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Minutes of the Twenty-first Biennial American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and Improving the Condition of the African Race, convened at the city of Washington, December 8, A.D. 1829 : and an appendix, containing the addresses from various societies, together with the constitution and by-laws of the convention

Minutes of the Twenty-first Biennial American Convention for Promoting...

Reports from various state chapters of the convention. Also contains the constitution and by-laws of the convention. "Printed by order of the convention." Date correction from cover. Shoemaker 37439 Also availa... More

Important correspondence on the subject of state interposition, between His Excellency Gov. Hamilton, and Hon. John C. Calhoun

Important correspondence on the subject of state interposition, betwee...

Copied from the Pendleton messenger of 15th Sept., 1832. Also available in digital form.

An inquiry into the merits of the American Colonization Society: and a reply to the charges brought against it. With an account of the British African Colonization Society

An inquiry into the merits of the American Colonization Society: and a...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

An address delivered before the Bible Society of the University of Virginia, May 13th, 1836
To the people of the United States; or, To such Americans as value their rights, and dare to maintain them

To the people of the United States; or, To such Americans as value the...

Caption title. At head of title: The District of Columbia. No. 1. Published also as v. 1, no. 1 (August 1836) of The Anti-slavery examiner. Signed on p. 8: "In behalf of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Arthu... More

Statements of the affairs of the several banks of Pennsylvania : on the first discount days in the months of January, May, June and November, 1837 ..

Statements of the affairs of the several banks of Pennsylvania : on th...

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A system of education on the principle of connecting science with useful labor

A system of education on the principle of connecting science with usef...

Fellenberg's system of education combines academic study with industrial arts or agricultural training from an early age to form good personal habits and character. Peter W. Gallaudet, who authored this pamphle... More

Address of the Democratic Whig association of the city and county of Philadelphia,
The politician's register; containing the result of the elections which have taken place during the years 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, for president, members of Congress, and state officers,
Counsels to a young man; or, The fascinating allurements by which he will be assailed

Counsels to a young man; or, The fascinating allurements by which he w...

"No. 402." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Letter of Mr. Cuthbert Powell, to the people of the Fourteenth congressional district of Virginia
Colonization and missions: a historical examination of the state of society in western Africa, as formed by paganism and Muhammedanism, slavery, the slave trade and piracy, and of the remedial influence of colonization and missions
The past and present position of the Church; an address delivered on the occasion of laying the corner-stone of Christ Church, Lexington, Ky., on Wednesday, the 17th of March, 1847
New-York Democratic state convention, held at the Capitol, January 26 and 27, 1848
The regulations of military institutions applied to the conduct of common schools
The American citizen : a discourse on the nature and extent of our religious subjection to the government under which we live including an inquiry into the scriptural authority of that provision of the Constitution of the United States, which requires the surrender of fugitive slaves : delivered in the Rutgers Street Presbyterian Church, in the City of New York, on Thanksgiving Day, December 12, 1850, and afterwards, at their request as a lecture before the Young Men's Association of Albany and Waterford, N.Y., on January 14th and 15th, 1851
Addresses delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives, Harrisburg, Pa., on Tuesday evening, April 6, 1852

Addresses delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives, Harri...

"Published by order of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society." Also available in digital form.

African slave trade in Jamaica, and comparative treatment of slaves : read before the Maryland Historical Society, October, 1854

African slave trade in Jamaica, and comparative treatment of slaves : ...

Sheppard looks at the role of England in promoting slavery in North America. He concludes that the effects of slavery depend not only upon its existence but also upon the manner in which it is instituted, as sh... More

White slavery in the United States

White slavery in the United States

Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

By-laws of the Government hospital for the insane, etc. September, 1855

By-laws of the Government hospital for the insane, etc. September, 185...

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A lecture delivered in the Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 24th January, 1856,

A lecture delivered in the Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts, on t...

Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.

A funeral oration upon David C. Broderick,

A funeral oration upon David C. Broderick,

Also available in digital form.

Political record of Stephen A. Douglas on the slavery question

Political record of Stephen A. Douglas on the slavery question

Caption title. Also available in digital form. LAC brd 2019-04-15 no edits (1 card)

Suffrage and reorganization: the subject examined by a voter of Ohio

Suffrage and reorganization: the subject examined by a voter of Ohio

Caption title. Also available in digital form.

The war, and how to end it - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.

The war, and how to end it - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congres...

