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HIST 2807:Slavery in the Ancient World: Selected Pamphlets

Selected Pamphlet's from Samuel J. May Collection

An abolition pamphlet can be looked at as a printed document advocating for the end of slavery. Below are example's of abolition pamphlets from the Samuel J. May Anti Slavery Collection. For a link to the catalog record click on "catalog record " number when you access the record. This information is needed in case you want to look at the physical item in our reading room. Finding Aid for May Anti-Slavery Collection.

 

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Is Slavery Consistent with Natural Law? The New "Democratic" Doctrine Human Rights, & the Way to Protect Them Facts for the people of the free states
No Property in Man Slavery Abolished Southern Slavery Reduces Northern. Wages The Family Relation as Affected by Slavery
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Origin of Slavery...to Law Inquiry into... Causes...Which the Question of Slavery... The Duties and Dignities of American Freemen
Letters on Slavery..to the Pro-Slavery Letter to Frederick Douglass/His Reply Opinions of Early Presidents..Negroes as Soldiers America for Free Working Men!
The Relation of Slavery to a Republican Form of Government Slavery and the Constitution Popular Fallacies Relating to the American Question Hebrew Servitude and American Slavery

An Impartial Appeal...on the Injurious Effects of Slave Labour

A Sermon on the Duty of Ministers

Negro Self-Respect and Pride of Race: Speech  of T. Morris Chester

State Rights: A Photograph from the Ruins of Ancient Greece

Plantations for Slave Labor the Death of the Yeomanry

The Lawlessness of Slavery

The Slave's Appeal

Our Union: Why Nations Have Fallen

American Women Responsible for the Existence of American Slavery

A Lecture on the Causes of the ruin of Republican Liberty, in the Ancient Roman Republic

A Disquisition on Egyptian, Roman and American Slavery

Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles

Speech of Mr. Palfrey...on the Political Aspects of the Slave Question

Letter  from Frederick Douglass to His Old Mister.  The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs

The Anti-Slavery Movement a Lecture by Frederick Douglass

British Colonial Slavery Compared with that of Pagan Antiquity

An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade Delivered in the African Church

Two Speeches, by Frederick Douglass.  The Duty of a Rising Christian State, by Alexander Crummell