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Uris, Leon
[This night is different...]
"This night is different because we celebrate the most important moment in the history of our people. On this night we celebrate their going forth in triumph from slavery to freedom."
GLC05508.248
December 1852
Collection of two documents related to Harriet Beecher Stowe [Decimalized .01-.02]
Two letters regading the controversy that developed after Harret Beecher Stowe cited Joel Parker as a pro-slavery preacher in her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
GLC08965
1845
Walker, Jonathan
Trial And Imprisonment Of Jonathan Walker, At Pensacola, Florida, for Aiding Slaves to Escape From Bondage.
First ed., Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office. 4 illustrations. [Inspired John Greenleaf Whittier to write The Man With the Branded Hand, included in subsequent editions.]
GLC09387
7 December 1852
Parker, Joel (1799-1873)
to Anson Rood
Discusses the controversy that developed after Harret Beecher Stowe cited Parker as a pro-slavery preacher in her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Parker, claiming his statements were misrepresented, threatened to sue for libel, and a scandal began. Two...
GLC08965.01
1844
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes of the British West Indies
Speech by Emerson attacking slavery, one of his earliest statements in support of abolition. First edition. Published by James Munroe and Company.
GLC05766
28 July 1833
Southey, Robert (1774-1843)
to Thomas Pringle
Discusses his health and the conditions of South American natives forced into slavery. Complains about his past treatment by the Quarterly Review and their offers of meager compensation.
GLC00496.229
5 June 1866
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
to James Thomas Fields
Bryant writes to Fields, editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Transmits a poem, "The Death of Slavery" (GLC 1543.02). Remarks that the poem was "meditated a year since but written out within the last few days. I had a good deal of trouble with some of...
GLC01543.01
1857
Helper, Hinton Rowan (1829-1906)
The Impending crisis of the South: How to meet it
First edition. Signed as presented by Samuel A. Winsor. Published by the Burkick Brothers, New York. Bookplate removed. In 1857, Hinton Rowan Helper, the son of a western North Carolina farmer, published one of the most politically influential...
GLC00267.074
March 12, 1864
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
[We wait beneath the furnace-blast...]
The first stanza of Whittier's poem, "Luther's Hymn." It describes God's transformation of the country by ending slavery. Whittier compares the transformation to a furnace-blast that will "mould anew the nation." One black and white bust engraving...
GLC05508.260
7 August 1828
Montgomery, James (1771-1854)
Discusses poetry versus fiction as an art form. Allows his poetry to be used by the Anti-Slavery Society for publication in their periodical.
GLC00496.199
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