Slocum looks at the abolition of slavery as inevitable in the U.S. and considers the possible effects. He favors emancipation and marshals evidence to show its practical, political, and economic benefits or the... More

Memorial to the United States Government, for the erection of a National Armory, at Brighton, Pa., on the falls of the Beaver River
The Nutshell: the system of American slavery "tested by Scripture," being "a short method" with pro-slavery D.D.'s, whether doctors of divinity, or of democracy, embracing axioms of social, civil, and political economy, as divinely impressed upon the human conscience and set forth in divine revelation; in two lectures

The Nutshell: the system of American slavery "tested by Scripture," be...

LC copy lacks first page of supplmentary postscript following front cover (continuation of supplementary postscript on verso of back cover is present). Also available in digital form.

A reply to Mr. Charles Ingersoll's "Letter to a friend in a slave state"

A reply to Mr. Charles Ingersoll's "Letter to a friend in a slave stat...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Pamphlet Collection: YA 16960. Purchase, Arba Blodget, Feb. 28, 1901. LAC ael 2019-04-09 no edits (1 card) LAC aaa... More

Origin and objects of the slaveholders' conspiracy against Democratic principles, as well as against the national union-- illustrated in the speeches of Andrew Jackson Hamilton, in the statements of Lorenzo Sherwood, ex-member of the Texan legislature, and in the publications of the Democratic League, &c. The slave aristocracy against democracy. Statements addressed to loyal men of all parties, including the antagonistic principles involved in the rebellion--
The suicidal folly of the war-system; an address before the American Peace Society, at its anniversary in Boston, May 25, 1863
The post of duty. A funeral discourse in memory of Capt. Lansing Hollister, (120 regt. N.Y.S. vol.,) killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2d, 1863
Richard F. Loper. Steamboat chartering. Public domain book.
Speech of Cassius M. Clay, before the Law Department of the University of Albany, N.Y., February 3, 1863
Representative government and electoral reform. A review of recent publications on that subject ..
A Picture of slavery, drawn from the decisions of Southern courts

A Picture of slavery, drawn from the decisions of Southern courts

Issued as a campaign document against Judge Woodward, Democratic candidate for governor. Also available in digital form.

Court-martial of Major N. Ward Cady

Court-martial of Major N. Ward Cady

Also available in digital form.

Christianity versus treason and slavery: religion rebuking sedition

Christianity versus treason and slavery: religion rebuking sedition

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Miscegenation indorsed by the Republican Party

Miscegenation indorsed by the Republican Party

Caption title. "Sold at 13 Park Row, New York, and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices ..." Imprint date inferred from text. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has penci... More

New Jersey for the Union : speech of Hon. James M. Scovel, Senator from Camden, upon the bill prohibiting the enlistment of Negro troops in New Jersey, under a penalty of $500, or imprisonment for five years, delivered March 16, 1864

New Jersey for the Union : speech of Hon. James M. Scovel, Senator fro...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has ink stamp on p. 16: [Cam]den Jul 21. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 12589. Source: Source unknown.

A brief account of the origin and services of the first Union relief association of Baltimore
Petition and memorial of citizens of the United States to the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled ..

Petition and memorial of citizens of the United States to the Senate a...

Signed: George B. Cheever, Edward Gilbert, Parker Pillsbury. "Adopted at a public meeting held in the Church of the Puritans in the city of New York, Thursday evening, November 30, 1865." Also available in digi... More

The absolute equality of all men before the law, the only true basis of reconstruction

The absolute equality of all men before the law, the only true basis o...

A statement of the benefits of immediately granting suffrage to the former slaves of the South at a time of debate over a constitutional amendment to do just that. Dickson argues that suffrage is the crucial ri... More

The national security and the national faith : guaranties for the national freedman and the national creditor

The national security and the national faith : guaranties for the nati...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Democratic platform, people's resolutions: a republican form of government, definition, manhood suffrage

Democratic platform, people's resolutions: a republican form of govern...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Politician's manual. The Constitution of the United States of America, ratified, September 17th, 1787; together with the amendments, and proposed amendments; also, statements defining the powers and duties of the departments of government, statistics of the United States, &c
Prospectus of the American bureau of mines ..

Prospectus of the American bureau of mines ..

Also available in digital form.

The debate on the constitutional amendment

The debate on the constitutional amendment

Also available in digital form.

Representative reform-- the cumulative vote

Representative reform-- the cumulative vote

Caption title. Also available in digital form.

Issues at the Presidential election : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, at the City Hall, Cambridge, October 30, 1868

Issues at the Presidential election : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, a...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed on t.p.: 41. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 8717. Source: Source unknown.

