EARLY ENSLAVED MUSLIMS
#32
[Manuscript sheets, ca. 1850s]
Sheik Sena-See
[Autobiography with Quranic notations, Columbia-Panama]
Paper, ink
3 sheets (26.5 x 21.5; 25.5 x 20; 32 x 20 cm.)
[Sheik Sena-See was an
enslaved Muslim from Sierra Leone. Prior to being sent to Panama to work on the
construction of the railroad, he lived in the Carolinas and the Caribbean.
Approximately thirty to forty percent of enslaved Africans were Muslim and came
for a strong literary tradition and Quranic studies]
ABOLITIONISM (Anti-slavery)
#32.5
[Serving spoon, ca. 1815]
Bentzon, Peter, 1783
-after 1850
[Silver serving spoon, Philadelphia]
Silver. 22 x 4.5 x
2.5 cm.
Peter Bentzon was the first Black silversmith working in the United
States to mark his works with his name. He was born free about 1783 to a
Norwegian father and a mulatto mother in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. He was
sent to Philadelphia for his education in 1791 and apprenticed there with an
unidentified silversmith from 1799 to 1806. Bentzon worked as a silversmith and
jeweler for over forty years in both Philadelphia and St. Croix, Virgin
Islands.
#33
[Ledger book, November 18th, 1817]
[The United
Female African Society of Union Adams & Waterford, Pennsylvania]
“At a meeting held at the house of John Green Esq. in Adams, by a
number of Females on the first day of Octtober - in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred & seventeen - the following was agreed to ... We
whose names are underwritten being sensible of the blessings we enjoy of living
in a land of light & liberty where we enjoy ... priviledges while many of
our fellow mortals ... a miserable existence in slavery & heathenish
darkness – do agree to form our selves into a body to contribute our nites
for the Education of the People of color ...”
Paper, ink. 20 x 17.5
cm.
[Hand-written ledger containing: statement of purpose of the African
Society, by-laws, names of members, constitution, dues payment record, and
catalog of the Marietta Library. – Green decorated wallpaper binding]
#34
[Miniature painting on ivory, ca. 1820]
[Reverend
Daniel Coker, 1780-1840]
brass, ivory, glass, paint
8 x 5.5
cm.
Daniel Coker, an ex-slave from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, was a
noted educator at Sharp Street AME Church, a Methodist Minister, and a writer.
He was also a moving force in the organization of the AME Church and an
advocate of the American Colonization Society. This miniature painting was made
before Coker emigrated to Liberia in 1820.
#35
[Printed textile, ca. 1820]
The Captive:
“bondage was heavy upon his temple” – Neh. v. 18. –
Boston: Boston Chemical Printing company, for the Boston Female Anti-Slavery
Society, n.d.
Cotton, ink
31.5 x 28 cm.
#36
[Funeral notice, 1824]
Yourself and family are
requested to attend the funeral of Severn H. Dakes, from the residence of Mr.
Ephraim Outten, this morning, at 11 o’clock. A funeral sermon will be
preached at the Methodist meeting-house. Maysville, [Missouri] June 15, 1824.
Paper, ink
6.5 x 12.5 cm.
#37
[Periodical, 1835]
The anti-slavery record.
– New-York: Published by R. G. Williams, for the American Anti- Slavery
Society, 144 Nassau Street, 1835. – iv, 174 p. : ill. ; 19 x 11.5 cm.
[Vol I, for 1835, no. 1-12 (January–December); INDEX: p. [iii]-iv.
– APPENDIX: p. 145-174. – Stamped cloth binding]
#38
[Book, 1836]
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880.
An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans / by Mrs.
Child. – New-York: Published by John S. Taylor, 1836. – vi, 216 p. ;
18.5 x 12 cm.
[“Reader, I beseech you not to throw down this volume as
soon as you have glanced at the title.” – Preface, p. [iv] –
INDEX: p. [v]-vi. – CONTENTS: Chapter I: Brief history of Negro slavery;
its inevitable effect upon all concerned in it; II: Comparative view of
slavery, in different ages and nations; III: Free labor and slave labor,
possibility of safe emancipation; IV: Influence of slavery on the politics of
the United States; V: Colonization society, and anti-slavery society; VI:
Intellect of Negroes; VII: Prejudices against people of color, and our duties
in relation to this subject. – Stamped cloth binding]
#39
[Periodicals, 1839, 1840, 1843]
The American
Anti-Slavery almanac. – New York; Boston: Published for the American
Anti-Slavery Society, S.W. Benedict; Isaac Knapp, 1839, 1840, 1843.
