Providence, Rhode Island: H.H. Brown, 1833. Lacking wraps. [12pp] booklet measuring 5 x 8 inches. A short booklet reproducing a series of abolitionist principles attributed to the Providence Anti-Slavery Society alongside William Lloyd Garrison’s Declaration of Sentiments from the 1833 convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia. This section.....
Birmingham, United Kingdom: c. 1814. Copper medal measuring 1 ½ inches in diameter. A copper medal commemorating the passage of the United Kingdom’s Slave Trade Act 1807, produced for distribution in Sierra Leone. One side depicts a European and an African man shaking hands and reads, “WE ARE ALL BRETHREN”.....
London, England: Ellerton and Henderson, 1823. Three page document measuring 8 ½ x 13 ¼ inches. A document produced by the Society for Mitigating and Gradually Abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions, better known as the Anti-Slavery Society. The group was founded in London in 1823 by.....
United States: N.d. Thirty-one pages: three typed pages with editorial marks measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches; twenty-eight pages of handwritten notes measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ and smaller. Content warning: This description mentions sexual assault. Alex Haley (1921–1992) was an African American author, known for his bestselling.....
Charlestown, Massachusetts: November 1862. Autograph letter signed, Sam A. Brown, four pages, written to his brother George, then serving in the Union Army. 3pp, 4 ½ x 7 inches. A revealing Massachusetts home front letter written on the eve of the November 1862 elections, a month after Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation.....
Portsmouth, Virginia: April 26, 1865. Seven-page letter on two folded leaves measuring 5 x 8 inches, signed “Your Own Devoted Jim.”. A long April 1865 letter from a Union soldier in Portsmouth, Virginia, written less than three weeks after Lee’s surrender and eleven days after Lincoln’s death. Writing to “My.....
Wilcox County, Alabama: November 1857. Two documents, totaling five double-sided pages measuring 8 x 13 inches and six double-sided pages measuring 7 ½ x 12 inches. Two legal documents from an Alabama chancery court suit brought against Susannah Nettles by her husband, James C. Nettles, concerning ownership of an enslaved.....
Lafayette, Ohio: July 11, 1861. Autograph letter signed, 2 pp. Addressed to D. T. Chapin of Enfield, Connecticut. A concise but revealing early Civil War letter combining financial anxiety, agricultural reporting, and clear-eyed political commentary on slavery and the future course of the conflict. Writing amid the first months of.....
Monrovia, Liberia: April 16, 1857. Autograph letter signed, 10 ½ x 8 ¼ inches. 4 pp. on bifolium, addressed to Benjamin Coates of Philadelphia. Black circular “Phila by Packet, May 29, paid,” additional manuscript postmark “Via England / Rev. ….. “. A letter from Edward Wilmot Blyden, written at the.....
New York City: April 7, 1860. Autograph letter signed “W.,” to “Dear John,” written on the printed letterhead of Thomas Vernon, attorney, Nassau Street, New York. 4 pp., on a single 8 x 10 inch sheet folded to make four pages of approximately 8 x 5 inches. An April 1860.....
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Savannah, Georgia: December 10, 1850. Autograph letter signed, E. Crane, to Fisher & Co. 2pp, 7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches. A revealing cotton market letter written from Savannah in the immediate aftermath of the Compromise of 1850 and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act. Addressed to a Northern.....
Lawrence, Kansas Territory: November 24, [1850s]. Autograph letter signed “O. S. Hemps[?],” addressed to Mr. Harvey Safford. Two pages measuring 5x 8 inches. With envelope postmarked “LAWRENCE K.T.” Letter folded with some discoloration along folds, with small chip at top left margin. An excellent Free-State Kansas letter written from Lawrence.....
South Carolina and others: 1850–1860. Approximately 125pp with each item usually about 1 page. A collection of mainly letters with some documents sent to the law firm Spain & Richardson of South Carolina—Albertus Chambers Spain (1821–1881), who in 1860 would sign the state’s Ordinance of Secession, and James Sanders Guignard.....
Cape May, New Jersey: July 25, 1856. Folded sheet with letter on three of four pages, measuring 8 ½ x 7 ¼ inches. In May 1856, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts delivered his incendiary “Crime Against Kansas” speech condemning slavery’s expansion into the territories and attacking the architects of the.....
Austin County, Texas: August 1858. Ledger measuring 7 ½ x 12 inches. Approximately forty-five pages filled out with remainder blank. Spine broken and some pages detached; pages with wear but legible; cover quite worn. Austin County, Texas, was the first Anglo-American colony in Mexican Texas, founded in about 1821 by.....