Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
10-page letter dated April 12, 1846, from Thomas Earle in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] to George Bradburn, giving his opinions on Lysander Spooner's book [The Unconstitutionality of Slavery].
Slaves--United States; Slavery--United States; Fugitive slaves--United States
Assorted advertisements for sale of slaves, rewards for return of runaway slaves, the slave trade, and slavery in general, most unattributable to particular newspapers. Includes three engravings (two duplicated) of slave forts in Africa with...
Slavery--United States; Slaves--Emancipation--United States; Slaves--United States
Deed of indenture for "a Negro boy named Primus" for a term of three years to Walter Butler, who received the slave from his cousins John and Myndert Wempel.
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Draft of an eight-page letter dated January 20, 1847, from [Lysander Spooner in Winchendon, Massachusetts] to George Bradburn discussing general news of the abolitionist movement and the progress of his writing of a work called "Poverty" and...
Constitutional law--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Eight-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Worcester [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith, dated July 5, 1849, describing his analysis of the United States Constitution in regards to slavery.
Four autograph letters from John Bartram, two autograph letters from William Bartram, and one each from Isaac Bartram and Moses Bartram, Jr. One letter from John to William has a short postscript written by Ann Bartram, Johns wife and Williams...
Four-page document consisting of ca. 90 names, including Thomas C. Amory, Francis Brinley, Christopher C. Holmes, Thomas P. Ruh, Joseph McKean Churchill, Ignatius S. Amory, Thomas B. Hall, Joseph S. Whitney, William A. Bangs, Aaron C. Baldwin.
Four-page letter dated December 1, 1855, from William Goodell in New York, to Lysander Spooner [in Boston, Massachusetts], discussing the legalization of slavery.
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Four-page letter dated December 11, 1855, from William Goodell in New York, to Lysander Spooner [in Boston, Massachusetts], discussing Spooner's draft of a petition to Congress to abolish slavery, submitted to the American Abolition Society.
Four-page letter dated December 3, 1855, from William Goodell in New York, to Lysander Spooner [in Boston, Massachusetts], discussing constitutional issues of slavery and Spooner's work.
Constitutional law--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Four-page letter dated January 19, 1846, from Lysander Spooner Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston [Massachusetts], asking Bardburn to solicit prominent names to sign a petition and then have the petition presented to the United...
Four-page letter dated November 28, 1855, from William Goodell in New York, to Lysander Spooner [in Boston, Massachusetts], in which he approves of Spooner's plan to "agitate the Constitutional question."
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Athol; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Four-page letter dated October 27, 1845, from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston, discussing Supreme Court decisions related to slavery, the death of Spooner's mother, and the public reception of his book [The...
Four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith, dated November 2, 1855, in which Spooner disucsses anti-slavery arguments and the distribution of 300 copies of his book, "the Unconstitutionality of Slavery."
Four-page letter to David Barrow of Montgomery, Kentucky, from several Quakers from Whitewater, Wayne County, Indiana Territory regarding the abolition of slavery. Includes note mentioning abolition meeting at Mt. Sterling, Friday before 1st Sunday...
Manuscript copy of a four-page letter from Gerrit Smith of Peterboro [New York] to Hon. D. [David] Wilmot, in which he responds to a letter from Wilmot discussing slavery and the United States Constitution, and sends him a copy of Lysander...
