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| AUTHOR | TITLE | YEAR |
|---|---|---|
| Stearns, William A. | Slavery, in its Present Aspects and Relations. A Sermon Preached on Fast Day, April 6, 1854, at Cambridge, Mass. | 1854 |
| Capen, Nahum | Indissoluble Nature of the American Union, Considered in Connection with the Assumed Right of Secession. A Letter to Hon. Peter Cooper, New York | 1862 |
| Latrobe, John H. B. | History of Mason and Dixon's Line; Contained in an Address, Delivered by John H. B. Latrobe, of Maryland, Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, November 8, 1854 | 1855 |
| Polk, James K. (author unknown) | Political and Public Character of James K. Polk, of Tennessee | ??? |
| Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the Measures of Compromise. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, July 22, 1850 | 1850 | |
| Proceedings of the National Emigration Convention of Colored People; Held at Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 24th, 25th and 26th of August, 1854 | 1854 | |
| Hancock | Letter to the Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, Representative in Congress from the City of Boston, in Reply to His Apology for Voting for the Fugitive Slave Bill | 1851 |
| Paine, Lewis W. | Six Years in a Georgia Prison. Narrative of Lewis W. Paine. Who Suffered Imprisonment Six Years in Georgia, for the Crime of Aiding the Escape of a Fellow-Man from that State, After He Fled from Slavery | 1852 |
| Lincoln, Jairus | Anti-Slavery melodies: for the Friends of Freedom. Prepared for the Hingham Anti-Slavery Society | 1843 |
| Deane, Charles | Letters and Documents relating to Slavery in Massachusetts | 1877 |
| Palfrey, John G. | Papers on the Slave Power, first published in the "Boston Whig." | ???? |
| Brown, Joseph E. | Special Message of Gov. Joseph E. Brown to the Legislature of Georgia, on our Federal Relations, Retaliatory State Legislation, the Right of Secession, &c., November 7th, 1860 | 1860 |
| Douglas, Stephen A. | Speech of Hon. S. A. Douglas, of Illinois, in the Senate, January 30, 1854. On the Nebraska Territory | 1854 |
| Foote, H. S. | Annual Message of Gov. H. S. Foote, sent to the Mississippi Legislature, January 2, 1854 | 1854 |
| Hale, John P. | Speech of John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, in the Senate of the United States, February 14, 1860 | 1860 |
| Hale, John P. | Speech of John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, in the Senate of the United States, February 14, 1860 | 1860 |
| Houston | Speech of Senator Houston, of Texas, on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, Previous to the Final Passage of the Same by the Senate of the United States, Friday Night, March 3, 1854 | 1854 |
| Hoyt, S. C. | Pamphlet containing the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Rights from the Constitution of the State of Missouri, and an Address Against the License System | 1842 |
| Hudson, Chas. | Speech of Mr. Chas. Hudson, of Mass., on the Constitutional Power of Congress Over the Territories, and the Right of Excluding Slavery Therefrom. Delivered in the House of Representatives of the U. S., June 20, 1848 | 1848 |
| Hunt, T. G. | Good Faith and Union. Speech of Hon. T. G. Hunt, of Louisiana, in the House of Representatives, March 23, 1854, on the Bill to establish the Nebraska and Kansas Territories, and to repeal the Missouri Compromise | 1854 |
| Slade | Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia. Delivered in the House of Representatives of the U. S. December 20, 1837. To Which is Added the Intended Conclusion of the Speech, Suppressed by Resolution of the House | 1837 |
| Sumner, Charles | Union and Peace. How They Shall be Restored. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, Before the Republican State Convention, at Worcester, October 1, 1861 | 1861 |
| Sumner, Charles | Crime Against Kansas. The Apologies for the Crime. The True Remedy. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner. In the Senate of the United States, 19th and 20th May, 1856 | 1856 |
| Sumner, Charles | Crime Against Kansas. The Apologies for the Crime. The True Remedy. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner. In the Senate of the United States, 19th and 20th May, 1856 | 1856 |
| Sumner, Charles | Crime Against Kansas. The Apologies for the Crime. The True Remedy. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner. In the Senate of the United States, 19th and 20th May, 1856 | 1856 |
| Sumner, Charles | Final Protest for Himself and the Clergy of New England Against Slavery in Kansas and Nebraska. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Night of the Passage of the Kansas and Nebraska Bill. In Senate of the United States, May 25, 1854 | 1854 |
