17 July 1858

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, delivered in Springfield, Saturday evening, July 17, 1858.

Discusses the upcoming election and the disadvantages the Republican Party faces in it. Traces the development of his attitudes toward slavery and equality. Expresses his conviction that the southern slave power was engaged in a conspiracy to nationalize slavery and strip whites as well as blacks of their civil rights. States that the Kansas-Nebraska bill was the beginning of this. Urges that slavery be placed in the course of "ultimate extinction." Attacks Stephen Douglas and defends himself by stating that he supports the principles of equality put forth in the Declaration of…

GLC06214.01

1862

Whiting, William, 1813-1873

Pamphlet

Title: The war powers of the President and the legislative powers of Congress in relation to rebellion, treason, and slavery.

Printed by John L. Shorey. Signed on front cover by Francis W. Goddard. In conclusion, Whiting states "Rising above the political platforms, the claims and disclaimers of Federalists, Democrats, Whigs, Republicans, and all other parties, and looking upon the constitution as designed to give the government made by the people, for the people, the powers necessary to its own preservation, and to the enforcement of its laws, it is not possible justly to deny the right of government to interfere with slavery, Mormonism, or any other institution, condition, or social status into which the…

GLC06215

1850/09/30

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Document signed

Title: Colonization society membership certificate for Millard Fillmore [slavery]

Certificate countersigned by William McLain. Certificate made out to Fillmore as President of the US. Damaged, with slight loss of paper at top center.

GLC06216

1864 ca.

Brooks & Blauvelt (photographer)

Photograph

Title: [Guard of colored soldiers at parade rest]

Black soldiers, Union forces occupying last Confederate fort on Mississippi River. Imprint of Brooks & Blauvelt, Port Hudson

GLC06217

1845

Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880

Book

Title: Letters from New York : Second series.

Second volume of journalism published by author and abolitionist Child. Includes a chapter on the rights of women. First edition. Printed by C.S. Francis (New York) and J. H. France (Boston). BAL 3152.

GLC06218

1862

Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880

Book

Title: The right way the safe way, proved by emancipation in the British West Indies, and elsewhere.

Regarding emancipation, Child writes, "Leaving the obvious considerations of justice and humanity entirely out of the question, I ask whether experience has not proved it to be a measure of plain, practical good sense, and sound policy... Free labor has so obviously the advantage, in all respects, over slave labor, that posterity will marvel to find in the history of the nineteenth century any record of a system so barbarous, so clumsy, and so wasteful." Third edition, bound with string, which is broken.

GLC06219

1860

Dall, Caroline H., fl. 1860

Book

Title: "Woman's right to labor," or, Low wages and hard work : in three lectures, delivered in Boston, November, 1859.

First edition. Published by Walker, Wise and Company.

GLC06220

1855

Fuller, Margaret, fl. 1855

Book

Title: Woman in the nineteenth century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman

Edited by her brother, Arthur B. Fuller. Introduction by Horace Greeley.

GLC06221

1919

Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940

Pamphlet

Title: Deportation, its meaning and menace; last message to the people of America.

Written by Berkman and Emma Goldman. After the author statement, the title continues: "Ellis Island, New York, U.S.A., December 1919." Colophon reads: "Ten cents a copy. Order from M. E. Fitzgerald, 857 Broadway, New York City."

GLC06222

1924

Levine, Louis, fl. 1924

Book

Title: The Women's garment workers: A History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

First edition with half-tone photographs and appendices. Published by B. W. Huebsch.

GLC06224

1911

Rumshisky, Joseph, 1881-1956, Schorr, Anshel, 1871-1942

Sheet music

Title: "Mamenu" or The Triangle Victims (in Yiddish).

Song lamenting the deaths caused in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Factory fire in 1911. Sung by H.J. Ginsburg

GLC06225

1883

Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905

Book signed

Title: What shall we do with our daughters? Superfluous women, and other lectures.

A work that discusses the education of women. First edition. Inscribed on front flyleaf.

GLC06226

1914

Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

Pamphlet

Title: Family Limitation

An illustrated leaflet on birth control. No publisher indicated. The instructions and illustrations (diagrams) describe various birth control methods and abortion.

GLC06227

1851-1854

Book signed

Title: [The Proceedings of the woman's rights conventions].

Compilation of the 1850 through 1854 women's rights conventions. Contents include the 1850 convention held at Worcester; the 1851 convention held at Worcester; the 1852 convention held in Syracuse; the 1853 convention held at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York; and the 1854 convention held in Cleveland. Inscription reads, "Harriet H. Robinson from Paulina Gerry, Nov. 1881." Gerry attended the 1850 convention. Robinson used this volume in writing "Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement. A general, political, legal and legislative history from 1774 to 1881" (Boston, 1881).

