Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 1817

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• Horrors of slavery : in two parts. Part I. Containing observations, facts, and arguments, extracted from the speeches of Wilberforce, Grenville, Pitt, Burke, Fox, Martin, Whitbread, and other distinguished members of the British Parliament. Part II. Containing extracts, chiefly American, compiled from authentic sources; demonstrating that slavery is impolitic, antirepublican, unchristian, and highly criminal; proposing measures for its complete abolition through the United States / by John Kenrick (Cambridge : Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1817), by John Kenrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral and political observations, addressed to the enlightened citizens of Virginia. / By E.B. ([Richmond : Printed by John Warrock, 1817]), by Ebenezer Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States : with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor; and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of colour: including memoirs of facts on the interior traffic in slaves, and on kidnapping / Illustrated with engravings. By Jesse Torrey. (Philadelphia : Published by the author, 1817), by Jesse Torrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States: with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor; and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of colour: including memoirs of facts on the interior traffic in slaves, and on kidnapping. By Jesse Torrey. (Philadelphia, Published by the author, John Bioren, Printer, 1817), by Jesse Torrey (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Address Illustrative of the Nature and Power of the Slave States, and the Duties of the Free States, by Josiah Quincy (page images at MOA)
• The Blessings of Abolition: A Discourse (1860), by William Henry Furness (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• Cassius M. Clay, and Gerrit Smith: A Letter of Cassius M. Clay, of Lexington, Ky., to the Mayor of Dayton, O., With a Review of it by Gerrit Smith, of Peterboro, N.Y. (1844), by Cassius Marcellus Clay and Gerrit Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States (1836), by Sarah Moore Grimké (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• An Essay on Slavery, With a Reasonable Proposition Made How to Dispense with It (1859), by Andrew Caffrey (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• The Journal of John Woolman, by John Woolman
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• Letter of Commodore Stockton on the Slavery Question, by Robert Field Stockton (page images at MOA)
• The Olive Branch: or, The Evil and the Remedy, by Charles Miner (page images at MOA)
• An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1812), by Russell Parrott (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• The Powers of the Federal Government Over Slavery!, by Andrew Jackson Wilcox (page images at MOA)
• Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, Presented to the First African Baptist Church & Society, of the City of Boston, by Maria W. Stewart (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
• Record of an Obscure Man (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861), by Mary Lowell Putnam (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• A Remedy for the Defects of the Constitution, by Andrew Jackson Wilcox (page images at MOA)
• Revolution the Only Remedy for Slavery (1855), by Stephen S. Foster, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• Right and Wrong Amongst the Abolitionists of the United States (Glasgow: G. Gallie, 1841), by John A. Collins, contrib. by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Serious Considerations on Several Important Subjects: Viz. on War and Its Inconsistency With the Gospel: Observations on Slavery. And Remarks on the Nature and Bad Effects of Spirituous Liquors (Philadelphia: Printed by J. Crukshank, 1778), by Anthony Benezet (HTML at Earlham)
• Sermons on Slavery and the Civil War (page images at MOA)
• Slavery and the North (1855), by Charles C. Burleigh (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• The Slave's Appeal (1860), by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• The Social Conflict of Ages: A Rhyme for the Time (Salem, MA, 1857) (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• Teachings of the New Testament on Slavery, by Joseph P. Thompson (page images at MOA)
