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Solomon Northup. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of . . . a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington. Auburn, NY: Derby & Miller, 1853. Large duodecimo, 336 pages including 2 publisher's ad leaves, 7 illustrated plates. Publisher's original cloth. First edition, first state from the first print run. The earliest.....
STILL, William. The Underground Rail Road. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872. First edition, first printing. Contemporary rebinding with black boards and attractive gold gilt title on spine. 9.25" x 6.5" in. 780 pages. A foundational text on freeing slaves in America written by one of the most active African American.....
HILDRETH, Richard. The Slave, or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Volume II. Boston: John H. Eastburn Printer, 1836. Duodecimo. Calf covers. 162 pages. Rag paper. The very first American abolitionist novel, published 15 years before Uncle Tom's Cabin, which some have argued it influenced. The anonymous author was an enigmatic, Harvard-educated.....
[Slavery] [Abolition] Benezet, Anthony. Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief for Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage. Philadelphia: Francis Bailey For The Society, 1788. Enlarged from the first edition of 1787, it nearly doubled in page count. Octavo, 29 pages. When Anthony.....
Phillis Wheatley. The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature For the Year 1772. Fifth edition. J. Dodsley: London, 1795. Original marbled half leather boards. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 255 pages. An anthology of major works from the year 1772 including Wheatley's poem "On Recollection.".....
An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes. H. Gregoire. Thomas Kirk: Brooklyn, 1810. Measures 6 x 9 inches. 253 pages. Original marbled boards. Henri Jean-Baptiste Gregoire was a French Catholic priest and the Constitutional bishop of Blois, a revolutionary leader who was an ardent abolitionist.....
Lincoln, Abraham. The Republican Party Vindicated--The Demands of the South Explained. Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, at the Cooper Institute New York City, February 27, 1860. 16 pages, caption title [as issued]. Lincoln's Historic Cooper Union discourse, which catapulted him to serious presidential consideration, and provided a cogent.....
WHEATLEY, Phyllis. "Some Account of a Learned Negro Girl" in The Gentleman's Magazine. London: Printed for D. Henry, May 1773. Measures approximately 5.5 x 9 inches, [207]-256 pages. First Edition. One of the earliest known print pieces on Phillis Wheatley: An introduction of the enslaved American poetess to the UK.....
BENEZET, Anthony. “A Summary of the History, Doctrine, and Discipline of Friends; Written at the Desire of the Meeting for Sufferings in London." The First American edition, with a note from Benezet’s account of the People called Quakers. New York: Collins, Perkins, & Co., 1805. Measures 4” x 7” inches.....
Small archive of two pamphlets with transcripts of speeches concerning anti-lynching legislation. THURMOND, J. Strom. President Truman's So-Called Civil Rights Program. Columbia, SC: [Columbia Democratic Party], 1948. BYRNES, James F. Inaugural Address of the Honorable James F. Byrnes as Governor of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: N.p., 1951. At the time.....
Extensive archive from Methodist minister and revivalist preacher Irving R. Lovejoy from 1880-1888. This archive of 334 handwritten pages by the Reverend includes 20 handwritten and handbound sermons totaling 219 pages. Also includes an additional 115 pages of handwritten notes (mostly related to sermons and religions), letters and personal documents.....
Phillis Wheatley. The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature For the Year 1772. Sixth edition. J. Dodsley: London, 1800. Rebound in black boards with gold gilt text on spine. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 255 pages. An anthology of major works from the year 1772.....
Extensive archive from Methodist minister and revivalist preacher Irving R. Lovejoy from 1860-1888. This archive of over 250 handwritten pages includes 19 handwritten and hand bound sermons, most tied with blue string, totaling 247 pages on subjects ranging from Judgment day to building fraternity between Methodist ministries, and 237 pages.....
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Tributes to Theodore Parker, Comprising the Exercises at the Music Hall on Sunday, June 17, 1860. With the Proceedings of The New England Anti-Slavery Convention at the Melodeon, May 31. First Edition. Boston: Published by the Fraternity, 1860. With an original carte-de-visite of Emerson. Emerson’s comments begin.....
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION ARCHIVES] Rare slavery family registry and three letters pertaining to 18 named enslaved African-Americans in Maryland circa 1810-1853. Archive of 4 items, 14 pages in total. Various in size and condition. The slave family registry contains a list of "The ages of the Negroes and their names".....
Hand-colored albumen photograph representing an allegorical carte-de-visite of Emancipation. 1863. Published by "John Sowle, 14 Summer St., Boston." Illustration by George Gardner Fish. 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches on photographer's mount. Lady Liberty brandishes the Emancipation Proclamation, while two scantily clad enslaved people wrap her in the American flag.....
MOTT, Abigail et al. Narratives of Colored Americans. New York: William Wood, 1877. 276pp. Publisher's rose cloth covers. Early edition. At the time of this description, we found only one copy of this edition on OCLC, and one copy of the 1875 first edition. Biographies of Phyllis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker.....
Taylor, Susie King. Reminiscences of My Life In Camp. Boston 1902. Memoirs of the first African American nurse in the Civil War. Published by the author. First edition. 82 pages. Bound in maroon boards with gilt lettering and cover illustration of cloth tent. As issued, no dust jacket. Classic wartime.....
Political Equality Series. Vol. V., No. 4. Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, New York: July 1900. 4 pages. 5 ¾ x 3 ¼ in. Paperback with original wrapper, Essay by William Lloyd Garrison, “The Nature of a Republic Form of Government.” At the time that this description.....
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] Abridgment of the Minutes of the Evidence, Taken Before a Committee of the Whole House, To Whom It Was Referred To Consider of the Slave-Trade. London, 1789-1791. First Edition, First Printing. Only one other complete set traced at auction since 1964. 4 volumes in 2 books. [2].....
Sherman, John. Speech by Hon. John Sherman of Ohio on Emancipation as a Compensation for Military Service Rendered by Slaves, Delivered in the Senate of the United States. McGill and Witherow: Washington D.C, February 2, 1864. 16 pages. 5.5" x 9.5" inches. John Sherman was an antislavery senator, Secretary of.....
DOUGLASS, Frederick Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Hartford, CT: Park Publishing, Co., 1882. Early edition of Douglass's final autobiography. Douglass’ two previous autobiographies, published before emancipation, necessarily withheld information about his escape from bondage, as this would have put those involved in danger. Because of the emancipation of American.....
The 1756 will of Abraham Van Horne transferring ownership of two slaves to his wife on the event of his death. 7 pages. 12.5" x 15". Bound by green string. Dated March 11th, 1756. Van Horne (1708-1756) was a prosperous slave owner in Colonial New York. In this will, written.....
Benezet, Anthony. A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions. London: sold by James Phillips, 1784. First London reprint of what is described on the titlepage as "A New Edition." Hard cover. Measures 5".....
Friends of Freedom. The Liberty Bell. Boston: Prentiss and Sawyer, 1852. 4.75" x 7.5" inches. 303 pages. First edition Signed and gifted by co-author William I. Bowditch. A very scarce collection of anti-slavery writings. Original brown boards with gilt illustration of Liberty Bell on front cover, decorative gilt spine. Illustrated.....