Rev. Joshua Leavitt (September 8, 1794, Heath, Massachusetts – January 16, 1873, Brooklyn, New York) was an American Congregationalist minister and former lawyer who became a prominent writer, editor and publisher of abolitionist literature. He was also a spokesman for the Liberty Party and a prominent campaigner for cheap postage. Leavitt served as editor of The Emancipator, The New York Independent, The New York Evangelist, and other periodicals. He was the first secretary of the American Temperance Society and co-founder of the New York City Anti-Slavery Society. (From Wikipedia)
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Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873, ed.: Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave (attributed to Matthews by Susanna Ashton; serialized in The Emancipator, 1838), contrib. by James Matthews (HTML and TEI at UNC)- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873, contrib.: Speech of Hon. Horace Mann, on the Right of Congress to Legislate for the Territories of the United States, and its Duty to Exclude Slavery Therefrom (1848), by Horace Mann, also contrib. by Martin Van Buren (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: A brief statement of the exertions of the friends of cheap postage in the city of New York, the obstacles encountered in effecting the present reduction of postage, and the objects contemplated by the New York Cheap Postage Association (s.n.], 1848), also by Barnabas Bates (page images at HathiTrust)- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: Cheap postage. (Published by O. Clapp, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: Cheap Postage (Gutenberg ebook)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The christian lyre (J. Leavitt ;, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre (New York : Jonathan Leavitt, 1831., 1831), also by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre. (New York : Jona. Leavitt, 1930., 1830), also by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre : a collection of hymns and tunes adapted for social worship, prayer meetings, and revivals of religion. (Robinson & Franklin, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre : a collection of hymns and tunes adapted for social worship, prayer meetings, and revivals of religion : the work complete, two volumes in one, with a supplement (New-York : Published by Jonathan Leavitt ; Boston : Crocker and Brewster, 1833., 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre: a collection of hymns and tunes adapted for social worship, prayer meetings, and revivals of religion. (Jonathan Leavitt, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre: a collection of hymns and tunes adapted for social worship, prayer meetings, and revivals of religion. (Jonathan Leavitt, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre; a collection of hymns and tunes adapted for social worship, prayer meetings, and revivals of religion. (Dayton & Saxton; [etc., etc.], 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre: a collection of hymns and tunes adapted for social worship, prayer meetings, and revivals of religion. (Jonathan Leavitt, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre : a collection of hymns and tunes adapted for social worship, prayer meetings, and revivals of religion. (New York : Jonathan Leavitt, 1833., 1833), also by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre : a collection of hymns and tunes adapted for social worship, prayer meetings, and revivals of religion. (New York : Leavitt Lord & Co. [etc.], 1837., 1837), also by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Christian lyre : adapted for use in families, prayer meetings, and revivals of religion (New York : Jonathan Leavitt, 1832., 1832), also by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: Easy lessons in reading : for the use of the younger classes in common schools (J. Prentiss, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: An essay on the best way of developing improved political and commercial relations between Great Britain and the United States of America. (Macmillan and Co., 1869), also by England) Cobden Club (London (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: Examination of Mr. Thomas C. Brown, a free colored citizen of S. Carolina, as to the actual state of things in Liberia in the years 1833 and 1834, at the Chatham Street Chapel, May 9th & 10th, 1834. (S. W. Benedict & Co., Printers, 1834), also by American Anti-Slavery Society, Joshua Coffin, and Thomas Cilavan Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The finance of cheap postage. (G. W. Wood, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The finance of cheap postage : from Hunt's Merchants' magazine for Obtober [sic.], 1849 (printed by G.W. Wood, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: Lectures on revivals of religion (John P. Jewett, 1858), also by Charles Grandison Finney (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The Monroe doctrine. (S. Tousey, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The moral and social benefits of cheap postage : from Hunt's Merchants' magazine for December, 1849 (G.W. Wood, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: Poland ([W. L. Kingsley], 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: The redeemed captive: a narrative of the captivity, sufferings, and return of the Rev. John Williams, minister of Deerfield, Massachusetts, who was taken prisoner by the Indians on the destruction of the town, A.D. 1704. (S.W. Benedict & Co., 1833), also by John Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: Seamen's devotional assistant and mariners' hymn (New York : Published by the Society, 1838., 1838), also by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) and American Seamen's Friend Society (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: Seamen's devotional assistant and mariners' hymns (New York : Published by the Society, 1830., 1830), also by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) and American Seamen's Friend Society (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: Selections for reading and speaking, for the higher classes in common schools. (J.P. Jewett & co., 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: Supplement to the Christian lyre : containing more than one hundred psalm tunes, such as are most used in churches of all denominations. (New York : Jonathan Leavitt, 1831., 1831), also by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873: A view of the action of the federal government, in behalf of slavery. (Pub. by J. C. Jackson, for the N.Y. S. anti-slavery society, 1844), also by William Jay (page images at HathiTrust)
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