[The
American Anti-Slavery Society was formed Dec. 4, 1833. – Illustrated.
– Vol. I, no. 4 (1839); Vol. I, no. 5 (1840); 1843]
#40
[Manumission document, 1844]
Louisa Conway being
anxious to purchase herself, has the privilege to do so, provided she pays me
the sum of four hundred and fifty within a year from this date, May 30th, 1844.
[Signed] .... [in pencil] Paid for Louisa $450, May 21, 1845, Rec’d 8
...?
Paper, ink
12.5 x 12.5 cm.
#41
[Periodical, 1845]
Herald of freedom. –
Concord, NH: Published weekly by the New-Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society, J. H.
Ela, publishing Agent, 1845.
[Vol. II, no. 2, whole no. 494 (April 4,
1845), p. [5]-8. – 54 x 33.5 cm.]
#42
[Book, 1845]
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave /
written by himself. – [1st ed.] – Boston: Published at the
Anti-Slavery Office, no. 25 Cornhill, 1845. – xvi, 125 p. ; 18 x 12 cm.
[PREFACE: p. [v]-xii / Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Boston, May 1, 1845. –
Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq., Boston, April 22, 1845 – p. [xii]-xvi.
– APPENDIX: p. [118]-125. – Stamped cloth binding. – This was
Douglass’ first book, written when he was a fugitive slave. The second, an
updated autobiography, My bondage and my freedom, was published in 1855. He
revised, updated, and greatly expanded this volume in a third version, The life
and times of Frederick Douglass, in 1882]
#43
[Book, 1848]
Thompson, George, d. 1893
The
prison bard: or, Poems on various subjects / by George Thompson. –
Hartford: printed by William H. Burleigh, 1848. – 215 p. ; 20 x 12
cm.
[“Written in prison. – For four years and eleven months a
prisoner in Missouri, for attempting to aid some slaves to liberty” –
T-p. – Pressed paper binding]
#44
[Periodical, 1849]
The Pennsylvania Freeman.
– Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, 1949.
[New Series,
Vol VI, no. 3 (Philadelphia, Jan. 18, 1849) ; 52.5 x 32.5 cm. –
“...published every Thursday... at 31 N. 5th Street, Philadelphia. –
Edited by a committee]
#45
[Photographs, ca. 1850]
Seaver & Lothrop,
Photographic Artists, 27 Tremont Row, Boston
Wm. Lloyd Garrison [1805-79],
Helen E. Garrison, George J. Garrison, Helen Frances Garrison, Wm. L. Garrison,
Jr. [American Abolitionist, and his family. Newburyport, Mass.]
5
carte-de-visites
10.5 x 6 cm.
#46
[Photograph, 1850?]
Petit, Pierre
(photographer)
[Portrait of Alexander Dumas & Adelaide I. Mencken]
Photograph
11 x 9 cm.
#47
[Daguerreotype, 1850-60?]
[Portrait of a
distinguished freeman of color]
Cased image, 1/6 plate. 9 x 8 cm.
#48
[Daguerreotype, 1850-60?]
[Portrait of
distinguished freewoman of color with book in background]
Cased image,
1/6 plate. 9 x 8 cm.
#49
[Periodical, 1851]
The Liberator. –
Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 1851.
[Vol. XXI. No. 15, whole
no. 1057 (Boston, Mass., Friday, April 11, 1851) ; 63 x 46 cm. – (Also on
exhibit: v. 21, #22, 24, 25; v. 22, #28, 36; v. 30, #9. –
“...published every Friday morning at the Anti-Slavery office, 21 Cornhill
[Boston]. – Wm. Lloyd Garrison, editor. – J.B. Yerrington & Son,
Printers]
#50
[Book, 1852]
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
1811-1896
Uncle Tom’s cabin; or, Life among the lowly / by Harriet
Beecher Stowe. – Boston; Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company; Jewett,
Proctor & Worthington, 1852. – 2 v. (v.1: x, 312 p., + 4 p. of
advertisements); 20 x 13 cm.
