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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
1889
Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908
My life in the south.
Biography of Stroyer, an freedman raised on a plantation in South Carolina and freed in 1864 by the Emancipation Proclamation. Stroyer was minister of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Salem. The introduction contains letters of support for...
GLC00267.083
1918
Phillips, Ulrich B., 1877-1934
American negro slavery: a survey of the supply, employment and control of negro labor as determined by the plantation regime
Published by D. Appleton and Co, New York, London. Once the definitive and apologetic account of slavery impeding innovation. Phillips was a Professor of American History at the University of Michigan.
GLC00267.084
1929
Life and labor in the old south
First edition. Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston.
GLC00267.085
1910
Nieboer, H.J., 1873-1920
Slavery as an industrial system; ethnological researches, by Dr. H. J. Nieboer
Second edition. Geared towards world-wide survey of slavery. Published by Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague.
GLC00267.086
1860
The Yankee slave-dealer; or, an abolitionist down South. A tale for the times by a Texan.
Pseudonymous proslavery novel concerning the converted opinion of a visiting northern abolitionist. Published for the author in Nashville, Tennessee. Previous documentation notes this is a first edition.
GLC00267.087
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
1837
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
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
1844
Allen, George, 1792-1883
An appeal to the people of Massachusetts, on the Texas question
Appeals to the people to oppose the annexation, arguing that adding Texas to the Union will further entrench and empower the institution of slavery. Suggests holding a convention. Attributed to "A Massachusetts Freeman." Printed by Charles C...
GLC00267.104
1848
Mann, Horace, 1796-1859
Speech of Hon. Horace Mann, on the right of Congress to legislate for the territories of the United States, and its duty to exclude slavery therefrom:
First Boston edition, with an added letter from Hon. Martin Van Buren, a free soiler, and Rev. Joshua Leavitt. Opposes the Mexican War and the extension of slavery. Delivered in the House of Representatives on 30 June 1848. Printed in Boston by J...
GLC00267.121
1850
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
California and New Mexico. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in answer to a resolution of the House...
(title continues)... of the 31st of December, 1849, on the subject of California and New Mexico. House Executive Document No. 17. Includes six fold-out maps, which appear to be in brittle condition. Opens with a message from President Zachary...
GLC00267.133
1849
Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875
Mr. Upham's speech on the extension of slavery: together with the ordinance of 1787.
Opposes the extension of slavery and argues that it compromises the Constitution. Delivered in the House of Representatives 20 February 1849. Printed at the Tri-weekly gazette office in Salem, Massachusetts.
GLC00267.129
Stuart, Moses, 1780-1852
Conscience and the constitution with remarks on the recent speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster on the subject of slavery.
Published by Crocker & Brewster. Stuart discusses the problems of ending slavery. In closing, writes "The last thing I have to say, is, to ask the question, whether it would not be a feasible thing, and the best thing we can do, to colonize the...
GLC00267.138
Clark, Rufus Wheelwright, 1813-1886
A Review of the Rev. Moses Stuart's pamphlet on slavery, entitled conscience and the Constitution.
Published by C. C. P. Moody. Clark, pastor of the North Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, rebuts Stuart's argument regarding slavery (Stuart argued for colonization; refer to GLC00267.138). In closing, writes "...notwithstanding the strong...
GLC00267.139
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Review of Webster's speech on slavery.
Published by the American Anti Slavery Society in Boston, Massachusetts. Printed by J.B. Yerrinton and Son, Printers, Boston.
GLC00267.140
Spencer, Ichabod S. (Ichabod Smith), 1798-1854
Fugitive slave law. The religious duty of obedience to law: a sermon, preached in the Second Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, Nov. 24, 1850.
Published by M. W. Dodd. Argues against resistance to government and law, and upholds citizens' religious duty to obey the law. Writes, "I am not justifying slavery... I am not justifying the fugitive-slave Law. It may be wrong: it may be unwise...
GLC00267.141
Thompson, Joseph Parrish, 1819-1879
The fugitive slave law; tried by the Old and New Testaments.
Argues against obeying laws from the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1850. Published by William Harned, New York, printed by B. L. Hamlen, New Haven, Connecticut. Reprinted from the New Englander for November 1850. Thompson was the pastor of the Broadway...
GLC00267.142
1851
The South Bend fugitive slave case, involving the right to a writ of habeas corpus.
Reports on the legal case of Norris vs. Newton. Case pertains to an enslaved person seeking emancipation. Marked for sale at the Anti-slavery office, 48 Beekman Street, 1851.
GLC00267.144
1852
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Freedom national, slavery sectional: Mr. Sumner's speech for the repeal of the fugitive slave bill.
Published by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.
GLC00267.147
1854
Defence of Massachusetts. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Boston memorial for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, ...
Title continues, "... and in reply to Messrs. Jones of Tennessee, Butler of South Carolina, and Mason of Virginia." Delivered in the Senate of the U.S. 26 and 28 June 1854. Printed by Buell & Blanchard.
GLC00267.148
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