[African-Americana] Collection of 13 Autograph Letters, Newspapers, Pamphlets, and Ephemera Related to Abolitionism, ca. 1786-1863

Location varies, ca. 1786-1863. Comprising 13 items, including: two issues of The London Chronicle (London, August 31-September 5, 1786, Vol. LX, Nos. 4647 and 4648); Epistle From the Yearly Meeting, Held in London...from the 21st to the 31st of the Fifth Month, 1806; The Anti-Slavery Record (February, 1835, Vol. I, No. 2); Herald of Freedom (Concord, New Hampshire, November 4, 1837, Vol. 3, No. 36); Emancipator and Free American (Boston, January 26, 1843, Vol. VII, No. 40); Democratic Standard and Whig of '76 (Cincinnati, July 7, 1846, Vol. I, No. 12); Alton Telegraph-Extra (December 14, 1846), Enoch Long's copy; New-York Weekly Tribune (New York, September 18, 1852, Vol. XII, No. 575); cabinet card of Wendell Phillips (Boston, Warren & Heald, no date); One-page autograph letter, signed by abolitionist George W. Bungay, to Charles H. Morse (October 7, 1854); Two-page autograph letter, signed by George P. Fisher, to Messrs. Walker, Wise & Co. (January 1, 1863); autograph calling card, signed by abolitionist Gerrit Smith.

A large and diverse collection of items relating to abolitionism in America, from the post-Revolutionary years to the Civil War. Topics vary, and include an essay on slavery (in The London Chronicle); a Quaker epistle denouncing the slave trade; a compilation of anti-slavery writings (in The Anti-Slavery Record); two abolitionist newspapers, including numerous articles on anti-slavery, some by Elijah P. Lovejoy (Herald of Freedom and Emancipator and Free American); essays on the 3/5ths Compromise, colonization, etc. (in the Democratic Standard); abolitionist Enoch Long's copy of the Alton Telegraph (printing President Polk's second State of the Union Address on the Mexican-American War); a printed letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Horace Greeley (in the New-York Weekly Tribune); cabinet card of prominent abolitionist Wendell Phillips; an autograph calling card of abolitionist and financier of Frederick Douglass's newspaper Gerrit Smith; an autograph letter dated the day of the issuance of the final Emancipation Proclamation, regarding a French work on slavery; an autograph letter signed by abolitionist George W. Bungay on a variety of subjects including an upcoming publication.

Size and condition vary, generally very good, expected wear to newspapers.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

[African-Americana] Collection of 13 Autograph Letters, Newspapers, Pamphlets, and Ephemera Related to Abolitionism, ca. 1786-1863