![Item #24996 The Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend, [Series 5] Vols. 19-24 (Apr. 1929...](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/24996.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650399091)
London: 1929-1935. Hardcover. Bound volume (library buckram). 24cm. Ex lib. (Ginn Library at World Peace Foundation) Includes less than a handful of articles on race relations in the United States; most of the this periodical's focus is on slavery and human rights issues elsewhere - Hong Kong, Malaysia, Kenya, Ethiopia..... More
![Item #91142 The Balance and Columbian Repository, [Vol. I], No. 26 (June 29, 1802](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/91142.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678311683)
Hudson, N.Y. Sampson, Chittenden & Croswell, 1802. An 8-page weekly newspaper (pages 201-208). Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 29cm. Later horizontal fold. Leaves separating at fold. Includes this brief note on page 206: "Authentic intelligence is received, via Norfolk, that the negroes in Hartford [probably Hertford?] County, N. C...... More
Boston: David Hale, n.d. (1817?). American edition of this Anglican publication. Hardcover. index, 890p. Original paper-covered boards. 24 cm. Backstrip chipped at ends. Front joint splitting at top. Ex. lib. (Ministerial Library Wilton bookplate overstamped with Andover-Harvard Theological Library "discard" stamp. Name stamp of a more recent owner on verso..... More
![Item #91585 [Colonial Document] Tailor's Bill [Bearskin Coats for a Slave](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/91585.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684959123)
(ca. 1763). Handwritten bill, receipted on back as paid in full Jan., 1764. 21 x 14 cm. James Young details 15 bits of tailoring or clothers making done for Grant Gibbon between Nov. 1760 and March 1762. The total bill appears to have been 5 pounds, 17 shillings, 5 pence..... More
Frederick, Maryland: 1808. Folded four-page newspaper. 29 x 46 cm. Later horizontal fold. Modest chipping and wear along edge of right margin. A few dark (ink?) spots obscuring a few letters on first two pages. We bought this because of the advertisements on the fourth page. Among those advertisements are..... More
Concord, New Hampshire: (1846)q. 4p. newspaper. 49 x 34 cm. A few later folds. Foxing, soiling and other wear, including some splitting along folds. A reasonably decent copy of a rather scarce weekly newspaper supportive of abolition and edited by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, who was only 52 when he died..... More
n.p. n.d. [1848]. 1st ed. Paperback. 16p. Tied wrapper. 23 cm. Stain in upper right corner. Dog-earing and modest wrinkling. Back page heavily browned; others pages much less browned. Van Buren's temporary emergence as a committed anti-slavery advocate in 1848 garnered about 10% of the national vote but he soon..... More
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839. 1st ed. Hardcover. 214p. Original cloth. 19 cm. Modest corner crease on front cover. Significant foxing throughout, and quite heavy on many leaves including the title-leaf. A former owner's pencil signature ("R. J. Haldeman") in pencil on front free endpaper and the half-title. Evidence..... More
New London: New London County Historical Society, Inc., n.d. Reprint. Paperback. (24)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Late 20th century reprint of the 1897 revised edition published in Middletown, Connecticut. More
London: Printed for The Anti-Slavery Society; and Sold by Hatchard and Son; and J. and A. Arch, 1826. Paperback. 49p. Softcover pamphlet. Stitched. No separate wrapper. 23 cm. Partially unopened. "Drawn from the Papers printed for the House of Commons, prior to the 10th of April, 1826." [printed statement on..... More
New York: Negro Universities Press, (1969). Hardcover. xxxix, 248p. 22cm. No jacket. Reprint of the 1823 edition. More
London: HMSO (Printed by George E. B. Eyre and William Spottiswoode), 1882. Paperback. 52p. No separate wrapper present. 34cm. Modest chipping and wear. Browning around edges. Later stitching. 1878 death of a slave girl in Onitsha (Nigeria) after W. F. John, her master, beat and had her beaten and then..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph R. A. Skerrett, 1826. Paperback. 40p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 21 cm. Moderate vertical crease. Minor foxing. No separate wrapper present. The extracts focus on the state of the slave trade and efforts to restrict or end that trade. More
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838. Paperback. 46p. Original green wrapper. 23cm. Minor foxing. Light vertical crease. INSCRIBED by Allen (as "Geo. Allen") on title-page. Cover title: Mr. Allen's Speech Before the Convention of Ministers of Worcester County, Mass. More
New York: [American Anti-Slavery Society], 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1838. 1st eds. Paperback. 64, 87, 97, and 152p. The first 3 reports are disbound (removed from a bound volume) and the 1835 and 1836 report lacks their original wrappers. The 1838 report has its original yellow wrapper. 21-22 cm. All..... More
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1864. 1st ed. Paperback. 175p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Backstrip chipped and at least partially detached. Ex lib. ("Brookline Public Library" stamp on front cover). Contents sound. This volume contains, as an Appendix at pages 157-176, a "Catalogue of Anti-Slavery Publications in America"..... More
Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1845. Paperback. 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Near Fine copy with splitting and loss along ends of narrow backstrip. The committee concluded that slave-holding Choctaws and Cherokees should be admitted to churches which were under the care of A.B.C.F.M. missionaries. More
![Item #88500 [Invitation to] Anti-Slavery Conference. Anti-Slavery Conference, 1867 : Paris](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/88500.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679526321)
n.p. January, 1867. Four-page leaflet (2nd and 4th pages blank). Later folds, probably for mailing. Minor splitting at end of one fold. Accompanied by a modest-sized (14 x 22 cm.) 2-page holograph letter dated 17th January 1867 and written by L. A. Chamerovzow, Secretary of the Sub-Committee of the British..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, (c. 1943). Hardcover. index, 409p. Original green cloth. 22 cm. Minor cover wear. No jacket. SIGNED by Aptheker on the front free endpaper. An important book by this Marxist historian. More
New York: Columbia University Press, (c. 1943). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, 409p. Original green cloth. 22 cm. Ex lib. (Kentucky Wesleyan College). Library markings are a white call number on backstrip and a library label overstamped library label inside front cover. Cloth worn away at both ends of backstrip. Internally..... More
London: A. W. Bennett; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1859. Hardcover. frontis, xv, 144p. Original cloth. 18 cm. Backstrip faded. Modest splitting at head of joints. Front endpaper neatly split at hinge. Almost entirely unopened. Revision of Vaux's "Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet" originally published in 1817. The Indian medal pictured..... More
New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1833. Second Separate edition [so stated]. Paperback. 24p. Pamphlet. 23 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Foxing (fairly heavy on title-leaf, light elsewhere). Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. No separate wrapper present. Bacon was one of the leading lights..... More
Pasadena, Calif. Printed by House of Printing, (c. 1969). Presumed 1st ed. Paperback. photos, map, [8], 80, [1]p. Softcover in original gray wrapper. 25 cm. Modest cover fading. Internally sound and clean. Banks, a white Southerner, was born south of Hernando, Mississippi. Her father was a physician who also had..... More
Single sheet 17 x 18 cm. which was recently framed under glass (32 x 30 cm. as framed) Old and very visible tape mark on both sides of an old vertical fold on the document. An old dampstain covers most of the document but does not affect readability. Document dated..... More
Sale on behalf of I. S. Quarle [?] by Pulham & Davis to Moore & Mitchell. Check-sized, partly-printed broadside slip specifically printed for the sale of slaves. Approximately 21 x 8 cm. Old vertical and horizontal folds. Some browning along folds. Handwritten on back: "We assign the within Negro to..... More
