Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature
See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Related term:Narrower term:![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif)
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)- The Cause of the Hard Times: Why is This Country in Such Deep Distress, Without Famine, Pestilence or War? (Boston: New England Anti-Slavery Tract Association, 1843), by Alvan Stewart (page images at Cornell)
- Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Gov. Wise and Mrs. Mason, of Virginia (Boston: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860), by Lydia Maria Child, contrib. by Henry A. Wise, Maria Jefferson Carr Randolph Mason, and John Brown
- The Crisis (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1863), by Cae S. (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse Delivered Before the African Society in Boston, 15th of July, 1822, on the Anniversary Celebration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Boston: Printed by Phelps and Franklin, 1822), by Thaddeus Mason Harris (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)
- 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)
- Opinions of the Early Presidents, and of the Fathers of the Republic, Upon Slavery, and Upon Negroes as Men and Soldiers (Loyal Publication Society #18; New York: Wm. C. Bryant and Co., printers, 1863)
- An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1812), by Russell Parrott (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
- The Powers of the Federal Government Over Slavery!, by Andrew Jackson Wilcox (page images at MOA)
- Record of an Obscure Man (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861), by Mary Lowell Putnam (page images and uncorrected OCR text 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)
- 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 (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1860), by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Teachings of the New Testament on Slavery (New York: J. H. Ladd, 1856), 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)
- 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)
- Is Millard Fillmore an Abolitionist? (extract from a pamphlet "The Agitation of Slavery" with commentary; Boston: American Patriot Office, 1856)
- A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of That Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, Late of Mount-Holly, in the Province of New Jersey, North America (Warrington: Printed by T. Hurst, 1840), by John Woolman, ed. by James Cropper
- A Remedy for the Defects of the Constitution, by Andrew Jackson Wilcox (page images at MOA)
- 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 and page images at Earlham)
- The Social Conflict of Ages: A Rhyme for the Time (Salem, MA, 1857) (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
- The Suppressed Book About Slavery! (New York: Carleton, 1864), by George Washington Carleton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Address of the Republican Convention, Assembled at Pittsburgh, February 22, 1856 (New York: National Executive Committee, 1856), by Republican National Convention (Javascript-dependent page images at Ohio Memory)
- The Agitation of Slavery: Who Commenced! And Who Can End It!! Buchanan and Fillmore Compared From the Record (Washington: Printed at the Union Office, 1856) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of That Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, Late of Mount-Holly, in the Province of New Jersey (Philadelphia: Printed by J. Crukshank, 1784), by John Woolman (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- 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)
- Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright on This Important Subject (Augusta, GA: Pritchard, Abbot and Loomis, 1860), ed. by E. N. Elliott, contrib. by David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, United States Supreme Court, Charles Hodge, James Henry Hammond, William Harper, and Samuel A. Cartwright
- Our Country: Its Peril and Its Deliverance, by Robert J. Breckinridge (page images at MOA)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Slavery -- Controversial literature -- United States- The Bible Vindicated From the Charge of Sustaining Slavery (1837), by G. Buckingham, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at eserver.org)
- Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South, by Hinton Rowan Helper (page images at MOA)
- Conscience and the Constitution With Remarks on the Recent Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster in the Senate of the United States on the Subject of Slavery, by Moses Stuart (page images at MOA)
- Cotton is King: or, the Culture of Cotton, and its Relation to Agriculture, Manufactures and Commerce (Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Co., 1855), by David Christy (page images at MOA)
- Despotism in America: An Inquiry into the Nature, Results, and Legal Basis of the Slave-Holding System in the United States, by Richard Hildreth (page images at MOA)
- The Doom of Slavery in the Union: Its Safety Out of It, by John Townsend (page images at MOA)
- The Evils of Slavery, and the Cure of Slavery: The First Proved by The Opinions of Southerners Themselves, The Last Shown By Historical Evidence (second edition; Newburyport, MA: C. Whipple, 1839), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Fire and Hammer of God's Word Against the Sin of Slavery, by George B. Cheever (page images at MOA)
- God Against Slavery, by George B. Cheever (page images at MOA)
- The Higher Law, In Its Relations to Civil Government: With Particular Reference to Slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law, by William Hosmer (page images at MOA)
- The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It, by Hinton Rowan Helper (page images at MOA)
- Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?, by Isaac Allen (page images at MOA)
- Leaven for Doughfaces: or, Threescore and Ten Parables Touching Slavery, by Darius Lyman (page images at MOA)
- Liberty or Slavery: The Great National Question, by R. B. Thurston, A. C. Baldwin, and Timothy Williston (page images at MOA)
- Modern Reform Examined: or, The Union of North and South on the Subject of Slavery, by Joseph C. Stiles (page images at MOA)
- The New Commandment, by Octavius Brooks Frothingham (page images at MOA)
- A Northern Presbyter's Second Letter to Ministers of the Gospel of All Denominations on Slavery, by Nathan Lord (page images at MOA)
- Ought American Slavery to be Perpetuated? A Debate Between Rev. W. G. Brownlow and Rev. A. Pryne, by William Gannaway Brownlow and A. Pryne (page images at MOA)
- The Pro-Slavery Argument, As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern States (page images at MOA)
- The Right Way the Safe Way, Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies, and Elsewhere (ca. 1860), by Lydia Maria Child (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- The Rightful Remedy, by Edward B. Bryan (page images at MOA)
- Sinfulness of American Slavery, by Charles Elliott (page images at MOA)
- Slavery and the Remedy: or, Principles and Suggestions for a Remedial Code (fifth edition, with a review of the Dred Scott decision; New York: D. Appleotn and Co.; Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1857), by Samuel Nott (page images at MOA)
- Slavery: Letters and Speeches, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)
- Southern Slavery Reduces Northern Wages, by George M. Weston (page images at MOA)
- Speech of Hon. C. C. Clay, Jr., On Slavery Issues, by C. C. Clay (page images at MOA)
- Studies on Slavery, in Easy Lessons, by John Fletcher (page images at MOA)
- Abolitionism Unveiled: or, Its Origin, Progress, and Pernicious Tendency Fully Developed, by Henry Field James (page images at MOA)
- African Slavery in America (1856), by Charles Jared Ingersoll (multiple formats at eserver.org)
- Essay on Slavery, by Thomas J. Taylor (page images at MOA)
- Love of Country (1851), by Thomas H. Skinner
- A Review of the Rev. Moses Stuart's Pamphlet on Slavery, Entitled Conscience and the Constitution, by Rufus W. Clark (page images at MOA)
- A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery, From the Days of the Patriarch Abraham, to the Nineteenth Century, by John Henry Hopkins (page images at MOA)
- Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery, by Charles K. Whipple (page images at MOA)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.