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1896
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) (1868-1963)
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the USA 1638-1870
8vo. Printed by Longsman, Green & Co. First edition of Du Bois's first book. Howes D522.
GLC06983
1863
[Broadside recruiting African Americans for military service]
Color recruitment broadside depicting a Union soldier holding a United States flag with an attached banner declaring "Freedom to the Slave." In the background on one side, African American troops march holding a United States flag bearing the words...
GLC08249
1870s ca.
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Vignette bust portrait of Douglass (Currier and Ives print)
GLC07765
6 May 1865
Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)
to Salmon P. Chase re: argument against accepting the negro as an equal
"I am not yet prepared to receive the Negro on terms of political Equality for the reason that it will arouse passions and predjudices of the North, which...might rekindle the war whose fires are now dying out and by skillful management may be kept...
GLC07680
18 August 1861
Hopkins, David (fl. 1861)
to my dear brother and sister
Hopkins, a sailor on board a Union ship, replies to a letter from his brother and sister [N. N. and Lacey Hopkins?], of Ashtabula County, Ohio. Discusses problems with the mail. Notes that he feels better than he has in years, despite a persistent...
GLC03043
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