Research Catalog

Title

Autographs for freedom / by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and thirty-five other eminent writers.

Publication

London : Sampson Low, Son & Company; and John Cassell, Ludgate Hill: and all booksellers, 1853.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
• Griffiths, Julia, -1895
• Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society.
• Ford Collection.

Description

192 p. : facsims.; 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature
• Autographs > Facsimiles

Genre/Form

• Publishers' advertisements – England – London.
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• A collection of signed articles, poems, etc., by men and women prominent in the anti-slavery movement. Most of the signatures are in facsimile.
• Preface signed: On behalf of "The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society," Julia Griffiths, secretary.
• "Preface to the English edition."--p. [v]-vi.
• Advertisements by Cassell printed on endpapers and back cover.
• Issued in printed boards.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "A.A. Schomburg." ; With the ink stamp on verso of title page: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Be up and doing / Hon. Wm. H. Seward -- Caste and Christ / Mrs. H.E.B. Stowe -- Letter from the Earl of Carlisle to Mrs. H.B. Stowe -- Momma Charlotte / Mrs. C.M. Kirkland -- A name / Hon. Horace Mann -- Letter from Joseph Sturge -- Slavery and Polygamy / R. Hildreth -- The way / John G. Whittier -- The slave and slave-owner / Miss Sedgwick -- Letter from the Bishop of Oxford -- Hide the outcasts / Rev. William Goodell -- Can slaves rightfully resist and fight? / Rev. Geo. W. Perkins -- Death in life / Ebenezer Button -- True reform / Mrs. C.W.H. Dall -- Letter from Wilson Armistead -- Imporomptu stanzas / J.M. Eells -- John Murray of Glasgow / James M'Cune Smith -- Power of American example / Lewis Tappan -- The gospel as a remedy for slavery / Lewis Tappan -- Letter from Rev. C.G. Finney -- The slave's prayer / Miss C.E. Beecher -- The struggle / Hon. Charles Sumner -- Work and wait / Horace Greeley -- The great emancipation / Gerrit Smith -- Ode / Rev. John Pierpont -- Passages in the life of a slave woman / Annie Parker -- Story telling / Annie Parker -- The man-owner / Rev. E. Buckingham -- Damascus in 1851 / Rev. F.W. Holland - Religious, moral and political duties / Lindley Murray Moore -- Why slavery is in the Constitution / James G. Birney -- The two altars / Mrs. H.B. Stowe -- Outline of a man / Rev. R.R. Raymond -- The heroic slave woman / Rev. S.J. May -- Kossuth / John Thomas -- The heroic slave / Frederick Douglass -- A plea for free speech / Prof. J.H. Raymond -- Placido / Prof. W.G. Allen.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.4-G (Griffiths, J. Autographs for freedom. London, 1853)

OCLC

16402558

Title

Autographs for freedom / by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and thirty-five other eminent writers.

Imprint

London : Sampson Low, Son & Company; and John Cassell, Ludgate Hill: and all booksellers, 1853.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.4-G (accession no. B571157) inscribed: in ink on title page "A.A. Schomburg." ; With the ink stamp on verso of title page: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 326.4-G lacking printed boards.

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Added Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Griffiths, Julia, -1895, editor.

Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society.

Ford Collection.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.4-G (Griffiths, J. Autographs for freedom. London, 1853)

SEKK (Griffiths, J. Autographs for freedom. 1853)