 |
1804:
Ohio Black Codes |
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1807:
“The Meeting Continued All Night, Both by the White & Black People” -
Georgia Camp Meeting |
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|
1819:
"Improving
Female Education" - Emma Willard
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|
1820:
Hile v. Webb - divorce case regarding equity (Rhode Island
Supreme Court) |
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1820:
Moral Argument Against Calvinism - William Ellery
Channing |
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|
1820s-30s?:
“Their
Habits Of Order Are Carried to the Extreme” - A Lowell Mill Worker
Visits the Shakers |
|
|
1821:
The Manumission of Ann and Rufus Johnson (New Jersey) |
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|
1824:
Legal rights of the widow to the estate of her husband; Marriage and
Divorce laws - James Fennimore Cooper |
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|
1824:
Literary Knowledge of American Women - James Fennimore Cooper |
|
|
1824:
Manners of Young American Women; Their
Interaction with Bachelors - James Fennimore Cooper |
|
|
1824:
On
the Necessity of Male Chaperons - James Fennimore Cooper |
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|
1824:
On the Proper Occupations of Women in America
James Fennimore Cooper |
|
|
1825:
"Christian
Motherhood" etching
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1825: Womens'
Fashions: 1825-1840 - various pictures |
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|
1825-26:
Various Documents on Robert Owen's New Harmony
community
(additional documents) |
|
|
1826:
"The Common Schools of
Massachusetts" - James G. Carter's
Essays
on Popular
Education
|
|
|
1827:
Visit to a Shaker Village - Margaret Hall |
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|
1827:
Visit to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb; Visit to the
Prison - Margaret Hall |
|
|
1828:
Education for Females in America - Frances Trollope |
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|
1828:
Lyman
Beecher - "Six Sermons on Intemperance"
|
|
|
1829:
Letter
of Elizabeth Fry [a Quaker] to Sarah Smith on Prison Reform |
|
|
1829:
"The
Profession of a Woman" - Catherine Beecher |
|
|
1830:
“All To Me Was New and Strange” - Mary Doolittle Leaves Her Family for
a Shaker Community |
|
|
1830:
Antebellum Reform: The Shift to Immediatism - broadside |
|
|
1830:
"Niagara Falls" - painting
by Thomas Cole |
|
|
1830:
"The People at War" - Francis Wright from The Free Inquirer
(11/27) |
|
|
1830:
Rules
for Husbands and Wives
-
Mathew Carey |
|
|
1830:
"Six
Essays on Education" - George Henry Evans (Essay VI)
|
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|
1830:
Henry Clay letter on slavery |
|
|
1830s:
“My Heart Was So Full of Love That It Overflowed” - Charles Finney
Experiences Conversion |
|
|
1831:
Essay on American Government and Religion - Alexis de
Tocqueville |
|
|
1831:
The Liberator's inaugural edition (1/1) |
|
|
1831:
Prophet
John Smith Relays God's Message - speech |
|
|
1831:
Schooling
in Early 19c America -
American
Annals of Instruction |
|
|
1831:
William
Lloyd Garrison from The Liberator
|
|
|
1832:
African Americans Convene For Their Second National Convention |
|
|
1832:
Chapter VIII of Domestic Manners of the Americans - Mrs.
Frances Trollope |
|
|
1832:
Garrison's Exposure of the American Colonization
Society |
|
|
1832:
New England Anti-Slavery
Society's Thoughts on Colonization |
|
|
1833:
American
Anti-Slavery Society Constitution |
|
|
1833:
An
Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans - Lydia Maria Child (selected chapters) |
|
|
1833:
"Declaration of the anti-slavery convention assembled in Philadelphia"
(12/4) - broadside |
|
|
1833:
Philadelphia Declaration, National Anti-Slavery Society |
|
|
1833:
William
Sprague Describes Revivals |
|
|
1834-37:
Letters from a Bostonian Woman (1834-1837) |
|
|
1834:
Dr. Beecher's Address on Abolitionism & Colonization |
|
|
1834:
"The Peaceable Kingdom" -
painting by Edward Hicks |
|
|
1834:
"What a Revival of Religion Is" - Charles Finney |
|
|
1835:
The
Appeal to Moral Reform for Antebellum Northern Women - many docs.
