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1865/03/04
Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865
to: Mary [Armstrong].
Reports on rumor that Sherman has been defeated, hopes it isn't true, talks about great number of dead and burial procedures, remarks on slavery as the sin of the South.
GLC06734.007
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
9 February 1837
Phelps, Amos A., 1805-1847
The Emancipator. [Vol. 1, no. 41 (February 9, 1837)]
This issue contains a printing of a speech by the Reverend William Goodell, an abolitionist from New York, at a recent Anti-Slavery Convention. Includes coverage from the Meeting of the Baptist Missionary Society, and other miscellaneous reports....
GLC08875.03
March 17, 1832
Macaulay, Zachary, 1768-1838
to Thomas Pringle
Discusses unity in matters of the Anti-Slavery Committee.
GLC00496.191
1837/03/18
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
to John Adams Green and Edward Butler Osborne
Abolition of slavery and the right to petition
GLC07693.01
1851/11/06
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
To: James M.H. Beale.
Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."
GLC07927
1 November 1839
The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 44 (November 1, 1839)]
With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an "Address of the Western Reserve Anti-Slavery Convention," a dialogue discussing women and slavery, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor...
GLC08875.55
3 January 1840-31 Decemeber 1847
The liberator. [Vol. 10, no. 1 (January 3, 1840) - v. 17. no. 53 (December 31, 1847)]
Run of 416 weekly issues of the famous anti-slavery newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison.
GLC06109
24 July 1861
Jay, John, 1817-1894
to unknown
Jay, prominent abolitionist and grandson of the Revolutionary War patriot of the same name, argues "We have an agency at work for the abolition of slavery in the pending war more powerful than all the Conventions we could assemble. Every battle...
GLC02222
1836
Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839
The War in Texas...
Anti-slavery and anti-Mexican war sentiments.
GLC08846
28 June 1839
The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 26 (June 28, 1839)]
With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Includes articles on the "Refuge of Oppression" and women in the Anti-Slavery Society. Contains resolutions from the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society and other miscellaneous...
GLC08875.49
1864/04/29
New-York times. [Vol. 13, no. 3931 (April 29, 1864)]
Tax bill, Lincoln on slavery page 3.
GLC08726.30
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
June 17, 1850
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
to Robert Hallowell Gardiner
One circular letter addressed to Robert H. Gardiner from Daniel Webster dated June 17, 1850. Pertains to the debate whether slavery will be instilled in New Mexico and Texas, retorts statements published about his remarks on slavery from a speech...
GLC01231
November 1863
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880
[Statement of belief].
Condemns those who defend the perpetuation of slavery on the grounds that it was not proscribed by the Constitution and who wish for a return to the Union as it was. Includes poem lamenting the failure of the Founders to address slavery.
GLC06142
9 March 1837
The Emancipator. [Vol. 1, no. 45 (March 9, 1837)]
Reports on a recent anti-slavery meeting in Edinburgh regarding the war in Texas and its connection to slavery. Contains a long letter from New York abolitionist William Goodell, among other miscellaneous reports. Phelps serves as editor....
GLC08875.04
August 31, 1828
Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853
Thanks Pringle for sending anti-slavery documents and positively critiques his poetry.
GLC00496.203
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave : written by himself.
First edition of Douglass's first autobiography. Contains an engraving of Douglass opposite title page. Published at the anti-slavery office.
GLC06117
1838
Anti-Slavery Examiner
The Power of Congress over the District of Columbia
JB00166
13 March 1856
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Speech of Gerrit Smith in the Kansas meeting, at the capitol in Albany, March 13th 1856.
At the Capitol in Albany. Criticizes Missouri aid societies that offer large bounties to proslavery inhabitants of Kansas. Deplores the allowance of slavery in Missouri, referring to the Missouri Compromise as liberty bargaining with slavery. Also...
