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1797:
White Slaveowners Fear that the Haitian Revolution Has
Arrived in Charleston, SC |
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1800:
"Pictorial
illustration of abolitionism. Its rise, progress and end. Vol.
II . - Pictorial history of the
cause of the great rebellion .. Liberty,
equality and fraternity" - broadside |
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1808:
Washington's Black Code |
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1812:
Washington's Black Code |
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1815:
Request of
a Free Black Person to Remain in Virginia
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1817:
Meeting of
Free People of Color of Richmond, Virginia |
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1822:
Denmark
Vesey brought before the Court |
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1822:
Exposition
on Slavery
- Richard Furman |
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1822:
"Reflections, Occasioned by the late Disturbances in Charleston "
(11/4) |
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1823-52:
Slave Sale
Broadsides |
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1824:
Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Stephen
Grellet, Quaker - observations and remarks
on slavery |
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1826:
Biographical
Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour to Which is
Added, A
Selection of Pieces of Poetry - A. Mott |
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1826:
Description
of Levi Coffin's Underground Railroad station |
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1827:
The First African American Newspaper Appears - from
Freedom's
Journal,
(3/16) |
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1828:
"Life in Philadelphia" - political cartoon by Edward Williams Clay |
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1828:
Jim Crow
caricature |
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1829:
Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World - David Walker |
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1830:
Essay on Temperance by Edward Hitchcock |
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1831:
“Elevate Us to a Free and Independent Position” - William J. Brown
Looks for Work |
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1831:
Nat
Turner's "Confession" |
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1831:
Nat Turner's Rebellion - assorted documents |
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1831:
The Richmond
Enquirer
on Nat Turner's Rebellion (8/30/1831) |
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1832: "The
American Colonization Society" - The New-England Magazine /
Volume 2, Issue 4, April |
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1832:
"I Am a True Born American" -
Excerpt from a lecture delivered by Maria Stewart at the Franklin
Hall, Boston (9/21) |
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1834:
Burning of a
Charleston Ursuline Convent - Boston Evening
Transcript (8/12/1834) |
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1834: "Kidnapping a free Negro to be sold into slavery" - woodcut |
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1835:
"The Negro's Complaint" - poem by Mariah Stewart |
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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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1836:
Narrative of the Late Riotous Proceedings Against
the Liberty of the Press - The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society,
Cincinnati |
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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:
Letter by E. W. Taylor, a pro-slave New Yorker |
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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:
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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1837-38:
Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson Slave Letters (collections of
several docs.) |
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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 Senator 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:
Mississippi Married Women's Property Act |
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1839:
Slave Trade Book |
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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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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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1841:
Some of the Duties of an Abolitionist - Gerrit Smith |
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1841:
A Treatise on Domestic Economy (Chapter I) - Catherine
Beecher |
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1842:
"Negroes
for sale. Will be sold at public auction, at Spring Hill, in the
County of Hempstead, credit of twelve months, on Friday the 28th
day this present month . Spring Hill, [Ark.] Jan.
6th" - broadside |
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1842:
The Religious Instruction of the Negroes - Rev. Charles
Colcock Jones |
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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 by John Quincy Adams on Political Antislavery |
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1845:
Twelve
Years a Slave
- Solomon Northup - excerpt |
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1845:
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
- Lysander Spooner |
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1846:
Ja
Norcom Letter to Mary Matilda Norcom - Edenton, NC |
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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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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:
Slave-owning Population, 1850 - chart |
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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's Tom
Cabin
caricatures
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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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|
1852:
"Wayland
on conscience as distinct faculty; Channing, Barnes and abolitionists
generally on the same," Studies on Slavery, in Easy
Lessons - John Fletcher |
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1853:
"Letter from a Teacher at the South" - Dwight's Journal of Music
(2/2) |
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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:
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:
"Life
on a Southern Plantation" - 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 |
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|
1854:
"The
Two Philosophies" Chapter IV. Sociology for the South, or
the Failure of Free Society - George Fitzhugh |
|
|
1855:
The Christian Slave- A Drama
- Harriet Beecher Stowe |
|
|
1855:
Excerpt
from William Grayson's, "The Hireling and the Slave" |
|
|
1855:
Narratives
of Escaped Slaves - Benjamin Drew |
|
|
1855:
"The Public Hiring of Free Negroes" - broadside |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1856:
"A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States" - Frederick Law Olmstead
(1856, 1860) |
|
|
1856:
"Songs of the Blacks" - Dwight's Journal of Music (11/15) |
|
|
1857:
Autobiography of a Female Slave - Martha
Griffith Browne |
|
|
1857: "The
Blessings of Slavery" - George Fitzhugh |
|
|
1857:
Cannibals All!
- George Fitzhugh |
|
|
1857:
"The
Life of Plantation Field Hands" from James Sterling's Letters from
the Slave States |
|
|
1857: Vilet Lester
letter (former slave) to Miss Patsey Patterson (her former slave
mistress) |
|
|
1858:
Fify Years in Chains;
Or, the Life of an American Slave - Charles Ball |
|
|
1858:
James Henry Hammond On the Admission of Kansas, Under the Lecompton
Constitution "Cotton is King") - Speech before the U. S. Senate (3/4) |
|
|
1859:
Our
Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black - Harriet Wilson
(full text) |
|
|
1860:
Cotton is King! - E. N. Elliott |
|
|
1860: Distribution
of Slaveholders by Size of Holdings - 1860 |
|
|
1860:
"Expulsion of Negroes and Abolitionists from Tremont Temple" -
Harper's Weekly (12/3) |
|
|
1860:
"A Plea for Free Speech in Boston" - Frederick Douglass (12/4) |
|
|
1860:
Ratio of
Slaveholders to Families, 1850 - statistical chart |
|
|
1860:
South
Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12/24/1860)
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|
|
1860:
Southern White Population, 1860 - chart |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1885:
George P. Parker, Conductor, on the Underground Railroad (as
recollected in 1885) |
|
|
1889:
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from Her
Letters and Journals by Her Son |
|
|
1931:
The Secession Movement 1860‑1861
by Dwight Lowell Dumond |
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|
2004:
Slavery and Religion in Antebellum America by Jascha Walter |
