The first and only edition of this publication of the speeches made by Frederick Douglass and Robert Ingersoll at a mass meeting in Washington, D.C., where—exactly twenty years after the Emancipation Proclamation—the Supreme Court had just eviscerated the Civil Rights Acts of 1875 and hobbled the 13th and 14th Amendments.....
A powerful account of William Wilberforce’s introduction of the motion to immediately abolish the English slave trade in the British House of Commons, and a response to objections and counter-proposals, including “gradual abolition.” English Anglican priest, poet, and natural philosopher Thomas Gisborne (1758–1846) was a central figure in the Clapham.....
A spiritualist author’s account of the spirit of a boy who died in infancy. Natty, one Nathaniel Young, died within a few weeks of his birth in the fall of 1815, but according to the author persisted as a spirit. Putnam begins with a description of a newly executed painting.....
A Canadian edition of this compendium of SNCC statements and an interview with its president, Stokely Carmichael, first published in the U.S. The collection opens with sections titled “The Basis of Black Power,” “White Power,” “Roles of White and Blacks,” “Black Self-Determination,” “White Radicals,” and “Black Identity.” These are introduced as.....
First edition. An adaptation for elementary school children of Woodson’s The Negro in Our History. From the preface: “The aim here is to facilitate the teacher’s task of preparing children to play their part creditably in this new age. The teacher must hold up before them the examples of their.....
A scarce and incendiary anti-war attack on presidential candidate Zachary Taylor, pairing a sensational true story of murder-for-hire with gruesome details of Mexican-American War atrocities perpetrated, according to the author, by the U.S. Army under Taylor’s command, printed in the utopian community of Hopedale, Mass. In this tract, published in.....