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1857-1864 ca.
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[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
1848
The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848
A compendium of the laws for slaves in Washington DC, The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848, printed in New York by the Anti-Slavery Society.
GLC09401
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
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
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
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
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
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