Abolitionism (14 results)
The Human Tradition in the American Revolution (The Human Tradition in America)
Rhoden, Nancy L. [Editor]; Steele, Ian K. [Editor]; Aron, Stephen [Contributor]; Cashin, Edward J. [Contributor]; Grimsted, David [Contributor]; Hewitt, Gary L. [Contributor]; Hirsch, Alison Duncan [Contributor]; Hoffman, Phillip W. [Contributor]; Humphrey, Thomas J. [Contributor]; Jackson author of Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet Father of Atlantic Abolitionism, Maurice [Contributor]; Leung, Michelle [Contributor]; McKenna, Katherine M. J. [Contributor]; Nash, Gary B. [Contributor]; Parmenter, Jon W. [Contributor]; Sainsbury, John [Contributor]; Shy, John [Contributor]; Skemp, Sheila [Contributor]; Vickers, Daniel [Contributor];
Language: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000
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Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
Published by Seeley, Burnside, & Seeley, London, 1843. (xii), 563 pages. 5pp adverts., 1843
- Hardcover
Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Bergambacht, NetherlandsAntiquariaat Hortus Conclusus
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Add to basketOriginal decorative giltlettered cloth. Spine ends a bit damaged, first flyleaf cut out, contents foxed, else good. Please see description or ask for photos.
Published by John Campbell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1863
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerA short booklet by William H. Winder (18081879), son of the Brigadier General and Baltimore lawyer of the same name, concerning his 1861 arrest and imprisonment for treason for his opposition to the Civil War. Winder attributes his arrest to his correspondences with Secretary of State William H. Seward and Secretary of War Simon… Cameron. In his letters, Winder laid out his case that not only would a war spell the end of any union between North and South, but that an agreement between the two would be easy to reach. Winder was imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, where the "abominable treatment of prisoners [.] is too well known to require any notice in this statement" (23), and then at Fort Warren. He was released in 1862 after fifteen months. Secrets reproduces Winder's correspondence alongside his editorializing: that he was falsely arrested under the Secretary of State's name without the Secretary's knowledge, that he was denied his Constitutional rights, and especially that the Republican government's "corruption and imbecility" in its suppression of opposition to the war amounted to "terrorism" (vii). OCLC locates twenty copies of the second edition. Overall excellent to Near Fine. Second edition. 8vo, paper wraps, 64pp. Wraps with wear to edges, library stamps, and some manuscript notes; contents excellent to Near Fine.
More imagesThe Report and Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Providence Anti-Slavery Society. [Incomplete Copy]
[Abolitionism American Anti-Slavery Society] Providence Anti-Slavery Society; Garrison, William Lloyd
Published by H.H. Brown, Providence, Rhode Island, 1833
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerA short booklet reproducing a series of abolitionist principles attributed to the Providence Anti-Slavery Society alongside William Lloyd Garrison's Declaration of Sentiments from the 1833 convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia. This section presents the case against enslavement and responses to common o…bjections to abolitionism, such as the fact that the "Government recognizes the slaves as the property of the slaveholders" and the claim that "The language of the Abolitionists [is] too severe." The group states that its aim is to persuade the slaveholding states of the "unparallelled iniquity" of enslavement by publishing about it "throughout the land, and press[ing] it home upon the consciences of our countrymen"in other words, the Society held a moderate, non-violent position on emancipation, which would grow less popular as it proved unsuccessful. The Providence society would become part of Garrison's New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1836. OCLC 23243511. Quite foxed with some damage to edges; fair condition. Lacking wraps. [12pp] booklet measuring 5 x 8 inches.