| Sumner, Charles | Final Protest for Himself and the Clergy of New England Against Slavery in Kansas and Nebraska. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Night of the Passage of the Kansas and Nebraska Bill. In Senate of the United States, May 25, 1854 | 1854 |
| Sumner, Charles | Freedom National; Slavery Sectional. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on His Motion to Repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill, in the Senate of the United States, August 26, 1852 | 1852 |
| Sumner, Charles | Freedom National; Slavery Sectional. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on His Motion to Repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill, in the Senate of the United States, August 26, 1852 | 1852 |
| Sumner, Charles | Landmark of Freedom. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, Against the Repeal of the Missouri Prohibition of Slavery North of 36(long) 30(lat). In the Senate, February 21, 1854 | 1854 |
| Sumner, Charles | Landmark of Freedom. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, Against the Repeal of the Missouri Prohibition of Slavery North of 36(long) 30(lat). In the Senate, February 21, 1854 | 1854 |
| Whipple, Charles K. | Non-Resistance Principle: with particular application to the Help of Slaves by Abolitionists | 1860 |
| Badger | Speech of Mr. Badger, of North Carolina, on the Territorial Question, and Against Secession, Disunion, and Forcible Resistance on Account of the Wilmot Proviso - and for the Union and the Constitution, and for Constitutional Remedies in the Union | 1850 |
| Cullom, Wm. | Speech of Hon. Wm. Cullom, of Tennessee, on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, in the House of Representatives, April 11, 1854 | 1854 |
| Davis, Jefferson | (Breckenridge and Lane Campaign Documents, No. 9) Reply of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, to the Speech of Senator Douglas, in the U. S. Senate, May 16 and 17, 1860 | 1860 |
| Douglas | Remarks of Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, upon the Resolution Declaring the Compromise Measures to be a Definitive Adjustment of all Questions Growing out of Domestic Slavery. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 23, 1851 | 1851 |
| Everett | Speech of Mr. Everett, of Massachusetts, delivered in the Senate of the United States, Feb 8, 1854, on the Nebraska and Kansas Territorial Bill | 1854 |
| Foote | Speech of Mr. Foote, of Mississippi, on the Admission of California. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, August 1, 1850 | 1850 |
| Foote, H. S. | Speech of Hon. H. S. Foote, of Mississippi, on the Measures of Compromise. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, June 27, 1850 | 1850 |
| Hamlin, Hannibal | Speech of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, on the proposition To Admit California as a State into the Union. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 5, 1850 | 1850 |
| Hammond, James H. | Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Admission of Kansas, under the Lecompton Constitution. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1858 | 1858 |
| Mayall, Samuel | Speech of Hon. Samuel Mayall, of Maine, Delivered in the House of Representatives, May 16, 1854, on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill | 1854 |
| Seward, William H. | Speech of the Hon. W. H. Seward, on the Admission of California, and the subject of Slavery; delivered in the United States Senate, on Monday, March 11, 1850 | 1850 |
| Seward, William H. | Usurpations of Slavery, The. Speech of William H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States, on the Bill to Protect Officers of the United States. February 23, 1855 | 1855 |
| Seward, William H. | California, Union, and Freedom. Speech of William H. Seward, on the Admission of California. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 11, 1850 | 1850 |
| Sherman, John | Slaves and Slavery: How Affected by the War. Remarks of Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio, in the Senate of the United States, April 2, 1862 | 1862 |
| Soule | Speech of Mr. Soule, of Louisiana, on the Pending Measures of Compromise. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 21, 1850 | 1850 |
| Sumner, Charles | Freedom National; Slavery Sectional. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on His Motion to Repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill, in the Senate of the United States, August 26, 1852 | 1852 |
| Thomas, B. F. | Remarks of the Hon. B. F. Thomas, of Massachusetts, on the Relation of the "Seceded States" (So Called) to the Union, and the Confiscation of Property and Emancipation of Slaves in Such States, in the House of Representatives, April 10, 1862 | 1862 |
