This is an abolitionist pamphlet and illustrates that the slavery institution is in danger of failing for the benefit of the country. It shows how the public is joining the anti-slavery sentiment and that the government is in favor of abolition and...
Charles Collins records his thoughts and activities during his latter years as president of Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, and then as the head of State Female College in Memphis, TN.
Arguing that no race is inferior to another, the women of the Anti-Slavery Convention advocate for freedom for slaves and education for slaves and freemen.
John Dickinson pens two series of letters under the pseudonym "Fabius." The first series appears in 1788, to rally support for the ratification of the new United States Constitution. In the second series, written in 1797, Dickinson comments with...
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.
This pamphlet offers an extract from a speech delivered at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, held in West Chester on October 13, 1850.
William Still, clerk for the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society for fourteen years, publishes an account of the Underground Railroad based on his personal notes.
Benton critically examines the Supreme Court's Dred Scott case, and argues against the Missouri Compromise on the grounds that slaves, as property, could not be affected by federal legislation.
In a series of letters reprinted from the Philadelphia Christian Observer, Rev. Parker and Rev. Rood discuss the question of "What are the evils inseparable from slavery," which Harriet Beecher Stowe made reference to in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Publishing a collection of letters to his friend David Clarkson of New York, Virginian Edward Pollard advocates for slavery through his descriptions of Southern life.
Theodore Parker publishes the proceedings of his trial, having been brought before the courts because of his vocal resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law.
Charles Nisbet, famed Scottish scholar and first president of Dickinson College, writes letters to his daughter Mary and to friend David Erskine in which he comments on family matters and on late 18th century political developments in Europe and in...