More imagesPublished by Glasgow, Kentucky W.S. Brown 1852, 1852
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Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.Buddenbrooks, Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerEarly edition, being a reprint of the 1851 Louisville edition. Each page printed within a decorative chain-line frame, the stereotyped title-page makes reference to engravings but none are called for in this edition. Tall 8vo, in the publisher's original brown cloth, the covers with decorative embossing retaining the emblem of t…he Louisville publishers in blind, the spine lettered in gilt and with flat bands ruled in blind, powder-blue endpapers. xiii, 569, 8, [8 ads] pp. A sound copy, the text-block well preserved and complete, a bit of expected age toning to the paper and light foxing here and there as usual, the binding with some age-wear but still very sturdy, strong and tight. ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS PRO-SLAVERY BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR. The author stylized himself as "the Rev. Josiah Priest" but was not ordained in any denomination. The present Louisville text evolved from an earlier version titled "Slavery, As It Relates to the Negro, or African Race" published in 1843. It went through numerous editions and title changes during the 1840s and 1850s, reflecting the growing sectional controversy over slavery. The popularity of the work exploded in 1852 as it was viewed as a counter-argument to Stowe's pro-abolitionist epic, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. The work's central claim is that slavery is fully sanctioned and approved of by the Bible. Among his arguments are: people of African descent were descendants of Ham, and therefore subject to a divine curse; the racial differences were ordained by God; that slavery was beneficial or natural for Black people; and that abolitionism was a dangerous fanaticism threatening the social order and status quo. Although repugnant to many modern readers, the book is historically significant because it demonstrates how slavery's defenders tried to answer the growing abolitionist movement. The title also accurately states that the issue of slavery was going to divide the Republic, thus predicting the Civil War.
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Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, IndiaTrue World of Books
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1860 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt band…s. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 38 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 38 De Bow, J. D. B. (James Dunwoody Brownson), 1820-1867,Van Dyke, Henry J. (Henry Jackson), 1822-1891. Character and influence of abolitionism.
More imagesPublished by United States, 1860
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerA copy of Daniel W. Voorhees' speech in defense of John E. Cook during his trial for participating in the Harpers Ferry raid. The speech was printed in a number of newspapers in late 1859 and early 1860; here it was clipped from an unknown publication and pasted into a booklet. Voorhees (18271897) was then US District Attorney f…or Indiana; he would go on to be a US senator and Peace Democrat. Cook (18291859) had been charged with murder, conspiracy, and treason for his role in the raid. Voorhees' strategy was to depict Cookbarely two years younger than Voorhees himself at nearly thirty years oldas a "tender [.] waif" and "beguiled youth", deserving clemency for having been taken in by the "evil" and "loathsome fanaticism" of the older John Brown. Voorhees is sure to note that the "institution of domestic slavery to-day stands before the world more fully justified than ever" and that the enslaved people rejected Brown's band's attempt to free them and instead "turn[ed] eagerly and fondly to the condition assigned [them] by the law [.] which, since the world began down to the present time, has made the inferior subordinate to the superior". Cook was hanged in December of 1859. Stained by paste but legible, booklet with some damage at binding, overall very good. Ten page booklet measuring 5 ½ x 8 inches; article from newspaper pasted in.
More imagesMedal Commemorating the United Kingdom's 1807 Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
[Abolitionism Slave Trade Act 1807 Sierra Leone] Pidgeon, G.F.; Phillip, John
Published by Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1814
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Appears Very Fine. A copper medal commemorating the passage of the United Kingdom's Slave Trade Act 1807, produced for distribution in Sierra Leone. One side depicts a European and an African man shaking hands and reads, "WE ARE ALL BRETHREN" and exergue: "SLAVE TRADE ABOLISHED BY GREAT BRITAIN 1807". The reverse is i…nscribed in Arabic and reads, translated, "Sale of slaves prohibited in 1807, Christian era, in the reign of George the Third; verily we are all brothers." The 1807 act did not abolish slavery, but rather criminalized British participation in the African branch of the slave trade; it was enforced by the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron in the so-called Blockade of Africa. The squadron was based in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, and would bring freed people from intercepted slave ships to the city. Copper medal measuring 1 ½ inches in diameter.
