Abolitionism (14 results)

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A 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.

A 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 objections 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.

First Irish Edition. Octavo. XV, 464 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century full leather with original spine-label. Binding firm but rubbed with some minro damaged to the boards. Overall in very good condition. A very early, important and often overlooked publication on Abolitionism and criticism of Slavery in then only recently independent United States of America. Includes reports of John Woolman "visiting the quarterly-meetings in Chester county and afterwards joining with Daniel Stanton and John Scarborough, in a visit to such as kept Slaves there - Several more visits to such who kept Slaves; and to friends near Salem - Soem account of the yearly-meeting in the year 1759, and of the increasing concern in divers provinces, to labour against buying and keeping Slaves". "His visiting the northern parts of New Jersey the same year and the western parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania in 1767 and afterwards other parts of Pennsylvania in 1767 and afterwards other parts of Pennsylvania and the families of friends at Mount-Holly; and again several parts of Maryland in 1768 - Further considerations on keeping Slaves" "Some account of the Slave - Trade - From the writings of persons who have been at the places where they are first purchased" "Bosman on Guinea, who was a factor for the Dutch about sixteen years in that Country" John Woolman (1720 - 1772) was an American merchant, tailor, journalist, Quaker preacher, and early abolitionist during the colonial era. Based in Mount Holly, near Philadelphia, he traveled through the American frontier to preach Quaker beliefs, and advocate against slavery and the slave trade, cruelty to animals, economic injustices and oppression, and conscription. Beginning in 1755 with the outbreak of the French and Indian War, he urged tax resistance to deny support to the colonial military. In 1772, Woolman traveled to England, where he urged Quakers to support abolition of slavery. Woolman published numerous essays, especially against slavery. He kept a journal throughout his life; it was published posthumously, entitled The Journal of John Woolman (1774). Included in Volume I of the Harvard Classics since 1909, it is considered a prominent American spiritual work. It has also been admired for the power and clarity of its prose by non-Quakers such as the philosopher John Stuart Mill, the poet William Ellery Channing, and the essayist Charles Lamb, who urged a friend to "get the writings of John Woolman by heart." The Journal has been continuously in print since 1774, published in numerous editions; the most recent scholarly edition was published in 1989. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

LeatherBound. 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 bands. 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.

A 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 for 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.

Condition: 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 inscribed 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.

Oval 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 attended 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 ĵ x 6 ½ inches. Contemporary pencil identification on verso reading "Mrs E D Cheney.".

An 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. The 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.

A 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 ĵ inches.

Offered 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 first 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.

Owen Brown (18241889) and Jason Brown (18231912) 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 his brother Jasonwho was not involved in his father's activitiesin 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".