| Walley, S. H. | Slavery Compromises. Speech of Hon. S. H. Walley, of Mass., on the Nebraska and Kansas Territorial Bill. Delivered in the House of Representatives, May 9, 1854 | 1854 |
| Wilson, Henry | Death of Slavery is the Life of the Nation, The. Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, (of Massachusetts,) in the Senate, March 28, 1864. On the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution Prohibiting Slavery within the United States | 1864 |
| Abbott, Nehemiah | Kansas--Lecompton Constitution, and the President's Lecompton Message. Speech of Hon. Nehemiah Abbott, of Maine. Delivered in the U. S. House of Representatives, March 22, 1858 | 1858 |
| Adams, Charles Francis | Speech of Charles Francis Adams, of Mass. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 31, 1861 | 1861 |
| Banks | Speech of Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts, on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill. Delivered in the House of Representatives, May 23, 1854 | 1854 |
| Chesnut, James, Jr. | Relations of States. Speech of the Hon. James Chesnut, Jr. of South Carolina, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 9, 1860, on the Resolutions submitted by the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Miss. On 1st March, 1860 | 1860 |
| Dayton | Speech of Mr. Dayton, of New Jersey, on the Territorial Question | 1850 |
| Eliot, T. D. | Nebraska and Kansas. Speech of Hon. T. D. Eliot, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, May 10, 1854 | 1854 |
| Eliot, Thomas D. | Speech of Thomas D. Eliot, of Massachusetts, Delivered in the House of Representatives Feb. 10, 1864, on the bill for the establishment of a Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs | 1864 |
| Franklin, J. R. | Speech of Hon. J. R. Franklin, of Maryland, on the Nebraska and Kansas Territorial Bill. Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 28, 1854 | 1854 |
| Goodrich, John Z. | Nebraska and Kansas. Speech of Hon. John Z. Goodrich, of Mass., delivered in the House of Representatives, May 20, 1854 | 1854 |
| Hallett | "Question of Veracity, The" [Mr. Hallett's Reply to Mr. Wilson's "Personal Explanation."] Evaded by Senator Wilson and Again Settled Against Him | 1856 |
| Hallett, B. F. | Question of Veracity for Senator Henry Wilson. From the Speech of Hon. B. F. Hallett, of Boston, delivered at Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, March 10, 1856, on the Kansas Question | 1856 |
| Hallett, Benj. F. | Speech of the Hon. Benj. F. Hallett, on the Nebraska Question | 1854 |
| Palfrey | Speech of Mr. Palfrey, of Massachusetts, on the Political Aspect of the Slave Question. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 26th, 1848 | 1848 |
| Stanly, Edward | Speech of Edward Stanly, of N. Carolina, Exposing the Causes of the Slavery Agitation. Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 6, 1850 | 1850 |
| Sumner, Charles | Bridge from Slavery to Freedom, A. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill to Establish a Bureau of Freedmen, in the Senate of the United States, June 13th and 15th, 1864 | 1864 |
| Sumner, Charles | Defence of Massachusetts. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Boston Memorial for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, and in reply to messrs. Jones of Tennessee, Butler of South Carolina, and Mason of Virginia. In Senate of United States, June 26 and 28, 1854 | 1854 |
| Sumner, Charles | Indemnity for the Past and Security for the Future. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on His Bill for the Confiscation of Property and the Liberation of Slaves Belonging to Rebels. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1862 | 1862 |
| Sumner, Charles | Landmark of Freedom, The. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, Against the Repeal of the Missouri Prohibition of Slavery North of 36° 30'. In the Senate, February 21, 1854 | 1854 |
| Sumner, Charles | Ransom of Slaves at the National Capital. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the bill for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia, in the Senate of the United States, March 31, 1862 | 1862 |
| Sumner, Charles | Slave Oligarchy and Its Usurpations, The. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, November 2, 1855, in Faneuil Hall, Boston | 1855 |
| Sumner, Charles | No Compromise of Human Rights. No admission in the Constitution of Inequality of Rights, or Disfranchisement on Account of Color. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution Fixing the Basis of Representation; delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 7, 1866 | 1866 |
| Upham, William | Speech of Hon. William Upham, of Vermont, on the Compromise Bill. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, July 1 and 2, 1850 | 1850 |
