Overview of the Collection
Syracuse Public Library
Onondaga County Public
Library
Local History & Genealogy Department
447 South Salina
Street
Syracuse, New York, 13202
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English
Slavery in the United States Pamphlet
Collection, 1836 - 1932
1836-1932
1 linear foot
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This collection contains pamphlets on
the subject of slavery in the United States, written between 1836 and
1932.
Biographical History
This collection has been assembled by the Syracuse Public Library over many years.
Relevant pamphlets were included as acquired by the library.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
This collection consists of pamphlets centered around the issues of slavery in the
United States; written and published during the period 1836 – 1932. The pamphlets
include lectures, serial publications, monographs, bibliographies, anti-slavery
tracts, personal narratives, speeches, proceedings and committee reports. Both sides
of the slavery issue are represented.
Arrangement of the Collection
The pamphlets in this collection are arranged in alphabetical order by title.
Related Materials
There are related materials in the Local History/Genealogy Department of the Onondaga
County Central Library concerning the issue of slavery in the United States. Please
check with OCPL staff to access additional material.
Access Restrictions
User must have a valid Onondaga County Public Library card.
Use Restrictions
User must use materials in the Local History and Genealogy Department of the Central
Library.
Permission must be obtained from staff for reproduction of any
materials.
Subject Headings
Persons
Beecher, Charles, 1815-1900
Birney, James Gillespie,
1792-1857
Brown, John, 1800-1859
Bullard, Edward F. (Edward Fitch), b.
1821
Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus),
1810-1878
Chace, Elizabeth Buffum,
1806-1899
Child, David Lee, 1794-1874
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Clarke, Lewis Garrard,1812-1897
Clarke, Lewis Garrard,1812-1897
De Charms, Richard, 1796-1864
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds),
1809-1881
Frothingham, Frederick,
1825-1891
Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891
Ide, George Barton, 1804-1872
Jarvis, Russell, 1790-1853
Jones, Thomas H.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Madison, James, 1751-1836
Mann, Horace, 1796-1859
May, Samuel, 1810-1899
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906
Seward, William Henry,
1801-1872
Southard, Nathaniel
Stringfellow, Thornton
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
1811-1896
Stroud, George M. (George McDowell),
1795-1875
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Onondaga County Public Library
Places
Abolitionists
Abolitionists – Southern states
African colonization
American Anti-Slavery Society
American literature
Antislavery movements – United
States
Compromise of 1850
Freedman
Fugitive slave law of 1850
Fugitive slaves – Biographies
Fugitive slaves – United States
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) – History – John
Brown’s Raid
Missouri Compromise – Speeches in
Congress
Ohio Anti-slavery Society
Slave narratives – United States
Slaves – Emancipation – United
States
Slaves – Emancipation – West Indies,
British
Slavery and the church
Slavery - Justification
Slavery – Kentucky
Slavery – United States
Slavery – United States –
Bibliography
Slavery – United States –
Biography
Slavery – United States – Controversial
literature
Slavery – United States – Fiction
Slavery – United States – Speeches in
Congress
Slavery - Law and legislation - United
States – States
United States – Fugitive Slave Law
(1850)
United States – History – Civil War,
1861-1865
United States – Race Relations
Bibliography
Lectures
Narratives (document genres)
Pamphlets
Proceedings
Speeches
Tract (document)
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Slavery in the United States Pamphlet Collection, 1836 - 1932
Onondaga County
Public Library
Local History and Genealogy Department
Shelf Location: MS-14
Acquisition Information
Some of the pamphlets included in this collection were purchased by the Syracuse
Public Library and others were donated to the Syracuse Public Library.
Inventory
The African repository,1873
1
1
The American anti-slavery almanac, for ... : calculated for
Boston, New York, and Pittsburgh ...,1836-1839
1
2
The American churches, the bulwarks of American slavery by
James G. Birney,1842
1
3
The anti-slavery movement; a lecture before the Rochester
Ladies' Anti-slavery Society,1855
1
4
Anti-Slavery reminiscences, by Elizabeth Buffum
Chace,1891
1
5
The barbarism of slavery: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on
the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state. In the United
States Senate, June 4, 1860,
1
5.5
The Bible and pulpit for freedom; or, American slavery in
conflict with the Bible,1858
1
6
The brotherhood of thieves or a true picture of the American
church and clergy: a letter to Nathaniel Barney, by Stephen S.
