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[SLAVERY -- AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. ELLIOTT, EN (Ed). E NBiblio.com

Cotton is king and pro-slavery arguments: comprising the writings of J.N. Hammond Chancellor Harper David Christy Thornton Stringfellow Charles Hodge Albert Taylor Bledsoe and Samuel A. Cartwright on this important subject. With an essay on slavery in the light of international law by the editor. . . .

1860rif. 64534Augusta GA: Pritchard Abbott & Loomis 1860. Tall thick 8vo. xv 1 17-908 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Steel-engraved frontisp. 4 steel-engraved frontisp. plates for individual work interspersed. Contemporary full sheep red black & gilt spine labels rebacked w/ original labels laid-back down scuffing edgewear foxing to endpapers some foxing & occasional toning on some leaves tidemark at gutter margin through first few leaves still a VG- copy w/ ownership markings dated April 30 1860 for W.J. Freeman and Frank B. Freeman w/ price indicated as $ 6.00 about $ 250.00 today. First edition of this massive work considered the must-read for all good pro-Southern planters on the eve of the Civil War with the editor in the introduction declaiming the “anarchy and bloodshed in Kansas. . . the existence of the ‘Underground Railroad’ . . . a party in the North organized for the express purpose of robbing the citizens of the Southern States of their property; the almost daily occurrence of fugitive slave mobs. . . attempt to circulate incendiary documents among the slaves in the Southern States. . . and finally the recent attempt to excite at Harper’s Ferry and throughout the South an insurrection and a civil and servile war.” By 1860 slavery was becoming more concentrated in the southern United States fading somewhat from Brazil Cuba Puerto Rico and the Dutch Colonies and even in the U.S. abolitionist efforts had led to the proportions of lsaves dropping in Missouri from 18 to 10 percent of the populace Kentucky to 19 percent and even Maryland down to 13%. This anthology of racist polemics buttressed with the Dred Scott Decision included as one section blindly attempted to argue slavery was a humane and Christian institution justified by scripture and an economic underpinning of the South. Pritchard, Abbott & Loomis, unknown

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Ralph Waldo Emerson; Slavery and AbolitionBiblio.com

Civil War Emancipation and Abolitionist Poetics in Emerson's "Boston Hymn" Atlantic Monthly February 1863

1863rif. 158141863. Emerson Ralph Waldo. "Boston Hymn" 1863 printed in the February 1863 issue of The Atlantic Monthly constitutes one of the earliest periodical appearances of his poetic response to President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and stands as a direct literary intervention in the political crisis of slavery and civil war. Written at the request of Boston organizers for the January 1 1863 celebration marking the Proclamation's issuance the poem was first read by Emerson at Boston Music Hall the same day Lincoln's order took effect. In "Boston Hymn" Emerson situates emancipation within a providential and constitutional lineage explicitly aligning the Proclamation with the Declaration of Independence while declaring the abolition of slavery a fulfillment rather than a departure from American founding principles. His verse rejects compensation to enslavers and instead demands justice for the formerly enslaved: "Who is the owner The slave is the owner / And ever was. Pay him." The poem thus places emancipation within a moral economy grounded in restitution and national accountability. Emerson Ralph Waldo. "Boston Hymn." In The Atlantic Monthly; A Magazine of Literature Science Art and Politics. Boston: Ticknor and Fields February 1863. Issue No. 64. The poem appears within the continuously paginated issue pp. 146-272 plus advertisements. Original tan printed wrappers with vignette of the American flag; original advertisements present including pink advertising slip with affixed newspaper clipping; early ownership inscription "Hon. John Boyd" in pencil to front cover. This issue followed closely upon the poem's January 24 1863 appearance in Dwight's Journal of Music placing it among the earliest print disseminations of Emerson's Emancipation commentary in a major national literary periodical. The February 1863 issue appeared at a decisive stage of the Civil War as emancipation shifted Union war aims toward abolition and Black freedom. Emerson already among the nation's most visible intellectuals used the poem to frame Lincoln's executive act as a moral correction to constitutional compromise and as a theological affirmation of human equality. His public reading before approximately 3000 attendees delivered without advance notice of his participation amplified the poem's symbolic force in Boston's abolitionist culture. As printed in The Atlantic Monthly a leading forum for literary and political discourse the text entered national circulation at the moment emancipation became federal policy. Light wear to wrappers; minor age toning; contents complete with advertisements; pink advertising slip present; small penciled ownership inscription to cover. Overall very good condition. A significant Civil War-era periodical issue preserving an early printing of Emerson's poetic defense of emancipation and moral governance. unknown

