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1826WRCAM40209Philadelphia 1826. 40pp. Original tan wrappers. Wraps a bit creased spine slightly chipped. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Text a bit tanned. very good. A call for the abolition of the slave trade with sections regarding the involvement of a number of foreign countries in the trade. This copy belonged to the Rev. Leonard Worcester of Peacham Vt. Worcester was a member of the Auxiliary Colonization Society of the State of Vermont a regional subgroup of the American Colonization Society. A nice association copy. SHOEMAKER 23434. paperback books
12719Front Page Headline reads "The Bill Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia Passed the House." Newspaper "The Detroit Free Press" April 12 1862. 19" x 26" 2 pages. Has a blow by blow account of the debate among the members of the House and the various amendments associated with the bill. It concludes "The bill was passed 93 agains 39." Also includes local national and international news as well as "News From the South." Some small tears at the left hand margin not affecting text. A diagonal crease runs across the top half of the paper and a small piece of yellow tape has adhered to the top margin. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
18472183421847. unbound. The writer Mr. Pugh also mentions that he has received a letter concerning a runaway slave and will keep a look out in part: ".I rec'd your letter about a Runaway Negro but as yet have not heard anything about him. Will keep a look out. Yours Respectfully." 1 page 8vo light water-staining 9.25 x 7.5 inches. No place October 12 1847. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
185562372Boston: Bela Marsh 1855. Second printing. Frontispiece portrait. 122 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Upper half of spine shaky else a nice tight copy. Second printing. Frontispiece portrait. 122 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. The author was convicted of aiding slaves to escape from Washinton D.C.--Blockson. Sabin 20912 Blockson 9838 for first ed. Bela Marsh unknown books
186021436San Francisco: T.C. Boyd ca. 1860. Near fine. Broadside 8.5" by 4.5". Printed from type and wood engraving. Very near fine with trivial crease to edges. <br/><br/>Racist slavery-era broadside printed and designed by one T.C. Boyd featuring a drawing and lyrics to a ballad which begins: "Massa's gone to town de news to hear / And he has left the overseer / To look over all de nrs here / While I make love to Sally!" Boyd notes he had 10000 such sheets for sale at his shop. T.C. Boyd unknown books
185019425Philadelphia March 20 1850. Portion of the blank leaf clipped traces of a partially-removed decal from the blank verso; a little foxed in very good condition. Quite legible. 1.5 pages in autograph ink on a lined blue folio approx. 250 words. Integral address. On the negotiation for and Methodist process of returning the missionary Seys to Liberia as a colonization agent: "I this morning presented your communication and also Mr. PinneyÃs to my colleagues. Their conclusion was expressed as follows. 'Agreed that we still abide by our decision of last year ñ That we have authority to make appointments to agencies for the Colonization cause ñ 2d That we are not willing to advise Br. Seys as to the expediency of his accepting such an agency but leave that to his own discretion. 3d That at present we see no insuperable difficulty in the way of his appointment as Agent of the Colonization Society of Maryland at the next session of the New York Conference provided that previous to that time he receives a commission from said society and decides to accept the appointment.' In order to relieve your mind on the other point I will inform you that I see no way of deciding the question of a Superintendent to Liberia for some time to come. We do not just it safe and proper to give personal advice to brethren in regard to such appointments." Seys was a native of Trinidad and according to later accounts of colonization societies had been an overseer on a family plantation until a conversion experience led him to Methodism abolition and emigration to the United States. Seys here appears to have been angling for a return to Liberia as a colonization agent a goal at which he seems to have succeeded; he would be named Minister and Consul to Liberia in 1866. With a preliminary typescript. March 20, unknown books
10137Slavery Handwritten letter signed. Silvanus Patch 1 page March 1823 in which Mr. Hatch writes in somewhat phonetic English to a John Bourding concerning the sale of one of his slaves in part ".I wish you to assist Mr. Nicholson in the gitten sic of the money from the sale of Davis and the 50 of Collens as I am in det debt to Mr. Nicholson.use every excursion to git sic that from him and you will obliage sic your well wisher." Foxing in very good condition. unknown books
