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Autographs for freedom.

Title
Autographs for freedom. [Second volume] [electronic resource] / edited by Julia Griffiths.
Publication
Auburn [N.Y.] : Alden, Beardsley & Co., 1854
Supplementary Content
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Details

Additional Authors
  • Griffiths, Julia, -1895.
  • Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893.
  • Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society.
Description
309, 2, 4, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., ports., facsims.; 20 cm
Summary
A collection of articles, poems, etc. (all but ca. five signed in facsimile), by men and women prominent in the anti-slavery movement.
Subject
  • Antislavery movements > United States
  • Abolitionists
  • Autographs > Facsimiles
  • Slavery > United States
Note
  • "In commending this, the second volume of 'The autographs for freedom,' to the attention of the public, 'The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society' would congratulate themselves and the friends of freedom generally on the progress made, during the past year, by the cause to which the book is devoted"--Pref.
  • Publisher's advertising: 2 p., 2nd count; 4 p., 3rd count; [1] p., 4th count.
  • All twelve portraits signed in print: "engraved by J.C. Buttre."
  • Each portrait (J.R. Giddings, Antoinette L. Brown, Wm. W. Brown, Lewis Tappan, Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, Gerrit Smith, Chas. L. Reason, E.H. Chapin, Frederick Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher, and H.B. Stowe) includes facsimile autograph.
  • Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
  • Sabin no. 28835.
  • Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 866854048
  • TGPSM13-B1238
Title
Autographs for freedom. [Second volume] [electronic resource] / edited by Julia Griffiths.
Imprint
Auburn [N.Y.] : Alden, Beardsley & Co., 1854 (New York : Stereotyped by T.B. Smith)
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2013. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Local Note
Slavery.
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Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Griffiths, Julia, -1895.
Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893.
Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society.
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