Philadelphia: Thos. S. Dando & Co., Printers and Publishers, No. 307 Walnut Street, 1884. First edition. Original printed wrappers (9 x 5.75 inches), 65, [1] pages. Frontis portrait of William Lloyd Garrison. Includes an account of the early days of the organization of the AASS from John Greenleaf Whittier. BAL..... More
Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rodgers, Printers, 1875. First edition. Original wrappers (9.13 x 5.88 inches), original wrappers, 82 pages. Original errata slip on blue paper stock bound in the rear. “I now have the honor of presenting to you a gentleman born in the Sate of Maryland, a victim of..... More
Salem: Published by Henry Whipple & Son; Boston: B. H. Greene, 1854. First edition. 8vo, original printed buff wrappers, 26 pages. An attack on the radical Unitarian Frothingham's controversial sermon against the rendition of Anthony Burns (and the complicity of Christianity in slavery), the anonymous author here citing the various..... More
Boston: Published by D. K. Hitchcock, 1836. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 55, [1] pages. A radical response to the great flurry of controversial pamphlets to follow in the wake of William Ellery Channing's 1835 publication of Slavery, this title the response to James Trecothick Austin's..... More
Boston: Felch's Press, 4 Water Street, 1845. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched as issued, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 32 pages. Morton (an ex-governor of Massachusetts) was a Democrat who though personally opposed to slavery had tried to distance himself from the issue; his rival in the state party was the..... More
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New-York: John A. Gray, Printer, 1860. First edition. 16mo, original printed self-wrappers, 29 pages. In the wake of John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid, long-time abolitionist Gerrit Smith (who had been one of the covert backers of the raid--the "Secret Six") was evidently so horrified once he realized the scope of..... More
