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[Sentiments expressing Andrew's wish to see the end of slavery]

10 March 1864

Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867

Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts, writes, "May the Sun of 1864 see the last fetter fall from the limb of the last slave in Maryland." Written on Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Department stationery.

GLC06352.01

Collection Item

Autograph note signed

[Quotation of Charles Sumner on the struggle to end slavery]

18 May 1858

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Complete quotation reads: "Our cause is nobler even than that of our Fathers, in as much as it is more exalted to struggle for the Freedom of others than for our own."

GLC02095.26

Collection Item

Manuscript document

[List of names, possibly related to an anti-slavery society]

circa 1841

Contains men's and women's names categorized into seven groups. Circa date based on GLC06593.09. Location inferred from GLC06593.10. Possibly related to Onondaga and/or Madison County, New York.

GLC06593.18

Lesson Plan

Abraham Lincoln on Slavery and Race

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Background Slavery played a prominent role in America’s political, social, and economic history in the antebellum era. The "peculiar institution" was at the forefront of discussions ranging from the future of the nation’s economy to...

Essay

Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom

Steven Mintz

Government and Civics

Frederick Douglass was one of the first fugitive slaves to speak out publicly against slavery. On the morning of August 12, 1841, he stood up at an anti-slavery meeting on Nantucket Island. With great power and eloquence, he described...

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Manuscript document

[Anti-Slavery Society Resolution No. 9]

1841

"Resolved, That we hail with joy... the prompt refusal of the British authorities of Nassau, to deliver up at the instance of the American consul, to the United States, the 19 [inserted: colored men] who took an active part in the struggle [inserted...

GLC06593.09

Collection Item

Document signed

[Address leaf cut from wrapper of Sumner's pamphlet "The Barbarism of Slavery."]

circa 4 June 1860

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Sumner sends his pamphlet (GLC08454.01) to Reverend George Allen of Worcester, Massachusetts. The signature of Sumner, a Senator from Massachusetts, serves as a free frank. Housed with GLC08454.01.

GLC08454.02

Collection Item

Book

A Dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it...

1796

Tucker, Henry St. George, 1780-1848

[Complete title] "A dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it, in the State of Virginia." First edition. With contemporary notations on and a page of manuscript notes dated 1836 in front. Tucker's argument was urgent...

GLC06610

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