GLC04717.25
1907/06/04
Mosby, John S., 1833-1916
to Sam Chapman
Scathing response to reunion speeches, especially one minimizing slavery's role in the war. Includes brief account of the Southern defense of slavery prior to the war, noting that he did not approve of slavery; rather, it was inherited as an...
GLC03921.21
29 June 1850
Shields, James, 1806-1879
to John Chathen
Shields writes as a U.S. Senator from Illinois to Chathen at Jacksonville, Illinois. Argues that Henry Clay opposes the extension of slavery and is no more a pro-slavery man than Thomas Hart Benton (both Clay and Benton were U.S. Senators). Also...
GLC03170
1865-1866
Dickson, William G., fl. 1861-1866
Letters to Dickson's grandfather [Decimalized .01-.06]
Among other topics, Dickson discusses reconstruction, turpentine and rosin production, post-slavery labor concerns, cholera in Georgia, and his bleak marriage prospects.
GLC05732
1854
Greene, Albert C., 1792-1863
Proceedings of a public meeting of the citizens of Providence
Proceedings of a meeting held "to Protest Against Slavery in Nebraska; with the Addresses of the Speakers." Contains the speeches Greene, the president of the meeting, and various speakers opposing the extension of slavery into Nebraska. The...
GLC05116.05
7 December 1861
True witness. [ Vol. 8, no. 41 (December 7, 1861)
Union Between the Old and New School South, Religious Reading for Our Soldiers, Slavery.
GLC05959.18.02
1856
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
The Crime Against Kansas. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.
Sumner delivered this speech after the May 1856 debates on slavery in Kansas. Condemns Southern advocacy of the expansion of slavery. Published by Greeley and McElrath, New York. Advertised on cover page as being "for sale at the office of the New...
GLC02095.20
28 January 1870
Gonraler, S., fl. 1870
"Registro De Esclavos - Isla De Puerto Rico"
One slave registration form dated January 28, 1870. Provides physical details of a slave from Arecibo, Puerto Rico who resided in the city of Cambalache. Signed by the Commissioner of Slavery. Document written in Spanish.
GLC09835
3 March 1820
Sampson, Zabdiel, 1781-1828
to Aaron Hobart
Briefly reports the passage of the Missouri Compromise: "The question, so long debated in Congress of excluding slavery from our territories is settled, by the passage of a bill...which excludes slavery forever, from the whole of the American...
GLC06313.03
30 December 1859
John Brown still lives!
Calling a meeting to discuss John Brown, his raid, and slavery. "Hon. E. Graham, of Dewitt, Iowa, and A.J. Grover, Esq., of Lasalle county, Ill., will speak On Brown's Invasion! And the Present Aspect of the Slavery Question...B. C. Golliday, who...
GLC06355
13 August 1852
To the Liberty Party of the County of Madison
Smith addresses the Pittsburgh Convention of the Liberty Party. Urges the Convention to organize a permanent party, and to "declare slavery to be utterly incapable of legalization."
GLC04717.34
1861
Black, Samuel W., 1818-1862
Territory of Nebraska Council Documents no. 2
Begins with an act prohibiting slavery in the Territory of Nebraska. Black, Governor of the Nebraska Territory, returns the act unsigned with a message to the House of Representatives: "You have assumed the power and asserted the policy of an...
GLC06178
18 March 1865
Dickinson, Daniel, fl. 1865
to Sir
"The destruction of slavery bu the rebellion of its propriety and advocacy, will be regarded in after times, as one of the most beneficent."
GLC08047
5 November 1852
To the voters of Oswego and Madison counties New York
Thanking them for electing him to a seat in Congress, and reprising his anti-slavery, pro-equality platform.
GLC09329.02
26 August 1852
Commonwealth. extra. [(August 26, 1852)]
Sumner's argument for the appeal of the Fugitive Slave Law was that the slaveholding southern states, and not the United States as a whole, condone the institution of slavery, and thus having a national law in which such an institution is aided and...
GLC02226
29 November 1843
Church of Peterboro
Includes a creed and resolutions of the Church of Peterboro. Resolutions name an elder for the church, cite the church's opposition to sectarianism and slavery, and cover other pertinent issues.
