Does Slavery Christianize the Negro? Higginson, Thomas Wenthworth. American Anti-Slavery Society. Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 4, circa 1855.New York: American Anti-Slavery Society. Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 4, circa 1855. in original wrappers, 8 pages. 4.75" x 7.5" inches. Higginson was a Unitarian minister and dedicated abolitionist. The text in this tract was.....
Front Page Headline reads "The Bill Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia Passed the House." Newspaper "The Detroit Free Press", April 12, 1862. 19" x 26", 2 pages. Has a blow by blow account of the debate among the members of the House and the various amendments associated with.....
[Abolition] [African Americana] SUMNER, Charles. Defence of Massachusetts. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Boston Memorial for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, and in Reply To Messrs. Jones of Tennessee, Butler of South Carolina, And Mason of Virginia in the Senate of the United States, June 26.....
[Prison Abolition] Lifetime in Prison: The Case of Eddie Sanchez. Committee to Free Eddie Sanchez, April 1975. Kansas City, Missouri. Pamphlet, 4 pages. 8.5" x 11." Lifetime prisoner Eddie Sanchez had been subjected to injections of Anectine in prison during aversion therapy, a practice used to modify behaviors by building.....
Manuscript debt bonds created in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina during the early 1820s document the use of enslaved people as collateral within the financial system of the antebellum South. These legal instruments record obligations owed between creditors and debtors while identifying enslaved individuals as property subject to seizure in the.....
[Slavery & Abolition] CHILD, Lydia Marie. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. New York: Published by John S. Taylor, 1836. Second edition. Illustrated with 2 plates. Coleridge quote on title page. In original blue cloth boards with embossing and gilt to spine. 8vo, 216 pages.....
Garrison, William Lloyd (associated). Third Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New England Anti Slavery Society, 1835, an early institutional document of organized abolitionism that records the structure, leadership, and expanding influence of the New England Anti Slavery Society during a formative stage of the movement. Issued.....
[Slavery] [North Carolina] Letter signed offering a "negro man" to settle debts. Letter signed by "H.M. Moffett" of Huntersville, Virginia (now West Virginia). Dated November 8th 1842. Measures 9.5" by 7.75". The letter reads in full: "Dear Sir, I have a negro man for hire and find some difficulty in.....
