Search

You Searched For

Search Results

1.
A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa : but resident above sixty

Creator:
Smith, Venture, 1729?-1805
Published / Created:
1798
Call Number:
Cb77 74j
Image Count:
17
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Frayed. and Signatures: A-D4.
Publisher:
Printed by C. Holt, at the Bee-office
Subject (Name):
Smith, Venture, 1729?-1805
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--Autobiographies, Slavery--United States, and Slaves--Biography
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa : but resident above sixty years in the United States of America / Related by himself.

2.
Autographs for freedom / edited by Julia Griffiths.

Creator:
Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Griffiths, Julia, d. 1895
Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Published / Created:
1854
Call Number:
Za Em34 854
Image Count:
1
Description:
"In commending this, the second volume of "The autographs for freedom," ... "The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society" would congratulate themselves and the friends of freedom generally on the progress made ... by the cause to which the book is devoted"--Preface. 'Second volume' probably refers to an 1853 publication of the same title, also edited under the auspices of The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, but published by J.P. Jewett in Boston. The contents of each work are unique, although some of the authors are the same., "On freedom" [poem] by R.W. Emerson, p. [235]-236; "A day ... at Playford Hall," by H.B. Stowe, p. [277]-303., "Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, 216 William St., N.Y."--Title page verso., A collection of signed articles, poems, etc., by men and women prominent in the anti-slavery movement. Most of the signatures are in facsimile., and Edited "on behalf of the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society"--P. vi.
Publisher:
Alden, Beardsley & Co. ; and Wanzer, Beardsley & Co.,
Subject (Name):
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Topic):
Antislavery movements--United States and Slavery--United States
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Autographs for freedom / edited by Julia Griffiths.

3.
Oration delivered in the Congregational Church, Sacramento, California, July 4, 1857

Creator:
Pickett, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1820-1882
Published / Created:
1857
Call Number:
Zc72 857pi
Image Count:
19
Description:
Original wrappers.
Publisher:
Whitton, Towne & Co.'s Excelsior Steam Presses,
Subject (Topic):
Fourth of July orations and Slavery--United States
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Oration delivered in the Congregational Church, Sacramento, California, July 4, 1857