GLC06228

1939

Mannin, Ethel, 1900-1985

Book

Title: Women and the revolution.

Profiles of women in revolutions around the world. First American edition, printed by E. P. Dutton. With dust-jacket.

GLC06229

1849

Wilson, Elizabeth A., fl. 1849

Book

Title: A scriptural view of woman's rights and duties, in all the important relations of life.

First edition. Printed by Wm. S. Young. Title page signed by former owner: L. E. Bowers.

GLC06230

1811/05/27

Hadden, David, fl. 1811

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Hadden & Co

Describes battle between the American frigate President and the larger British frigate Little Belt. Notes that "The British frigates on this coast are behaving shamefully, as they come to press men out[.]" Also discusses his business travel and giving a letter of introduction to another businessman named Mr. Croskry. Addressed to Hadden in London.

GLC06231

1856

Pamphlet

Title: Ninth annual report of the General Agent of the Board of National Popular Education, with the constitution of the board; January 1856.

The Board was founded to send New England women to teach in the American West. In original tan wrappers.

GLC06232.01

1822

Meredith, William Morris, 1799-1873

Pamphlet

Title: A statement, by James C. Biddle and William M. Meredith, of the Philadelphia Bar.

Covers free press versus fair trial.

GLC06232.02

16 April 1883

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Pamphlet

Title: 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 condition is ended, there will be just ground of complaint... Until the colored man's pathway to the American ballot box, North and South, shall be as smooth and safe as the same is for the white citizen, this discussion will go on..." Bound in a light blue cover.

GLC06116

1835

Gurley, Ralph R., 1797-1872

Book

Title: Life of Jehudi Ashmun, late colonial agent in Liberia. With an appendix containing extracts from his journal and other writings; with a brief sketch of the life of the Rev. Lott Cary.

First edition. Printed by James C. Dunn. Engraved portrait of Ashmun opposite title page. With note affixed to the front endpaper: "This book was presented to me by the Revd. R.R. Gurley as a token of his Friendly Regard. Washington City, D.C., Oct. 25th 1847. J.Y. Van Tyne." First part (396 pages) consist of Ashmun's autobiography. Appendix, numbered 1-160, contains some of Ashmun's writings. Accompanied by a small maple leaf, which was previously pressed between pages 4 and 5 of appendix. Pages 4 and 5 are stained from the leaf.

GLC06128

1855

Nell, William C., 1816-1874

Book

Title: The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons: to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans.

Published by Robert F. Wallcut. Includes an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Contains descriptions of African Americans' meritorious military service. Includes a printed fold-out leaf opposite page 132, which consists of George Washington's discharge for a soldier named Brister Baker. The first illustration depicts Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave and a sailor who died 5 March 1770 in the Boston Massacre. A second section includes information on the state of African American Civil Rights at the time of publication. This work is a duplicate of GLC06176.

GLC06132

January 1865-March 1865

Header Record

Title: Items pertaining to the 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, Companies A-I, K [Decimalized .01-.19]

Muster rolls cover August-December 1864. Written from various locations, including Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

GLC06133

1840

United States. Congress (26th, 1st session : 1840)

Pamphlet

Title: Africans taken in the Amistad: congressional document, containing the correspondence, & c., in relation to the captured Africans.

This is a reprint by the New York Anti-Slavery Depository. A note inside the cover explains that there were no copies of this Congressional document available in Washington. Contains statements and correspondence from John Forsyth (Secretary of State 1834-1841), William S. Holabird (District Attorney for the State of Connecticut during the Amistad case), A. Calderon de la Barca (envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain) and various others involved in the Amistad case.

GLC06138

1861

Colton, Joseph Hutchins, 1800-1893

Map

Title: Colton's Plans Of U.S. Harbors Showing The Position & Vicinities Of The Most Important Fortifications On The Sea-Board And In The Interior. From U.S. Surveys and other authentic sources.

Printed and folded twenty one panel Civil War map marked "No. 5." Bound in a booklet listing major administration officials and generals on the inside cover, both Union and Confederate. Shows the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Cairo, Missouri. Also shows twenty one major inland and coastal harbors, mostly in the south (including New York, New Orleans, Washington D.C., Richmond, Cairo, Mobile, Key West, and others). Hand colored.

GLC06157.06