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1970
The Black Panther Party
Interpol: Its Function in the World in the International Criminal
One pamphlet by The Black Panther Party entitled Interpol: Its Function in the World in the International Criminal dated 1970.
GLC09416.11
12 February 1857
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887)
Untitled
"I believe that there were never so many thinking upon the subject, never were thoughts more nearly right on the great question of Liberty. I do not disesteem the political & Commercial aspects of Slavery. Its evils in these regards are greater...
GLC09133
29 November 1866
Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879)
to Reverend Putnam
"All that you said of Massachusetts...was true to the letter...she has always been the foremost state of the Union. How intensely has South Carolina - - slavery cursed, degraded, barbarous South Carolina - - hated her from the beginning!"
GLC09167
20 December 1863
A Southerner writing about "Divine Institution of Negro Slavery" and "old Abe and his abolition crew."
GLC09189
circa 1860s
[Slavery related collection] [Decimalized .01- .10]
Collection of 7 abolitionist and slavery related autograph letter signed and one John Brown carte-de-visite. Autograph letter signed dated 25 June 1861 from H. Giles, "If this war continues, we can not now even imagine our worst days - nor, do I...
GLC09190
1835
The Anti-Slavery Record, Vol. 1
Six issues of The Anti-Slavery Record published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, each bearing a dramatic woodcut illustrating the horrors visited upon slaves. 12 pages each. Includes: No. 6 - June, No. 7 - July, No. 9 - September (2nd edition)...
GLC09232
July 1858
Spooner, Lysander
A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery
"A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery," imploring non-slaveholding whites in the South to combine with slaves to overthrow plantation owners. "Your numbers, combined with those of the Slaves, will give you all power. You have but to use it, and the...
GLC09235
2 March 1880
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
to Charles T. Congdon
To Charles T. Congdon of the New York Tribune. Douglass thanks Congdon for his recently published reminiscences of Charles Sumner. "It was not merely the seed time of a great harvest, but the hard time when old and knarly oaks were to be hewed down...
GLC09238
Sharp, Granville
The Law of Retribution...
The Law of Retribution; Or, A Serious Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies, founded on unquestionable examples of God's Temporal Vengeance against Tyrants, Slave-holders, and Oppressors. First edition, printed in London.
GLC09291
19 August 1837
Liberator Extra issue
Scarce "Extra" issue of William Lloyd Garrison's weekly Liberator mainly devoted to the "Appeal of Clerical Abolitionists on Anti-Slavery Measures .... Declaration of Abolitionists in The Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass."
GLC09298
1837
Review of Lysander Spooner on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery…
Spooner argues that certain "clauses in the United States Constitution universally supposed to refer to and recognize Slavery [have made] 'the preservation, propagation, and perpetuation of Slavery the vital and animating spirit of the National...
GLC09299
7 February 1848
Tathan, Benjamin (fl. 1848)
[Circular]
A New York Quakers Circular offering an alternative to goods made from slave labor: "The Managers of the Free Produce Association of Friends, of New York Yearly Meeting, have the satisfaction of stating, that a store has been opened for the sale of...
GLC09300
13 January 1812
Minutes of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery...
"Minutes of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and Improving the Condition of the African Race Assembled at Philadelphia..." Reports on schools for African-Americans, kidnapping, arrests of...
GLC09328
4 November 1874
Smith, Gerrit
to C.H. Howard
To C. H. Howard, an editor/publisher in Chicago, acknowledging receipt of six copies of a "little Letter" he had written. "I very rarely write anything for a newspaper. Almost all my articles appear first in Circulars." He cannot promise to write any...
GLC09329.01
5 November 1852
To the voters of Oswego and Madison counties New York
Thanking them for electing him to a seat in Congress, and reprising his anti-slavery, pro-equality platform.
GLC09329.02
1 December 1859
[Abolitionist broadside]
Abolitionist broadside endorsed "Distributed in the streets of Boston Thursday evening Dec.1, 1859, the day before the execution of John Brown." Bold text reads: "Let their epitaphs remain unwritten until the not distant day when no slave shall clank...
GLC09332
16 November 1846
Brown, Neill (fl. 1846)
to a cousin
[Slavery] From Cleveland, Ohio to a cousin in North Carolina: "I am here surrounded by abolitionists, yea in the very hot bed of this class of people.… Three weeks since there was a negroe woman who said she was a fugitive slave from Mississippi, got...
GLC09373
1794
Minutes Of The Proceedings Of A Convention of Delegates From The Abolition Societies Established in different Parts of the United States...
Minutes Of The Proceedings Of A Convention of Delegates From The Abolition Societies Established in different Parts of the United States, Assembled at Philadelphia, On The First Day Of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred And Ninety-Four…...
GLC09381.01
1795
Proceedings Of The Second Convention...
GLC09381.02
1796
Proceedings Of The Third Convention...
GLC09381.03
1797
Proceedings Of The Fourth Convention...
GLC09381.04
1840-1842
A Record of the Proceedings of the Executive Committee of the Hamilton County Anti-Slavery Society
Westfield, IN. Primarily concerned with the founding of the Society's library, with a budget of fifteen dollars for books, entries record a "code of rules for the regulation of the Library," day-to-day logistics, including places and times for...
GLC09382.01
circa 1840-1842
[Constitution for the "Westfield Free Produce association of friends"]
The constitution for the "Westfield Free Produce association of friends," to boycott slave- produced goods for three years. Begins: "We believe that slaveholding is diametrically opposite to the whole spirit and tenor of the christian religion; and...
GLC09382.02
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
26 August 1848
Nickless, Samuel
[Invitation to speak]
Samuel Nickless, treasurer of William Still's Philadelphia Vigilance Committee, part of the Underground Railroad, asks an unnamed lecturer to come and speak: "The members of the 2nd African Presbyterian Church take the liberty of asking you to give...
GLC09396
1789
Carey, Mathew (1760-1839)
The American Museum, volume 6
The American Museum Volume VI, Philadelphia, containing twenty articles on African Americans including Samuel Stanhope Smith's "Essay of the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species," Ben Franklin's "Address to the Public...
GLC09397
18 August 1921
Unknown
Program of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union
GLC09400.643
1852
Thompson, George
Thompson in Africa: Or, an Account of the Missionary Labors, Sufferings, Travels, and Observations of George Thompson in Western Africa, at the Mendi Mission.
Thompson in Africa: Or, an Account of the Missionary Labors, Sufferings, Travels, and Observations of George Thompson in Western Africa, at the Mendi Mission. Abolitionist's diary of his African trip. Includes several eye witness accounts of the...
GLC09408
1857-1864 ca.
[Carte de visite of Owen Lovejoy]
Signed carte-de-visite of Radical Republican congressman Owen Lovejoy from Illinois. Lovejoy's Princeton, Ill. homestead was an important Underground Railroad station.
GLC09410
16 March 1944
Weiner, Sylvia (1912-2008)
to Morris "Moe" Weiner
Sylvia talks about the history of labor unions
GLC09414.0204
1984
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987;
South Africa: Is Peaceful Change Possible?
One pamphlet entitled, "South Africa: Is Peaceful Change Possible?" written by Bayard Rustin, Charles Bloomstein, Walter Naegle. The report delves into apartheid in South Africa, the constitutional referendum, recommendation for nonviolent approaches...
GLC09640.216.01
GLC09640.216.02
circa 1865
Engraving of Frances Wright
One engraving of Frances Wright dated circa 1865. Half seated portrait of Wright.
GLC08878.0984
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