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194225070London: Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society 1942. First Edition. Octavo 24.5cm.; staplebound self-wrappers; 53-66pp. Dust-soiling edge wear from handling with very shallow separation at spine crown; about Very Good. Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society unknown books
191795392London: Hodder & Stoughton 1917. Pamphlet. 8p. 4.75x7.25 inches very good in original stapled wraps. A call to denounce the actions of Germany in Belgium and the north of France during World War One where the Germans deported large numbers of Belgians and French to slave-labor sites in Germany. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
17680Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Rare pair of Anti-Slavery tokens produced for the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade established by Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson in 1787. The first shows the society's emblem of a chained African man naked and kneeling "Am I not a Man and a Brother" around the perimeter on obverse "May Slavery & Oppression Cease Throughout the World" around the perimeter and clasped hands in print formats generally one is black and one white in the center on reverse. The other example shows a kneeling woman and "Am I not a Woman & a Sister" 1838" on obverse "United States of America" with backwards "N" olive wreath with "Liberty / 1838" in center on reverse. These were commissioned by the American Anti-Slavery society to evoke pity for enslaved women as well as to foster equal rights for women.  Bronze. Diam. 1 5/16 inches 30 mm.  First somewhat worn and the "Sister" is slightly worn on recto just a few high points and the date below "Liberty" on the verso; the "Brother" with a loss on the recto. Not formally "graded" but overall very good.<br>Josiah Wedgewood 1730-1795 a dedicated abolitionist and close friend of Thomas Clarkson designed the "logo" of the kneeling slave for the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1787. This was taken up by the American abolitionists and in 1835 Patrick Reason a young black engraver created a version of a kneeling woman that bore the caption "Am I not a Woman and a Sister" This image together with that of the infamous slave ship's hold are without question the most iconic of the anti-slavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic. unknown books
18379Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An English tobacco box bearing the kneeling slave iconography of the abolitionist movement dating to the mid-19th Century. Height 4 x width 3.75 x depth 5.5 inches 10 x 9.5 x 14 cm. Oxidation and pitting from age handle is old but may not be original to the box else fine.<br style="">Josiah Wedgewood 1730-1795 a dedicated abolitionist and close friend of Thomas Clarkson designed the "logo" of the kneeling slave for the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1787. This was taken up by the American abolitionists and in 1835 Patrick Reason a young black engraver created a version of a kneeling woman that bore the caption "Am I not a Woman and a Sister" This image together with that of the infamous slave ship's hold are without question the most iconic of the anti-slavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic. unknown books
185327110Washington: C. Alexander Printer 1853. 1st thus Dumond p. 13. Disbound lacking wrappers. Overall VG occasional spot of foxing. 36 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> C. Alexander, Printer unknown books
183612488New York September 1836. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Folio. 4 pp printed in four columns per page. Tears around edges creased and with significant toning to the upper front half and extensive foxing throughout. <br><br><br />This rare monthly an organ of the American Anti-Slavery Society began in July 1835 and ended with the February 1839 issue. Among other interesting features the present issue prints a "Form of a Petition for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia. To The Congress of the United States." Not in Lomazow Mott Sabin. OCLC records copies from all the other years but no copies of this issue. <br><br><br />While there was opposition to slavery in the nation's capital the greater forces against slavery came from the outside through newspapers and petitions. Many petitioned Congress to end slavery in the nation's capital and the organizing efforts in the District included the Washington Abolition Society which was organized in 1827. But the opposition to ending slavery and the slave trade in the District was such a contested issue that a gag rule instituted in 1836 prohibited a discussion of slavery on the floor of Congress. Though Abolitionists including John Quincy Adams vehemently opposed the gag rule standard-bearers of slavery in the District fought tirelessly for it. Eventually in 1848 the House of Representative passed a resolution to prohibit the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Although the resolution did not gain enough traction to end the slave trade in the District it played an influential role in the congressional debates over slavery and the slave trade. The Compromise of 1850 admitted California in the Union as a free state; the former Mexican territories were admitted as part slaveholding states and part free soilers states; and the slave trade in the District of Columbia was abolished. The 1850 Compromise provided the necessary momentum for the enactment of the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act of April 16 1862 that abolished slavery in the Nation's Capital. unknown books