15101This rare pamphlet "Act No. XIX of 1929 Passed by the Indian Legislature.An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages" was a critical step in protecting girls. No other copies in OCLC Worldcat<br/><br/>Child marriage was historically prevalent in India where the International Center for Research on Women reported that 47% of Indian weddings in the early 20th century involved brides under the age of 18. Poverty was a driving factor in child marriage as families in financial straits could improve their economic standing by marrying their daughters to wealthier older men. Yet as other countries began making improvements for women and girls India too recognized the dangers inherent to girls' health and well-being when they were married and became mothers while still in their own childhoods. This pamphlet which is the only known copy according to OCLC Worldcat details the "punishment for male adult below twenty one years of age marrying a child punishment for male adults over twenty one years of age marrying a child and punishment for solemnizing a child marriage." While child marriage does persist in India its rates have gone down and modern India has joined the South Asian Initiative to End Violence Against Children SAIEVAC which adopted a regional action plan to enforce the marriage bans and end child marriage in and beyond its own borders. unknown books
1840WRCAM54016N.p. but Germany 1840. 16pp. text in German. Stitched as issued. Very light dampstaining at top edge. Very good. An imaginary dialogue between a slaveholder and a missionary in Georgia. They debate the rights and wrongs of slavery with the slaveholder gradually crumbling before biblical evidence. A most unusual German tract on the American slavery controversy. unknown books
186134365Waterford Maine Feb 3rd 1861. In a neat nineteenth-century hand on a single leaf torn from a larger sheet of note paper. 1 vols. 5 x 8 inches. Old folds else fine. In a neat nineteenth-century hand on a single leaf torn from a larger sheet of note paper. 1 vols. 5 x 8 inches. "My mammy's worked out". Thirty-two line poem expressing pious sentiments at the plight of the child slave: "Here orange trees wave / But oh not for me -- / I'm a poor little slave . My mammy's worked out / And lies here in the grave / There's none to kiss me / I'm a poor little slave". unknown books
1856257105Washington D.C.: Globe Office 1856. Signed by Kelsey ordering 2500 and by James Livingston for 100 and another. Old folds. Blind embossed " Platner & Porter Cobngress" staionary. Signed by Kelsey ordering 2500 and by James Livingston for 100 and another. Globe Office unknown books
185633708Philadelphia 1856. 24pp disbound three small binding holes in blank left margin. Two early signatures of Wm. Thompson Shafer on title page. Light spotting throughout. About Good. <br/><br/> This scarce pamphlet says the "great issue" is whether "Slavery shall be allowed to overspread a territory of greater extent than that of the whole United States" and "whether the policy of our government is to continue to be that of Slavery Extension or Slavery Restriction." All the power of the presidency is "being used to force the withering and blighting scourge of Slavery upon the National domain." Pursuing this tyrannical course our government "shall lend its aid in striking a deathblow to the freedom of speech the liberty of the press and the security for life personal liberty possession and peace." <br/>LCP 4300. OCLC 22829199 4- LCP No. IL U Haverford Detroit Pub. Lib. as of April 2017. unknown books
1856WRCAM34592Montpelier 1856. 19pp. Self-wrappers. Upper edge gnawed and stained else good. This report from a committee of the Vermont House of Representatives was made in response to events in Kansas resulting from the introduction of slavery into that territory. According to the report Vermonters in Kansas had been harassed and attacked by pro-slavery forces with a situation of lawlessness ensuing. The Vermont House asserts the state's rights to protect its citizens in Kansas and allots a sum of $20000 to alleviate the suffering of afflicted Vermonters. OCLC locates only four copies. Quite scarce. OCLC 34605036. unknown books
1847266916Jackson County FL 1847. unbound. 1 page 3.5 x 7.5 inches Jackson County Florida February 5 1847 -- a probate court receipt acknowledging that "Elijah Bryon Administrator of William Bryon received the following property awarded to me by the commissioners appointed by the Hon. Richard H. Long Judge of Probate for the County of Jackson one-fifth of three-hundred and twenty acres of land undivided and the following slaves: Mary Ginny and child and Jerry valued at $1500 and three-hundred and thirty one dollars and forty-five cents of the other personal property as my position of said Estate." Signed at the bottom: "Elijah Bryan guardian for Joseph M. Bryan" and docketed on the bacl: "E. Bryan" and "Richard H. Long J.P.C." Richard H. Long 1791 - 1865 was appointed by the Territorial Governor in 1833 to complete the land sale between S. Brown and the Apalachicola Tustenuggee and Hadjo tribes treating the Indians fairly. He was a representative to Florida's first Constitutional Convention and later served as Speaker of the House. During the Civil War he rose to the rank of Colonel of a Florida Regiment and saw much action in the field. His body was recently located in a forgotten Confederate cemetery. Elijah H. Long was known for building a 5200-acre plantation for his mother. The family was well known in Jackson County and evidently all were slave owners. One horizontal fold; uniformly toned. Very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
