Boston: Office Boston Daily Bee, 1857. 60 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) attended Harvard Divinity School from 1844-1847, was a Unitarian minister in Roxbury, Mass., where he served until 1855, was a member of the Free Masons. and an active abolitionist and this speech..... More
Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1865. [5-16], [2] pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. George L. Stearns, note. Without the letters that precede the title page. About very good, front wrapper soiled and nearly detached, small damp stain on bottom edge of a few leaves. Sabin 98005..... More
Washington [D.C.]: H. Polkinhorn, Printer, 1864. 16 pp. 8vo. Stapled self wrappers. First edition. A very good copy, light soiling on wrappers. Sabin 8453. LCP. Afro-Americana 1678. More
[Boston]: [E.B. Foster & Co.?], 1856. 8 pp. 8vo. Removed. Reprint. From the "Boston Courier," August 14, 1856. Choate could not attend this meeting of The Whigs of Maine, so sent in his speech which declared the first duty of the Whigs was "to defeat and dissolve the new geographical..... More
New York: n.p., 1823. iv, [5]-64 pp. Sm. 8vo. Disbound. First American edition. Clarkson was the leading British abolitionist of the early 1800s, and in this work laid out the "theoretical agenda of the resurgent British antislavery campaign in the 1820s." (See Lambert: White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity During..... More
Worthington: Charles A. Jones Publishing, 1973. 326 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Fine in very good+ dj. More
Washington, D.C. Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1858. 15 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. James Dixon (1814-1873) was a Republican Representative and Senator from Connecticut who attacked Buchanan's presidential message which argued that if the Lecompton Constitution was not accepted and the people of Kansas were allowed to decide the issue..... More
Washington [D.C.]: Printed by John T. Towers, 1850. 31 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Douglas answers the famous speech of Webster and Calhoun, pointing out that the Wilmot Proviso was an unconstitutional engraftment on a revenue bill supporting the Treaty with Mexico, not a territorial proviso such as the Northwest..... More
Boston: Printed for the Massachusetts Colonization Society by T.R. Marvin, 1853. 12 pp. 8vo. Stitched self wrappers. First edition. Everett praises the function and purpose of Society in the face of criticism of negroes. Analogizes colonization of Liberia to colonization of America; predicts that only Africans returning there will be..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: n.p., [1860]. 15, [1] pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. List of speeches and documents available from the Republican Executive Congressional Committee on last page. Daniel R. Goodloe (1814-1902) was an abolitionist, journalist, Republican politician from North Carolina, and the author of the 1846 "Inquiry into the causes..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: n.p., 1860. 15 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Another version was published by the Republican Executive Congressional Committee. Removed from a larger volume else a very good copy. Sabin 29641n. LCP Afro-Americana 4469. Dumond p.63. More
Charleston: Steam Power Press of Walker, Evans & Co., 1858. 28 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Southern politician and outspoken supporter of slavery, James Henry Hammond gave this speech in the middle of his term as U.S. senator from South Carolina, reporting on the turmoil surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska..... More
New York: Thomas J. Crowell, (1982). 184 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. An excellent introduction for all ages to the Black theater from its inception through the 1970's. Inscription to contents page else a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a small tear..... More
n.p. n.p., [1856]. 16 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. Anti-Fremont, anti-Republican, and anti-Know-nothing piece. "Let the ballot-box fail to elect Fremont, and the cartridge box is threatened against the American people. The idiosyncracie of the Black Republican Party must prevail or the fire and the sword must follow." Removed from..... More
Brooklyn: Printed by I. Van Anden, 1848. 27 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Anti-slavery sermon by Evan M. Johnson (1791-1865), Episcopal minister who established St. Michael's in Brooklyn, where he served for the remainder of his life. "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body..... More
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., Printers, 1863. 24 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. Stamped "Respects of Orville Griffin, Senate Doorkeeper." Low's list of misstatements and misconceptions of Governor [H. Seymour]. Also includes: The immediate cause of the war; The concessions and sacrifices made by the North to preserve the..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: n.p., 1844. 1 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. The main resolution was an attack on the heinous process of re-enslaving freed blacks: "Resolved. That we do most solemnly, in behalf of the people of this State, protest against the existence of any laws, in any of the States..... More
n.p. n.p., 1856. 16 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Letters opposing the election of Millard Fillmore to the presidency and recommending J.C. Fremont for that office. Marsh presided over the convention which nominated Fillmore but renounces him here. George Law's letter is to Gen. Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs and another on..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: Printed by Lemuel Towers, 1860. 16 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. In support of Jefferson Davis' Resolutions on the Relations of States. James Murray Mason (1798-1871) was a Senator from Virginia who had drafted the (second) Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and headed the senate committee selected..... More
Springfield, Ma., C. E. White, Printer. 1843. 16 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Peabody's reminiscences on the church and its tribulations are followed by his argument that abolition is necessary and Colonization is the only course that will work for African-Americans. OCLC shows only 7 copies. A good..... More
Washington [D.C.]: n.p., 1856. 16 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. J.W. Crisfield and James B. Clay. Without a great deal of enthusiasm, and fearing the dissolution of the Union, the Whigs endorsed Buchanan. Closely trimmed on fore edge, loss of a few letters not affecting legibility, else a very..... More
Boston / Cleveland: John P. Jewett / Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1854. 42 pp. Pamphlet. Paper wrappers. Attributed to Samuel R. Phillips by Halkett & Laing. Attributed to George W. Bungay in Brown University, Dict. Cat. of the Harris Coll., Vol. 2. A clean copy without the blue wrappers. LCP..... More
Cambridge: John Bartlett, 1852. [2], [3]-53 pp. 12mo. (19 cm.). Tan paper wrappers. First edition. A pro-slavery tract in response to the question "What do you think of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' at the South." Pringle's purpose, he writes is "to prove that the slave is not by his position necessarily..... More
Boston: Printed by John Wilson & Son, 1854. 8 pp. 8vo. Plain boards. First edition. Quincy was 83 when he delivered this attack on the fugitive slave law. A very good copy, bound into later archival boards, two institutional stamps on title (one blind), mail fold. Sabin 67242. Dumond p...... More
Washington, D. C. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1852. 8 pp. Sm. 4to. Self wrappers. First edition. Rantoul argued that he is not part of any 'corrupt group' and that he has always been an opponent of the Fugitive Slave Law, but he is against the government intervening in..... More