| Wade | Plain Truths for the People. Speech of Senator Wade, of Ohio. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 13 and 15, 1858 | 1858 |
| Wade, Edward | Nebraska and Kansas. Speech of Hon. Edward Wade, of Ohio. In the House of Representatives, May 27, 1854 | 1854 |
| Winthrop, R. C. | Admission of California. Speech of the Hon. R. C. Winthrop, of Mass., on the President's Message, transmitting the Constitution of California: delivered in Committee of the Whole in the House of Representatives of the United States, May 8, 1850 | 1850 |
| Parker, Joel | To the People of Massachusetts | 1862 |
| Memorial to the Congress of the United States, on the Subject of Restraining the Increase of Slavery in New States to be Admitted into the Union. Prepared in Pursuance of a Vote of the Inhabitants of Boston and its Vicinity, Assembled at the State House, on the Third of December, A. D. 1819 | 1819 | |
| Slavery in the United States: its Evils, Alleviations, and Remedies. Reprinted from the North American Review, Oct. 1851 | 1851 | |
| Alexander, George W. & Scoble, John | Slavery and the Slave Trade | 1849 |
| Appleton, Nathan & Palfrey, John G. | Correspondence between Nathan Appleton and John G. Palfrey, intended as a supplement to Mr. Palfrey's pamphlet on the slave power [two copies] | 1846 |
| Clothier, Caleb & Miller, Daniel L., Jr. | Address to the Members of the Religious Society of Friends, on the Propriety of Abstaining from the Use of the Produce of Slave Labour | 1838 |
| Hayden, William B. | Institution of Slavery, Viewed in the Light of Divine Truth. A Lecture delivered in the City Hall, Portland, Sunday Evening, March 17, 1861 | 1861 |
| Henderson, J. B. | Speech of Hon. J. B. Henderson, of Missouri, on the Abolition of Slavery. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 27, 1862 | 1862 |
| Henshaw, David | Refutation of the Charge of Abolitionism, brought by David Henshaw, and His Partizans, against the Hon. Marcus Morton | 1845 |
| Higginson, Thomas Wentworth | New Revolution: A Speech before the American Anti-Slavery Society, at their Annual Meeting in New York, May 12, 1857 | 1857 |
| Illinoien | Word to the Republican Members of Congress by One Perhaps More Opposed to Slavery than Themselves | 1861 |
| Kemble, Frances Anne | View of Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins on Negro Slavery at the South, Illustrated from the Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation | 1864 |
| Lord, Nathan | Northern Presbyter's Second Letter to Ministers of the Gospel of All Denominations on Slavery | 1855 |
| Otis | Speech of Mr. Otis, on the Restriction of Slavery in Missouri. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 25, 1820 | 1820 |
| Parker, Joel | Non-Extension of Slavery and Constitutional Representation. An Address before the Citizens of Cambridge, October 1, 1856 | 1856 |
| Parker, Theodore | Relation of Slavery to a Republican Form of Government, The. A Speech delivered at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, Wednesday Morning, May 26, 1858 | 1858 |
| Parsons, Theophilus | Slavery, its Origin, Influence, and Destiny | 1863 |
| Peabody, Andrew P. | Position and Duties of the North with Regard to Slavery | 1847 |
| Pearson, Henry B. | Freedom Versus Slavery. Letters from Henry B. Pearson, late of the Philadelphia Bar, to Hon. Rufus Choate, on his Letter to the Whig Committee of the State of Maine | 1856 |
| Pillsbury, Parker | Church as it is: or the Forlorn Hope of slavery | 1885 |
| Robertson, Wyndham, Jr. | Letter Addressed to the Hon. John C. Calhoun, on the Law Relating to Slaves, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes | 1845 |
| Schaff, Philip | Slavery and the Bible. A Tract for the Times | 1861 |
| Smith, Gerrit | Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie, of the State of Mississippi | 1837 |
| Sumner, Charles | (Anti-Slavery Standard, The. Extra.) Our Foreign Relations. Speech of the Hon. Charles Sumner before the Citizens of New York, at Cooper Institute, September 10, 1863 | 1863 |
| (Loyal Publication Society, 863 Broadway. No. 18.) Opinions of the Early Presidents, and of the Fathers of the Republic, upon Slavery | 1863 | |
| Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The Full Opinions of Chief Justice Taney and Justice Curtis, and Abstracts of the Opinions of the Other Judges; with an analysis of the points ruled, and some concluding observations | 1857 | |
| Declaration and Pledge against Slavery, Adopted by the Religious Anti-Slavery Convention, Held at the Marlboro' Chapel, Boston, February 26, 1846 | 1846 | |
| Influence of Catholic Christian Doctrines on the Emancipation of Slaves. By a Member of the Sodality of the B. V. Mary, Church of the Most Holy Redeemer. East Boston | 1863 | |