Foster,1886
1
7
Catalogue of anti-slavery publications in America,1864
1
8
The church as it is; or, The forlorn hope of slavery, by
Parker Pillsbury,1885
1
9
A classified catalogue of the collection of anti-slavery
propaganda in the Oberlin College Library,1932
1
10
The Constitution: a pro-slavery compact: or extracts from the
Madison Papers, etc.,1856
1
11
Documentary History of Slavery,1851
1
12
The duty of disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act : an
appeal to the legislators of Massachusetts by L. Maria
Child,1860
1
13
The duty of disobedience to wicked laws. A sermon on the
fugitive slave law by Charles Beecher,1851
1
14
Experience and personal narrative of Uncle Tom Jones, who was
for forty years a slave. Also The surprising adventures of Wild Tom,
of the island retreat, a fugitive Negro from South
Carolina,1858
1
15
Facts and arguments against the election of General Cass,
respectfully addressed to the Whigs and Democrats of all the free
states,1848
1
16
A few facts and figures for the friends of Africa,1850
1
17
The freedmen of the war : a discourse delivered at the annual
meeting of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, Philadelphia,
May 19th, 1864,
1
18
A fresh catalogue of southern outrages upon northern
citizens,1860
1
19
Historical notes on slavery and colonization: with particular
reference to the efforts which have been made in favor of African
colonization in New-Jersey,1842
1
20
Horace Mann's letters on the extension of slavery into
California and New Mexico: and on the duty of Congress to provide
the trial by jury for alleged fugitive slaves,1850
1
21
The irrepressible conflict: history of slavery as a political
issue, the origin and aim of modern parties, Great Union speech of
Hon. William Seward in the United States Senate, Feb. 29th,
1860
1
22
The light and the truth of slavery,1845
1
23
The Lord's freedman : a discourse,1868
1
24
Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke during a
captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of
Kentucky one of the so called christian states of North America,
dictated by himself,1845
1
25
The nation's trial : the proclamation : dormant powers of the
government : the Constitution a charter of freedom, and not "a
covenant with hell",1863
1
26
The new "reign of terror" in the slaveholding states, for
1859-60,1860
1
27
No slave-hunting in the old Bay state : an appeal to the
people and legislature of Massachusetts,1860
1
28
Proceedings of the American Anti-slavery Society, at its
second decade, held in the city of Philadelphia, Dec. 3d, 4th and
5th, 1853
1
29
Proceedings of the American Anti-slavery Society, at its
third decade, held in the city of Philadelphia, Dec. 3d, 4th,
1863
1
30
Proceedings of the New-England Anti-Slavery Convention, held
in Boston on the 27th, 28th and 29th of May, 1834
1
31
Proceedings of the Ohio Anti-slavery Convention, held at
Putnam, on the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth of
April, 1835
1
32
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
1
33
Race problems of the South; report of the proceedings of the
first annual conference held under the auspices of the Southern
Society for the promotion of the study of race conditions and
problems in the South, at Montgomery, Alabama, May 8, 9, 10, A.D.
1900
1
34
Report of the Committee of Correspondence with southern
ecclesiastical borders on slavery,1844
1
35
Revolution the only remedy to slavery,1855
1
36
A sketch of the laws relating to slavery in the several
states of the United States of America by George M. Stroud,1856
1
37
Slavery at war with the moral sentiment of the world. : A
speech by Carl Schurz, of Wisconsin. Delivered in St. Louis, Aug. 1,
1860,1860
1
38
Slavery: its origin, nature, and history, considered in the
light of Bible teachings, moral justice, and political wisdom by
Thornton Stringfellow,1860
1
39
Some views of freedom and slavery in the light of the new
Jerusalem by Richard De Charms,1851
1
40
Speech of Hon. John U. Pettit, of Indiana, on the restoration
of the Missouri compromise : delivered in the House of
Representatives, August 2, 1856
1
41
Testimonies of Capt. John Brown, at Harper's Ferry, with his
address to the court,1860
1
42
To the people of the United States opposed to Slavery
Extension, Republican Rooms, Washington,D.C., April 21,
1856
1
43
Twenty-eighth annual report of the American Anti-Slavery
Society,1861
1
44
The two altars; or, Two pictures in one, by Harriet Beecher
Stowe,1856
1
45
Two speeches, by Frederick Douglass; : one on West India
emancipation, delivered at Canandaigua, Aug. 4th, and the other on
the Dred Scott decision, delivered in New York, on the occasion of
the anniversary of the American Abolition Society, May,
1857
1
46