Boston: Congregational Board of Publication, 1857. Original publisher's cloth, with bright gilt-stamped title on front cover. vi, 138 pp. Fine. Ownership signature "J.B. Lowell" on front endpaper. The book prints three abolitionist essays: (1) Rev. R.B. Thurston, The Error and the Duty in regard to Slavery; (2) Rev. A.C. Baldwin..... More
Washington: Towers, [1864]. 15, [1 blank] pp. Uncut folio leaf, folded. Caption title, as issued. Fine. Having enacted a pro-Union Constitution under President Lincoln's "10 per cent plan," Louisiana's loyal government sought readmission to the Union. Senator Howard is skeptical about Lincoln's plan. More
Cincinnati: Enquirer Company Steam Printing Establishment, 1856. 78, [2] blanks] pp. Disbound. Title page foxed, otherwise light scattered foxing with some doodling on final blank light to moderate foxing, Good+. The Kansas-Nebraska Act had begun to unravel the Democratic Party; this platform adopts the extreme Southern Rights view, holding that..... More
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1863. 86, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched in original printed glossy wroappers [ discolored]. Light margin wear. Very Good. Those who say Christianity supports slavery have committed "a monstrous libel upon Christianity." OCLC reports a number of institutional locations. Not in Work, Blockson, Dumond, Sabin, Bartlett..... More
[New York: 1835]. [109]-120 pp, with caption title as issued. Stitched [loosening], some dusting and spotting. Good+. Illustration of "The Flogging of Females." On the horrors of slavery and the slave trade. More
New York: Currier & Ives, [1865]. Color print, 11-3/4" x 15-1/2" [by sight]. A black man, newly freed from slavery, kneels at Lincoln's feet, his shackles broken. He kisses Lincoln's hand. His wife and babies stand behind him. Lincoln's right arm is raised and pointing heavenward. Light uniform toning, but..... More
Boston: Published by R.F. Wallcut, 1859. 31, [1 blank] pp. Stitched. Title leaf dusted; persistent margin spot in early leaves. Good+. Abolitionists developed a profound appreciation for the Virginia State Rights Doctrine after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Men like Phillips, arguing for the supremacy of State..... More
Muscatine, Iowa: Printed by Order of the Constitutional Convention, 1857. 26pp, stitched. Upper blank forecorner clipped on all pages, not affecting any text. Persistent light dampstain at upper quadrant, light scattered foxing. Good+. Section 23 of Article I, the Bill of Rights, prohibited slavery or involuntary servitude, "unless for the..... More
New York: Swords, 1798. 30, [2 blanks] pp, as issued. Stitched and lightly foxed. Very Good. A Connecticut physician and Hartford Wit, Smith settled in New York in the 1790's, became active in this early anti-slavery society, and was a trustee of the school for Negroes in New York. Here..... More
London: Printed for W. Flexney... 1787. Quarto. [2], x, 24 pp, in contemporary drab plain wrappers. Engraved title vignette of a slave in chains. Stitched. Title page dusted; with an expertly repaired margin tear [no text affected]. A few spots. Else Very Good. A slave, who had planned to marry..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. Original publisher's cloth. Frontis illustration of Marshal's Posse; illustration of the Night Attack on the Court House after page 42 illustration of the Church of the Fugitive Slaves after page 208. 15-295, [1 blank] pp. Binding sunned and rubbed. Light foxing, toned illustrations..... More
Portland, Maine: 1886. Original publisher's cloth, with gilt decoration on front cover [Lincoln freeing a kneeling slave, caption 'GO FREE.'] Gilt-stamped spine title, light cover wear. Endpapers lightly damped. [2], xii, 503 pp, with frontis portrait and full page plates. Scattered spotting, Good+ or Very Good. FIRST EDITION. LCP 11227. More
New York: W.I. Pooley, 1864. Original cloth [chipped at head and foot of spine]. [2], vii, [1 blank], [3]-376pp. Clean text, Very Good. Hopkins was the first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. Writing after the Emancipation Proclamation had turned the sectional conflict into a war against slavery..... More
Charleston: Miller & Browne, 1844. [4], 62, [1 errata], [1 blank] pp. Stitched into original printed yellow wrappers and bound into later cloth with gilt-lettered spine title [front board detached but present]. Some foxing, Good+. Seabrook, President of the South Carolina Agricultural Society, explains that he wrote this "Historical Essay....... More
Columbia, S.C. Printed by A.S. Johnston, 1850. [4], 168pp, as issued. Disbound, tear at blank top margin of title leaf. Good+. The pamphlet includes the Message of the Governor, Speeches of Calhoun's Senatorial colleagues [Clay, Webster, Butler], resolutions and proceedings in other States, the funeral cortege [with a sketch at..... More
Boston: Sewell, Phelps, Printers, 1819. 22pp. Stitched and lightly worn. Good+. Webster's earliest printed expressions on Slavery, during the Crisis over Missouri's admission to the Union, support a Congressional ban on new Slave States. Webster headed the Committee -- which included Josiah Quincy, James Austin, George Blake, and John Gallison..... More
Hartford: The Connecticut Magazine, Volume XI, Number 1, 1907. Connecticut Magazine, First Quarter 1907. [6], 184, [28] pp. Original printed and illustrated wrappers, original staples. Front wrapper detached but present, with its lower corner torn away. Else Very Good. Reverend Lewis's article appears at pages 125-[129], with the iconic full-page..... More
London: James Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly [verso of half title: Henry Baylis, Johnson's-Court, Fleet-Street, 1831. 24pp, with the half title, as issued. Mild occasional foxing, Very Good. Bound in modern marbled paper over boards. Vindex, whoever he is, is angry with the British government for parroting the "silly, sounding, worn-out falsehood"..... More
Cambridge: Published by John Owen, 1842. 31, [1 blank], [7- publ. advts.], [1 blank] pp. With the half title, as issued. Half title preceded by two free endpapers. Glossy plain rear wrapper present, lacking the front wrapper. Stitched. Clean text. One advertisement leaf with a short blank margin repair. Very..... More
Boston: Massachusetts Abolition Society, 1840. [4] pp. Folded folio sheet, each leaf 12" x 18." Text in four columns per page, each column separated by a rule. Toned and foxed. Good. A weekly published from February 1839 to February 1841, the Massachusetts Abolitionist, was published every Thursday for the Massachusetts..... More
Boston: Massachusetts Abolition Society, 1840. [4] pp. Folded folio sheet, each leaf 12" x 18." Text in four columns per page, each column separated by a rule. Occasional light foxing, Very Good. A weekly published from February 1839 to February 1841, the Massachusetts Abolitionist, was published every Thursday for the..... More
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Boston: 1860. Elephant folio sheet, folded to [4] pp. Each page 18" x 25," containing six ruled columns of text. Old folds, occasional shallow chipping at blank margins, a bit of spotting. Very Good. The Masthead depicts a slave auction, a family of slaves looking forward to Emancipation, and Christ..... More