| Legal Review of the Case of Dred Scott, as decided by the Supreme Court of the United States | 1857 | |
| Slavery and Its Prospects in the United States | 1857 | |
| Slavery--Colonization | ???? | |
| Conspiracy Disclosed!! Kansas Affairs. Read! Read!! Read!!! | ???? | |
| Statement of Facts, and a Few Suggestions in Review of Political Action in Missouri, Demonstrating the Right of Admission to the Democratic National Convention of the Delegates from the Democratic Party of that State, Whose Names are Appended Hereto, to the Exclusion of Their Contestants | 1856 | |
| Loyalty and Devotion of Colored Americans in the Revolution and War of 1812 | 1861 | |
| General Washington and General Jackson, on Negro Soldiers | 1863 | |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Christian Slave, The. A Drama, Founded on a Portion of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Dramatized by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Expressly for the Readings of Mrs. Mary E. Webb | 1855 |
| Gentry, M. P. | Speech of Hon. M. P. Gentry, of Tennessee, delivered in the House of Representatives, June 14, 1852 | 1852 |
| Gooch, D. W. | Any Compromise a Surrender. Speech of Hon. D. W. Gooch, of Mass., In the House of Representatives, February 23, 1861 | 1861 |
| Seward, William H. | State of the Country, The. Speech of William H. Seward, in the United States Senate, February 29, 1860 | 1860 |
| Historical Examination of the State of Society in Western Africa, as formed by Paganism and Muhammedanism, Slavery, the Slave Trade and Piracy, and of the Remedial Influence of Colonization and Missions [cover only] | ???? | |
| Sumner, Charles | Our Foreign Relations: showing present perils from England and France; the nature and conditions of intervention by mediation; and also by recognition; the impossibility of any recognition of a new power with slavery as a cornerstone; and the wrongful concession of ocean belligerency. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, before the Citizens of New York, at the Cooper Institute, Sept. 10, 1863 | 1863 |
| Benjamin, J. P. | Speech of Hon. J. P. Benjamin, of LA., on the Kansas Question. Delivered in the Senate May 2, 1856 | 1856 |
| Benton | Nebraska and Kansas. Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, in House of Representatives, April 25, 1854 | 1854 |
| Benton | Mr. Benton's Anti-Compromise Speech. Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, in the Senate of the United States, June 10, 1850. On his motion to postpone until the 4th day of March, 1851, the Bill reported from the Committee of Thirteen, --the Compromise Bill | 1850 |
| Campbell, Lewis D. | Kansas and Nebraska--Georgia and Ohio--Free Labor and Slave Labor. Speech of Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, December 14, 1854 | 1854 |
| Cass | Speech of Mr. Cass, of Michigan, on the motion of Mr. Benton for the indefinite postponement of the Compromise Bill. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1850 | 1850 |
| Cass, Lewis | Power of Congress over the Territories, The. Speech of Hon. Lewis Cass, of Michigan, in Senate of the United States, March 13 and 14, 1850, on the Compromise Resolution of Mr. Bell, of Tennessee, and the proposition to refer them to a Select Committee | 1850 |
| Clarke, Chas. E. | Speech of Hon. Chas. E. Clarke, of New York, on the Admission of California. Delivered in the House of Representatives, May 13, 1850 | 1850 |
| Clayton, John M. | Speech of Hon. John M. Clayton, of Delaware, on Affairs in Kansas Territory. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, June 16, 1856 | 1856 |
| Clemens | Compromise Measures, The. Speech of Mr. Clemens, of Alabama, in the Senate of the United States, Dec'r 24, 1851, On the Resolution reaffirming the Compromise Measures | 1851 |
| Davis, Jefferson | Relations of States. Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 7th, 1860, On the Resolutions submitted by him on 1st of March, 1860 | 1860 |
| Foster, L. F. S. | Admission of Kansas. Speech of Hon. L. F. S. Foster, of Connecticut, in the Senate of the United States, June 25, 1856 | 1856 |
| Phillips, Stephen C. | Speech of Hon. Stephen C. Phillips. Delivered at Faneuil Hall, at the Meeting held to consider the case of the Abducted Slave, the Hon. John Quincy Adams being in the Chair | ???? |
| Sumner, Charles | Republican Party, The; its Origin, Necessity and Permanence. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, before the Young Men's Republican Union of New-York, July 11th, 1860 | 1860 |
| Upham, Charles W. | Nebraska and Kansas. Speech of Hon. Charles W. Upham, of Mass., in the House of Representatives, May 10, 1854 | 1854 |
