[Reform and Anti-Slavery]:

VOICES OF THE TRUE HEARTED.

Philadelphia: [1846]. 16 of 18 issues (lacking 1 and 2), bound together in contemporary three-quarter calf, with marbled boards. Pages numbered 33-288. Some leaves browned. General title page is absent; a small bookplate ["Bodichon, Scalands, Robertsbridge"] covers the caption title of No. 3. This is the bookplate of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, notable British artist, feminist writer and women's rights activist, who founded the first women's college at the University of Cambridge. Bound in contemporary quarter calf [rubbed] and marbled paper over boards. Occasional text browning. Except as noted, Very Good.

This periodical is a literary anthology of American and British reformist prose and poetry, with significant anti-slavery contributions. The authors included John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Longfellow, John Pierpont, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Martineau, Lydia Sigourney, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett, and William Lloyd Garrison, who wrote three poems for the journal, one while imprisoned for libel of a merchant he had accused of illegal slave trading.
The anti-slavery pieces are not only poetic (most famous being Whittier's "Branded Hand") but also include his essay on the "Slave Market at Washington," Child on the "Economy of Slavery,", the "Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society," and principles of the 1838 "Peace Convention" organized by Garrison.
LCP 10848. AI 46-7277 [6]. Not in Lomazow or Mott. Item #39101

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