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An updated checklist of digital editions and multimedia produced by the Antislavery Literature Project.

2008

Henry Ward Beecher, "Wendell Phillips", 1884 (tracts)

George Barrell Cheever, The Fire and Hammer of God's Word Against the Sin of Slavery, 1858 (religious literature)

Lydia Maria Child & Eliza Mason, John Brown of Harper's Ferry, 1860 (tracts)

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Emancipation--Black and White", 1865 (proslavery)

Joe Lockard, "Secular-Sacred Tensions in Antebellum Abolitionist Songbooks" (podcast & text)

Joe Lockard, "Reflections on Captain Swinton's Journal of a Voyage with Coolie Emigrants" (podcast & text)

Wendell Phillips, "Irish Sympathy with the Abolition Movement", 1842 (tracts)

Wendell Phillips, "The Puritan Principle and John Brown", 1859 (tracts)

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, "Color-Phobia", 1838 (tracts)

George Russell Commonplace Book, 1839-40 (poetry)

Zoe Trodd, "A Torch for Tomorrow: Civil Rights Protest Literature and the Historical Memory of Abolitionism" (video)

Stephen Wise, "Theodore Parker: Preacher-Prophet", 1910 (tracts)

 

2007

Ralph Waldo Emerson, On the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, 1844 (tracts)

Henry T. Cheever, A Tract for the Times, on the Question, Is It Right to Withhold Fellowship from Churches or from Individuals that Tolerate or Practise Slavery?, 1859 (religious literature)

Harry Stillwell Edwards, Eneas Africanus, 1919 (pro-slavery)

Helia's Narrative, 2007 (contemporary slave narratives)

Aye's Narrative, 1995 (contemporary slave narratives)

Philippine Narratives, 2005 (contemporary slave narratives)

Faith's Narrative, 2005 (contemporary slave narrative)

Goma's Narrative, 2002 (contemporary slave narrative)

William Grayson, The Hireling and the Slave, Chicora, and Other Poems, 1856 (proslavery)

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in Mourning, 1854 (religious literature)

Guo Jiang's Narrative, 1999 (contemporary slave narrative)

Lin Shenli's Narrative, 2003 (contemporary slave narrative)

Longfellow and Whittier on Slavery, 1840s (poetry)

Sabitha-Jayanthi's Narrative, 2002 (contemporary slave narrative)

Shivnarayan's Narrative, 2005 (contemporary slave narrative)

Sumalee's Narrative, 1995 (contemporary slave narrative)

 

2006

Abirami's Narrative, 2002 (contemporary slave narrative)

Aida's Narrative, 2002 (contemporary slave narrative)

Alexia's Narrative, 1999 (contemporary slave narrative) 

Ann Alexander, An Address to the Inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina, 1805 (travel)

American Anti-Slavery Society, Letters on American Slavery, 1860 (tracts)

American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery History of the John Brown Year, 1861 (treatises)

Anonymous, Slavery - A Poem, 1856 (poetry)

Anonymous, Voices from Slavery, 1848 (poetry)

Anonymous, The New Pantheon, or the Age of Black, 1860 (pro-slavery)

Adin Ballou, The Voice of Duty, 1843 (tracts)

Charles Beecher, The Duty of Disobedience to Wicked Laws, 1851 (religious literature)

Charles C. Burleigh, Slavery and the North, 1855 (tracts)

Elihu Burritt, Twenty Reasons for Total Abstinence from Slave-Labour Produce, 185- (tracts)

Susan Cabot, What Have We, as Individuals, to Do with Slavery? 1855 (tracts)

Andrew Caffrey, An Essay on Slavery, with a Reasonable Proposition Made How to Dispense with It, 1859? (tracts)

Maria Weston Chapman, "How Can I Help Abolish Slavery?" or, Counsel to the Newly Converted, 1855 (tracts)

Maria Weston Chapman, Pinda: A True Tale, 1840 (prose fiction)

Lucien Chase, English Serfdom and American Slavery, 1854 (pro-slavery)

John Collins, The Slave-Mother, 1855 (poetry)

Denise's Narrative, 2002 (contemporary slave narrative)

Cecilia Devere, The Underground Railroad, [1860s?] (poetry)

Eliza Lee Follen, The Liberty Cap, 1846 (children's literature)

Stephen Symonds Foster, Revolution the Only Remedy for Slavery, 1855 (tracts)

William Henry Furness, The Blessings of Abolition, 1860 (religious literature)

William Henry Furness, A Discourse Delivered before Theodore Parker's Society, at the Music Hall, Boston, 1860 (religious literature)

William Lloyd Garrison, An Address Delivered in Marlboro Chapel, Boston, July 4, 1838 (tracts)

Giselle's Narrative, 2002 (contemporary slave narrative)

Jeremiah Gloucester, An Oration, Delivered on January 1, 1823 in Bethel Church: On the Abolition of Slave Trade, 1823 (religious literature)

Sarah Grimké, An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States, 1836 (religious literature)

Gun's Narrative, 1999 (contemporary slave narrative)

Elias Hicks, Observations on the Slavery of the Africans and Their Descendants and on the Use of the Produce of Their Labour, 1814 (tracts)

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A Ride Through Kanzas, 1856 (travel)

Richard Hildreth, The "Ruin" of Jamaica, 1855 (tracts)

Thomas Hill, Christmas, and Poems on Slavery for Christmas, 1843 (poetry)