| Inconsistency and Hypocrisy of Martin van Buren. On the Question of Slavery | ???? | |
| Proceedings of the United States Senate, on the Fugitive Slave Bill, --The Abolition of the Slave-Trade in the District of Columbia, --and the Imprisonment of Free Colored Seamen in the Southern Ports: with the Speeches of Messrs. Davis, Winthrop and Others | 1850 | |
| Declaration of the Free Soil Association of the District of Columbia | 1848 | |
| Issue Fairly Presented, The. The Senate Bill for the Admission of Kansas as a State. Democracy, Law, Order, and the Will of the Majority of the Whole People of the Territory, against Black Republicanism, Usurpation, Revolution, Anarchy, and the Will of a Meagre Minority | 1856 | |
| Boardman, Henry A. | American Union: a Discourse delivered on Thursday, December 12, 1850, the Day of the Annual Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania, and Repeated on Thursday, December 19, in the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia | 1851 |
| Willard, Samuel | Grand Issue, The: an Ethico-Political Tract | 1851 |
| (Principia Club Papers, NO. 9.) Emancipation and Emigration. A Plan to Transfer the Freedmen of the South to the Government Lands of the West | 1878 | |
| A Churchman | Caste and Slavery in the American Church | 1843 |
| Chase, S. P. | Union and Freedom, Without Compromise. Speech of Hon. S. P. Chase, of Ohio, on Mr. Clay's Compromise Resolutions, delivered in the United States Senate, March 26 and 27, 1850 | 1850 |
| Cheever, George B. | (Tracts for Thinking Men and Women. No. 3.) Commission from God, of the Missionary Enterprise, Against the Sin of Slavery; and the Responsibility on the Church and Ministry for Its Fulfilment. An Address, delivered in Tremont Temple, Boston, Thursday, May 27th, 1858. Before the American Missionary Association | 1858 |
| Child, L. Maria | (Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 9. New Series.) Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act: an appeal to the Legislators of Massachusetts | 1860 |
| Clay | Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, in Support of His Propositions to Compromise on the Slavery Question | 1850 |
| Cox, Samuel H. & Douglass, Frederick | Correspondence between the Rev. Samuel H. Cox, D. D., of Brooklyn, L. I. And Frederick Douglass, a Fugitive Slave | 1846 |
| Donnell, E. J. | Slavery and "Protection": An Historical Review and Appeal to the Workshop and the Farm | 1882 |
| Dorr, James A. | Justice to the South! An Address by James A. Dorr, a Member of the New-York Bar. October 8, 1856 | 1856 |
| Hurd, John C. | Topics of Jurisprudence connected with Conditions of Freedom and Bondage | 1856 |
| Moody, Loring | Destruction of Republicanism the Object of the Rebellion. The Testimony of Southern Witnesses | 1863 |
| Whipple, Charles K. | Non-Resistance Principle, The: with Particular Application to the Help of Slaves by Abolitionists | 1860 |
| Winchester, Elhanan | Reigning Abominations, The. Especially the Slave Trade, Considered as Causes of Lamentation. Being the Substance of a Discourse Delivered in Fairfax County, Virginia, Dec. 30, 1774, and now published with additions | 1788 |
| (Anti-Slavery Examiner, The. No. 5.) Power of Congress over the District of Columbia, The | 1838 | |
| (Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 15. New Series.) Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, The. | 1861 | |
| Proceedings of the United States Senate, on the Fugitive Slave Bill, --The Abolition of the Slave-Trade in the District of Columbia, --and the Imprisonment of Free Colored Seamen in the Southern Ports: with the Speeches of Messrs. Davis, Winthrop and Others | 1850 | |
| Proceedings of the United States Senate, on the Fugitive Slave Bill, --The Abolition of the Slave-Trade in the District of Columbia, --and the Imprisonment of Free Colored Seamen in the Southern Ports: with the Speeches of Messrs. Davis, Winthrop and Others | 1850 | |
| Republican Scrap Book, The; containing the platforms, and a choice selection of extracts, setting forth the real questions in issue, the opinions of the candidates, the nature and designs of the slave oligarchy, as shown by their own writers, and the opinions of Clay, Webster, Josiah Quincy, and other patriots, on slavery and its extension | 1856 | |
| Concessions and Compromises | 1860 | |
| Child | Anti-Slavery Catechism. By Mrs. Child | 1839 |
| Elder, William | Debt and Resources of the United States: and the Effect of Secession upon the Trade and Industry of the Loyal States | 1863 |
| Mann, Horace | Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts, on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories, and the consequences of a Dissolution of the Union. Delivered in the United States House of Representatives, February 15, 1850 | 1850 |
