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William Lloyd Garrison autograph letter signed. From Roxbury, Massachusetts, the abolitionist writes to Reverand W.T. Briggs on 20 August 1872. Letter reads in part, ”…thanks for your cordial approval of my letter to Mr. Sumner…When I wrote that letter, I had no thought that it would attract anything like the attention it has done…As it was Mr. Sumner’s hope and intention to bias the minds of the colored voters of the country in favor of Mr. Greely’s election I felt that I owed it to them [the newly enfranchised black voters] as well as the people generally to confront him [Sumner] as a bad adviser at this crisis, and to warn them not to accept his conclusions on the grounds of the eminent service he has rendered their cause since he espoused it. Their response has been most hearty: they will not follow Mr. Sumner’s lead in this matter, but will register their votes in favor of the Republican administration and its candidate, almost to a man. Indeed, they need little if any guidance as to know how they shall vote; for they have a better knowledge of the spirit and designs of those who held them in bondage, and who rose in rebellion to make that bondage secure against fate itself, than any other class in the country; and they will act accordingly. As their physical aid was essential, on the battle-field, to the suppression of the rebellion; so their political power is equally necessary to save the government from falling into the hands of its most dangerous enemies, and it will be as triumphantly exerted. Very respectfully yours, William Lloyd Garrison”. Two-page letter on a single sheet measures 5” x 8”. Toning and creasing with some paper loss to upper right. Near fine given age, with beautiful, legible handwriting perfect for display. Sold for $9,582.
Frederick Douglass Autograph Quotation Signed — “Right is of no sex, truth is of no color. We are the equal children of a common Father and all men are Brothers” — With 30+ Signatures of 19th Century Abolitionists
Inspiring collection of signatures by 19th century abolitionists, with the crown jewel being an autograph quotation signed by Frederick Douglass, “Right is of no sex, truth is of no color. We are the equal children of a common Father and all men are Brothers – Frederick Douglass – March 31, 1868”. Album contains about 35 other signatures. Album is very worn with front board detached and backstrip missing. Some dampstaining present on front and rear blank pages. Page signed by Douglass is near fine with only toning to margins. Sold for $8,800.
As President, Abraham Lincoln signs his full name in black ink to a document, appointing Edwin C. Larned as ”Attorney of the United States in & for the Northern District of Illinois” on 28 March 1861. Lincoln entered office just 24 days prior, on 4 March 1861, and the Civil War would break out 15 days later. Larned was an anti-slavery public speaker and personal friend of Lincoln. Document is co-signed by William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and retains its Presidential paper seal at lower left. Document measures 15.5” x 9.5”, framed to 20.5” x 15.5”. Minor holing at fold intersections, otherwise near fine with a bold signature by Lincoln. Sold for $7,500.
First Edition, First Printing of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Extraordinarily scarce first edition, first printing of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ”Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, in the publisher’s wrappers binding ”A”, the rarest of the three variants of the first printing. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852. Two volumes, as issued, with three plates in each volume by Hammett Billings, priced at $1.00 for both volumes. All other first printing points are present: ”spilt” instead of ”spiled” on page 42, line 1 of Vol. I; ”cathecism” instead of ”catechism” on page 74, line 5 of Vol. II; no attribution to Billings for the engravings; no other printings designated on the title page of either volume; with the following statements on the copyright page: ”Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by Harriet Beecher Stowe” and ”Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins”.
Published on 20 March 1852 after first appearing in serialized form, the first printing of 5,000 copies of ”Uncle Tom’s Cabin” sold out within a few days, and the second printing by the end of March. Included in ”Books That Changed America”, the author Robert Downs stated of it, ”Within a decade after its publication Uncle Tom’s Cabin had become the most popular novel ever written by an American…there is substantial evidence that the book precipitated the American Civil War.” And from PMM, the catalog of the most influential books ever written: ”In the emotion charged atmosphere of mid-19th century America Uncle Tom’s Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was a slanderous attack on ‘the Southern way of life’…the social impact of on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since.”
Volumes measure 4.625” x 7.375” housed in blue clamshell cases and a custom slipcase. With provenance from famed dermatologist and collector Paul E. Bechet, with his library labels, causing shadowing to title pages. Spines of both volumes repaired, with some paper loss, more so on Vol. II with that back cover replaced. Light toning, wear and soiling. Overall a very good set. Sold for $5,750.