Cabinet Card Portrait of Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney
[Women Abolitionism Suffrage Transcendentalism] [Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale] Warren Studios
Published by "Boston and Cambridgeport, Mass." imprint on verso N.d., Boston, Massachusetts
Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerOval bust portrait in profile, Cheney facing left, hair parted and drawn into a low chignon; wearing a dark dress with decorative buttons and a white lace collar. Born in Boston in 1824, Cheney was closely associated with the Transcendentalist and reform circles of mid-nineteenth century New England. As a young woman she attende…d Margaret Fuller's conversation classes and moved within the intellectual orbit of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, Bronson Alcott, and other Unitarian and reform leaders. A committed abolitionist, she supported antislavery efforts before the Civil War and, during the war, worked with Freedmen's aid organizations, promoting education for formerly enslaved people and assisting Black regiments. Cheney was instrumental in advancing women's professional education in Boston, helping to found the Boston School of Design for Women and supporting the New England Hospital for Women and Children (associated with the Woman's Medical College of Boston). She served as president of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association in 1879 and remained active in organized suffrage work thereafter. A prolific author, she published works on religion, education, and reform, including Life of Louisa M. Alcott (1889), reflecting her long friendship with the Alcott family. A Boston studio portrait of a central figure in nineteenth-century abolitionist, educational, and suffrage networks. We find no other examples of portraits of Cheney at the time of writing, and the last auction record in 2004. Excellent tonal clarity. Excellent. Albumen photograph on mount measuring 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Contemporary pencil identification on verso reading "Mrs E D Cheney.".
Published by Johnson, Song Publisher, Stationer & Printer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1860
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerA scarce early songsheet printing of "John Brown's Body," one of the defining songs of the Union Army and the most famous musical expression of John Brown's transformation into an antislavery martyr. The song apparently emerged among soldiers in Massachusetts soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, with various claims to autho…rship but with the strongest tradition assigning its development to members of the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the Massachusetts Militia. Its melody derived from the camp-meeting hymn usually known by the refrain "Brothers, will you meet us," and the same tune was later used by Julia Ward Howe for "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." This Philadelphia printing, issued by Johnson, Song Publisher, Stationer & Printer, reflects the rapid commercial spread of the song during the conflict. By pairing Brown's body with the refrain "his soul is marching on," the song helped fix Brown in popular Union culture as a martyr whose death continued to animate the antislavery cause. OCLC locates four copies. Foxed with some wrinkling to lower margin; excellent. Single-sided sheet measuring 5 x 8 inches.
More imagesPublished by [Camp Nelson, Kentucky: likely early 1865], 1865
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketAn impassioned letter from the leading Kentucky abolitionist John G. Fee (1816-1901), written near the close of the Civil War and addressing the urgent question of how to govern and support the newly emancipated population. Fee writes to General John McCauley Palmer (1817-1900), military commander of the District of Kentucky. Th…e letter, unfortunately incomplete, was probably written in early 1865, during Fee's time at Camp Nelson. First established as a supply depot and hospital, Camp Nelson became a refuge for thousands of enslaved people fleeing bondage and a major recruitment centre for United States Colored Troops. Fee notes that part of the camp's land had been seized from secessionists: "Twelve hundred acres of the land in this camp did belong to notorious rebels - rebels who made up a rebel company - went out with Bragg. Another twelve hundred belong to copperheads, to say the least of them". Fee outlines his vision for emancipated African Americans in Kentucky, urging policies that would encourage independence and self-reliance: "Now allow me to suggest that this people be made self supporting. this will be a good to them as well as relief to the public crib. It will throw upon them responsibility, stimulate them to industry and cultivate self reliance. May I suggest that it is better to give to them land than bread. Some - the young, crippled and infirm - need an asylum. But many of these soldiers, if an acre or even half acre of ground were given, would put up their own house, and support their own families; at least the families would support themselves. Benevolent societies might & would furnish them teachers, missionaries & some clothing". He warns it "may not be best to congregate these colored people into colonies" and instead wants them attached to the soil "all over the state", rooted in society. Fee also invokes his own upbringing among enslaved people, insisting that African Americans were as capable of moral and religious development as any other people if given sympathetic guidance: "I was raised on a farm, with slaves - know their habits. They are capable of development as other men - morally, religiously, they are very hopeful. The best way to govern them is to teach them to govern themselves". He stresses that those charged with their oversight should be "men who are in religious sympathy with them", not speculators exploiting their labour. Bifolium and single sheet, page size 200 x 126 mm, on United States Christian Commission letterhead, comprising six handwritten pages numbered 5-9 (10 unnumbered); pages 1 to 4 are missing from this letter. Light toning and handling soiling with one small chip not affecting writing: in very good condition.
