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 about The Commemorative Wreath: in Celebration of the Extinction of Negro Slavery in the British Dominions

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 about The Emancipator and Weekly Chronicle, Vol. X, No. 31 (November 26, 1845

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 about Monthly Offering: To the Contributors and Collectors of the Weekly Contribution Plan. Vol. II,...

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 about National Intelligencer, Vol. XLII, No. 6002 (March 25, 1841

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 about The Progress of Colonial Reform; Being a Brief View of the Real Advance Made Since May 15th,...

New York: Negro Universities Press, (1969). Hardcover. xxxix, 248p. 22cm. No jacket. Reprint of the 1823 edition. More about Substance of the Debate in the House of Commons, on the 15th May, 1823, on a Motion for the...

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 about A South-Side View of Slavery; or, Three Months at the South, in 1854

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 about Resistance to Slavery every Man's Duty. Report on American Slavery, Read to the Worchester...

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 reports have some general soiling and wear. More about First, Second, Third and Fifth] Annual Report[s] of the American Anti-Slavery Society

Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1845. Paperback. 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Cover splitting at base 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 about Report of the Committee on Anti-Slavery Memorials, September, 1845 with a Historical Statement of...

Washington: 1833. Paperback. [130]-160p. Wrapper. 23cm. Moderate browning and wear on wrapper. Foxing. Name on front. Published monthly. More about African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. IX, No. 5 (July, 1833

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... More about Invitation to] Anti-Slavery Conference

Washington: 1966. Paperback. 73p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. Name removed (sanded) from front cover which also has a cople of label remnants.The most important periodical on African American history and culture. It began publication in 1916 and was edited for over thirty years by Carter G. Woodson. The lead... More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. LI, No.1 (January, 1966