• What Have We, As Individuals, to Do with Slavery? (1855), by Susan C. Cabot (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• Speech of Prof. Samuel M. Hubbard, A. M., delivered at Otsego, Michigan, June 26th, 1862 : subject:the ethics and policy of the American Civil War : or, the cause of the rebellion, and how to put it down. (Kalamazoo, [Mich.] : Printed by Olney & Curtiss, 1862), by Samuel M. Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paine genealogy and allied lines, ancestors of William Alfred Paine, Compiled by his wife Ruth F.W. Paine. (Rutland, Vt., The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., 1936), by Ruth Felton Ward Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Does the Bible sanction American slavery? / by Goldwin Smith. (Oxford : J. Henry and J. Parker, 1863), by Goldwin Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Union or disunion. The union cannot and shall not be dissolved. Mr. Lincoln not an abolitionist. Speech of the Hon. John M. Botts, at Holcombe Hall, in Lynchburg, Virginia, on Thursday evening, October 18. ([Lynchburg Va.? s.n., 1860]), by John Minor Botts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The South alone should govern the South : and African slavery should be controlled by those only who are friendly to it. (Charleston [S.C.] : Printed by Evans & Cogswell, 1860), by John Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black diamonds gathered in the darkey homes of the South. By Edward A. Pollard. (New York, Pudney & Russell, 1860), by Edward Alfred Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old School Presbyterian church on slavery. (New Wilmington : Vincent Ferguson, 1857), by James Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Right and wrong amongst the abolitionists of the United States. With an introductory letter by Miss Martineau ... and an appendix. By John A. Collins. (Glasgow, G. Gallie, 1841), by John A. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antislavery and disunion, 1858-1861; studies in the rhetoric of compromise and conflict. Prepared under the auspices of the Speech Association of America; J. Jeffery Auer, editor. (New York, Harper & Row, [1963]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery and the civil war; sermons. ([New York, etc., 1833-66]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Henry Dana, jr. Speeches in stirring times, and Letters to a son, ed., with introductory sketch and notes by Richard H. Dana(3d) (Boston New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the State disunion convention, held at Worcester, Massachusetts, January 15, 1857 ... (Boston, Printed for the committee, 1857), by Massachusetts State Disunion Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legion of liberty. Remonstrance of some free men, states, and presses, to the Texas rebellion ... (Albany, Sold at the Patriot office, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir on slavery, read before the Society for the Advancement of Learning, of South Carolina, at its annual meeting at Columbia, 1837. By Chancellor Harper. (Charleston, J. S. Burges, 1838), by William Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slaveholding a malum in se, or invariably sinful. By E. R. Tyler. (Hartford, S. S. Cowles, 1839), by E. R. Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pro-slavery overthrown; and the true principles of abolitionism declared. Or a series of lectures in answer to the question "What do the Scriptures teach on the subject of slavery". By Rev. Thomas Lounsbury. (Geneva, N.Y., G. H. Derby, 1847), by Thomas Lounsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helper's Impending crisis dissected. By Saml. M. Wolfe, Virginia ... (Philadelphia, J.T. Lloyd, 1860), by Samuel M. Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it. (New York, A. B. Burdick, 1859), by Hinton Rowan Helper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The controversy over the distribution of abolition literature, 1830-1860, by W. Sherman Savage. ([Washington, D. C.] The Association for the study of Negro life and history, inc., 1938), by William Sherman Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• A candid appeal to the citizens of the United States, proving that the doctrines advanced and the measures pursued by the abolitionists, relative to the subject of emancipation, are inconsistent with the teachings and directions of the Bible, and that those clergymen engaged in the dissemination of these principles, should be immediately dismissed by their respective congregations, as false teachers. By Simon Clough. (New-York, A.K. Bertron, 1834), by Simon Clough (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address to the citizens of Philadelphia, on the subject of slavery. Delivered on the 4th of 7th month, (July,) A. D. 1833. By Edwin P. Atlee. (Philadelphia, W. P. Gibbons, Printer, 1833), by Edwin P. Atlee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legion of liberty! And force of truth, containing the thoughts, words, and deeds, of some prominent apostles, champions and martyrs. (New York, Sold at the office of the American a. s. society, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery illustrated in its effects upon woman and domestic society. (Boston, I. Knapp, 1837), by George Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crisis: being, an enquiry into the measures proper to be adopted by the Southern states, in reference to the proceedings of the abolitionists. (Charleston, Dan J. Dowling, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Elections and politics. : Pamphlet vol.] (1843-1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter of His Excellency Governor Hammond to the Free church of Glasgow, on the subject of slavery. (Columbia [S.C.] A.H. Pemberton, 1844), by James Henry Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address, delivered on the fourth of July, 1836, at Pine street church, Boston, in the morning, and at Salem, in the afternoon. <By request of the friends to the immediate abolition of slavery.