Attributed to Samuel Webb, this history includes letters, speeches and other information regarding Pennsylvania Hall, built as a place to discuss slavery and other important social issues of the day, but destroyed by an angry mob after only four...
A champion of the new "Classical" economics, Thomas Cooper publishes his University of South Carolina lectures from one of the first full courses in Political Economy taught in America.
William Still, clerk for the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society for fourteen years, publishes an account of the Underground Railroad based on his personal notes.
James Wilson, the first professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, presents a multi-volume collection of his law lectures.
Journalist Franklin B. Sanborn offers a biographical account of his friend John Brown, and includes in his work correspondence between Brown and other prominent figures of his time.
Abolitionist Theodore Weld, with the assistance of the American Anti-Slavery Society, publishes a compendium of slavery accounts drawn primarily from newspapers and other printed sources.
Charles Ball, who endured many hardships as a slave and as a fugitive on his journey to freedom, tells his personal story with the assistance of a Mr. Fisher.
Samuel May recalls his memories of people and events of the antislavery movement in this book, which is a compilation of articles originally printed in the ""The Christian Register"" in 1867 and 1868.
Hinton Helper, a Southerner, suggests that slavery is leading to the economic downfall of the South and that abolition is necessary in order to become commercially competitive.
Ellwood Griest tells the story of two fugitive slaves that made their way to freedom with the assistance of the Quakers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Arguing that free African Americans are denied basic human rights, William Lloyd Garrison outlines ways that the community can overcome the differences in the races.
An autobiographical account of the life of John Woolman, describing his travels in Africa, America and England. The work focuses on Woolman's arguments against slavery and his relationship with the Society of Friends.