John Hossack, Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1860 (tracts)

John Hough, A Sermon Delivered before the Vermont Colonization Society, 1824 (pro-slavery)

Absalom Jones, A Thanksgiving Sermon, 1808 (religious literature)

George Lawrence, An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1813 (religious literature)

Steven Lewis, Thoughts on Slavery, 1854 (poetry)

Joe Lockard, Teaching Guide to The Blind African Slave, 2006 (narratives)

Joe Lockard, Teaching Guide to Boston King's Memoirs, 2006 (narratives)

Joe Lockard, Teaching Guide to Early African American Antislavery Sermons, 2006 (religious literature)

Joe Lockard, Teaching Guide to the Natick Resolution, 2006 (tracts)

Benjamin Lundy, A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, without Danger or Loss to the Citizens of the South, 1825 (tracts)

Lucius Matlack, Narrative of the Anti-Slavery Experience of a Minister of the Methodist E. Church, Who was Twice Rejected by the Philadelphia Annual Conference, and Finally Deprived of a License to Preach for being an Abolitionist, 1845 (religious literature)

William Miller, A Sermon on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1810 (religious literature)

Jedidiah Morse, A Discourse, Delivered at the African Meeting-House, 1808 (religious literature)

Lucretia Mott, A Sermon to the Medical Students, 1849 (religious literature)

Theodore Parker, The Effect of Slavery on the American People, 1858 (religious literature)

Russell Parrott, An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1812 (religious literature)

Thomas Pearne, Color-Caste, 1876 (religious literature)

Wendell Phillips, 'The State of the Country', 1863 (tracts)

Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and Charles C. Burleigh, No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State: An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts, 1860 (tracts)

John Pierpont, A Word from a Petitioner to Congress, 1837 (poetry)

John Pierpont, The Tocsin, [1843?] (poetry)

David Plumb, The Slaveholders Rebellion, 1865 (poetry)

Noah Porter, Civil Liberty: A Sermon, 1856 (religious literature)

Society of Friends, An Address to the Quarterly, Monthly and Preparative Meetings, and the Members Thereof, composing the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia, by the Committee appointed at the late Yearly Meeting to have charge of the Subject of Slavery, 1839 (religious literature)

Sonya's Narrative, 2004 (contemporary slave narrative)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Slave's Appeal, 1860 (tracts)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Two Altars: or, Two Pictures in One, 1853 (prose fiction)

Sudan Narratives, 1999 (contemporary slave narrative)

Mortimer Thompson, Great Auction Sale of Slaves in Savannah, Georgia, 1859 (travel)

Vasanthi's Narrative, 2002 (contemporary slave narrative)

John Greenleaf Whittier, Address Read at the Opening of Pennsylvania Hall, 1837 (poetry)

 

2005

Anonymous, The Star of Freedom (children's literature)

Anonymous, Little Laura, the Kentucky Abolitionist, 1859 (children's literature)

Anonymous, Slaves Bought and Sold, 1842 (religious literature)

Anonymous, The Bible Against Slavery, 1840 (religious literature)

Anonymous, The Earnest Laborer; or, Myrtle Plantation, 1864 (children's literature)

Anthony Benezet, Brief Considerations on Slavery and the Expediency of its Abolition, with some Hints on the Means by which it can be gradually effected, 1773 (religious literature)

Goodsell Buckingham, The Bible Vindicated from the Charge of Sustaining Slavery, 1837 (religious literature)

Tract Association of Friends, The Teaching of the Spirit, Exemplified in the History of Two Slaves, 1870 (religious tract)

Eastern Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, Captains Drayton and Sayres; Or the way in which Americans are treated, for aiding the cause of Liberty at Home, 1848 (political tract)

William Wallace Hebbard, The Night of Freedom, 1857 (poetry)

Charles Jared Ingersoll, African Slavery in America, 1856 (pro-slavery)

Benjamin Lay, All Slave-Holders that Keep Slaves in Bondage, Apostates, 1738 (religious literature)

Evan Lewis, Address to Christians of All Denominations, on the Inconsistency of Admitting Slave-holders to Communion and Church Membership, 1831 (religious tract)

Boston King, Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher, 1798 (slave narrative)

Charles Peterson, The Cabin and the Parlor; or, Masters and Slaves, 1852 (pro-slavery)

John Pierpont, Anti-Slavery Poems, 1840 (poetry)

Joseph Samson, A Poetical Epistle to the Enslaved Africans, 1790 (poetry)

Henry Clarke Wright, The Natick Resolution, 1859 (tract)

2004

Jane Grey Swisshelm, Half a Century (autobiography) (unannotated – used as a database project for English 241, Fall 2003, Arizona State University)

Mattie Griffith [attrib.] -- A Daughter of Kentucky, Sunlight Upon the Landscape and Other Poems, 1853 (poetry)

 

2003

Theodore Parker, The Slave Power, 1910 (treatises)

Lucy Colman, Reminiscences, 1891 (treatises)

George Bungay, Nebraska, 1854 (poetry)

Iron Gray [Abel Thomas], The Gospel of Slavery, 1864 (children's literature)

 

2002

Mattie Griffith, Madge Vertner, 1859-60 (prose fiction)

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The Project recently initiated a series of Antislavery Literature Teaching Guides based on its digital editions and videos. The series includes Teaching Guides to the slave narratives of Jeffrey Brace and Boston King; the rhetoric of white abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright; and early African American antislavery sermons.
 

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