D16245London: Printed for Harvey and Darton Gracechurch-Street. 1827. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 185 x 115mm. Pagination: xi 88pp. Signatures: 4-b2 B-D12 E8. Title page with four-line excerpt of poem The Negroes Complaint by William Cowper written in 1788 and printed in an English anti-slavery pamphlet: Fleecy looks and black complexion Cannot forfeit natures claim: Skins may differ but affection Dwells in white and black the same. Contemporary possibly original boards backed with modern cloth edges uncut; title with loss at top some light marginal staining mostly at front and rear leaves and to covers; otherwise good. <br/><br/>Anonymously published signed only A lover of Africa the Anecdotes of Africans expressed the human identity of African slaves through a selection of stories and travels which largely related to the slavery at the Cape of Good Hope. Throughout the late 18th and early 19th-centuries an increasingly vocal anti-slavery sentiment rippled through both sides of the Atlantic. Authors who published anti-slavery works - hymns poems and anecdotes - believed that by arousing the feelings of human fellowship they could win the argument for racial equality. This book is exceedingly rare OCLC locates scarce print copies at Drew University Library Haverford College Library and the source library for widely held digitized copies is Goldsmiths Library University of London. See Goldsmiths-Kress Library of Economic Literature no. 25379. Printed for Harvey and Darton hardcover 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
46418Liverpool: 1843. Quarto sheet folded once to make 4pp. Signed in three places "Emily Taylor"; marked "Private;" and "for Mrs. Chapman." Mild cover soil; small loss at right margin from opening; slight fading to ink. Very Good. Includes brief introductory followed by an anti-slavery poem of 67 lines "For the Liberty Bell" submitted for publication in the American gift annual of that name. Numerous ink corrections to the text in the author's hand. English poet and hymnist Emily Taylor 1795-1872 was the author of more than twenty books including the book-length anti-slavery poem The Vision of Las Casas 1825. Though best-known as an author of historical works for children she was also a prolific hymnist contributing more than a dozen works to various Unitarian hymnals in the first decades of the 19th century possibly providing her connection to Follen also a well-known hymnist. The present letter is addressed to the prominent abolitionist author Eliza Lee Follen of Boston and opens: "My dear Madam Our mutual friend Harriet Martineau assures me of a kind reception from you and accordingly I transcribe for you a few lines written immediately on reading your Liberty Bell for 1843. If you are to enroll my name among those which I hold so holy & dear as your contributors in the Abolition cause please to accept them." The substantial 67-line poem which follows begins with the prologue: "To a friend who asked the author's aid and prayers for the slave;" and continues: "Pity & prayers and pleading for the Slaves! / Them thou didst ask and soon as ask'd I gave." The poem goes on to extend the by-then familiar argument that the institution of slavery makes slaves not only of its subjects but of its perpetrators as well. Taylor concludes as a postscript on the final leaf: "Would you dear Mrs. Follen forward the enclosed to Mrs. Chapman Maria Weston Chapman editor of The Liberty Bell .I am sorry but do not know Mrs. C's address." <br/><br/>The poem was in fact published without revisions as "To A Friend" in the 1844 edition of Chapman's important anti-slavery gift annual The Liberty Bell; other contributors to this edition included James Russell Lowell Lydia Maria Child Harriet Martineau Amasa Walker William Llloyd Garrison and others. The recipient of the letter Eliza Lee Cabot Follen was herself a prominent and prolific abolitionist author scion of the Cabots of Boston and part of the Boston social circle that included William Ellery Channing Henry Ware George Ticknor and other patrician intellectuals of the period. An excellent and representative letter and manuscript involving three key women figures in the abolitionist movement during a particularly heady period for the cause. unknown books
18361691Boston: Isaac Knapp 1836. About very good. xvi13-238pp. 12mo. Original publisher's blue boards with black sheep spine gilt. Boards rubbed corners and spine moderately worn. Text lightly foxed. Scarce work addressing the anti-slavery work of George Thompson following his visit to America. Thompson 1804-1878 was British lecturer and reformer who worked as a commercial clerk.<br/><br/>"Thompson first came to prominence in 1831 when he was recruited by the London Anti-Slavery Society's Agency Committee as an itinerant lecturer. In the run up to the Emancipation Act of 1833 he became the most effective British anti-slavery lecturer since Thomas Clarkson. With the struggle against British slavery apparently won Thompson was instrumental in reorienting anti-slavery effort towards the Americas and particularly the United States. . In 1834 he encountered the charismatic American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Recognizing Thompson's talent Garrison invited him to travel to the United States with his growing family to labour there on behalf of the enslaved people of America" - DNB. Thompson employed sarcasm and vitriol in his orations attacking anti-abolitionist sentiment across the northern states. In the process he failed to make very many friends or converts and alienated those with more moderate views.<br/><br/>"Opponents attacked him as a foreign interloper and an anti-American agitator. They also discovered a scandal in Thompson's past alleging that in 1829 he had absconded with £80 embezzled from his employer. His supporters angrily rejected this charge though Thompson later privately admitted it was true he eventually repaid the sum in full. Hostility increasingly turned violent and in fear of his life he was smuggled out of the country in October 1835 returning to a hero's welcome in Britain" - DNB.<br/><br/>This work is a rebuttal made by Thompson's American supporters aggregating information from British sources to defend his good name and abolitionist efforts after fleeing America for his homeland. It includes some of Thompson's speeches on slavery in America given before audiences in Scotland and England and discusses his work with the American Anti-Slavery Society. Though there are a handful of institutional copies the work is scarce on the market and does not appear in auction records over the pasty forty years.<br/> Sabin 9324. American Imprints 36449. Isaac Knapp unknown 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