| Stille, Charles J. | Northern Interests and Southern Independence: a Plea for United Action | 1863 |
| Stringfellow, B. F. & Goodloe, D. R. | Information for the People. Two Tracts for the Times. The one entitled "Negro-Slavery, No Evil:" by B. F. Stringfellow, of Missouri. The other, an answer to the inquiry "Is It Expedient to Introduce Slavery into Kansas?" by D. R. Goodloe, of North Carolina | 1855 |
| Stuart, M. | Conscience and the Constitution with Remarks on the Recent Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster in the Senate of the United States on the Subject of Slavery | 1850 |
| Sumner, Charles | Barbarism of Slavery, The: speech Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the Admission of Kansas as a Free State, in the United States Senate, June 4, 1860 | 1863 |
| Sumner, Charles | White Slavery in the Barbary States. A Lecture before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, Feb. 17, 1847 | 1847 |
| Sweetser, R. | Essay on the Subject of Slavery, prepared by R. Sweetser, A. M. and commended by a Committee of Examination and Award | 1859 |
| Talbot, Thomas H. | Constitutional Provision respecting Fugitives from Service of Labor, and the Act of Congress, of September 18, 1850 | 1852 |
| Thayer, Russell | Reply to Mr. Charles Ingersoll's "Letter to a Friend in a Slave State" | 1862 |
| Thornwell, J. H. | Hear the South! The State of the Country: an article republished from the Southern Presbyterian Review | 1861 |
| Townsend, John | Southern States, their Present Peril, and their Certain Remedy. Why Do They Not Right Themselves? And so Fulfil their Glorious Destiny | 1850 |
| Tracy, Joseph | Colonization and Missions. A Historical Examination of the state of society in Western Africa, as formed by Paganism and Muhammedanism, Slavery, the Slave Trade and Piracy, and of the Remedial Influence of Colonization and Missions | 1844 |
| Waddington, John | American Crisis in Relation to Slavery, The | 1862 |
| Washburn, Emory | Extinction of Villenage and Slavery in England; with Somerset's Case. A Paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society | 1864 |
| Washburn, Emory | Slavery as it once prevailed in Massachusetts. A Lecture for the Massachusetts Historical Society, at the Lowell Institute, Jan. 22, 1869 | 1869 |
| Earl Russell and the Slave Power | 1863 | |
| Observations on the Rev. Dr. Gannett's Sermon, entitled "Relation of the North to Slavery" | 1854 | |
| To the People of the Southern States | ???? | |
| Wheatley, Phillis | Letters of Phillis Wheatley, the Negro=Slave Poet of Boston | 1864 |
| A Cotton Manufacturer (Atkinson ?) | Cheap Cotton by Free Labor | 1861 |
| Adams, Charles Francis | What makes Slavery a Question of National Concern? A Lecture, delivered by invitation, at New York, January 30, and at Syracuse, February 1, 1855 | 1855 |
| Adams, Charles Francis | Speech of Charles Francis Adams, of Mass. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 31, 1861 | 1861 |
| Allen, George (?) | Resistance to Slavery every Man's Duty. A Report on American Slavery, read to the Worcester Central Association, March 2, 1847 | 1847 |
| An American Citizen | Letter addressed to the President of the United States on Slavery, considered in relation to the Constitutional Principles of Government in Great Britain and in the United States | 1855 |
| Appleton, Nathan & Palfrey, John G. | Correspondence between Nathan Appleton and John G. Palfrey, intended as a supplement to Mr. Palfrey's pamphlet on the slave power | 1846 |
| Ashmun | Speech of Mr. Ashmun, of Mass., upon the Slavery Questions, in Committee of the Whole of the United States House of Representatives, March 27, 1850 | 1850 |
| Badger | Speech of Mr. Badger, of North Carolina, on the Slavery Question. In Senate, March 18 and 19, 1850 | 1850 |
| Bartholomew, J. G. | Slavery and the Higher Law: a Sermon, suggested by the Execution of John Brown; and delivered in Empire Hall, Aurora, Ill., On Sunday, Dec. 4th, 1859 | 1859 |
| Birney, James G. | American Churches the Bulwarks of American Slavery, The | 1885 |
| Bright, John | Liberal Voice from England, A. Mr. John Bright's Speech at Rochdale, December 4, 1861, on the American Crisis | 1862 |
| Brown, Aaron V. | Speech of Ex-Gov. Aaron V. Brown, in the second session of the Southern Convention, On the Resolutions Reported Saturday, 15th Nov., 1850 | 1850 |
| Channing, William E. | Duty of the Free States, or Remarks Suggested by the Case of the Creole | 1842 |
| Clarke, James Freeman | Slavery in the United States. A Sermon Delivered in Amory Hall, on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1842 | 1843 |
| Grimke, A. E. | (Anti-Slavery Examiner, The. Vol. I. September 1836. No. 2.) Appeal to the Christian Women of the South | 1836 |