185426154Washington: Printed at the Congressional Glove Office 1854. First edition. pp. 22. 1 vols. 8vo. Self wrappers unsewn as issued. Some browning and spotting wear along spine and edges but a very good copy. First edition. pp. 22. 1 vols. 8vo. Kansas-Nebraska Act. Primarily concerning the issue of slavery in the territories this speech was part of the debates for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act initiated by Douglas ultimately repealed the Missouri Compromise allowed the local residents to determine whether the area was free or slave territory allowed for "the doctrine of popular sovereignty of the two territories" and laid the way for a transcontental railroad. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in the Senate on the 3rd of March. Clayton was a lawyer noted agriculturist and long-time member of Congress who was Secretary of State under President Taylor. As Secretary of State he is best remembered for having negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer treaty with Great Britain which provided for a neutral international canal across Central America and "contained pledges which ultimately forced Great Britain to withdraw from large tracts of territory which.it had been occupying on the Isthmus." DAB. Sabin 13576n Printed at the Congressional Glove Office unknown books
183319436New-Haven: Published and Sold by A. H. Maltby; Boston: Pierce and Parker 1833. Evident first edition. Wrappers quite foxed; some scattered internal foxing and a little light soiling and wear; a good copy. Original printed yellow wrappers stitched 9.5 x 5.75 inches 24 pages untrimmed. From the Congregationalist clergyman and polemicist gradual emancipationist and advocate of colonization see the ANB an attack on Garrison; per the LCP catalog description "Articles reviewed are William Lloyd GarrisonÃs Thoughts on African colonization; James CropperÃs Letter to Thomas Clarkson; and Abolition of Negro slavery published in American quarterly review September 1832." The edition statement would seem to have been more accurately rendered with a comma "second separate edition" as there appears to be no other edition besides this supposed second separate edition published besides the periodical appearance in the Christian Spectator. Lib. Company. Afro-Americana 759; Dumond page 23; Sabin 2671 & 70214; American Imprints 17489. Published and Sold by A. H. Maltby; Boston: Pierce and Parker, unknown books
1855WRCAM55824New York: American Anti-Slavery Society 1855. 36pp. Gathered signatures stitched as issued. Minor edge wear spotting and soiling. Very good. The scarce second edition of this anti- slavery pamphlet printed in New York by the American Anti-Slavery Society from the same "stereotype plates.without alteration" as the first edition printed in Hartford earlier the same year. The text focuses on an appeal to the American Tract Society to take a more vocal and concerted stand against slavery. The authors of the text accuse the American Tract Society of "suppression" of anti- slavery sentiment by censorship of certain works it publishes that speak against the institution and an overall sin of "studied and persistent ommission" by not itself issuing "a direct condemnation of the most giant iniquity of our land." The text is signed in print at the conclusion by "The Members of the Fourth Congregational Church Hartford Conn." The work was issued as the sixteenth entry in the American Anti-Slavery Society's "Anti-Slavery Tracts." SABIN 30676. American Anti-Slavery Society unknown books
143781771 Newspaper with slavery ad. Boston. 15" by 10." The Almanack lists two advertisements relating to slavery "To be sold for want of employment a likely Negro Boy that won't drink rum he is about 14 years old." An interesting slavery related advertisement which chronicles a dark era in American history. Overall foxing some soiling and small tears. Otherwise very good condition. unknown books
184045421Mobile AL Aug. 10 1840. Autograph letter signed on first and second panels of single bifolium sheet 25.5cm.; approx. 370 words. Previous folds the whole rather wrinkled postally used on rear panel else Very Good. Letter from Jesse Bemis 1808-1843 a Mobile transplant to his brother David of Spencer Worcester Co. Massachusetts where Jesse was born. The author thanks his brother for some fly nets sent him "I have sold about half of them at some profit" later noting that "they are not only worn on horses but they are used to spread over the cradles of the Negro Children as a screen the Negro women also wear them to Church & on dressy occasions. I hope the Abolition Missionarys wont find it out before I can dispose of all that I have for frear that they will glut the market." Bemis goes on to describe the election of 1840 "the tightes sic election in the State that ever was it took place the 3d of this month in this County we elected the whig ticket throughout" and goes so far to mention that "The women say out with Van Buren & give us the credit system." Indeed the women had their way as Van Buren lost to Harrison in large part thanks to the efforts of the Whig Party. unknown books