[Illustrated title page.– Stamped,
illustrated cloth binding]
#51
[Book, 1854]
Northup, Solomon, b. 1808
Twelve
years a slave: narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped
in Washington City in 1841 and rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation near
the Red River in Louisiana. – Auburn and Buffalo: Miller, Orton &
Mulligan; London: Sampson Low, Son & Company, 47 Ludgate Hill, 1854. –
336 p. : ill.; 20 x 14 cm.
[Frontispiece: engraving entitled: Solomon in
his plantation suit. – “Twenty-seventh thousand.” – at head
of title. – Editor’s Preface: p. [xv]-xvi. – APPENDIX: p.
[323]-336. – Stamped cloth binding. – “Having been born a
freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a
free State–and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into
Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853,
after a bondage of twelve years–it has been suggested that an account of
my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.” – p.
[17]
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#52
[Book, 1855]
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895
My bondage and my freedom / by Frederick Douglass, with an introduction
by Dr. James M’Cune Smith. – [1st ed.] – New York, 25 Park Row,
and Auburn, 107 Genesee St.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. – xxxi,
464 + [4] p. of adv.: ill.; 20 x 14 cm.
[Frontispiece: engraved portrait of
Douglass. – CONTENTS: Part I, Life as a slave; Part II, Life as a freeman.
– APPENDIX: p. 407-464. – Stamped cloth binding] |
# 33 |
#53
[Book, 1856]
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Dred; a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp / by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
– Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856. – 2 v. (v.1: 329 p.:
v. 2: 370 p.); 20 x 14 cm.
[“The writer of this book has chosen, once
more, a subject from the scenes and incidents of the slaveholding states.”
– Preface, p. [iii]. – Stamped cloth binding]
#54
[Book, 1856]
Greeley, Horace
A history of the
struggle for slavery extension or restriction in the United States from the
Declaration of Independence to the present day / mainly compiled and
condensed from the journals of congress and other official records, and showing
the vote by yeas and nays on the most important divisions in either House, by
Horace Greeley. – New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 321 Broadway, 1856.
– iv, 164 p. + [4] of ads.; 25.5 x 16.5 cm.
[PARTIAL CONTENTS: I:
Slavery in the Colonies; II: Slavery under the Confederation; V: Early attempts
to override the Ordinance of ?87; XIII: The compromise of 1850. – Stamped
cloth binding]
#55
[Book, 1856]
Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879
The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be
extinguished / by H. C. Carey. – 2nd ed. – Philadelphia: Parry
& McMillan, 1856. – 426 p.; 20 x 13 cm.
[INDEX: p. 415-426. –
PARTIAL CONTENTS: Chapter 1: The wide extent of slavery; III: Of slavery in the
United States; X: How slavery grew and is maintained in the United States; XV:
How can slavery be extinguished; XX: Of the duty of the people of the United
States... – Stamped cloth binding]
#56
[Book, 1858]
Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883
Truth
stranger than faction: Father Henson’s story of his own life / with an
introduction by Mrs. H.B. Stowe. – Boston; Cleveland: John P. Jewett and
Company; Henry P.B. Jewett, 1858. – xii, 212 p. : ill.; 19 x 13 cm.
[Frontispiece: engraved portrait [signed Josiah Henson]. – “Among
all the singular and interesting records to which the institution of American
slavery has given rise, we know of none more striking, more characteristic and
instructive, than that of Josiah Henson.” – p. iii. – Stamped
cloth binding]
#57
[Periodical, 1859]
The Anglo-African magazine.
– New York: Published by Thos. Hamilton, 48 Beekman Street, 1859. –
V. 1, no. 1 (January, 1859)- ; ill.; 25 x 17 cm.
[Thomas Hamilton,
1822-1865. – Frontispiece: engraved portrait of Alexander Dumas. –
“The Anglo-African Magazine: a monthly octavo of 32 pages, devoted to
literature, science, statistics, and the advancement of the cause of human
freedom, and is under the editorial supervision of a ripe scholar, and fine
writer.” – Inside back cover. – The first seven installments of
Blake, Martin R. Delany’s unfinished novel of a slave uprising in
the American South, were published in the Anglo-African in 1859; it was
not published in a single volume until 1970]
#58
[Carte-de-visite, ca. 1860]
Sojourner Truth: I Sell
the Shadow to Support the Substance.
Photograph
10.5 x 6.5 cm.
#59
[Carte-de-visite, ca. 1860]
John Brown
Photograph
10.5 x 6.5 cm.