GLC04717.46
15 July 1845
To those ministers in the county of Madison, who refuse to preach politics
Believes that the continued enslavement of millions of citizens results from religious leaders' refusal to preach politics. Emphasizes the duty of religious leaders to preach against slavery.
GLC04717.47
17 July 1858
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, delivered in Springfield, Saturday evening, July 17, 1858.
Discusses the disadvantages faced by the Republican Party in the upcoming election. Traces the development of his attitudes toward slavery and equality, expressing his conviction that the South's reliance on slavery was engaged in a conspiracy to...
GLC02955
March 1859
Personal Liberty Bill
Begins with a list of the foremost duties of the New York Legislature: to close the dramshops, to prevent withholding suffrage from Black men, and to protect the "weary and heart-broken fugitive slaves" within State limits. Includes an excerpt of a...
GLC04717.27
1861/01/13
Campbell, Robert C., fl. 1861
To: James Beale.
Written as a pro-secession member of the Texas Secession Convention. Campbell accuses the North of bad faith on the question of slavery. Written at Galveston
GLC05127.02
June 19, 1863
to E. Malhiot
Signed as President, insisting that Louisiana will not be allowed to have an election until the new state constitution abolishes slavery. Demonstrates the hardening of Lincoln's attitude towards slavery.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of...
GLC01571
circa 1841
to Gerrit Smith [incomplete]
Discusses the upcoming Friends of Liberty Convention, with Smith, a New York abolitionist. Notes that one object of the Convention is to extend circulation of anti-slavery material to the abolitionists of Madison and Onondaga County, New York....
GLC06593.17
1820/10/27
Caldwell, E.B., fl. 1820
to Simeon Baldwin re: American Colonization Society Report (printed letter)
Slavery-related circular letter concerning the death of the Society's agents in Africa who had sought to save recaptured colonists, and calling for continuing efforts. Caldwell was Secretary of the American Colonization Society.
GLC05157
Is Millard Fillmore an abolitionist?
Printed at the American Patriot office. Additional title: "The agitation of slavery. Who commenced and who can end it? Buchanan and Fillmore compared from the record."
GLC00267.201
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
May 9, 1832
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833
Wilberforce, a British abolitionist, writes from the Brighstone (Brixton) Rectory (possibly while his son Samuel served as vicar there). Recommends Mr. Stephen, a relative and friend (likely his brother-in-law James Stephen), to serve as chairman of...
GLC00496.251
1851
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861
Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, on the "Measures of Adjustment," delivered in the City Hall, Chicago, October 23, 1850.
Printed by Gideon & Co., printers. Douglas discusses slavery and the Compromise of 1850. Appears to have been removed from previous binding.
GLC00267.378
19 August 1837
Liberator Extra issue
Scarce "Extra" issue of William Lloyd Garrison's weekly Liberator mainly devoted to the "Appeal of Clerical Abolitionists on Anti-Slavery Measures .... Declaration of Abolitionists in The Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass."
GLC09298
17 October 1835
W. L. Garrison and I. Knapp (publishers), 1831-1865
The Liberator. [Vol. V, no. 42 (October 17, 1835)]
Article on the front page mentions Southern nullifiers and refers to the South's empty threats. Other articles are about abolition and other anti-slavery issues. On page 3 there is a mention of a lynching that occurred nearby.
GLC08711
19 September 1845
The Liberator. [Vol. 15, no. 38, whole no. 766 (September 19, 1845)]
Contains articles on "Slavery in the United States," and Cassius M. Clay, among miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, James Brown Yerrinton as printer, and Henry W. Williams as general agent. Discolored in creases.
GLC08875.58
1861/09/28, 1861/12/07
True witness (New Orleans, La.)
Vol. 8 nos. 31 and 41. Presbyterian religious newspaper. The 12/7/1861 issue discusses slavery and religious readings for soldiers.
GLC05959.18
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