(1835-1841) |
|
|
1835:
"The crime of the abolitionists ... Speech of Gerrit Smith, in the
meeting of the New-York anti-slavery society" - broadside |
|
|
1835:
First Annual
Report of the Female Moral Reform Society of the City of New York |
|
|
1835:
"Gentle Advice to
Teachers" - Jacob Abbot
|
|
|
1835:
John
Jay Shipherd's Pastoral Letter |
|
|
1835:
"Slavery and the Boston riot" - letter was written, shortly after the
pro-slavery riot in Boston by Angeline E. Grimke to William Lloyd
Garrison |
|
|
1835:
"What a Revival of a Religion Is"
- Charles
Finney
|
|
|
1835:
"What Colonization Means" -
The Anti-Slavery Record |
|
|
1836:
Narrative of the Late Riotous Proceedings Against the Liberty of the
Press - The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society
|
|
|
1837:
"The American Scholar" - Ralph Waldo Emerson - speech
given to the Phi Beta Kappa Society
at Harvard University |
|
|
1837:
Catherine
Beecher Condemns Abolitionism |
|
|
1837:
"The
Christian's Harp" - Samuel Wakefield - revival song |
|
|
1837:
"Concord Hymn"
by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
|
1837:
First Annual Meeting of the American Moral Reform
Society |
|
|
1837:
"The
Murder of Lovejoy" - Wendell Phillips (12/8) |
|
|
1837:
"Outrage!" -
abolitionist handbill
(2/27) |
|
|
1838:
"Just Treatment of Licentious Men. Addressed to Christian
Mothers, Wives Sisters, and Daughters" - Friend of Virtue |
|
|
1838:
"A Lecture on the Importance of Education" - broadside |
|
|
1838:
"Abolitionists of Massachusetts" - circular (3 pages) |
|
|
1838:
Letters to Mothers (excerpts) - Mrs. L. H. Sigourney |
|
|
1838:
"Moral Influence on the Husband" - chapter 36 in From the Young
Wife by William A. Alcott |
|
|
1838:
Speech to the
Harvard Divinity School (7/15) - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
|
1838:
Thoughts on
Miss S. M. Grimke's 'Duties of Woman,'" Advocate
of Moral
Reform |
|
|
1839:
E.
W. Clay's Amalgamation cartoons (4) |
|
|
1839:
Excerpt from
"Essay Read at a monthly prayer meeting of an auxiliary Female
Moral Reform Society," Advocate of Moral
Reform
(11/1) |
|
|
1839:
Liberty Party Platform |
|
|
1839:
On the Conditions of the Free People of Color in the
United States, Anti-Slavery Examiner 13 New York, 1839 |
|
|
1839:
Reverend M'Ilvaine Denounces Intemperance |
|
|
1840:
Daniel
O'Connell to Lucretia Mott, "With Reference to the Rejection of Female
Delegates by the World's Convention in London" (6/20) |
|
|
1840:
Diary
excerpts from
Lucretia
Mott's Diary of Her Visit to Great Britain to Attend the World's
Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 |
|
|
1840:
On the Evaluation of the Laboring Classes - William Ellery
Channing |
|
|
1840:
"Hints to Young Ladies on an Important Subject,"
Advocate of Moral
Reform
(8/1) |
|
|
1840:
“I Believe in the Divinity of Labor” - George Ripley Tries to Convince
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Join Brook Farm, Boston |
|
|
1840:
"Social Destiny of Man" - The United States Democratic Review /
Volume 8, Issue 35, November - December 1840 |
|
|
1840:
"The True Heart of Woman" - song lyrics by Mrs. WIlson |
|
|
1841:
"A
Letter from Brook Farm" - Nathaniel Hawthorne |
