of Representatives. Delivered in the House of Representatives, 18 and 20 January 1840. Printed by Gales and Seaton in Washington, D.C.

GLC00267.093

1841

Ingersoll, Charles J., 1782-1862

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania, on the subject of the reception of abolition petitions.

Speech given in the House of Representatives 8 & 9 June 1841. Printed at the Globe Office, Washington, D.C.

GLC00267.094

1844

Severance, Luther, 1797-1855

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Severance, of Maine on the right of petition.

Delivered in the House of Representatives, 16 February 1844. Discusses the ban on receiving any petitions regarding the abolition of slavery in the House of Representatives. Printed by J. and G.S. Gideon, Washington, D.C. Partially uncut.

GLC00267.095

1820

Sergeant, John, 1779-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Sergeant, on the Missouri question.

First edition. Speech delivered in the House of Representatives arguing that Missouri should be added to the Union as a free state. Sergeant was a Congressman from Pennsylvania.

GLC00267.098

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

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.

GLC00267.080

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

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.

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