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1836
Grimke, Angelina E., 1805-1879
Appeal to the Christian women of the south
Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Among other arguments, Grimke denounces Biblical justifications of slavery. Loosely bound with string.
GLC08642
1884
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898
Acts of the anti-slavery apostles.
Printed by Cuppley, Upham & Co. Contains biographical chapters on William Lloyd Garrison and Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. Subsequent chapters cover a history of anti-slavery in America, including a discussion of other individuals active in the cause...
GLC08666
1833
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
The Abolitionist
Volume 1, numbers 1 - 11 of a monthly magazine advocating the abolition of slavery. The eleven issues are bound together in one book. Includes articles from numerous sources on emancipation, colonization and many other evangelical and slavery...
GLC08844
19 June 1838
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Letter of Gerrit Smith to President Schmucker.
Smith discusses his and Schmucker's shared disapproval of the Colonization Society. Defends the Anti-Slavery Society against Schmucker's criticism. Also covers Schmucker's opinions of temperance. Contains several spots of water damage in former...
GLC08873
1852
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Uncle Tom's cabin; or, life among the lowly.
First edition, first printing (with Hobart & Robbins on the copyright pages). Rebound, with original cloth binding bound into back. Boston, John P. Jewett & company; Cleveland, Ohio, Jewett, Proctor & Worthington. Two volume set housed together in...
GLC01361
22 November 1819
King, Rufus, 1755-1827
Substance of Two Speeches, Delivered in the Senate of the United States on the Subject of the Missouri Bill
Printed pamphlet written by King as an anti-slavery U.S. Senator from New York. King also signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787. King was asked to write the pamphlet, which summarized his two anti-slavery speeches given before the U.S. Senate during...
GLC02384
1837
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
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...
GLC00267.051
1839
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
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...
GLC00267.052
1851
Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856
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...
GLC00267.056
1864
Murphy, John, 1812-1880
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...
GLC00267.059
1865
Baker, Godwin & Co.
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...
GLC00267.060
1857
Nott, Samuel, 1788-1869
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...
GLC00267.061
1840
Slade, William, 1786-1859
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...
GLC00267.093
1841
Ingersoll, Charles J., 1782-1862
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
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
1845
Stewart, Alvan, 1790-1849
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
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
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
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
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...
GLC00267.089
Keep, John, fl. 1837
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...
GLC00267.090
Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887
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...
GLC00267.092
1820
Sergeant, John, 1779-1852
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
1855
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
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
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...
GLC00267.097
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