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
Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1857. Hardcover. frontis, plate, 135p. plus 6p. publisher's adverts. Original cloth. 15cm. Cover rubbed. Extremities frayed. Scattered foxing. Abolitionist story first published in 1856. The author is identified, indirectly, in the Preface as having the initials M. A. F. She appears to have... 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
Paperback. Undated mid-19th century document listing 32 slaves bought and sold by Mr. Henry. Listing Name of slave, cost, sales price, and profit. No location given. One and one-half pages on a large single sheet which had been folded to form four pages. 32cm. Three horizontal folds. Written in a.... 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
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
![New States, or, A Comparison of the Wealth, Strength, and Population of the Northern and Southern States, as also of Their Respective Powers in Congress: with a View to Expose the Injustice of Erecting New States at the South. [cover title]](/pictures/thumb/75967.JPG?v=1488549336)
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
![Slave for Sale: Persuant to an Interlocutory Decree of the Circuit Court of Henry County [Tennessee] Made in the Cause in Said Court of Thomas P. Jernigan & wife et al Ex parte, I will offer for Sale at the Court House door in the Town of Paris on Monday the 6th day of July 1846 to the highest bidder for ready money one negro boy Slave named Ralph about 14 years of age June the 12th 1846 B. L. Brown Commr.](/pictures/thumb/59214.jpg?v=1488546250)
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
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
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: 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
![Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society, at Its Thuird Decade. Held in the City of philadelphia, Dec. 3d and 4th, 1864 [really 1863]. Phonographic Report by Henry M. Parkhurst. American Anti-Slavery Society.](/pictures/thumb/88787.JPG?v=1546987793)
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
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
Washington: 1836. Paperback. [330]-360p. Wrapper. 23cm. Moderate browning and wear on wrapper. Foxing. Name on front. Published monthly. Organization set up to encourage African Americans to emigrate to Liberia. More
Washington: 1833. Paperback. [130]-160p. Wrapper. 23cm. Moderate browning and wear on wrapper. Foxing. Name on front. Published monthly. More
Washington: 1832. Paperback. [194]-224p. Wrappers. 23cm. Moderate browning and wear on wrapper. Foxing. Name on front. Published monthly. More
![[Invitation to] Anti-Slavery Conference. Anti-Slavery Conference, 1867 : Paris.](/pictures/thumb/88500.JPG?v=1541416718)
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
New York: Published for American Institute of Marxist Studies by Humanities Press, (c. 1966). 1st ed. Hardcover. iv, 152p. Cloth. dj. 21cm. Jacket browned. INSCRIBED by Aptheker (as "Herbert"). The appendix reprints "The Confessions of Nat Turner" as written by Thomas Gray who interviewed Turner prior to his execution. More
New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1833. Second Separate edition [so stated]. Paperback. 24p. Pamphlet. 23cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Foxing (moderate on title-leaf, light elsewhere). Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. Bacon was one of the leading lights of Congregationalism during his lifetime. This... More
London: Dawsons of Pall Mal, 1969. Hardcover. folding map, xxxiv, xiii, 319p. Blue cloth. 19cm. Modest cover wear. No Jacket. Reprint of the London edition of 1848 with the addition of a new Introduction by D. H. Simpson and a map of the East Coast of Africa taken from another... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (c. 1990). 1st ed. Hardcover. This Volume Only. frontis, index, xxxvii, 937p. Original blue cloth. dj. 23cm. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, (c. 1978). 2nd Printing. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, indx, ixv, 777p. Original linen cloth. dj. 23cm. Uncommon in hardcover. More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xiv, 439p. Original tan cloth. dj. 23cm. More
