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1835:
Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation
- Oliver Bolokitten, Esq." (pseudonym)
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1836:
"Appeal to the Christian
Women of the South" - Angelina Grimké
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1837:
"The Blessings of Slavery" - Anonymous
Editorial in the New York newspaper Plaindealer (2/25/1837)
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1837:
“The Happiest
Laboring Class in the World” - Two Virginia
Slaveholders Debate Methods of Slave
Management
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1837:
Letters on the Equality of
the Sexes and the Condition of Woman - Sarah
Grimke
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1837:
"Outrage.
Fellow Citizens, An abolitionist, of the
most revolting character is among you,
exciting the feelings of the North against
the South. A seditious lecture is to be
delivered this evening, at 7 o'clock, at the
Presbyterian
church in Cannon-street ... The Union
forever! Feb. 27, 1837" - broadside
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1837:
"A Subordinate Position in Society" -
Catherine Beecher
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1837:
Moses Roper is punished for
attempting to run away
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1837:
"Slavery Is a Positive Good" - John C.
Calhoun
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1837:
“Time Did Not Reconcile Me To
My Chains” - Charles Ball’s Journey to SC
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1838:
Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at
Pennsylvania Hall
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1838:
The Break-Up of a Slave Family, GA
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1838:
"Cotton.
Its Connection with Manufactures in the
United States" - The United States
Democratic Review / Volume 2, Issue 5,
April 1838
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1838:
"European's Views of American Democracy -
No. II.." - The United States Democratic
Review / Volume 2, Issue 8, July 1838
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1838:
Letter by Franklin Pierce on Slavery
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1838:
Letter by John C. Calhoun on Slavery
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1838:
Letter by William Henry Harrison on "The
Federal Consensus" on Slavery
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1839:
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of A
Thousand Witnesses
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1839: "Personal Narratives" - Theodore Weld's
American Slavery As It Is
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1839:
"Three
Hundred Dollars Reward"
- broadside issued by William K. Ish and
Joseph L. Hawling to recover three slaves
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1839:
The Nation of the Future
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1840:
Report on Political Antislavery - Gerrit
Smith
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1840?:
"Slavery abolished by the laws of nature!!!
Negroes not of the same species with white
men!!! The mulatto race will soon cease to
exist!! [Regarding courses of lectures in
aid of the abolition of slavery in the
United States to be given by
Robert Grabt] [Phila. 184-?]" - broadside
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1841: Arguments
of John Q. Adams Before the Supreme Court
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1841:
“It Was a Mournful Scene
Indeed” - Solomon Northrup Remembers the New
Orleans Slave Market
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1841:
John Quincy Adams' Argument Concerning the
Amistad case
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1841:
New Orleans Slave Auction
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1842:
"Negroes for sale. Will be sold at public
auction, at Spring Hill, in the County of
Hempstead, on a credit of twelve months, on
Friday the 28th day this present month .
Spring Hill, [Ark.] Jan. 6th" - broadside
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1843:
An Address to the Slaves of the United
States - Henry Garnet - "A Call to
Rebellion"
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1843:
Anti-Slavery and Anti-Abolitionist Images
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1843:
"Old Color'd Gentleman" -
song lyrics and tune by Dan Emmett
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1843:
Slavery's Pleasant Homes
- Lydia Maria Child (abolitionist fiction)
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1844:
“I Subscribe Myself a Friend
to the Oppressed” - Henry Bibb Writes to his
Former Master
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1844?:
Slavery and Liberty--'E. Pluribus Unum!' -
broadside
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1845:
Letter on the Liberty Party and Political
Antislavery - Gerrit Smith
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1846:
Lewis Clarke, a
slave, describes the implements his mistress
used to beat him
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1846:
"Slaves
and Slavery" - The United States
Democratic Review / Volume 19, Issue
100, Oct 1846
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1847:
Daguerreotypes of Pierce Butler, GA
plantation owner (1847-1850s)
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1847:
"Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated
to Charles Campbell by Isaac"
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1847:
"Resistance" - Donaciano Vigil
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1848:
The
Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for
Anti-Slavery Meetings,
Compiled by William W. Brown, A Fugitive
Slave (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848)
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1848:
Slave Codes of the State of Georgia
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1849:
"Nelly Was a Lady" - song lyrics and tune by
Stephen Foster
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1849:
"The Southern Address" - John C. Calhoun
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1850:
"Following the Drinking Gourd" - song lyrics
of the Underground Railroad (1850s?)