To the people of North Carolina

To the people of North Carolina

Caption title. Running title: Constitution of North Carolina. Prefatory address signed: Will B. Rodman and Geo. W. Gahagan. Also available in digital form.

William Batchelder Greene. The sovereignty of the people. Public domain book.
A brief essay on the civil service of the United States,
Objections to Mr. Jenckes' bill,

Objections to Mr. Jenckes' bill,

Also available in digital form.

The new education in the new South

The new education in the new South

Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 15592. Source: Source unknown.

Address of Hon. Matt. Carpenter, U.S. Senator, to the graduating class of the Columbian Law College, June 8, 1870

Address of Hon. Matt. Carpenter, U.S. Senator, to the graduating class...

Practical advice on the training and the practice of the law that produces a good lawyer. Carpenter was a senator from Wisconsin. Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The civil service. Remarks ... delivered in the House of Representatives, May 3, 4, and 5, 1870

The civil service. Remarks ... delivered in the House of Representativ...

Remarks of T.A. Jenckes of Rhode Island, A.A. Sargent of California, C.L. Cobb of North Carolina, G.A. Finkelnburg of Missouri, Horace Maynard of Tennesse, J.A. Bingham of Ohio, J.A. Peters of Maine, H.E. Paine... More

Lecture delivered to the American union academy of literature, science, and art, at its special meeting called for the purpose, March 7, 1870,
Etholiad arlywyddol 1872. Grant vs. Greeley. Barn Greeley am ei bleidwyr ac am Grant--barn J. A. Dix, am Greeley, &c., &c
Civil service reform - Henry Augustus Smith. Politics and Government.
Extract from a speech of Hon. Gerrit Smith, to his neighbors in Peterboro, New York, June 22, 1872

Extract from a speech of Hon. Gerrit Smith, to his neighbors in Peterb...

Caption title. Republican campaign literature, 1872. Also available in digital form.

Taxation of women in Massachusetts

Taxation of women in Massachusetts

This pamphlet examines the legal and political status of women in Massachusetts from 1780 to 1871. It includes a brief appendix tabulating the amount women have paid in taxes while being denied the right to vot... More

Letter to a son on Christian belief,

Letter to a son on Christian belief,

Also available in digital form.

A centennial Fourth of July Democratic celebration: the massacre of six colored citizens of the United States at Hamburgh, S.C., on July 4, 1876. Debate on the Hamburgh massacre, in the U.S. House of Representatives, July 15th and 18th, 1876
John Thompson Hoffman. Liberty and order. Public domain book.
The presidential count : an address to the representatives of the people of Wisconsin in convention assembled, at the City of Milwaukee, on the 18th day of January, 1877

The presidential count : an address to the representatives of the peop...

Caption title: Address to the representatives of the people of Wisconsin .... Also available in digital form.

The proper method of counting the electoral vote
Emigration to Liberia : an address delivered before the American Colonization Society, January 21, 1879

Emigration to Liberia : an address delivered before the American Colon...

On cover: Normal School Steam Press, Hampton, Va. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed in pen on cover: Washington D.C. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: Y... More

What is charity organization? - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan
The continent of the future: Africa and its wonderful development--exploration, gold mining, trade, missions and elevation

The continent of the future: Africa and its wonderful development--exp...

Caption title. Originally published in the Baltimore Sun, October 25, 1881. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Zina, the slave girl, or, Which the traitor? : a drama in four acts

Zina, the slave girl, or, Which the traitor? : a drama in four acts

Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has inscription on p. [4] of cover: Jan 26. Formerly part of YA Pamphlet Collection: YA 24022. Source: Source unknown.

The race for Africa - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.

The race for Africa - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.

Cover title. Third annual paper on Africa by William Coppinger, secretary of the American Colonization Society. Published in the Baltimore Sun, November 11, 1882. Also available in digital form on the Library ... More

The state and the citizen of the state : a sermon in the First Congregational Church on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1883

The state and the citizen of the state : a sermon in the First Congreg...

Rankin says both state and citizen have been ordained by God and he is quite critical of the US government and the Supreme Court for failing to enforce African American civil rights, most recently in the Dred S... More

Illiteracy and its social, political and industrial effects : an address delivered by invitation before the Union League Club of New York City

Illiteracy and its social, political and industrial effects : an addre...

A speech about illiteracy in the U.S., with special attention to the South, including African Americans. Included statistics on illiteracy in the South. Also available in digital form.

What to observe and how to report it

What to observe and how to report it

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The necessary foundations of individual and national well-being and of civilization; a lecture delivered before the Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club, February 28th, 1883, and before the Young Republicans of Philadelphia, March 31, 1883
England and Liberia - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.

