Research Catalog

Title

Autographs for freedom.

Publication

• Boston : John P. Jewett and Co. ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington ; London : Low and Company, 1853.
• ©1853.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Griffiths, Julia, -1895
• Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society.
• Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, publisher.
• John P. Jewett & Co., publisher.
• Low and Company, publisher.
• Allen and Farnham, printer.

Description

viii, 263, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles; 20 cm. (12mo)

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Autographs > Facsimiles
• Slavery > United States

Note

• A collection of signed articles, poems, etc., by men and women prominent in the anti-slavery movement. Most of the signatures are in facsimile.
• Preface signed: On behalf of "The Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society," Julia Griffiths, secretary.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by John P. Jewett & Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts."--verso of title page.
• "Allen and Farnham, printers, Cambridge."--verso of title page.
• Frontispiece plate included in pagination.
• Frontispiece plate signed: Kilburn, del. G.H. Hayes.

Indexed In (note)

• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Be up and doing / Hon. Wm. H. Seward -- Caste and Christ / Mrs. H.E.B. Stowe -- Letter from the Earl of Carlisle to Mrs. H.B. Stowe -- Momma Charlotte / Mrs. C.M. Kirkland -- A name / Hon. Horace Mann -- Letter from Joseph Sturge -- Slavery and Polygamy / R. Hildreth -- The way / John G. Whittier -- The slave and slave-owner / Miss Sedgwick -- Letter from the Bishop of Oxford -- Hide the outcasts / Rev. William Goodell -- Can slaves rightfully resist and fight? / Rev. Geo. W. Perkins -- Death in life / Ebenezer Button -- True reform / Mrs. C.W.H. Dall -- Letter from Wilson Armistead -- Imporomptu stanzas / J.M. Eells -- John Murray of Glasgow / James M'Cune Smith -- Power of American example / Lewis Tappan -- The gospel as a remedy for slavery / Lewis Tappan -- Letter from Rev. C.G. Finney -- The slave's prayer / Miss C.E. Beecher -- The struggle / Hon. Charles Sumner -- Work and wait / Horace Greeley -- The great emancipation / Gerrit Smith -- Ode / Rev. John Pierpont -- Passages in the life of a slave woman / Annie Parker -- Story telling / Annie Parker -- The man-owner / Rev. E. Buckingham -- Damascus in 1851 / Rev. F.W. Holland - Religious, moral and political duties / Lindley Murray Moore -- Why slavery is in the Constitution / James G. Birney -- The two altars / Mrs. H.B. Stowe -- Outline of a man / Rev. R.R. Raymond -- The heroic slave woman / Rev. S.J. May -- Kossuth / John Thomas -- The heroic slave / Frederick Douglass -- A plea for free speech / Prof. J.H. Raymond -- Placido / Prof. W.G. Allen.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.4-G (Griffiths, J. Autographs for freedom. Boston, 1853)

LCCN

10018084

OCLC

• 3025974
• NYPGR3025974-B

Title

Autographs for freedom.

Publisher

Boston : John P. Jewett and Co. ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington ; London : Low and Company, 1853.

Copyright Date

©1853.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 1033

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 4370

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.4-G (accession no. B544699) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-16402.

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Added Author

Griffiths, Julia, -1895, editor.

Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society.

Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, publisher.

John P. Jewett & Co., publisher.

Low and Company, publisher.

Allen and Farnham, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.4-G (Griffiths, J. Autographs for freedom. Boston, 1853)