Charleston: Loring Andrews, 1804. 4p. Newspaper format. 31 x 48 cm. Moderate foxing and some light stains. Ragged along vertical fold but the two leaves are still partially attached. Later horizontal fold. Contains numerous advertisements making it clear just how important slaves and slavery were in the business and prosperity..... 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
![Colonial Document] Tailor's Bill](/pictures/thumb/91585.JPG?v=1631655243)
(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. Total bill appears to have been 5 pounds, 17 shillings, 5 pence. One..... More
London: Edmund Fry, 1835. Hardcover. frontis, viii, 112p. Original brown cloth. 18cm. Lacks backstrip, front and back covers detached. Foxing on frontis. Contents have minor edge-wear, including a few chips and creases. A selection of poetry about the evils of slavery and celebrating its abolition in most of the British..... More
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 142 Nassau Street, n.d. [1848-1855?]. 4p. Softcover leaflet. 23cm. Chipped and ragged along top edge. A couple of other modest closed tears. Printed in corners at top of first page: [Penny Tracts.] [Number 1]. More
Boston: Hiram Cummings, 1845. (4)p. Newspaper. Published weekly. 49cm. x 66cm. Folded three times. Some wear at edges. Light foxing. Inked signature ("J. G. Birney Esq") in upper left margin. An abolitionist weekly published in Boston. Birney opposed slavery. He tried to publish an abolitionist newspaper in Cincinnati and worked..... 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. 23cm. 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 returned..... More
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839. 1st ed. Hardcover. 214p. Original cloth. 19cm. Modest corner crease. Significant foxing, especially on some pages including the title-leaf. The anonymous author of this book favored colonization in Africa. More
Boston: Published at 25 Cornhill [by John A. Collins], 1842. Paperback. pp. 98 - 128p. Original yellow wrapper. 19cm. Modest cover wear. Pages slightly browned. Short-lived abolitionist periodical. Collins, the editor/publisher, had served as general agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and had been involved in persuading Frederick Douglass to..... More
New London: New London County Historical Society, Inc., n.d. Reprint. Paperback. (24)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Late 20th century reprint of an earlier edition of this uncommon slave narrative. More
1841. Paperback. 4p. Horizontal fold. 47 x 59cm. Discreet evidence of being disbound (removed from a bound volume). Former owner's name in top margin. Two runaway slave advertisements in lower right corner of third page -- one for a 23 year old woman named Camilla Dent who left her infant..... More
Boston: J. Belcher, Printer, 1813. 1st ed. Paperback. 36p. No separate wrapper present. 21cm. Former owner's name. Moderate foxing and browning. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Generally attributed to Sidney E. Morse, 1794-1871, the brother of Samuel F. Morse, although that would mean that the author was less than..... 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. 23cm. Partially unopened. "Drawn from the Papers printed for the House of Commons, prior to the 10th of April, 1826." [printed statement on title-page]..... More
1846. Autograph broadside notice. 8.5 x 19cm. 7 vertical creases where at some time folded quite small. Tiny tears in the four corners (where tacked). Minor foxing. Some notes on the back in pencil and ink in what appears to be the same handwriting. One states: "Ralph sold to Tho..... More
Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson [at] 88 and 94 West Nile St. n.d. [probably circa 1870 or somewhat later]. Paperback. 71p. plus [8]p. publisher's advertisements. Original printed pictorial wrapper. 17 cm. Later quarterbound slipcase and matching green cloth chemise (by James MacDonald Co. of New York City). Modest chipping on cover..... 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
[Lexington, Ky.]: n.d. [1845]. Paperback. 7p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume. No separate wrapper present. 19cm. Author not identified. The first paragraph identifies this as having been first published in the True American, the anti-slavery newspaper edited and published by Cassius Marcellus Clay in Lexington, Kentucky. It goes on..... More
Boston: T. R. Marvin and B. B. Mussey & Co., 1854. Hardcover. 214p. Original blind stamped brown cloth. 18cm. Lacks front free endpaper and the following blank leaf. Ends of backstrip rubbed. Stain on lower right corner of final (blank) leaf. Adams, a Congregational minister in Boston, defended slavery and..... More
1814. Paperback. Holograph broadside document. 25cm. Some staining and fading but still readable. No location given. Reference is made to a separate document of the same date by which Beckwith purchased Dick from Charles Shaw and Robert McDonnell. Beckwith promises that until Dick is set free, Beckwith will provide for..... More
Boston: Wm. Crosby & H.P. Nichols, 1847. Paperback. 40p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Some cover soil. Short tear at top of front cover. 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
![First, Second, Third and Fifth] Annual Report[s] of the American Anti-Slavery Society. American...](/pictures/thumb/85778.JPG?v=1550500247)
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. 21-22cm. All 4..... More
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1864. 1st ed. Paperback. 1175p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. 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" compiled..... More
