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1790
Unknown
Description of the Scale of accompanying Dycas's Hydrometer
Explains how to use and read Dycas's Hydrometer, a device invented to determine the strength of alcoholic beverages, so that the proper tax could be applied.
GLC08993.02
1844
Gibbons, James Sloan (1815-1892)
Humanity's last appeal to the abolitionists of the United States, against the increase of slave territory
Urges Northerners to vote for the Whig ticket, and oppose the Democrats, who favor the annexation of Texas. Argues that annexation is planned only to increase slavery and the power of the slave states. Texas is large and suitable for slavery and...
GLC08997
1894
Democratic party. Georgia.
Colored Voters Read
One broadside entitled, "Colored Voters Read," dated 1894 printed by Georgia's Democratic Party. Asks the question, "What Evidence have the Negroes of this State that Schools will be provided for their Children in case the Third Party gets into...
GLC09000
post 1865
Slavery Days.
Printing of an anti-slavery poem written from the perspective of an older male slave who is close to dying. The first verse reads, "I am thinking now to day of the years that's pass'd away, When they tied me up in bondage long ago, In old Virginia...
GLC09003
28 September 1863
Hammond, James D. (fl. 1863)
White Slaves.
Wage slavery, quotes an 1858 speech which calls for restraint after New York City draft riots, and challenges Democratic agitators to dispute conclusions: " ... self-interest and patriotism both call upon Workingmen to stand by the government firm as...
GLC09013
1862
[Civil War draft broadside]
Satirical lampooning of medical exemptions: "Attention X-Imps!"
GLC09016
1868
Presidential Election broadside
Associating Democratic Party with former Confederate officers. Reprints portions of Democratic platform accompanied by negative allegedly found in Southern newspapers; includes four large cartoons by Thomas Nast depicting Nathaniel Bedford Forrest...
GLC09017
1893
United States Ex-Slave Owners Registration Bureau
[Reconstruction broadside]
Reconstruction broadside re: compensation for lost property. Urges reply " ... the time is fast approaching when it will be impossible to obtain an authentic record of slaves owned and recognized as property by law at that time ... "
GLC09019
1865
He Being Dead Yet Speaketh
Quotes Lincoln's statements on the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln-Douglas debates, and various sayings.
GLC09020
Warren, Joseph
An Oration Delivered March 6th, 1775...
"...to commemorate the bloody Tragedy of the fifth of March 1770." Supplement to the Massachusetts Gazette. Boston: Mills & Hicks. Crucial Boston Massacre speech given by Warren under threat of death.
GLC09043
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