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The anti-slavery papers of James Russell Lowell.

1902

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

First edition. No. 141 of a Limited edition of 525 copies. Uncut and unopened. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company.

GLC00267.013

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John Adams on the abolition of slavery, 1801

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

On January 24, 1801, President John Adams responded to two abolitionists who had sent him an anti-slavery pamphlet by Quaker reformer Warner Mifflin (1745–1798). In the letter, Adams expresses his views on slavery, the dangers posed...

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George Washington on the abolition of slavery, 1786

Economics, Government and Civics

9

Of the nine presidents who were slaveholders, only George Washington freed all his own slaves upon his death. Before the Revolution, Washington, like most White Americans, took slavery for granted. At the time of the Revolution, one...

History Now Issue

Primary Sources on Slavery

#2 Winter 2004

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Slavery and the Constitution

1849

Bowditch, William I., fl. 1849

JB00411

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American Anti-Slavery Almanac

1838

Southard, N., fl. 1838

JB00163

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American Anti-Slavery Almanac

1839

Benedict, S.W., fl. 1839

JB00164

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Manuscript document

[Notes pertaining to anti-slavery]

circa 1841

List of items related to anti-slavery. Also contains index citations for an unspecified document or volume. One note asserts, "A. S. Society aims to destroy the Colonization Soc." Other notes refer to the degradation of enslaved people, the...

GLC06593.21

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Third Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society

10 May 1836

American Anti-Slavery Society

JB00489

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Third Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society

1836

American Anti-Slavery Society

JB00158