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.....

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.".....

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.....

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.....

[Slavery and Abolition] Northup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave. Auburn: Derby and Miller, First edition, early printing, Published in 1854--one year after the first printing--with the words "Twentieth Thousand" at top of title page. Complete with 336 pages and the 7 illustrations.Large duodecimo. Northup, a black man who was born.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

[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].....

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".....

[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- [CIVIL WAR]. Slaves in our camps after the departing of our troops, collecting the refuse (In Virginia). N.d.. Original pencil sketch measuring approximately 6.5" x 5". A scene showing two African Americans conversing, one holding what appears to be a "US" flag, with other subjects visible.....

[AGRICULTURE - COTTON.] A group of 3 early 19th-century documents related to Southern cotton production, comprising a Savannah Shipping and Commercial List, an 1815 cotton-related document dealing with 104 square bales of New Orleans cotton, and an 1850 postmarked letter detailing the shipment of 103 bales of cotton, shipped per.....

Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine. Vol. 1, No. IV. Edited by Elizur Wright, Jr. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, July 1836. Elizur Wright (1804-1885) was a mathematician and abolitionist. While serving as professor of mathematics at Western Reserve College, he came across the writings of William Lloyd Garrison, and became convinced that.....