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1902/05/22
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)
The History of Woman Suffrage... in Four Volumes, Vol. IV. 1883-1900
Inscribed to Emily M. Gross. Edited by Anthony and Ida Husted Harper. Published by Susan B. Anthony.
GLC05175
1795
Franklin, Walter (1773-1838)
Minutes of the proceedings of the second convention of delegates from the abolition societies established in different parts of the United States...
(title continues)... assembled at Philadelphia, on the seventh day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and continued, by adjournments, until the fourteenth day of the same month, inclusive. Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Jr....
GLC05650
1861
May, Samuel (1810-1899)
The fugitive slave law and its victims.
Printed by the American Anti-slavery Society. No. 15 of American Anti-Slavery Tracts. Pages are separated from binding. Contains an Essex Institute stamp. Small burn mark on front cover.
GLC06232.11
1805
Alexander, Ann Tuke (1767-1849)
An address to the inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina.
"I lament- exceedingly lament, that a custom, so barbarous as well as so repugnant to every principle of humanity and justice, as the African Slave-Trade, should be continued in this or any other nation." Printed by Kimber, Conrad, & Co. Wrapper is...
GLC06232.13
circa 1885
Hoar, George Frisbie, (1826-1904)
Woman's co-operation essential to pure politics.
Transcript of a speech given by Hoar, a noted supporter of women's suffrage. Pamphlet published under the auspices of American Woman Suffrage Association. Date from a letter cited in the piece.
GLC06306.01
1838
Grimke, Sarah M. (fl. 1838)
Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of woman.
Title continues: "addressed to Mary S. Parker, president of the Boston Female Anti-slavery Society." First women's rights pamphlet published in United States. Examines the present state of inequality of women, its causes and possible solutions....
GLC06552
1886
Pamphlet
"Mormon" women's protest.
Title continues: "an appeal for freedom, justice and equal rights. The ladies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints protest against the tyranny and indecency of federal officials in Utah, and against their own disfranchisement without...
GLC06609
1844
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes of the British West Indies
Speech by Emerson attacking slavery, one of his earliest statements in support of abolition. First edition. Published by James Munroe and Company.
GLC05766
1855
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
My bondage and my freedom. Part I : Life as a slave. Part II : Life as a freeman. By Frederick Douglass with an introduction. By James McCune Smith.
Published by Miller, Orton & Mulligan. Includes an engraving of a young Douglass by J. C. Buttre from a daguerreotype. Signed on front free yellow endpaper by Maggie R. Marriott 1 June 1861.
GLC05820
1864
American Anti-Slavery Society
Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society, at its third decade, held in the City of Philadelphia, Dec. 3d and 4th, 1863.
Contain an appendix and a catalogue of anti-slavery publications in America from 1750-1863. Includes writings and/or speeches by William Lloyd Garrison (Anti-slavery Society President), Henry Ward Beecher, Stephen S. Foster, Abby Kelley Foster...
GLC05821
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