England and Liberia - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.

Cover title. Printed for private circulation. Also available in digital form.

Winning an empire - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.

Winning an empire - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.

Fourth annual paper on Africa prepared by Mr. William Coppinger, secretary of the American Colonization Society, and published in the Baltimore Sun on December 31, 1883. Also available in digital form on the Li... More

Arrangements for the inauguration of the President of the United States, on the fourth of March, 1885
The relation of private and public to organized charity : a paper read before The Ministerial Union of Baltimore, Dec. 27, 1886

The relation of private and public to organized charity : a paper read...

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Violet : a vaudeville in four scenes

Violet : a vaudeville in four scenes

Also available in digital form.

Apprenticeship schools for the young

Apprenticeship schools for the young

Also available in digital form.

The independent in politics : an address delivered before the Reform Club of New York, April 13, 1888

The independent in politics : an address delivered before the Reform C...

Publisher's advertisements: p. [2], [3], [4] of cover and p. [29]-[30]. Trade format. Cf. BAL. BAL 13199. Also available in digital form.

Ballot reform essential to free and equal elections. A paper read before the Pennsylvania civil service reform association and the Philadelphia social science association, March 1, 1889
The races and their future; a plea for their education
The relations of the people of the United States to the English and the Germans,

The relations of the people of the United States to the English and th...

Cover title. The Thursday Club consists of leading members of the Germania Club of Chicago. Also available in digital form.

The statistical recorder and easy reckoner for returning officers
Address of Frances E. Willard, president of the Woman's National Council of the United States (founded in 1888), at its first triennial meeting, Albaugh's Opera House, Washington, D.C., February 22-25, 1891

Address of Frances E. Willard, president of the Woman's National Counc...

The National Council of Women of the United States was created in 1888 at the recommendation of Elizabeth Cady Stanton to further the goal of women's rights. It includes interesting information on the ideologic... More

Address before the Oldest inhabitants' association of Washington, D.C.,
Mineral resources of Kansas ..

Mineral resources of Kansas ..

Cover title. Also available in digital form.

The Shakesperean school of ethics

The Shakesperean school of ethics

A literary address on ethics in Shakespeare's writings presented by a prominent black Baltimore lawyer to African American audiences. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ... More

The Republican party and civil service reform

The Republican party and civil service reform

Also available in digital form.

A review of Hoffman's Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro,

A review of Hoffman's Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.

Can we trust our army to spoilsmen?

Can we trust our army to spoilsmen?

Also available in digital form.

The South's industrial task : a plea for technical training of poor white boys : an address before the Annual Convention of the Southern Cotton Spinners' Association at Atlanta, November 14, 1901

The South's industrial task : a plea for technical training of poor wh...

Edmonds advocates private sponsorship of industrial education for poor southern white boys, modeled after Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes for African Americans, successful self-supporting technical schools. Cov... More

Speech of Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, at Cooper Union, New York, October 30, 1902

Speech of Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, at Cooper Union, New York...

A partisan speech favoring the election of Republicans to Congress to work with Theodore Roosevelt and defending states' rights as set down in the Constitution and as envisioned by Jefferson. Also available in ... More

The "Dick" bill and comments : H.R. 11,654, "a bill to promote the efficiency of the militia and for other purposes," to supersede the archaic militia laws enacted in 1792

The "Dick" bill and comments : H.R. 11,654, "a bill to promote the eff...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The regulation of commerce through a dispensing power. Efforts of the Interstate commerce commission to gain autocratic control of the internal commerce of the United States. The political aspects of the question

The regulation of commerce through a dispensing power. Efforts of the ...

"This document, in a somewhat extended and revised form, will constitute one or more chapters of a volume ... in course of preparation on The evolution of the American railroad system." Also available in digital form.

Why disfranchisement is bad, - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.

Why disfranchisement is bad, - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congr...

Caption title. "From July 1904 number, The Atlantic monthly." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Replace; LC copy under JK1924.G8 replaced by preservation microfilm.

The installation of Wilbur Patterson Thirkield, D. D., LL.D., as president of Howard University: Rankin Memorial Chapel, Friday afternoon, November the fifteenth, at two-thirty o'clock, nineteen hundred seven

The installation of Wilbur Patterson Thirkield, D. D., LL.D., as presi...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Pages 17-18, "Prayer by the Reverend William Ingraham Haven, D.D.," misplaced in binding.

An address delivered before the University club of Washington, D.C
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