Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1836. xvi,[13]-238pp. 12mo. Original publisher's blue boards with black sheep spine, gilt. Boards rubbed, corners and spine moderately worn. Text lightly foxed. Scarce work addressing the anti-slavery work of George Thompson following his visit to America. Thompson (1804-1878) was British lecturer and reformer who worked as a......
Washington DC: June 7, 1844. Broadside, 12.25 x 7.75 inches. Light tanning, shallow marginal chips and some fraying to left and right edges. An unrecorded slip-bill printing of a House Resolution with a phenomenal back story involving an erudite, elusive, and resourceful Florida slave. The slip bill, authored by Howell.....
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[N.p. ca. 1864]. Lithograph, 14.5 x 20.5 inches. Noticeable toning, small areas of light discoloration along top margin, short closed tear to left edge, minor dust-soiling, numerous creases and wrinkles. About very good. A dramatic political cartoon issued during the Civil War and satirizing the dangerous influence of those who.....
Batesville, AR: January 11, 1840. [1]p., 4 x 5.5 inches, docketed on verso. Old horizontal fold, toning. Very good. An interesting manuscript record of slave care in Arkansas in the 1830s. The short but impactful document reads in full: "Recd of William McNight Admin. Of Hiram West Decd three dollars for.....
[Missouri: April 1, 1860]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Original mailing folds, minor toning. An informative letter written by Charles H. Cram in Missouri to a friend in New England, dated "April Fools Day 1860" in red pencil at the top of the first page. Cram mentions hoop skirts.....
[Cuba: 1873]. Twelve manuscript documents on folio sheets, approximately 8.5 x 12.5 inches, all with official rubber-stamped seal. Small pinholes along left margin, light wear, occasional chipping to edges, some ink bleed and light damp staining. Overall, very good. A collection of documents recording the liberation, or attempted liberation, of.....
Quincy, FL: January 1, 1864. [1]p. of manuscript, docketed on verso. Old crease, minor staining. Very good. A short but impactful and somewhat unusual document memorializing the inheritance of a young slave named "Anderson aged about twenty years" from a Florida estate in the penultimate year of the Civil War.....
Bourbon County, KY: [ca. 1814]. [2]pp. Old folds, toning, diagonal closed tear at middle of document. Good condition. A unique snapshot of the institution of slavery in antebellum Kentucky in a document providing appraisal prices for eight named enslaved persons, along with more than twenty horses, numerous cows, pigs, and other.....
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA: October 25, 1836. [1]p. on a single folded sheet, integral blank docketed on verso. Old folds, moderate toning and foxing, short closed tear along one fold line, a few small instances of ink burn. Overall good condition. An interesting document of legal testimony involving numerous.....
Frederick, MD: October 2, 1818. [1]p., docketed on verso. Roughly torn along bottom edge, minor foxing and spotting. Good condition. An uncommon document in Maryland slave history, in which George Baer, the future mayor of Frederick, and a few other men attest that another local citizen named Robert Lyles is.....
Frederick County, Md. March 7, 1788. [1]p., folio, docketed on verso. Old folds, short splits along a couple of fold lines, minor toning. An impactful manuscript document from the early national period in Maryland, formalizing the sale of a slave woman in Frederick County. The sale was made by Robertson.....
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St. Genevieve County, MO: January 18, 1844. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Original folds, minor wear. Very good condition. A sobering manuscript inventory from the estate of Richard Maddin following his death in Missouri in 1843 detailing his "slaves and other personal" property. The inventory begins by listing the.....
Howard County, Mo. 1822. Three documents totaling [3]pp. folio, the two earliest documents written on each side of the same leaf, with an integral blank, and attached to the third document with sealing wax, each document docketed on verso. Some short separations along folds, minor spotting, two short tape repairs.....
Roxboro, N.C. January 15, 1860. [2]pp. Wrinkled, previously folded. A few minor losses at folds, not affecting text. Two half-inch closed tears from edges. Light toning and foxing. After arriving in Roxboro, North Carolina, in mid-January 1860, planter J.C. Barnett writes to his friend and business partner, a Colonel Henry.....
Charleston, SC: Printed by Walker & Burke, February 7, 1850. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, 13 x 8 inches. Old folds, minor toning and offsetting. Very good. A very rare pre-printed form from antebellum South Carolina, designed specifically for documenting the sale of slaves in Charleston in the mid-19th century.....
[N.p., likely London: ca. 1890s]. Lithograph on silk handkerchief, approximately 24 x 24 inches, with additional lithographed scene printed around the outer margins in brown and blue ink. Previously matted and framed, with resultant edge wear and adhesive staining around margins. Old folds, some foxing and staining in image area.....
[Southampton, Va. ca. 1793-1835]. [8]pp. of manuscript, plus a loose sheet of manuscript measuring 12.5 x 4 inches, written within a book on family medicine. Book disbound, lacking title page and first text leaf, some gatherings and leaves loose or detached. Some age toning to manuscript leaves. A unique manuscript.....
Washington, D.C. 1839. [3]pp. Large folio. Separated into six pieces, with a very small section of the final attestation lacking altogether. Still highly readable. A wounded, but important document. A rare and historically-important document relating to slavery in the District of Columbia, which was outlawed on April 16, 1862, nearly.....
[Virginia and Alabama: 1819-1820]. Eight manuscript documents, totaling sixteen pages. Typical mailing folds and handling wear. Very good. Manuscript records from an extraordinary court case in modern-day West Virginia, in which a free person of color named Caesar Freeman (also known as Ceasar, Cesar, or Black Cesar) and his family.....
Philadelphia: Published by the Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Printed by Merrihew and Gunn, 1836. 24pp. Disbound. Ex-Vermont State Library, with embossed blindstamp and remnants of shelf label on title page and small numbered ink stamp on first page of text. Remnants of original wrappers along outer gutters, mostly minor foxing.....