#60
[Book, 1860]
Report of the Select Committee on the
petitions to prevent slave hunting in the State of New York, transmitted to the
Legislature, February 11, 1860. – Albany, NY: Printed by C. van
Benthuysen, 1860. – 11 p. ; 23 x 14.5 cm.
[Cover title. –
“State of New York, no. 72, in Assembly, Feb. 11, 1860.” – p. l]
#61
[Carte-de-visite, ca. 1864]
Chas. Paxon,
Photographer, New York
Rosa, a Slave Girl from New Orleans, No. 1
Photograph
10.5 x 6.5 cm.
[“The nett proceeds from the
sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored People in
the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen’l
Banks– on verso]
#62
[Carte-de-visite, ca. 1864]
Chas. Paxon,
Photographer, New York
Charles, a Slave Boy from New Orleans, No.
3
Photograph. 10.5 x 6.5 cm.
[“The nett proceeds from the sale
of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored People in the
department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen’l Banks– on
verso]
#63
[Carte-de-visite, ca. 1864]
Chas. Paxon,
Photographer, New York
Rebecca, a Slave Girl from New Orleans: “Oh!
How I Love the Old Flag.”, No. 5
[“The nett proceeds from the
sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored People in
the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen’l
Banks– on verso]
#64
[Carte-de-visite, ca. 1865]
[Frederick Douglass,
1817?-1895
Albumen photograph
8.5 x 5.5 cm. (Framed: 28 x 23 cm.)
#65
[Photograph, 1865]
Anti-Slavery Constitutional
Amendment Picture: Key to Powell & Co.’s photographs of Abraham
Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlin, and of the Senators and Representatives who voted
“AYE” on the Resolution submitting to the Legislatures of the several
States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States so as to
PROHIBIT SLAVERY. Passed in Senate, April 8, 1864. Passed in House of
Representatives, Jan. 31, 1865. Said Resolution being as follows: ARTICLE XIV,
Sect. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the
United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Sect. 2. Congress
shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
New York: Press of F.M. Bradstreet & Son, 8 Spruce Street, 1865?
2 pieces (photograph; key to photograph)
photograph: 34.5 x 30.5 cm.;
key: 34.5 x 27.5 cm.
[Pictured are: Abraham Lincoln, Pres.; Hannibal
Hamlin, V. Pres.; 119 members of the U.S. House of Representatives; and 37 U.S.
Senators]
#66
[Book, 1869]
Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913
Bradford, Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) b. 1818
Scenes in the life of
Harriet Tubman / by Sarah H. Bradford. – Auburn, NY: W.J. Moses,
Printer, 1869. – 132 p. ; 19 x 12 cm.
[Frontispiece: engraving of
Harriet Tubman. – Stamped cloth binding. – Tubman could neither read
nor write; hence, this volume was written by Bradford for Tubman and was
published through the generosity of Gerrit Smith, Wendal Phillips, and several
of her neighbors. Profits from the sale of the book went toward completing
payments on her home in Auburn, N.Y.]
#67
[Book, 1872]
Still, William, 1821-1902
The
underground rail road: a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters,
&c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of
the slaves in their efforts for freedom / as related by themselves and
others, or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of some of the
largest stockholders, and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road, by
William Still. – [1st ed.] – Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 822,
Chestnut Street, 1872. – 4 p. of adv., 780 p. : ill.; 24.5 x 17 cm.
[Frontispiece: engraving of William Still. – “Illustrated with 70
fine engravings by Bensell, Schell and others, and portraits from photographs
from life.” T-p. – “Sold only by subscription” – T-p.
– ILLUSTRATIONS: p. 7-8. – CONTENTS: p. 9-21, – “Resolved,
That the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society request him [William Still] to
compile and publish his personal reminiscences and experiences relating to the
“Underground Rail Road.” – Preface, p. 1. – Stamped cloth
binding]
#68
[Book, 1883]
Delany, Martin Robison,
1812-1885
Rollin, Frank A.
Life and public services of Martin R.
Delany / by Frank A. Rollin. – Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1883. –
367 p., + [4] p. of adv. ; 20 x 13.5 cm.
[“Sub-Assistant Commissioner
Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and late Major
104th U.S. Colored Troops.” – T-p. – APPENDIX: p. 303-367.
– Stamped cloth binding]
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