![Item #3817 [A sammelband of abolitionist tracts]. H. W. Longfellow, Amasa Walker, Esq., Alvin...](/pictures/thumb/3817_1.jpg?v=1560463428)
A sammelband of 12 anti-slavery tracts from a variety of authors and sources, attempting to catch wavering minds and elucidate the many moral, patriotic, and financial disadvantages of slavery. Tract No. 1, Poems on Slavery by H. W. Longfellow, includes seven poems, among them To William E. Channing, The.....
Stated “First American From the Third London Edition,” published in the year that Owen established the utopian community of New Harmony, Indiana, in an attempt to implement the principles outlined herein. One of two American editions published in 1825. The other edition was published in Cincinnati, as the “First American.....
![Item #3904 The Making of an American. [With two autograph letters inserted]. Jacob A. Riis](/pictures/thumb/3904_1.jpg?v=1560463450)
The autobiography of social reformer Jacob Riis, along with two letters from Riis to influential Ellis Island immigration doctor Victor Safford. First published in 1901, this is a 1902 printing. Riis’s autobiography begins with his youth in Denmark (including his initially one-sided bond with his beloved wife Elizabeth), and his.....