Slave Ship Log Triangle Trade 1784-89
Ships’ log for slave vessels out of Newport, Rhode Island during the Triangle Trade. 68pp. log for voyages in December 1784, July 1786, June 1787 and Feb. to April 1789. The voyages were complete, although the logs themselves are not. A record for the ships Louis, Louisa Ware, Betsey Ware and Calsey all under different masters. These ships sailed from Newport, Rhode Island to Africa to the West Indies. The ships were part of the Triangle Trade. Ships from Europe brought manufactured goods to Africa and the goods were traded for slaves. The slaves were brought back to the Americas and traded for raw materials molasses, timber, and later, tobacco and cotton. The raw materials were then shipped to Europe where they would be processed into manufactured goods. It was called a Triangle Trade because it followed a triangular route between Africa, the Caribbean and North America, and Europe. Eventually the trading route also distributed Virginia tobacco, New England rum, and indigo and rice crops from South Carolina and Georgia. A majority of the journal details weather, latitude and speed. There are minimal references to slaves but a more thorough reading may reveal more. The entries also place the boats in the areas of trade. “…on bord of the good ship called the Louisa Ware of is Master Robert Champling….Dep. From the Latt of 14:27 and Lang of 17:20 bound round the shores of Grandey for Cape mount so God send the good ships in safely…” “A jurnel or a log by Gods permishon on bord of good ship called the Louisa. Robert Champling master bound from the coast of Afraica towards the West Indes begun Dec. the 28, 1786 …” “A jurnel or a log by Gods permishon on bord of the good ship called the Louisa. Rob’t Champling master bound from the island of St. Tomas towards the West Indes Monday, January the 25th 1789 at 8 of pm track my dep’t from the island of St Thomas baring SSE Drift…” “Thursday, February 8, 1787…New Obj for this day one man slave died belonging to cargo being therein.” The Middle Passage was the most famous route of the triangular trade. This voyage carried Africans across the Atlantic Ocean. Captains of slave ships were known as either “loose packers” or “tight packers,” depending on how many slaves they housed in the space they had. However, most ships were “tight packers” (especially those in the 18th century) and life for the slaves on these ships was extremely uncomfortable. Slaves were taken from the holding forts, shackled together with leg-irons and carried to the ships in the dugout canoes. Once they were aboard, they were branded to show who owned them and their clothes removed. Slaves were housed in the ships as if they were cargo. Men were kept in chains while women and children were allowed to go free. It was common for about a third of the number on a ship to die before they reached the Americas. Fascinating log book in very good condition. Sold for $5,514.
Superb Harriet Beecher Stowe Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Slavery — “…Nothing more is needed than to awaken the attention of the public to an expose of the slave law system…”
Harriet Beecher Stowe autograph letter signed, with superb and rare content on slavery. Stowe writes from Andover, Massachusetts on 27 October 1852 at the height of popularity for ”Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, which had been released in book form earlier that year. So important was her novel in depicting the cruelty of slavery and turning the north against it that President Lincoln is reported to have said to Stowe in 1862, ”so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.”
Stowe writes to an unnamed gentleman who had sent her an article. She writes in part, ”…I am obliged to you for sending me the ‘text to my subject’ enclosed in your letter. It will be a very good one. Any one that stirs up this subject of southern law as a defence of slavery emphatically wakes up the wrong passenger. Nothing more is needed than to awaken the attention of the public to an expose of the slave law system. If they desire law on this subject, they shall have it.
With regard to the benevolent plan which you have presented, I am at present in a situation where my mind is so much pressed with immediately urgent undertakings that I cannot give it my attention – and it has appeared to me that in the selection of benevolent objects, I ought to have first & chief reference, to that race with whom my writings have been more immediately connected. It is stated in the printed article which you sent me that advertisements offering a price for the life of runaways never had existed. There are several specimens of them in [Theodore D.] Weld’s book [”American Slavery As It Was In 1839: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses”] extracted from the current papers of the time in which he wrote. I should however like some of a more recent date & if any such occur among your collection you might help the cause by furnishing me with them.
If you have any collection of advertisements indicating the low state of public sentiment toward the slave population of the south, I should be glad of them for use, and if you have been at any expense in collecting them, I will cheerfully pay it. / Yours very truly / H.B. Stowe”. Stowe then adds, ”P.S. I return you the article you were so kind as to send me, thinking it may be of value to you – ”.
Two page letter on one sheet of wove paper measures 8.75” x 10.5”. False margin, with remnants from previous mounting to its top edge. Single horizontal fold. Overall very good to near fine condition. Sold for $5,250.
Anti-Slavery Movement, A Lecture, By Frederick Douglass
“The Anti-Slavery Movement, A Lecture, By Frederick Douglass, Before The Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society.” Printed in 1855 in Rochester, New York, by the Press of Lee, Mann, and Co., Daily American Office. A name is written on the top of page 44. Measures 5 1/2″ x 8 13/16″. 48 pages. Restoration work on spine. Minor wear, foxing and staining on cover and interior pages and minor paper loss on the bottom of four pages. Very Good. Rare. Sold for $3,600.
