[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. A signed cabinet card of abolitionist Wendell Phillips with 13 abolition-related pamphlets, especially concerning the Confiscation Acts, comprising:

TRUMBULL, Lyman (1813-1896). Speech of Hon. Lyman Trumbull of Illinois on Amending the Constitution to Prohibit Slavery. Washington: L. Towers & Co., 1864. -- RAYMOND, Henry Jarvis (1820-1869). Disunion and Slavery. A Series of Letters to Hon. W.L. Yancey, of Alabama. N.p.: N.p., [1861]. -- [HARRISON, William Henry]. JOHNSON, William Cost (1806-1860). Speech of William Cost Johnson of Maryland on the Subject of the Rejection of Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery; with Supplemental Remarks in Reply to Certain Charges Against General Harrison. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1840. -- Journal of the Committee of Thirty-Three. 36th Congress, 2d Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 31. [Washington]: N.p., 1861. -- CARLILE, John Snyder (1817-1878). Speech of Hon. John S. Carlile, of Virginia, on the Bill to Confiscate the Property and Free the Slaves of Rebels. Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1862. Sabin 10923. -- And 8 others. Together, 13 pamphlets, all FIRST EDITION, 8vo, condition generally very good.

[With:] Bust-length portrait of Wendell Phillips (1811-1884). Boston: J.W. Black & Co., [1899]. 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. cabinet photograph on cardstock mount (minor toning, some spotting). SIGNED by Phillips to albumen lower margin. Photographer's imprint to verso. Considered a pre-eminent figure in American abolitionism, he was also an advocate for the rights of women and Native Americans.

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. A signed cabinet card of abolitionist Wendell Phillips with 13 abolition-related pamphlets, especially concerning the Confiscation Acts, comprising:

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