 |
1804:
Ohio Black Codes |
|
|
1807:
“The Meeting Continued All Night, Both by the White & Black People” -
Georgia Camp Meeting |
|
|
1819:
"Improving
Female Education" - Emma Willard
|
|
|
1820:
Hile v. Webb - divorce case regarding equity (Rhode Island
Supreme Court) |
|
|
1820:
Moral Argument Against Calvinism - William Ellery
Channing |
|
|
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) |
|
|
1824:
Legal rights of the widow to the estate of her husband; Marriage and
Divorce laws - James
Fennimore Cooper |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1824:
On the Proper Occupations of Women in America
James Fennimore Cooper |
|
|
1825:
"Christian
Motherhood" etching
|
|
|
1825: Womens'
Fashions: 1825-1840 - various pictures |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1827:
Visit to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb; Visit to the
Prison - Margaret Hall |
|
|
1828:
Education for Females in America - Frances Trollope |
|
|
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:
Rules
for Husbands and Wives
-
Mathew Carey |
|
|
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:
William Lloyd Garrison from
The Liberator -
"To the Public" |
|
|
1832:
African Americans Convene For Their Second National Convention |
|
|
1832:
Chapter VIII of Domestic Manners of the Americans - Mrs.
Frances Trollope |
|
|
1832:
"Defense of Slavery" - Thomas R. Dew |
|
|
1832:
Garrison's Exposure of the American Colonization
Society |
|
|
1833:
American
Anti-Slavery Society Constitution |
|
|
1833:
An
Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans -
Lydia Maria Child (selected chapters) |
|
|
1833:
Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society (12/4) |
|
|
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:
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 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:
Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States
- Samuel F. B. Morse |
|
|
1835:
John
Jay Shipherd's Pastoral Letter |
|
|
1835: Postmaster's
Report on Seizure of Abolition Mailings
|
|
|
1835:
"Slavery and the Boston riot" - letter was written, shortly after the
pro-slavery riot in Boston by Angeline E. Grimké 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
Harvard University |
|
|
1837:
Anti-Catholic petition from 97 electors in Washington County, New
York to the U.S. Congress |
|
|
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:
Gag Rule Controversy, Petition Purporting to Come from Slaves - John
Quincy Adams speech in the House (2/6) |
|
|
1837:
Legal Disabilities of Women Letters - Sarah Grimké (9/6) |
|
|
1837:
"The
Murder of Lovejoy" - Wendell Phillips (12/8) |
|
|
1837:
"Outrage!" -
abolitionist handbill
(2/27) |
|
|
1837:
Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Massachusetts (6/28)
concerning anti-slavery and women's rights |
|
|
1837:
Reception of Abolition Petitions - John C. Calhoun |
|
|
1837:
Sarah Grimké response to the above pastoral letter (July) |
|
|
1837:
"Slavery as a positive good" - speech by Senator John C. Calhoun (2/6) |
|
|
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:
Address at Pennsylvania Hall - Angelina Grimké |
|
|
1838:
Letter of Gerrit Smith to Hon. Henry Clay
|
|
|
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. Grimké'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:
Diary
excerpts from
Lucretia
Mott's Diary of Her Visit to Great Britain to Attend the World's -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:
Letter from Lucretia Mott to Maria Weston Chapman, 29 July |
|
|
1840:
"Social Destiny of Man" -
The United States Democratic Review /
Volume 8, Issue 35, November - December |
|
|
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:
"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:
Prigg v.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 |
|
|
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:
"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 |
|
|
1845:
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery - Lysander Spooner |
|
|
1846:
"American
Slavery and Britain's Rebuke of Man-Stealers: An Address Delivered
in Bridgwater, England, on August 31, 1846 - Frederick Douglass -
Bridgwater
Times (9/3) |
|
|
1846:
"Christian
Non-Resistance" - Adin Balou |
|
|
1846:
A letter from Gerrit Smith to the Liberty Party |
|
|
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:
"Slavery as it Now Exists in the United States: An Address
Delivered in Bristol, England on August 25, 1846" - Frederick
Douglass - Bristol
Mercury and Western
Counties Advertiser (8/29) |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1847:
"The Skin Aristocracy in America: An Address Delivered in
Coventry, England, February 2, 1847." - Frederick Douglass -
Coventry Herald and Observer (2/5)
|
|
|
1848:
Address of the Liberty Party
to the
Colored People of the Northern States |
|
|
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:
Horace Mann on Education and National Welfare
- Twelfth Annual Report of Horace Mann as Secretary of Massachusetts State Board of
Education |
|
|
1848:
The Law of Progress - Lucretia Mott
(5/9) |
|
|
1848:
The Liberty Party of the United States, to the People of the
United States |
|
|
1848:
The Liberty Party platform of 1848 |
|
|
1848:
New York Married Women's Property Law |
|
|
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:
"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 Solitude of Self
- an address
before the Committee of the Judiciary of the U. S. - Elizabeth Cady
Stanton (1/18) |
|
|
1848:
"We
have decided to stay" speech delivered to the American Anti-Slavery
Society in NY - Frederick Douglass (5/9) |
|
|
1848:
"The Widow and Her Son" - from
Water-Drops by Lydia Howard
Sigourney |
|
|
1849:
"Frederick Douglass on Colonization"
North Star (1/26) |
|
|
1849:
Liberty Party platform of 1849 |
|
|
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:
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:
"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:
The Wide, Wide World - Susan Bogert Warner |
|
|
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' rights and the education of
women physicians (3/4) |
|
|
1851:
"Temperance" -
The United States Democratic Review / Volume 29,
Issue 158, August |
|
|
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:
Liberty Party platform of 1852 |
|
|
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
Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
|
|
1852-53:
American Book Reviews of
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
|
|
1853:
Colonization Editorial,
New York Herald (4/12) |
|
|
1853:
Proceedings of the Women's Rights Convention |
|
|
1853:
A Sermon "Of the public function of woman, preached at the
Music
Hall" (3/27/1853) by
Theodore Parker |
|
|
1853:
William
Lloyd Garrison at the Woman's Rights Convention (9/6) |
|
|
1854: "Economy"
(Chapter 1) of
Walden - Henry David Thoreau |
|
|
1854:
"What is Home Without a Mother?" - song lyrics by Alice Hawthorne |
|
|
1854:
"Slavery
in Massachusetts" - speech by Henry David Thoreau |
|
|
1855:
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (also has links to later
editions) |
|
|
1855:
Preface
to
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman |
|
|
1856:
"Mother, Home and Heav'n" - song lyrics by Frank Drayton |
|
|
1857:
"Niagara Falls" -
painting by Frederic Edwin Church |
|
|
1857:
"We
Must Educate!" - page from
The McGuffey Reader |
|
|
1858:
Consistent democracy. The elective franchise for women.
|
|
|
1858:
A
Woman's Thoughts About Women
-
Dinah Marie Mulock Craik |
|
|
1859:
"Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet,"
Atlantic Monthly
(Feb.) -
Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
|
|
1859:
Slave letter written by an unidentified slave |
|
|
1875:
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." |
|
|
1876:
"Conversion to Christ" from
Memoirs of Reverend Charles G. Finney |
|
|
1902:
"Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dies at Her Home" -
New York Times
(10/27) |