| Mann, Horace | …Mr. Horace Mann, of Mass., on the Right of Congress to Legislate for the Territories of the United States, and its Right to Exclude Slavery Therefrom. Delivered in the House of Representatives in Committee of the Whole, June 30, 1848 | 1848 |
| Marana | Future of America, The. Considered somewhat in view of Movements Regarding Re-Opening the Slave Trade | ???? |
| Meredith, Thomas | Christianity and Slavery. Strictures on Rev. William Hague's Review of Doctors Fuller and Wayland on Domestic Slavery | 1847 |
| Moore, Geo. H. | Additional Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts | 1866(?) |
| Spooner, Lysander | Unconstitutionality of Slavery, The | 1846 |
| Stewart, James A. | Powers of the Government of the United States--Federal, State, and Territorial. Speech of Hon. James A. Stewart, of Maryland, on African Slavery, Its Status--Natural, Moral, Social, Legal, and, Constitutional; and the origin, progress, present condition, and future destiny of the United States, considered in connection with African Slavery as a part of its social system; with the bearings of that institution upon the interests of all sections of the union, and upon the African race. Delivered in the House of Representatives, July 23, 1856 | 1856 |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | (Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 13.) Two Altars, The; or, Two Pictures in One | 1852 |
| (Anti-Slavery Examiner, No. 13.) Can Abolitionists Vote or Take Office Under the United States Constitution? | 1845 | |
| Abolition of Slavery the Right of the Government under the War Power, The | 1862 | |
| Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 12 | ???? | |
| Appeal to the People of the United States, shewing the Condition of the Slaves of the South, contrasted with the Poor Laborers of Europe and America | 1835 | |
| Inconsistency and Hypocrisy of Martin van Buren. On the Question of Slavery | ???? | |
| Report of the Committee on Slavery, to the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts. Presented May 30, 1849 | 1849 | |
| Speech of Mr. Horace Mann. Of Mass., on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories, and the consequences of the Threatened Dissolution of the Union. Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 15, 1850 | 1850 | |
| Not Impossible | ???? | |
| Anent the United States and Confederate States of North America | 1862 | |
| Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States | 1860 | |
| Wright, Elizur (ed.) | Perforations in the "Latter-Day Pamphlets," by one of the "Eighteen Millions of Bores." No. I. Universal Suffrage. Captial Punishment.--Slavery | 1850 |
| Wright, H. C. | First Day Sabbath not of Divine Appointment, with the opinions of Calvin, Luther, Belsham, Melancthon, Barclay, Paley, and Others. A Letter to the Committee of the Edinburgh Emancipation Society | 1846 |
| Minutes of the Proceedings of a Special Meeting of the Fifteenth American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race, Assembled at Philadelphia, on the Tenth Day of December, 1818, and continued by adjournments until the Fifteenth of the same month, inclusive | 1818 | |
| A Gentleman | Essay on the Merchandize of Slaves & Souls of Men, Revel. XVIII. 13. With an Application thereof to the Church of Rome. To which is added, An Exercitation on Numb. XXXII. 10, 11, 12. With An occasional Meditation on I. Sam. XXIII. 11, 12 | 1731 |
| Featherstonhaugh, G. W. | Excursion through the Slave States, from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico; with Sketches of Popular Manners and Geological Notices | 1844 |
| Forensic Dispute on the Legality of enslaving the Africans, held at the public Commencement in Cambridge, New-England, July 21st, 1773 by Two Candidates, for the Bachelor's Degree | 1774 | |
| Allen, Geo. | Mr. Allen's Speech on Ministers Leaving a Moral Kingdom to Bear Testimony Against Sin; Liberty in Danger, from the Publication of its Principles; the Constitution a Shield for Slavery; and the Union better than Freedom and Righteousness | 1838 |
| Gannett, Ezra S. | Relation of the North to Slavery. A Discourse preached in the Federal Street Meetinghouse, in Boston, on Sunday, June 11, 1854 | 1854 |
| Gray, E. H. | Assaults upon Freedom! or, Kidnapping an Outrage upon Humanity and Abhorrent to God. A Discourse, occasioned by the Rendition of Anthony Burns | 1854 |
| Hallowell, Richard P. | Southern Question, The. Past and Present. An Address by Richard P. Hallowell. Delivered before the Harvard Historical Society of Harvard College, in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, Mass., March 12, 1890 | 1890 |
| Proceedings of the Fourth New-England Anti-Slavery Convention Held in Boston, May 30, 31, and June 1 and 2, 1837 | 1837 |