|
|
1841:
"A Second Declaration of Independence…" - J. W. Goodrich |
|
|
1841:
The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 |
|
|
1841: Arguments
of John Q. Adams Before the Supreme Court
|
|
|
1841:
For the Cause of God and Man - John Quincy Adams against the slave
trade, diary entry (3/29) |
|
|
1841:
"My Mother's Bible" - song lyrics by Henry Russell; the poetry
by George P. Morris, Esq. |
|
|
1841:
"Self-Reliance"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
|
1841:
"Slavery" in
The Works of William Ellery Channing |
|
|
1841:
The
Supreme Court Decision on the Amistad Case |
|
|
1841:
A
Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at
Home and at School
- Catherine
E. Beecher |
|
|
1841:
"What is it, to
'Cease from Man?'" Editorial, Advocate of Moral
Reform
(10/1) |
|
|
1842:
American
Notes -
Charles Dickens (Massachusetts Asylum for the
Blind; Meeting
Laura Bridgeman) |
|
|
1842:
Miller's Camp Meeting at Salem, MA - The Herald
(10/22) |
|
|
1842:
"The Peace Movement" - The United States Democratic Review /
Volume 10, Issue 44, February 1842 |
|
|
1842:
Prigg v.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842) |
|
|
1842:
Temperance Address - Abraham Lincoln (Springfield Washington Temperance Society |
|
|
1842:
"Transcendentalism" - essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
|
1842:
"The Transcendentalist" - essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
|
1843:
"Anti-Slavery
and the Second Advent" - article by Luther Boutelle in The
Liberator (5/5) |
|
|
1843:
Back
cover with illustration for
The
American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1843 |
|
|
1843:
Dorothea
Dix Speaks Out On Behalf of Insane Persons |
|
|
1843:
"The
End of the World" - James Kirke Paulding in Graham's Magazine
(March) |
|
|
1843:
"Massachusetts
to Virginia" - poem by John Greenlief Whittier |
|
|
1844:
A
newspaper article from The Phalanx on Utopian Socialism |
|
|
1844:
Report of the National Reform Union |
|
|
1844:
"Temperance
pledge filled in by Neil James Sweeney, 28 of March" - broadside |
|
|
1845:
"The Abolitionists" - The United States Democratic Review /
Volume 16, Issue 79, January 1845 |
|
|
1845:
Anti-Rent State Convention in Berne, NY (1/15) |
|
|
1845:
John
Humphrey Noyes and Bible Communism |
|
|
1845:
"Mr. Emerson and Transcendentalism" - The American Whig Review
/ Volume 1, Issue 3, Mar 1845 |
|
|
1845:
Narrative
and Life of Frederick Douglass excerpts |
|
|
1845:
"That dark
side of domestic life.." - letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to her
Husband, Calvin Stowe |
|
|
1846:
"Christian
Non-Resistance" - Adin Balou |
|
|
1846:
"The
political and military reformer. Devoted to the support of truly
Republican principles -- of a well disciplined militia -- of an
American system of education, and of sound literature and science.
[Prospectus] 1/30 - broadside |
|
|
1846:
"Political Corruption" - The American Whig Review / Volume 3,
Issue 5, May 1846 |
|
|
1846:
Tenth Annual
Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts State
Board of
Education - Horace
Mann |
|
|
1846:
Martha Washington Salem Union No.
