African Americana

The Atlantic Monthly. 2 issues (incomplete run). Boston: Ticknor and Fields, December 1866-1867.

8vo, 2 issues numbering: Vol 18, No. 110. December 1866; Vol. 19, No. 111, January 1867. (Soiling especially to No. 111, creases, light chipping to edges.) Original publisher's wrappers (partial separation, soiling to No. 111). 

The consecutive issues contain two articles penned anonymously by Frederick Douglass passionately and cogently arguing for impartial suffrage: "Reconstruction" (issue no. 110, pp. 761-765) and "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" (issue no. 111, pp. 112-117). He calls for the need for strong legislation and warns about the consequences of neutrality: "You shudder to-day at the harvest of blood sown in the spring-time of the Republic by your patriot fathers. The principle of slavery, which they tolerated under the erroneous impression that it would soon die out, became at last the dominant principle and power at the South. It early mastered the Constitution, became superior to the Union, and enthroned itself above the law."