John C. Calhoun's speech to the United States Senate against the Compr...
Reproduction number: A20 (color slide; page 1) The famous South Carolinian John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) made his last Senate speech during the course of the great debate over the Compromise of 1850, a complicate... More
Sojourner Truth, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks
Quotation: "If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world upside down all alone, dese women all togedder ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up agin."
The Lash - Drawing. Public domain image.
Card showing bound African American slave being whipped. No. 5, no. 61. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863.
Photograph of Harriet Tubman - An old woman sitting in a chair with a ...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, standing with hands on back of ...
Title devised by library staff. Date of photograph based on years photographer Harvey B. Lindsley was active and Tubman's clothing. (Source: researcher A. Cohn, 2016) Original photo not found in LOT since at le... More
Political caricature. No. 2, Miscegenation or the millennium of abolit...
The second in a series of anti-Lincoln satires by Bromley & Co. This number was deposited for copyright on July 1, 1864. The artist conjures up a ludicrous vision of the supposed consequences of racial equalit... More
The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from ...
A somewhat comic yet sympathetic portrayal of the culminating episode in the flight of slave Henry Brown "who escaped from Richmond Va. in a Box 3 feet long, 2-1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft. wide." In the office of the... More
[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves]
Illus. in: The penitential tyrant / Thomas Branagan. New-York: Printed by Samuel Wood, no. 362, Pearl-street, 1807. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3.
Union with freemen -- No union with slaveholders. Anti-slavery meeting...
Anti-slavery. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 137, Folder 4.
Political caricature. No. 2, Miscegenation or the millennium of abolit...
The second in a series of anti-Lincoln satires by Bromley & Co. This number was deposited for copyright on July 1, 1864. The artist conjures up a ludicrous vision of the supposed consequences of racial equalit... More
Pictorial illustration of abolitionism. Its rise, progress and end. Vo...
Piece 1 and 2 are duplicate copies; Piece 3 is a variant. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephe... More
Daniel Webster's notes for his speech to the United States Senate favo...
Reproduction number: A82 (color slide); LC-MSS-44925-2 (B&W negative) Daniel Webster (1782-1852), United States senator from Massachusetts, rose on 7 March 1850 to support a complex series of statutes introduce... More
Pictorial illustration of abolitionism. Its rise, progress and end. Vo...
Piece 1 and 2 are duplicate copies; Piece 3 is a variant. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephe... More
The plot exposed! or, Abolitionism, Fanny Wright, and the Whig party! ...
Desdamont, Fanny Wight.; Parkes, Moses. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 56, Folder 35.
Daniel Webster's notes for his speech to the United States Senate favo...
Reproduction number: A82 (color slide); LC-MSS-44925-2 (B&W negative) Daniel Webster (1782-1852), United States senator from Massachusetts, rose on 7 March 1850 to support a complex series of statutes introduce... More