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SOME OF THE SCARCEST 19TH CENTURY ABOLITIONIST PAMPHLETS (MISCELLANEOUS.) Bound volume containing 14 slavery related pamphlets. 8vo, contemporary
SOME OF THE SCARCEST 19TH CENTURY ABOLITIONIST PAMPHLETS (MISCELLANEOUS.) Bound volume containing 14 slavery related pamphlets. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, lightly rubbed; occasional contemporary ownership signatures of Henry Mott. Vp, 1835-1839
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Notes: Clay, Henry. A Letter to Gerritt Smith. 54 pages. New York, 1839. Not in Sabin * Clay, Henry. Free and Friendly Remarks on a Speech Lately Delivered. 24 pages. New York, 1839 * Martineau, Harriet. Views of Slavery and Emancipation from "Society in America." 79 pages. New York, 1837. * Purvis, Robert. A Tribute to the Memory of Thomas Shipley. Preface by James Forten. 20 pages. Philadelphia, 1836* Abolitionism Exposed Corrected. By a Physician, with a Plan for Abolishing the American Anti-Slavery Society...by A Tennesseean [sic]. 40 pages. Philadelphia, 1838 * Marriott, Charles. An Address to the Members of the Religious Society of Friends on the Duty of Declining the Use of Products of Slave Labour. 18 pages. New York, 1835 * [Furness, William Henry.] A Sermon Occasioned by the Destruction of Pennsylvania Hall. 12 pages. Philadelphia, 1838 * The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M. D. 62 pages. New York, 1836 * Yates, William. The Rights of Colored Men to Suffrage, Citizenship and Trial by Jury. 104 pages. Philadelphia, 1838 * Weld, Theodore Dwight. The Bible Against Slavery. 81 pages. [New York, 1837] * [Ware, Nathaniel A.] Rural Code of Haiti (drop title, as issued). Large, folding map of the Kingsley plantation. 48 pages. Middletown, NJ, 1837 * [Lovejoy, Elijah.] Alton Observer Extra. Proceedings of the Ill. Anti-Slavery Convention. Held at Upper Alton, Twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-eighth October 1837. 36 pages. Alton: Parks and Breath, 1838 * Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, held in Philadelphia May 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th, 1838 * The Present State and Condition of the Free People of Color of the City of Philadelphia. 40 pages. Philadelphia, 1838.
this group contains some of the scarcest abolitionist pamphlets of the early 19th century. Ware's Rural Code and the Alton Observer Extra are virtually unobtainable. Equally scarce are the pieces by Purvis, Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, and Yates's Rights of Colored Men.
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