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1850:
"Higher Law" speech - William Henry Seward
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1850:
The Impending Crisis - excerpt by
Hinton Helper
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1850:
Narrative of the
life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an
American slave, written by himself. With an
introd. by Lucius C. Matlack.
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1850:
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth -
written by Olive Gilbert (full text)
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1850:
"Southern
Views of Emancipation and of the Slave
Trade" - The American Whig Review /
Volume 11, Issue 28, Apr 1850
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1850s:
"The Negro Woman's Appeal to Her White
Sisters" Richard Barrett, ca. 1850s
Broadside
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1851:
"Ain't I A Woman?" - Sojourner Truth
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1851:
"The
Fugitive Slave Law" - The American Whig
Review / Volume 13, Issue 77, May 1851
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1851:
"Uses
and Abuses of Lynch Law" - The American
Whig Review / Volume 13, Issue 75, Mar
1851
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1852:
"An American Slave Market" - oil painting
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1852:
“My Master Has Sold Albert to
a Trader” - Maria Perkins Writes to Her
Husband
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1852:
Thomas R. Dew Defends Slavery
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1852:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
excerpt - Harriet Beecher Stowe
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1852:
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher
Stowe (full text)
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1853:
The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign -
Henry Carey
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1853:
"Slavery and the Slave Power in the United
States" - The United States Democratic
Review / Volume 32, Issue 4, Apr 1853
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1853:
"Slavery is Not a Sin" - Governor John H.
Hammond (SC)
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1853:
Sojourner Truth- "What Time
of Night It Is"
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1853:
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon
Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in
Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853
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1854:
"A Pious Slave" - Frederick Law Olmstead
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1854:
Appeal of the Independent Democrats
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1854:
Do You Dance In Your Own Country?
Frederick Law Olmstead
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1854:
"The Slave Mother" - poem by Frances Ellen
Watkins Harper
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1854:
Sociology for the South - George
Fitzhugh (excerpts)
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1855:
The Christian Slave- A
Drama - Harriet
Beecher Stowe
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1855:
Excerpt from William Grayson's, "The
Hireling and the Slave"
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1855:
Narratives of Escaped Slaves - Benjamin Drew
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1855:
"The Public Hiring of Free Negroes" -
broadside
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1855:
Slave Purchases and Breeding: Unruly Slave -
letter by G. B. Wallace
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1856:
"The Hireling and a Slave" - poem by William
J. Grayson
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1856:
"A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States" -
Frederick Law Olmstead (1856, 1860)
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1856: "Songs of the Blacks" -
Dwight's Journal
of Music (11/15)
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1857:
Autobiography
of a Female Slave - Martha Griffith
Browne
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1857:
"The Blessings of Slavery" - George Fitzhugh
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1857:
Cannibals All!!
- George Fitzhugh
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1857:
"The Life of Plantation Field Hands" from
James Sterling's
Letters from the Slave
States
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1857:
Vilet Lester letter (former slave) to Miss
Patsey Patterson (her former slave mistress)
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1858:
Fifty Years in Chains; Or, the Life of an
American Slave - Charles Ball
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1858:
James Henry
Hammond On the Admission of Kansas, Under
the Lecompton Constitution ("Cotton is
King") - Speech before the U. S. Senate
(3/4)
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1859:
Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a
Free Black - Harriet Wilson (full text)
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1860:
Cotton is King! - E. N. Elliott
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1860: Distribution
of Slaveholders by Size of Holdings - 1860
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1860:
"Expulsion of Negroes and Abolitionists from
Tremont Temple" -
Harper's Weekly (12/3)
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1860:
"A Plea for
Free Speech in Boston" - Frederick Douglass
(12/4)
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1860:
Ratio of Slaveholders to Families, 1850 -
statistical chart
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1860:
Reaction to Lincoln's Election - The
Charleston Mercury (12/1860)
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1860:
South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate
(12/24/1860)
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1878:
Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman
of olden time, emancipated by the New York
Legislature in the early part of the present
century; with a history of her labors and
correspondence drawn from her "Book of
life."
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1881:
"My Escape from Slavery" - Frederick
Douglass
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1885:
George P. Parker, Conductor,
on the Underground Railroad (as recollected
in 1885)
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1889:
The Life of Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Compiled from Her Letters and
Journals by Her
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