Adams, Charles Francis. The Republican Party a Necessity. (ACS Reel 213, part 2).
Adams, Nehemiah. A South-side View of Slavery. (ACS Reel 131, part 1).
Ball, Charles. Slavery in the United States. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man. (ACS Reel 131, part 3).
Beecher, Henry Ward. Freedom and War. Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times. (ACS Reel 433, part 9).
Blake, William. The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade. (ACS Reel 131, part 9).
Bledsoe, Albert Taylor. An Essay on Liberty and Slavery. (ACS Reel 132, part 1).
Chambers, William. American Slavery and Colour. (ACS Reel 166, part 9).
Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral, Principally Relating to the Abolition of Slavery in America. (ACS Reel 132, part 4).
Clay, Cassius Marcellus. The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay: Including Speeches and Addresses. (ACS Reel 442, part 5).
Colfax, Richard H. Evidence against the View of the abolitionists, Consisting of Physical and Moral Proofs, of the Natural Inferiority of the Negroes. (ACS Reel 549, part 6).
De Bow, James. The Interest in Slavery of the Southern Non-slaveholder. (ACS Reel 164, part 6).
Edwards, Jonathan. The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade, and of the Slavery of the Africans. (ACS Reel 132, part 7).
Elliot, E. N. Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments. (ACS Reel 132, part 8).
Fisher, Sidney George. The Laws of Race, as Connected with Slavery. (ACS Reel 549, part 7).
Fitzhugh, George. Cannibals All! or, Slaves, without Masters. (ACS Reel 133, part 1).
_____________. Sociology for the South; or, The Failure of a Free Society. (ACS Reel 469, part 12).
Flournoy, John Jacobus. An Essay on the Origin, Habits, of the African Race: Incidental to the Propriety of Having Nothing to do with Negroes: Addressed to the Good People of the United States. (ACS Reel 332, part 1).
Garrison, William Lloyd. Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison. (ACS Reel 133, part 3).
Greeley, Horace. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion. (ACS Reel 143, part 2).
Grimké, Angelina Emily. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. (ACS Reel 165, part 2).
Hildreth, Richard. Despotism in America: An Inquiry into the Nature, Results, and Legal Basis of the Slave-holding System in the United States. (ACS Reel 604, part 16).
Kemball, Fanny. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839. (ACS Reel 167, part 3).
Lowell, James Russell. The Anti-slavery Papers of James Russell Lowell. (ACS Reel 549, part 9).
Mann, Horace. Slavery: Letters and Speeches. (ACS Reel 165, part 4).
Olmsted, Frederick Law. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. (ACS Reel 577, part 8).
Martineau, Harriet. The Martyr Age of the United States. (ACS Reel 191, part 1).
Nisbet, Richard. Slavery not Forbidden by Scripture. Or, A Defence of the West-India Planters, from the Aspersions Thrown out against Them. (ACS Reel 460, part 1).
Phillips, Wendell. Review of Webster's Speech on Slavery. (ACS Reel 165, part 9).
Poole, William Frederick. Anti-slavery Opinions before the Year 1800. (ACS Reel 165, part 2).
Priest, Josiah. Slavery, as it Relates to the Negro, or African Race, Examined in the Light of Circumstances, History and the Holy Scriptures; with an Account of the Origin of the Black Man's Color, Causes of his State of Servitude and Traces of His Character as Well in Ancient as in Modern Times: with Strictures on Abolitionism. (ACS Reel 577, part 9).
Redpath, James. Echoes of Harper's Ferry. (A collection of anti-slavery papers, poems, etc., commemorative of John Brown). (ACS Reel 165, part 13).
Ruffin, Edmund. The political Economy of Slavery; or, The Institution Considered in Regard to Its Influence on Public Wealth and the General Welfare. (ACS Reel 460, part 4).
Rush, Benjamin. An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon Slave-keeping. (ACS Reel 304, part 14).
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred : A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. (ACS Reel 152, part 6).
__________________. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story is Founded. (ACS Reel 196, part 2).
Sturge, Joseph. A Visit to the United States in 1841. (ACS Reel 302, part 9).
Tucker, St. George. A Dissertation on Slavery: with a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of It, in the State of Virginia. (ACS Reel 24, part 237).
Woolman, John. The Works of John Woolman: Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes. (ACS Reel, 428, part 4).

