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- Report of the Trial of Castner Hanway for Treason, in the Resistance of the Execution of the Fugitive Slave Law of September 1850
- Antislavery movements
- James J. Robbins, working from the notes of court reporters Arthur Cannon and Samuel Dalrymple, recounts the trial of Castner Hanway, who stood accused for his involvement in the Christiana Riot.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion
- James Buchanan outlines the development of the great crisis that culminated in the outbreak of the Civil War at the end of his presidency. He places the polarizing issue of slavery at the center of turmoil, commenting on decades of hardening views...
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Report of the Lemmon Slave Case: Containing Points and Arguments of Counsel on Both Sides, and Opinions of All the Judges
- Antislavery movements
- In this case, New York ruled definitively against slave owners being able to hold their slaves when traveling in a free state.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1823
- Slave narratives
- Olive Gilbert relates the personal experiences of Sojourner Truth, from her early life as a slave in New York to her adult life and her active role as an abolitionist.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Turning on the Light: A Dispassionate Survey of President Buchanan's Administration, from 1860 to Its Close
- Horatio King, ex-Postmaster General of the United States, writes this biography of James Buchanan as both a defense of and a memorial to the fifteenth president.
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Medical Inquiries and Observations, vol.1
- Benjamin Rush, early America's most eminent physician, presents almost fifty separate essays on medical subjects as diverse as the effects of alcohol on the system and the causes of yellow fever. Through these essays, Rush demonstrates his...
- Their Own Words
- The Trial of Theodore Parker, for the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855.
- Antislavery movements
- Theodore Parker publishes the proceedings of his trial, having been brought before the courts because of his vocal resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law.
- Slavery and Abolition
- An Appeal for the Union by a Philadelphia Whig
- Slavery
- An anonymous Philadelphia Whig argues that Buchanan is a superior canidate in the 1856 elections because he will preserve the Union in the face of the issue of slavery.
- Slavery and Abolition
- The Underground Rail Road
- Antislavery movements--History
- William Still, clerk for the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society for fourteen years, publishes an account of the Underground Railroad based on his personal notes.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Speech of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, in the U. S. House of Representatives, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1850, in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Reference of the President's Annual Message.
- Antislavery movements
- Senator Thaddeus Stevens argues against the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Works of James Buchanan, The, Vol. 3
- Compiled and edited by John Bassett Moore, this twelve-volume set of the collected letters and speeches of James Buchanan, spanning his entire political career, includes both personal and professional documents.
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Works of James Buchanan, The, Vol. 7
- Compiled and edited by John Bassett Moore, this twelve-volume set of the collected letters and speeches of James Buchanan, spanning his entire political career, includes both personal and professional documents.
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Works of James Buchanan, The, Vol. 9
- Compiled and edited by John Bassett Moore, this twelve-volume set of the collected letters and speeches of James Buchanan, spanning his entire political career, includes both personal and professional documents.
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, An
- In April 1800, Thomas Cooper is tried in federal court in Philadelphia for libel against the President of the United States under the new Sedition Act of 1798. Cooper proceeds to publish all documents and transcripts, along with commentary, as soon...
- Their Own Words
- On Irritation and Insanity
- Thomas Cooper, the inveterate materialist, attacks the dominant American school of metaphysical doctrines of psychology by translating and publishing the most forward writer of the modern French school of physiological medicine.
- Their Own Words
- What a Boy Saw in the Army; a Story of Sight-seeing and Adventure in the War for the Union
- Jesse Bowman Young offers a thinly disguised account of his own experiences as a teenaged soldier and officer serving in a wide range of campaigns of the American Civil War, including Fort Donelson, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
- Their Own Words
- Essays, Literary, Moral & Philosophical
- In 1798, Benjamin Rush collects twenty-five of his previous writings and republishes them in a single volume. The essays range in topic from education and crime and punishment to tobacco use and the slave trade.
- Their Own Words
- Letter from an American Now Resident in London, to a Member of Parliament, on the Subject of the Restraining Proclamation; and Containing Strictures on Lord Sheffield's Pamphlet on the Commerce of the American States, A
- William Bingham, one of the wealthiest men in the newly independent America, pleads for the mutual benefit of the full freedom of trade between the United States and Great Britain.
- Their Own Words
- Across America; or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast
- Immediately following the American Civil War, Rusling was ordered to make a tour of western military outposts. Ten years later, he wrote a comprehensive account of his journey. His observations provide a valuable look at the economics, culture,...
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- Autobiography, Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway, vol.2
- Moncure Conway, an influential observer and participant in much of English-speaking intellectual life for half a century, presents an account of his life, drawn together towards of the end of his eventful days.
- Their Own Words

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