Original Sojourner Truth CDV from 1864
Rare CDV of abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth from 1864. CDV measures 2.5″ x 4″ with printed caption on mount reading “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance / Sojourner Truth”. Verso reads “Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by Sojourner Truth, in the Clerk’s Office, of the U.S. District Court, for the Eastern District of Mich.” Toning and light wear, overall in very good condition. A rare original photo of escaped slave Sojourner Truth, the first black woman to win a trial against a white man in order to reclaim her son who had been sold into slavery. Sold for $3,600.
Very Scarce, Original 1856 Runaway Slave Poster — Large Broadside Measures 9″ x 12.75″
Original runaway slave poster, dated 25 March 1856 from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Poster reads in full: “Absconded from Traveller’s Rest Estate in Stafford county, three negro Men, Barnaby, Jim and Dilly…Billy left my farm on the 3d day of March, Jim on the 17th and Barnaby on the 24th. It is not believed that any of these men have any idea of escaping to a free State, but instead merely absconding where they can remain in the greatest safety with the least danger of being caught within any distance around the said estate, where they are most secure. Barnaby is a large man, about 50 years of age, is bald on the top of his head, had a full beard on when he left, is of a slick brown color, not a mulatto, nor a black; very broad shoulders, is a first-rate Blacksmith and Carpenter, speaks politely when addressed. Jim is about 35 or 40 years old, of about the same color of Barnaby, and tall, though small about the lower part of the body, and slender legs; smiles when spoken to with an averted glance. Billy is a…mulatto, very tall, broad shoulders, very bushy head and very large feet, and about 21 years of age. These men may be together, they are certainly merely lurking around with no idea of going to a free State. That is my belief, but they may in end making [sic] their way to a free state by the first chance. I will give forty dollars reward for Barnaby, thirty for Jim, and twenty-five for Billy…Robert A. Gray, Fredericksburg, Va.” Incidentally, Robert Gray’s estate, “Eastwood,” still stands in Fredericksburg and was used as a hospital during the Civil War. Poster has folding throughout, though expertly reinforced on verso. Fully intact poster, measuring 9″ x 12.75″, is in fair condition, typical of publicly displayed posters and broadsides from the time period. Very scarce. Sold for $3,000.
CDV Photograph of an 19th Century African American Wet Nurse From Savannah, Georgia
Rare CDV photograph of an African American wet nurse, posing with the child she cared for. With backstamp of J.N Wilson photography studio in Savannah Georgia on verso, who established his studio shortly before the Civil War; this photo is likely from the 1860s, evidenced by a light colored mount, square corners on the photo, and coloring to the photograph which was popular in the 1860s. CDVs such as this are uncommon, with wealthy families sometimes choosing to document the relationship between the African American wet nurse and her Causacian baby. With CDV number 2083 handwritten in pencil on verso. CDV measures 2.5″ x 4″. Mild wear and rubbing to mount, overall very good condition. Sold for $2,439.
Frederick Douglass autograph note signed ”Frederick Douglass” and dated 1880, shortly after the death of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, whose son Douglass writes here. Note reads in full, ”I have found this card with your note among the old papers of mine where it has been hidden the past four years. I regret the delay and seeming neglect–and hope this may reach you safely. Frederick Douglas / 1880”. Card measures 5” x 2.75”. Light toning and smudge to date, overall near fine condition. From the estate of William Lloyd Garrison, Jr. Sold for $1,500.
New Orleans Slave Receipt From 1853 — Disturbing Bill of Sale From a Slave Auction at the St. Louis Exchange Hotel Itemizes Several Slaves With Purchase Price, Signed by the Auctioneer
Bill of sale for several slaves purchased at an auction in New Orleans on 16 November 1853 at the St. Louis Exchange Hotel, a well-known spot for slave auctions at the time. Disturbing receipt lists the human beings sold, with their sale price, content contrasting the elegant penmanship displayed by the auctioneer, who signs the document, “J.A. Bonneval / auct.” Entitled “Succession of Catherine Dinet”, document reads in part, “Sold this day at auction at 12 o clock at the St. Louis Exchange…the following described property: Celia alias Cecilia negress aged about 41 years, cook, washer and ironer and her two children Areene about 5 years and Vincent about 4 years. / To Mr. Louis Cousin for $1110.00 / Louisa negro girl aged about 19 years cook and house girl / To Mr. Victor Emile for 875.00…Antoinette alias Jacqueline negro girl aged about 15 years, house girl & children nurse / To Mr. Louis Cousin for 700.00…” Document totals the purchase, listing the “Terms Cash”. Second sheet of bifolium document appears to document payment to the auctioneer, and verso shows handwritten calculations. Document on blue laid paper measures 7.75″ x 12.5″ as folded. Mounting remnant to top of second sheet, folds, and light wear including small hole on second sheet. Very good condition. Sold for $1,250.
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