Databases

Nineteenth Century Masterfile. Citation only. General index to 19th Century periodical literature. Coverage: 1802-1906. (Of the many journals that this database indexes, the Merrill Library has two that cover the period of time central to this course: North American Review and Niles Register). You likely will need to use Interlibrary Services for accessing articles that appear in most other periodicals.

African American History Collection
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates
Government and Law: Slavery and Law Collection
War, Military: Nineteenth Century Books
Presidents: Abraham Lincoln Papers

Selected Documents Made Available through the American Memory Project:

American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race, Minutes of the adjourned session of the twentieth biennial American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race, held at Baltimore, Nov. 1828.1827-1828, (Philadelphia, PA: Samuel Parker, 1828). SUMMARY: Reports, speeches, and resolutions of the convention on the state of slavery and the necessity to abolish it in the US, together with communications from state chapters.

American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race, Minutes of the twentieth session of the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and Improving the Condition of the African Race : convened at Philadelphia, on the second of October, 1827 (Philadelphia, PA: Benjamin Lundy, 1827). SUMMARY: Proceedings, resolutions, and reports on slavery and anti-slavery societies in US

Child, Lydia Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Gov. Wise and Mrs. Mason, of Virginia. Child, Lydia Maria Francis ( Boston, The American anti-slavery society, 1860). SUMMARY: Abolitionist statements in the form of letters addressed to Governor Wise of Virginia on the occasion of John Brown's raid and arrest. Child criticizes Virginia's laws on race, and draws a rebuke from Wise. Included is a letter from John Brown to Child asking for financial help for his family, and an exchange of (hostile) letters between Child and a Virginia woman over the issues of Brown and slavery.

Colfax, Richard H. Evidence against the views of the abolitionists, consisting of physical and moral proofs, of the natural inferiority of the negroes. (New-York, J. T. M. Bleakley, 1833). SUMMARY: Colfax discusses the racial inferiority of African Americans, in contradistinction to the arguments of the abolitionist. He says blacks and whites have different origins and that change in the current status of the African American will not change in his nature. He argues on the basis of physical distinctions (skin color and effect of climate upon it, skull structure, etc.) and mental distinctions that show African Americans to be closer to "lower" creatures than whites, and he opposes emancipation of slaves in the US. American Memory project research disclosed no biographical information about this author. Internal evidence indicates, however, that Colfax was not an African American.

De Fontaine, F. G. History of American abolitionism; its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the southern confederacy (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1861) (Originally published in the New York Herald). SUMMARY: A critique of American abolitionism after 1787, with emphasis upon the negative impact of the movement on the South and slavery. De Fontaine blames fanatic abolitionists for causing dissolution of the Union and for spoiling chances for gradual emancipation in the South. He also gives basic facts and figures on the initial six states of the southern confederacy, including biographies of Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stevens and the slave and free populations of these states.

Flournoy, Jacobus An essay on the origin, habits, &c. of the African race: incidental to the propriety of having nothing to do with Negroes: addressed to the good people of the United States. (New York, 1835). SUMMARY: Flournoy, a native of Georgia, argues for the "expulsion of every Negro and Mulatto from this Country back to their own Africa." He opposes assimilation or any other way of treating the African American than by his total and immediate expulsion from the US to Africa.

Harris, Thaddeus Mason, A discourse delivered before the African society in Boston, 15th of July, 1822, on the anniversary celebration of the abolition of the slave trade (Boston: Phelps and Farnham, 1822). SUMMARY: A statement of the benefits of immediately granting suffrage to the former slaves of the South at a time of debate over a constitutional amendment to do just that. Dickson argues that suffrage is the crucial right by which southern blacks will advance to good citizenship and ensure themselves equality before the law. Noteworthy is the letter from John Stuart Mill in which Mill agrees with Dickson

Larkin, John Dorsey, Documentary history of slavery in the United States (Washington, DC: J. T. Towers, 1851). SUMMARY: A review of slavery in the US from 1774 and the Continental Congress to 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Law, with concern about the probable dissolution of the Union because of slavery. Biographical information discovered during American Memory project research offered no indication as to whether Dorsey was African American

Loyal Publication Society, Opinions of the early presidents, and of the fathers of the republic, upon slavery and upon negroes as men and soldiers (New York: W. C. Bryant & co., 1863)

Massachusets Anti-Slavery Society, Thirteenth annual report presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (Boston: MA: Andrews, Prentiss and Studley, 1845).