6., Daughters of Temperance -
a portion of the charter of an early women's temperance union |
|
|
1847:
Average
Monthly Salaries, Including Board, of Teachers in 1847
(towards bottom of page) |
|
|
1847:
Letters on the
Masonic Institution
- John Quincy Adams |
|
|
1847:
"Report
on Abolition" - National Convention of Colored People |
|
|
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) |
|
|
1848:
Brown's Anti-Slavery Harp - a
compendium of abolitionist song lyrics (48 songs) |
|
|
1848:
The
Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls Convention |
|
|
1848:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Answers Newspaper Critics - National
Reformer (9/14) |
|
|
1848:
The
North Star
on Seneca Falls |
|
|
1848:
"Poverty and Misery, Versus Reform and Progress" - The United
States Democratic Review / Volume 23, Issue 121, July 1848
|
|
|
1848: "Report
from the Massachusetts Board of Education" - Horace Mann |
|
|
1848:
"Rev. Sir:-- The American Colonization Society to which this is,
auxiliary, has sent out the following companies of emigrants, nearly
all emancipated slaves within the year ... Colonization Office",
Boston (6/15) - broadside |
|
|
1848:
The
Resolutions at Rochester |
|
|
1848:
"The Widow and Her Son" - from Water-Drops by Lydia Howard
Sigourney |
|
|
1849:
The Decision to Publish The Scarlet Letter |
|
|
1849:
"Frederick Douglass on Colonization"
North Star (1/26) |
|
|
1849:
On
the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- Henry David Thoreau |
|
|
1850:
"Abolition vs. Christianity and the Union" - The United States
Democratic Review / Volume 27, Issue 145, July 1850 |
|
|
1850:
An
Appeal to the Ladies of America" - Rev. A. L. Stone in The National
Temperance Offering |
|
|
1850:
"Argument on Woman's Rights," by H.H. Van Amringe, as reprinted in the
Proceedings of the 1850 Convention |
|
|
1850:
"A Controversial War" -
Ramon Alcaraz et al., eds. The Other Side: Or Notes for the History
of the War Between Mexico and the United States (New York: 1850),
2-3, 30-32 |
|
|
1850:
"The Drunkard's Home" - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell in The National
Temperance Offering |
|
|
1850:
Godey's
Lady Book Online |
|
|
1850:
"Grand
Demonstration of Petticoatdom at Worcester--The 'Woman's Rights'
Convention in Full blast--Important and Interesting Report" -
Boston Daily Mail, Evening Edition, Friday (10/25) |
|
|
1850:
The Lady at Home, or, Leaves from the Every-Day Book of
an American Woman - T. S. Arthur |
|
|
1850:
Letter from Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall to Paulina Wright Davis in The
Liberator (11/8) on prostitution |
|
|
1850:
Materials Related to
the 1850 Women's Rights Convention (many different documents) |
|
|
1850:
"Only a Year" - poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
|
|
1850:
The
Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester
(10/23-24) |
|
|
1850:
"The Temperance Home" - Mrs. E. Jessup Eames in The National
Temperance Offering |
|
|
1850:
"The
Vacant Chair" - poem by Richard Coe, Jr. in Godey's Lady's Book
(Jan.) |
|
|
1850:
"Woman's Mission," by Ebenezer Elliot. The North Star (10/3) |
|
|
1850:
"Women's
Rights Convention" - as reported in The New York Herald,
Saturday (10/26) |
|
|
1850:
Woman's Rights Convention and People of Color," The North Star
(12/5) - Parker Pillsbury |
|
|
1851:
"Ain't
I A Woman?" - Sojourner Truth |
|
|
1851:
"Dancing as a Means of Physical Education" - Mrs.
Alfred Webster |
|
|
1851:
George W.
Putnam, "A Poem," for the Woman's Rights Convention, Proceedings of
the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio |
|
|
1851:
Letter from Elizabeth Blackwell to Baroness Anne
Isabella Milbanke Byron concerning women's rights and the education of
women physicians (3/4) |
|
|
1851:
"Temperance" - The United States Democratic Review / Volume 29,
Issue 158, August 1851 |
|
|
1851:
The True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman; with a History of an
Enterprise Having That for its Object
-
Catherine E. Beecher [written as a series of letters to her sister,
Harriet Beecher Stowe] |
|
|
1852:
Exposure of the American Colonization Society - William Lloyd Garrison |
|
|
1852:
Frederick
Douglass "Independence Day" Speech |
|
|
1852:
Married Women's Property Act - Acts of the
Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of New Jersey (Somerville,
1852), 407 |
|
|
1852:
Report
of the Massachusetts Committee on the Qualifications of Voters |
|
|
1852:
Uncle's Tom
Cabin
caricatures
|
|
|
1852:
Uncle
Tom's Cabin
excerpt - Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
|
|
1852-53:
American Book Reviews of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
|
|
1853:
Colonization Editorial, New York Herald (4/12) |
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|