More imagesPublished by Ellerton and Henderson, London, England, 1823
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerA document produced by the Society for Mitigating and Gradually Abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions, better known as the Anti-Slavery Society. The group was founded in London in 1823 by a group of politicians, philanthropists, and businessmen including William Wilberforce, Joseph Sturge, and Zachary…Macaulay. The document discusses the horrors of enslavementeven unfavorably comparing the British colonies' conditions with those in the USand decries the fact that, after the 1807 Slave Trade Act, essentially nothing more had been done to put "an end to a condition of society which so grievously outrages every feeling of humanity". We find a single copy of the Ellerton and Henderson edition in physical format listed in OCLC as accession number 83930673. Folded with some small wrinkles at edges, else Near Fine. Three page document measuring 8 ½ x 13 ¼ inches.
Published by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp, Boston, Massachusetts, 1861
Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerOffered here is a "phonographic report" (i.e., it includes the audience's reaction) of a speech delivered by abolitionist Wendell Phillips (18111884) to the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston on April 21, 1861. The report was printed in an extra of William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator newspaper. Shortly following the f…irst Battle of Fort Sumter, the speech finds Phillips throwing his full support behind the cause of war. He insists to his audience: "The anti-slavery enterprise to which I belong, started with peace written on its banner. We imagined that the age of bullets was over; that the age of ideas had come; that thirty millions of people were able to stake a great question, and decide it by the conflict of opinions; and, without letting the ship of State founder, lift four millions of men into Liberty and Justice. [.] Our mistake, if any, has been that we counted too much on the intelligence of the masses, on the honesty and wisdom of statesmen as a class. [.] The North thinkscan appreciate argumentis in the nineteenth centuryhardly any struggle left in it but that between the working class and the money kings. The South dreamsit is the thirteenth and fourteenth centurybaron and serfnoble and slave. [.] Our struggle, therefore, is no struggle between different ideas, but between barbarism and civilization. Such can only be settled by arms. (Prolonged cheering.)" We find three copies of this newspaper in OCLC. Of interest to scholars of Phillips' work and of abolitionism, especially Boston abolitionists. [1] "Wendell Phillips Dead: The Last Hours Of One Of The Apostles Of Abolition," The New York Times, February 3, 1884, 1. Folded with small tears at folds and marginal damage; excellent to Near Fine. Single sheet letterpress broadside measuring 18 x 24 ½ inches.
More imagesTwo Photographs of John Brown's Sons Owen and Jason Outside Their Cabins in the San Gabriel Mountains
[Abolitionism - John Brown - Southern California] Rogers, F. H.
Published by Los Angeles, California, 1880
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Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerOwen Brown (1824-1889) and Jason Brown (1823-1912) were two of abolitionist John Brown's twenty children. Owen Brown participated in both the Pottawatomie massacre and the Harpers Ferry raid. Following the unsuccessful raid, he led the party of escapees to Pennsylvania. He lived in Put-in-Bay, Ohio, until 1885, when he joined hi…s brother Jason-who was not involved in his father's activities-in Pasadena. The two lived in poverty in mountain cabins several miles outside the city; offered here are two photographs of the brothers standing outside their cabins. In their time in Pasadena, they were described as eccentric and hermetic, but were liked and respected by those in town. Several obituaries of Owen Brown describe how, witnessing the growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the region, the brothers hired two Chinese men from the area to work for them "for the sake of the principle, although they had no need" of the workers.[1] One of these laborers may be the third man standing behind Jason Brown in the photograph where the brothers are astride donkeys. Of interest to scholars of the Brown family and their legacy. [1] "The Late Owen Brown. The Peculiar Life of the Son of the Abolitionist Ends in California." Indianapolis Journal, January 13, 1889, 8. Wrinkling and marginal tearing with some missing corners. One photograph with tape residue. Very good. Two photographs measuring approximately 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches. Pasadena Historical Society stamps verso. One with manuscript caption verso including ?Mtn Home of John Brown?s Sons Located just south of Brown?s Peak between Millards Cañon + arroyo seco.
