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1836WRCAM46520Pittsburgh: Alexander Jaynes 1836. 36pp. Dbd. Light foxing and toning contemporary pencil notations. About very good. A discourse given on the great evils of slavery and the polarization it is causing among the northern and southern states. Relatively scarce though the titlepage indicates that it was printed "For Gratuitous Distribution." Alexander Jaynes unknown books
12584Group of two partly-printed tax receiptstwo receipts collected by Sheriff Farrar of Mecklenburg County and Aylor Sheriff of Madison. Both receipts are dated 1861. 1 is for "Slaves and money $6.80" and "War Tax of $1.36." Dated August 23 1861 and signed by Sheriff Farrar. The other is signed by Sheriff Aylor. In excellent condition. A nice group of slave tax receipts. 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
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
184537320Havana 1845. Each document 8-1/2" x 12-1/2" entirely in ink manuscript with decorative official printed ornamentation at head of each and signature "O'Donnell" in the left margins. Some toning and a few holes not affecting text. Good. <br/><br/> Leopoldo O'Donnell y Jorris 1st Duke of Tetuán 1809-1867 was a Spaniard of Irish ancestry from Tenerife. He went to Cuba as Captain General in 1843 and later served three separate stints as prime minister of Spain. He approved each of these requests for travel. The named Cuban Slaves are of "Lucumi" ancestry originally from the Yoruba tribes of Benin and Nigeria. The documents all dated in October 1845 refer to the slaves Joaquin Garcia de Angarica and Florentino Armenteroy Regidor.<br/> These requests were made to transfer the slave from one hacienda to another for work purposes the terms of work engagement frequently stated here. unknown books
37208Each document a single manuscript page 8-1/2" x 12-1/2." Each with official stamp one also has a decorative illustrated green stamp at the head. Light wear and toning Good.<br/><br/> Each document names the slaveholder and the enslaved person granted "libertad" and the cost in escudos or pesetas of that liberty. The slaves liberated here are Saturnia "morenita criolla" age 14; Gabriela "esclava mulata" age 15; and Dolores "parda criolla" age 16. 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
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
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
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
1852100540<p>Letterpress braodsheet 10 3/4 x 6 1/4 text on both sides. Margins trimmed on both sides a little uneven on the left side close to words on reverse but not affecting text a few small stains in text. Indiana was for many years a site of refuge for escaping slaves. With this joint resolution the document declares that the only real way to do away with the injustice of slavery was to advocate emigration and colonialization of Africa.</p> 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
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
186539270Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery 1865. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. 16pp. With the author's compliments. Disbound.<br/> <br/>This address was given to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Dartmouth College on July 19 1865 by Alpheus Crosby. In it Crosby details the dangers of a divided country with headings titled "Our National Debt" "Increase of Southern Power in Congress" "Natural Antipathy between the Races" and "Danger in Case of Foreign War." Alpheus Crosby was a scholar and professor of mathematics and Greek. He entered Dartmouth at the young age of 13 where he was a leading scholar and tutor to fellow students. He was involved in abolition editing an abolitionist journal during the Civil War and writing on the reconstruction of the South. Following the war he edited a series of textbooks aimed at the recently freed slaves.<br/> <br/>Sabin 17626. Geo. C. Rand & Avery unknown books
184137610Boston: J.A. Collins 1841. Original printed and illustrated green wrappers ink stain along half the front wrapper's blank inner margin with engraving of Lady Liberty surrounded by slaves and freedom-loving white people. Stitched. 36pp. Title page and text illustrations. Lightly foxed. Very Good. <br/><br/> A scarce Almanac also appearing with a publication date of 1840. The Almanac is noteworthy for its excellent content on the Amistad incident including portraits of Cinque and others. <br/> "Things for Abolitionists to Do" recommends working to establish schools for free children of color. Also included are "Hints to Anti-Slavery Debaters;" an "Ecclesiastical Roll of Infamy" listing northern clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church who voted for a resolution prohibiting "colored persons to give testimony against white persons;" and a "Congressional Roll of Infamy" of Northern congressmen who voted for the Gag Rule prohibiting Congress from entertaining petitions to abolish slavery in Washington D.C. As to the presidential campaign the authors say "President Van Buren and General Harrison have both publicly taken the side of the oppressor against the oppressed and the God of the oppressed. Both of them glory in it." <br/>Dumond 83 this imprint. Drake 4222. J.A. Collins unknown books
1863101890Letterpress broadside 18 7/8" x 11 3/4" bold black type for highlighted words. Paper evenly toned some wrinkling considerable archival conservation and restoration with archival paper repair; despite the imperfections it is still a decent copy with a nice impression. This appears to fall into the political dirty tricks department in an election between John Brodhead and Henry Bumm for city treasurer in Philadelphia. The broadside is supposed to highlight a letter from John Brodhead to Jefferson Davis in 1860. It has strong racist overtones as Brodhead supposedly requests a position in Nicaragua so he can "help open it up to civilization and Niggers." He goes on to state he is "tired of being a white slave at the North and long for a home in the sunny South." These kinds of political tricks were not uncommon during the Civil War period perhaps that's still true today and the racist overtones would certainly not help one's chances in a Northern election. 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
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
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
196942016NY: Negro Universities Press 1969. Reprint of the 1861 edition. 8vo pp. 337. Appendix index. Top edge spotted o/w a VG tight copy. Negro Universities Press unknown books
198115264Princeton: Princeton University Press 1981. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 262pp; Removed from a non-circulating private library with ink ownership markings to front flyleaf and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession on front endpaper. Very mild rubbing to jacket; else clean and unmarked copy. Princeton University Press 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
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
182719400Mount Vernon Alabama April 20 '27 i.e. 1827. Separating at spots along old folds; some staining browning and light soiling; in good condition legible. One page on a lined bifolium 9.75 x 7.75 inches approx. 250 words. A prelude to flush times in Alabama and representative bit of evidence of the growth of the internal slave trade from the soon-to-be commander of the Mount Vernon Arsenal authorized by Congress in May 1828. Harding appears to have had roots in Montgomery County Maryland; this letter includes references to inheritance complications and to Maria's recent misfortunes: "I recd. a letter some days ago from Mr. R. Burdine communicating the disturbing intelligence at the loss of yr. house & effects by fire and by this days post I enclose here a draft on the Bank of the Metropolis for $100 for yr. benefit. ñ this amount althoà small is all I can well afford ñ I have four children to educate who are at very expensive schools and their Mother is now abroad in Pennsylvania superintending their education. . . . I think those who have surreptitiously obtained possession of your Grandfathers property ought to contribute liberally to yr. relief. ñ From that estate you know I have nothing but 5 Negroes the land left me by my father and which I shall ever believe my children were swindled out of. I have long since abandoned the idea of ever being able to recover." Harding notes further "I suppose you are aware my brother H. purchased for me last fall Old Sall and her daughter who joined me in December last. They with the rest of the Negroes are around me & doing well." Maria Queen appears in public records petitioning for compensation in May 1862 for the emancipation of the enslaved Ellen Hanson freed under the Washington D. C. compensated emancipation act: "Said Ellen was given to Me at the age of Ten years by My Grand father Edward Harding of Montgomery County Md Said Ellen has been in my immediate service ever since." Franked by Harding as the postmaster of Mount Vernon. With a preliminary transcript. April 20, '27, [i.e.,] unknown books
185027010Washington: Gideon & Co. Print 1850. 1st separate. INSCRIBED by Ashmun in the top margin. Self wrappers. Gd outer leaves soiled/some staining. 16 pp. Unopened. 8vo. <br/><br/>Not in Dumond. Gideon & Co., Print unknown books