> By Charles Fitch ... (Boston, I. Knapp, 1836), by Charles Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The testimony of God against slavery : a collection of passages from the Bible : which show the sin of holding and treating the human species as property : with notes : to which is added the testimony of the civilized world against slavery / by La Roy Sunderland. (Boston : I. Knapp, 1836), by La Roy Sunderland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts and observations on the foreign slave trade. Published by the Committee appointed by the yearly meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia in 1939, on the subject of slavery. (Philadelphia: Printed for the Committee. J. Richards, printer, 1839), by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who is to blame? or, Cursory review of "American apology for American accession to negro slavery". By James Grahame, esq. (London, Smith, Elder & co., 1842), by James Grahame (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The rejected packet" of the St. Louis (Mo.) Repeal Association : containing the official communication and the private letter, on the subject of domestic slavery in the United States / addressed by Pierce C. Grace to Thomas Steele. (St. Louis : Printed at Reporter Office, 1843), by Pierce C Grace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anniversary oration : delivered in the Representative Hall, on the 9th of December, 1835 / by William Harper. (Columbia, S.C. : Printed at the Telescope Office, 1836), by William Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caste and slavery in the American church. By a churchman. (New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1843), by John Jay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The abolitionists; a collection of their writing. (New York, Putnam, [1963]), by Louis Ruchames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emotion at high tide : abolition as a controversial factor, 1830-1845 / by Henry H. Simms. (Richmond, Va. : William Byrd Press, 1960), by Henry Harrison Simms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Henry Dana, jr. : ... speeches in stirring times and letters to a son / ed., with introductory sketch and notes by Richard H. Dana. (Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin company, 1910), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address to King Cotton / by Eugène Pelletan ... ; translated by Leander Starr. ([New York] : Published by H. de Mareil, editor of the Messager franco-américain ... New York., 1863), by Eugène Pelletan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rights of man in America, by Theodore Parker; edited, with a preface, by F. B. Sanborn. (Boston, American Unitarian association, [c1911]), by Theodore Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The impending crisis of the South; how to meet it. By Hinton Rowan Helper ... (New-York, Burdick brothers, 1857), by Hinton Rowan Helper (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies. By R.W. Emerson. Pub. by request. (Boston, J. Munroe and company, 1844), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second. By Lysander Spooner. (Boston, B. Marsh, 1847), by Lysander Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on American slavery, addressed to Mr. Thomas Rankin, merchant at Middlebrook, Augusta County, Va. By John Rankin. (Boston, Garrison & Knapp, 1833), by John Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln's Kalamazoo address against extending slavery / also his life by Joseph J. Lewis ; both annotated by Thomas I. Starr (Detroit : Fine Book Circle, 1941), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison. With an appendix ... (Boston, R. F. Wallcut, 1852), by William Lloyd Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defence of Virginia : (and through her, of the South) in recent and pending contests against the sectional party / by Robert L. Dabney. (New York : E.J. Hale, 1867), by Robert Lewis Dabney (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of the Rev. Dr. Junkin's synodical speech, in defence of American slavery; delivered September 19th and 20th, and published December 1843: with an outline of the Bible argument against slavery. (Cincinnati, Printed at the Daily atlas office, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters and addresses by George Thompson : during his mission in the United States, from Oct. 1st, 1834, to Nov. 27, 1835. (Boston : I. Knapp, 1837), by George Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A remedy for the defects of the Constitution. By Andrew J. Wilcox. (Baltimore, 1862), by Andrew J. Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to slavery. By Charles K. Whipple. (Boston, R. F. Wallcut, 1861), by Charles K. Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reclamation of fugitives from service. An argument for the defendant, submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, at the December term, 1846, in the case of Wharton Jones vs. John Vanzandt. / By S. P. Chase. (Cincinnati, Printed by R. P. Donogh & Co., 1847), by Salmon P. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war in Texas; a review of facts and circumstances, showing that this contest is a crusade against Mexico, set on foot by slaveholders, land speculators, & c. in order to re-establish, extend, and perpetuate the system of slavery and the slave trade. (Philadelphia, Printed for the publishers by Merrihew and Gunn, 1837), by Benjamin Lundy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The real issue--union or disunion. Letter of Hon. S. S. Marshall,on the parties and politics of the day, to the freemen of the Ninth congressional district of Illinois. (Washington, Printed at the Union Office, 1856), by Samuel S. Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addresses and proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory Convention of the people of Ohio, held at Columbus, June 20 and 21, 1848. (Cincinnati, Herald Office, 1848), by State Independent Free Territory Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery in the southern states. By a Carolinian. (Cambridge, J. Bartlett, 1852), by Edward J. Pringle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery in the southern states. By Edward J. Pringle ... (Cambridge, J. Bartlett, 1853), by Edward J. Pringle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The doom of slavery in the Union: its safety out of it. (Charleston, S.C., Printed by Evans & Cogswell, 1860), by John Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great battle between slavery and freedom : considered in two speeches delivered before the American Anti-Slavery Society at New York, May 7, 1856. (Boston : Benjamin H. Greene, 1856), by Theodore Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery sanctioned by the Bible. The first part of a general treatise on the slavery question. By John Richter Jones. (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co., 1861), by John Richter Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonization and commerce. An address before the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association of Cincinnati, Ohio, November 29, 1859. By Frank P. Blair, Jun., of Missouri. ([Cincinnati?, 1859?]), by Frank P. Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Legion of liberty! and force of truth, containing the thoughts, words, and deeds of some prominent apostles, champions and martyrs. (New York, Sold at the office of the American A. S. Society, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The character and influence of abolitionism: a sermon preached in the First Presbyterian church of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday evening, December 9, 1860. (Washington, Printed by H. Polkinhorn, 1860), by Henry J. Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• La question de l'esclavage aux États-Unis, T. I. Willer. (La Haye, M. Nijihoff, 1862), by T. I. Willer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address on American slavery : delivered before the semi-annuam meeting of the Junior anti-slavery society of Philadelphia. July 4th, 1838. (Philadelphia : Merrihew and Gunn, printers, 1838), by Henry Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bible and American slavery : a discourse delivered at the Christian chapel, west 17th street, New York, on Sunday evening, January 4, 1863, by the minister, Urban C. Brewer. (New York : W. Reid Goudl, stationer and printer, 1863), by Urban C. Brewer (page images at HathiTrust)
• American liberties and American slavery. Morally and politically illustrated. By S. B. Treadwell. (New York, J. S. Taylor; Boston, Weeks, Jordan & co., 1838), by Seymour Boughton Treadwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse on slavery in the United States, delivered in Brooklyn, July 3, 1831. By Samuel J. May. (Boston, Garrison and Knapp, 1832), by Samuel J. May (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great future of America and Africa; an essay showing our whole duty to the black man, consistent with our own safety and glory. (Philadelphia, H. Orr, 1854), by Jacob Dewees (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bible and slavery : in which the Abrahamic and Mosaic discipline is considered in connection with the most ancient forms of slavery; and the Pauline code on slavery as related to Roman slavery and the discipline of the apostolic churches / by Charles Elliott. (Cincinnati : Poe & Hitchcock, 1863, c1857), by Charles Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The appeal of the Religious Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, etc., to their fellow-citizens of the United States on behalf of the coloured races. (Philadelphia : Friends' book-store, 1859), by Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on Dr. Channing's Slavery / By a citizen of Massachusetts. (Boston : Russell, Shattuck and co., and J.H. Eastburn, 1835), by James Trecothick Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Views of colonization. (Philadelphia, Merrihew and Ginn, 1837), by James Nourse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter of Francis P. Blair to the Republican Association of Washington, D.C. (Washington : Buell & Blanchard, 1856), by Francis Preston Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Premium questions on slavery, each admitting of a yes or no answer; addressed to the editors of the New York independent and New York evangelist, by Sidney E. Morse, lately editor of the New York observer. (New York, Harper & brothers, 1860), by Sidney E. Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered by the Rev. Theodore Parker, before the New York City Anti-Slavery Society, at its first anniversary, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, May 12, 1854. (New York : American Anti-Slavery Society, 1854), by Theodore Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom versus slavery : letters from Henry B. Pearson, late of the Philadelphia bar, to Hon. Rufus Choate, on his letter to the Whig Committee of the State of Maine, originally written by request, and published in the Eastern mail, Waterville, for August and September, A.D. 1856. (Portland : Printed by Daley & Lufkin, 1856), by Henry B. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern state rights, free trade and anti-abolition tract no. 1. Contents. Letter of the Hon. Langdon Cheves. Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster at Fanieul [!] Hall, 1820. Bancroft's speech in New-York. Jackson's letter on Texas. Address of the Democratic Association at Washington. John Quincy Adam's disunion letter. (Charleston, Walker & Burke, Printers, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The barbarism of slavery : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state, in the United States Senate, June 4, 1860. (New York : Young Men's Republican Union, 1863), by Charles Sumner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bible against slavery, with replies to the "Bible view of slavery," by John H. Hopkins, bishop of the diocese of Vermont; and to "A northern presbyter's second letter to ministers of the gospel," by Nathan Lord, late president of Dartmouth College; and to "X," of the New-Hampshire patriot. By Stephen M. Vail. (Concord, Fogg, Hadley & co., printers, 1864), by Stephen M. Vail (page images at HathiTrust)
• The character and influence of abolitionism! : a sermon preached in the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn on Sunday evening December 9th 1860 / by H. J. Van Dyke. (Baltimore : H. Taylor, 1860), by Henry J. Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on Uncle Tom's cabin: being a logical answer to its allegations and inferences against slavery as an institution. With a supplementary note on the key, and an appendix of authorities. By the Rev. E. J. Stearns. (Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & co., 1853), by Edward Josiah Stearns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on the Constitution, by a friend of humanity, on the subject of slavery. b (Philadelphia : Printed at the office of the "Evening Star", 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Does the Bible sanction American slavery? / by Goldwin Smith. (Oxford, Eng. : J. Henry and J. Parker, 1863), by Goldwin Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthropology; or, The science of man: in its bearing on war and slavery, and on arguments from the Bible, marriage, God, death, retribution, atonement and government, in support of these, and other social wrongs. In a series of letters to a friend in England. By Henry C. Wright. (Cincinnati : Published by E. Shepard; Boston : Bela Marsh, 1850), by Henry Clarke Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of General J. Watson Webb, at the great mass meeting on the battleground of Tippecanoe : 60,000 freemen in council. (New York : [s.n.], 1856), by J. Watson Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• An examination of the Mosaic laws of servitude / by William Jay. (New York : M.W. Dodd, 1854), by William Jay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book for the "impending crisis"! Appeal to the common sense and patriotism of the people of the United States. "Helperism" annihilated! The "irrepressible conflict" and its consequences! By Louis Schade, of Iowa. (Washington, D.C., Little, Morris, & Co., 1860), by Louis Schade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to Professor Stowe and Dr. Bacon : on God's real method with great social wrongs in which the Bible is vindicated from grossly erroneous interpretations / by Amos A. Phelps. (New York : Published by Wm. Harned for the American and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, 1848), by Amos A. Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• A scriptural, ecclesiastical, and historical view of slavery, from the days of the patriarch Abraham, to the nineteenth century. Addressed to the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter ... By John Henry Hopkins ... (New-York, W.I. Pooley & Co., [1864]), by John Henry Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• God and our country : a discourse delivered in the First Congregational Church in Roxbury, on Fast Day, April 8, 1847 / by George Putnam. (Boston : W. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1847), by George Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Curtius. Published originally in the Charleston Courier. (Charleston, S. C., A. E. Miller, 1851), by William J. Grayson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Maryland State Colonization Society, in the city of Annapolis, January 23, 1835. By Charles C. Harper. (Baltimore, Printed by Sands & Neilson, 1835), by Charles C. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on American slavery, addressed to Mr. Thomas Rankin, merchant at Middlebrook, Augusta Co., Va. / By John Rankin ... (Newburyport, [Mass.] : Charles Whipple, 1836), by John Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the subject of slavery : a prize essay / prepared by R. Sweetser, and commended by the Committee of Examination and Award. (Portland : David Tucker, 1857), by R. Sweetser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orations, delivered on the first of August, 1849 ; before the colored citizens of Columbus and Cincinnati / by J. I. Gaines and J. H. Perkins. (Cincinnati : s.n., 1849), by John Isom Gaines (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American planter; or, The bound labor interest in the United States. By M.A. Juge. (New York, Long, 1854), by M. A. Juge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true interpretation of the American civil war, and of England's cotton difficulty; or, Slavery, from a different point of view, shewing the relative responsibilities of America and Great Britain. By Onesimus Secundus. (London, Trübner, 1863), by pseud Onesimus Secundus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter from citizens of Newburyport, Mass. : to Mr. Webster, in relation to his speech delivered in the Senate of the United States on the 7th March, 1850, and Mr. Webster's reply. (Washington : Printed by Gideon and Co., 1850), by Daniel Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The higher law, in its relations to civil government : with particular reference to slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law / by William Hosmer. (Auburn [N.Y.] : Derby & Miller, 1852), by William Hosmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches and papers relating to the rebellion and the overthrow of slavery. By George S. Boutwell. (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1867), by George S. Boutwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery and Civil War : Pamphlets. ([Washington, etc., 1833-70]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sinfulness of American slavery : proved from its evil sources; its injustice; its wrongs; its contrariety to many scriptual commands, prohibitions, and principles, and to the Christian spirit; and from its evil effects; together with observations on emancipation, and the duties of American citizens in regard to slavery / by Charles Elliott ; ed. by B. F. Tefft. (Cincinnati : L. Swormstedt & A. Poe, 1857), by Charles Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-slavery sentiment in American literature prior to 1865. (Washington, D.C., The Association for the study of negro life and history, inc., [c1929]), by Lorenzo Dow Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln's "House divided" address, (Springfield, Illinois State Historical Society, 1958), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the intellectual character and civil and political condition of the Colored people of the U. States and the prejudice exercised towards them / By Rev. H. Easton. (Boston : I. Knapp, 1837), by H. Easton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of the Rev. U. C. Burnap's sermon on Bible servitude. By I. W. Scribner ... Pub. by request of the friends of the slave in Lowell. ([Lowell?] Printed by J. G. Pillsbury, 1844), by I. W. Scribner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the separation in Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends : which took place in the winter of 1842 and 1843, on the anti-slavery question; containing a brief account of the rise, spread, and final adoption by the Society, of its testimony against slavery; together with a record of some of the principal facts and circumstances relating to that separation; embracing the documents issued by both parties relative thereto; and some account of the action of other Yearly meetings of Friends, touching the controversy, especially that of London, etc. / by Walter Edgerton. ([s.l. : s.n.], 1856 (), by Walter Edgerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and slavery. By Albert Barnes. (Philadelphia, Parry & McMillan, Detroit, Negro History Press, 1857), by Albert Barnes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Compendium of the impending crisis of the South / by Hinton Rowan Helper. (New York : A.B. Burdick, 1860), by Hinton Rowan Helper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society: Great Speech, Delivered in New York City, by Henry Ward Beecher (Gutenberg ebook)

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