18179350WashingtonCity 1817. First Edition. 5 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Some foxing. First Edition. 5 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of the government's reply to the request of a group of Virginia planters for a "colony" to essentially rid them of the problem of "free coloured people." In December of 1816 a group of Virginia planters approached the government with a request asking for a location where freed blacks might be sent. In January this "memorial" was presented and in February it was answered with this "Report." This reply discusses location etc. In the end the government officially refused to have anything to do with the plan - thus the American Colonization Society was born. For a detailed account of these events see Dumond Anti-Slavery pp. 126-127. S&S 42738 2 copies unknown books
1831WRCAM40189Washington 1831. xxv1357pp. plus one folding map. Original cream printed wrappers. Minor chipping to head and foot of spine. Contemporary ownership inscription on front cover. Titlepage foxed light tanning to some leaves else clean and bright. Very good. Untrimmed. The Society attempted to alleviate the problem of slavery and degradation of free blacks by establishing a colony for them outside the United States preferably in Africa thereby "separating them WITH THEIR OWN CONSENT from the white race." The Society established the colony of Liberia in 1822 assisting African Americans to resettle there. The colony continued to grow for the next twenty years and Liberia declared itself an independent state in 1847. The folding map shows the colony of Liberia. This copy belonged to the Rev. Leonard Worcester of Peacham Vt. Worcester was a member of the Auxiliary Colonization Society of the State of Vermont. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. A nice association copy. unknown books
1833WRCAM11280Washington 1833. xxii240pp. Original printed wrappers rear wrap lacking. Quite heavily foxed some old creases else good. The Society attempted to alleviate the problem of slavery and degradation of free blacks by establishing a colony for them outside the United States preferably in Africa thereby "separating them WITH THEIR OWN CONSENT from the white race." The Society established the colony of Liberia in 1822 assisting African Americans to resettle there. The colony continued to grow for the next twenty years and Liberia declared itself an independent state in 1847. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. unknown books
1823WRCAM40185Washington City 1823. 711pp. Original blue-green wrappers. Minor chipping to head of spine. Some scattered foxing. Near fine. Untrimmed and unopened. The Society attempted to alleviate the problem of slavery and degradation of free blacks by establishing a colony for them outside the United States preferably in Africa thereby "separating them WITH THEIR OWN CONSENT from the white race." The Society established the colony of Liberia in 1822 assisting African-Americans to resettle there. The colony continued to grow for the next twenty years and Liberia declared itself an independent state in 1847. SHOEMAKER 11596. unknown books
183828115Philadelphia: Joseph Healy; Boston: Weeks Jordan; New York: John S. Taylor 1838 1838. First edition. BAL 21710 binding A; American Imprints 53638. Edges a little rubbed; light foxing; very good copy. 12mo original floral patterned blue-green cloth gilt lettering on the upper board. ¶ An early and substantial collection of over 50 poems by John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1891. The first part contains 24 of his memorable abolitionist poems collected for the first time with his approval. In 1837 Isaac Knapp of Boston published Whittier's Poems Written During the Progress of Abolition Question but it was issued without Whittier's permission and according to the poet was riddled with errors. Lending library label of the Suffolk Lyceum Library with their rules on the front paste-down. On the front free endpaper is an intriguing faint pencil inscription to a "Mrs. Mary Lincoln / a present from / Mr. Lincoln / March 10th 1845." Extensive research on this has led . . . nowhere. <br/><br/> Philadelphia: Joseph Healy; Boston: Weeks, Jordan; New York: John S. Taylor, 1838 unknown books
186536346Philadelphia Lancaster PA and elsewhere: Magee Philadelphia Zahm Lancaster and three others 1865. Five postal covers all in Very Good condition:<br/> a. "The latest Contraband of War." A working slave stands confidently: "Whar is Massa Jeff now dat's what's de matter."<br/>Weiss C-BL-16.<br/> b. "Him fader's hope / Him moder's joy / Him darling little / Contraband Boy." A white man holds a little black baby.<br/>Weiss C-BL-11.<br/> c. A medicine bottle labeled "Black Drop" with the head of a Negro at its top: "A popular medicine used by the C.S.A. aristocracy that cannot be obtained in any Northern apothecary shop being com-POUND-ed exclusively on the sacred soil." italics instead of caps in the original. "S.H. Zahm & Co. Publishers Lancaster Pa." <br/>Weiss C-BL-12.<br/> d. A black man polishes boots in a house. Referring to Ben Butler's capture of New Orleans he says "By golly Massa Butler I like dis better dan workin' in de field for ole Sesesh massa." <br/>Weiss C-BL-59.<br/> e. "A member of Jim Francis' Philadelphia Dog Detective Gards has Jeff in a tight place." A black man holding some twigs looks down at a dog with collar labeled "Jeff." An observing donkey says "Jeff has the feelings of a prince of wails." Published by Magee 316 Chestnut Street Philadelphia.<br/>Weiss C-BL-35. Magee [Philadelphia], Zahm [Lancaster], and three others unknown books