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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
1864106405<p>Single 8vo sized sheet 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" duplicate receipt signature printed and hand written some aging; but very good or better. This receipt is signed by A.M. Kennedy for John D. Kennedy. Printed and Handwritten Document Signed. Columbia South Carolina. Jan. 18 1864 "Duplicate Receipt" for $2000 paid by the state to Confederate commander John D. Kennedy as "compensation for his slave named Robert lost by reason of the employment of said slave by the authorities of the Confederate Government upon the military fortification in this State." John Doby Kennedy was born on January 5 1840 in Camden South Carolina the son of a Scots immigrant. John was a student at South Carolina College. He was a wealthy man and reportedly owned 60 slaves. On the day this receipt was issued to his brother 24 year-old John Doby Kennedy was on the battlefield commanding his South Carolina Infantry regiment having fought in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and that year in the Shenandoah Campaigns after which he was given the rank of Brigadier General. Opposing General Sherman's advance until the bitter end he did not surrender until two weeks after Lee met Grant at Appomattox. civilwarintheeast website. </p> books
1858660371858. Dividing Prize Money After the Capture of a Slave Ship Slavery. United States. In the Senate of the United States. February 21 1858-Ordered to Be Printed. Mr. Polk Made the Following Adverse Report To Accompany Bill S. C. of C. 108.: The Committee of Claims To Whom was Referred the Opinion of the Court of Claims in the Case of O.H. Berryman and Others Report: The Claimants in this Case are the Officers and Crew of the United States Schooner "On-Ka-Hy-E" drop-head title. Washington DC: S.n. 1858. 13 pp. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Disbound light rubbing to extremities some toning and light foxing. $100. 35th Congress 1st Session Senate Rep. Com. No. 33. This speech disputes the distribution of prize money between the Federal government and the crew that captured the slave ship Laurens. unknown books
192543939Portland: By the Author / Press of A.E. Kern 1925. Second edition same year as first. Octavo 19cm. Original illustrated wrappers; 127pp. Covers moderately dusted and darkened; a few faint corner-creases to text; Very Good. Written as an expose of the bootlegging and white slavery rackets of Oregon the novel chronicles the fall and rise of an innocent country girl who comes to Portland from the cheese-making village of Tillamook. The author's foreword announces that "Law enforcement is the burning topic of the hour and will continue to be while merchant princes as well as members of the United States Senate Conress public officials apologetic judges and parasitical bootleg attorneys keep stocks of fancy liquors in their homes and serve the same to their friends." Uncommon in commerce; this is a tight attractive copy. OCLC finds 15 locations nearly all in Oregon. By the Author / Press of A.E. Kern unknown books
188814044New York: Metropolitan Pub. Co 1888. First Edition. Octavo 19cm. Publisher's decorated deep mustard cloth stamped in gilt on spine; viii 431pp. First issue per Wright with no printer's statement on verso of title page. Bit of grubbiness to boards; donation bookplate and private ownership stamp to prelims; else a tight unmarked copy on the better side of VG. Thomas Manson Norwood 1830-1913 was a U.S. Senator and later a Democratic Member of the House from Georgia. In this his only novel he assails the trusts the stock market and the unequal distribution of wealth as the source of vice in America. The setting is New York City with much of the action set on Wall Street. WRIGHT III:3999. Metropolitan Pub. Co unknown books
1858WRCAM53597Charleston 1858. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished held together with brass tacks; light chipping and soiling. Paper lightly and evenly toned. Good. Report submitted to the South Carolina Senate which concludes that slavery is essential to the agricultural production of the South. Additionally the committee felt that the slave trade helped relieve Africa from "the pressure of a redundant population as might be afforded by emigration in the only form in which its benefits can be extended to them." unknown books
1833713Winchester Va. 1833. Broadside 4to. 290 x 160 mm. 11 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches.  Printed in two columns signed in type by Charles J. Faulkner at Winchester dated March 8 1833 at conclusion. Lightly dust-soiled pale stain affecting perhaps one-third of the left-hand margin and column of text. Neatly silked on verso. Withal about very good. Following the August 1831 Nat Turner rebellion in Southampton County a last effort was made by moderate Virginians to gradually abolish slavery. Faulkner a 26-year-old lawyer and assemblyman along with Thomas Jefferson Randolph sponsored legislation to free all children born of slave parents after July 4 1840. His speech emphasized the evil of slavery for Southern white labor noting that slavery "converts the energy of the community into indolence--its power into imbecility--its efficiency into weakness.Shall society suffer that the slave-holder may continue to gather his crop of human flesh" As the Assembly was malapportioned in favor of the Tidewater slaveocracy the proposal lost rather narrowly and nearly thirty years later the Confederacy was assured of Virginia's succession. It is perhaps not surprising that Faulkner "comparatively a stranger" to the county but a member of the Virginia House of Delegates at this time 1831-34 was not successful in his campaign to represent Virginia in the U.S. Senate. However Faulkner was elected to three terms in Congress from Virginia in the 1850s. He was elected to Congress from West Virginia after the Civil War. In the interim he served as Minister to France during the Buchanan administration and on the staff of Stonewall Jackson. Dictionary of American Biography.  Not in Hummel. Not found in American Imprints for 1833 and not in the 1830-1839 title index. OCLC records four copies at The Library of Virginia University of Virginia Virginia Historical Society and American Antiquarian Society. unknown books
16453The Light. September-October 1915. La Crosse Wisconsin: World's Purity Federation 1915. The World's Purity Federation focused on fighting public vice such as prostitution and sought to ensure proper morals in society. During the Progressive period reforming public vice was a growing movement that saw victories with the passage of prohibition and other regulations on public decency. Due in part of organziations like the World'd Purity Federation in 1910 the White Slave Trade Act also known as the Mann Act passed in US Congress outlawing the transport of women typically European immigrants across state lines for the purpose of prostitution. Activists continued to meet strategize and organize tactics to ensure that the new legislation would be upheld and expanded. Photo-illustrated portrait of president of Oxford College for Women Jane Sherzer PhD in academic cap and gown. Very good condition. unknown books
191225858New York: The MacMillan Company 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardbound 8vo. 219 pp plus ads at rear of volume. Gentle ex-libris copy with handsome Hartwick College Library illustrated bookplate afixed to thie inside front pastedown and a couple of tiny inked number notations to the copyright page. Otherwise a handsome very good copy. Book discusses the problems associated with "white slavery" and the treatment of young women of lesser means. The MacMillan Company hardcover books
191026265Chicago and Boston: The Christian Witness Company 1910. First edition. Cloth. Good . Cloth-covered ocatvo with color illustration tipped on to the front panel. 418 pp. Illustrated frontis. Written and edited by Rev. F. M. Lehman with slum data furnished by Rev. N. K. Clarkson. With illustrations and a photograph. Covers lightly worn. Pages are somewhat darkened with age. The Christian Witness Company unknown books
190415411Rochester: Office of the American 1904. Broadside extra lithographed in colors; 18" x 11". Single fold else fine. Colorful graphic depicting Princess Louise escaping from her asylum cell with the help of her illegitimate lover Geza Mattattich. The caption tempts readers with a White Slavery theme suggesting that Princess Louise has been lured to her ruin by a "Wolf of the Underworld." Unlocated. Office of the American unknown books