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Civil War Emancipation and Abolitionist Poetics in Emerson's "Boston Hymn" Atlantic Monthly February 1863

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Moulton Democrat. Do Good Unto All Men

1862rif. 13270Moulton AL: June 7 1862. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Old folds moderate staining rubbing and toning edges worn and a bit chipped a few small holes in the body of the text. A well-worn newspaper in good condition. A notable issue of a very rare newspaper from Confederate Alabama with many interesting historical aspects. Most noteworthy is the runaway slave advertisement printed on the last page relating the story of "a black boy who calls himself John" currently held at the jail in Lawrence County Alabama. John claims that his owner Jack Mason of Limestone County "was killed at Corinth on the day of the battle there and that he was endeavoring to return home when arrested." A physical description of John follows and concludes with a notice that "The owner will please come forward pay charges and take him away or he will be disposed of according to law." Other advertisements document various sheriff sales and the dissolution of a local law partnership. The paper also includes informative content on the Civil War including a substantial proclamation by Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter encouraging Alabama men to take the war seriously gather arms to the front and participate as part of the "State Guard." The paper also prints part of a notice from the Charleston Courier arguing that if Confederate currency is not worth real value "then the whole cotton crop of the South will be seized by the invader then Lincoln's recommendation to his Congress will be adopted and enforced and all the lands of the Southern people will be parcelled out among Northern soldiers." There is also a dispatch from Corinth encouraging southerners to identify and send back soldiers absent from duty and other wartime content. The only physical issue we could locate dated April 17 1863 is held at Samford; the remainder of the OCLC records we consulted reported microfilm or digital forms. June 7 unknown

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Moulton Democrat. Do Good Unto All Men

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Three Early Court Documents Concerning the Theft of Three Slaves in Howard County Missouri

1822rif. 4276Howard County Mo 1822. Good. Three documents totaling 3pp. folio the two earliest documents written on each side of the same leaf with an integral blank and attached to the third document with sealing wax each document docketed on verso. Some short separations along folds minor spotting two short tape repairs. A series of three documents recording a case of slave theft in Missouri. The plaintiff in the case George W. Hardin sues a man named Urial Bailey for stealing three slaves from the Hardin estate in Howard County Missouri. The first document is a sworn oath dated May 23 1822 by George Hardin stating that "He was lawfully possessed of the negroes.and that the same were unlawfully taken by Urial Bailey.from his properties and with out his consent within one year last past and that he is now lawfully entitled to the possession of the said negroes." The document is attested by the clerk and signed by Hardin. The second document is executed by Hardin's lawyers on the verso of his oath dated the same day and constitutes an order from the court to the Sheriff of Howard County informing him that "George W. Hardin hath come into the Circuit Court held in the town of Franklin and found sufficient sureties as well as his clamour to prosecute for a certain woman called Dolly about the age of twenty eight years also one negro boy of about the age of nine years named Nathan also one negro girl called Eliza about the age of three years all the property of the said Plaintiff.which a certain Uriel Bailey.hath taken and unjustly detains. You are hereby commanded that the said goods.be delivered to the said George W. Hardin and that.Uriel Bailey appear before the said Circuit Court to be held at the town of Franklin." The third document is executed by Hardin's lawyers on the verso of his oath dated September 1822 and lays out the facts of the case. It reads in part: "George W. Hardin by his Attorney Tompkins & French complains of Urial Bailey that he took the previously named slaves of great value. To wit of the value of fifteen hundred dollars.where fore the said Plaintiff saith that he is injured and hath sustained damages to the value of five hundred dollars and therefore he brings suit." Interestingly in this document Hardin's lawyers refer to the youngest slave Eliza as a "mulatto girl." Docketing on the integral blank attached to the oath and lawyer's document dated May 23 1822 indicate that Hardin was seeking "Replevin Damages" of $500 which the court seems to grant. The motive behind Urial or Uriel Bailey's thefts are not recorded here but the issue of slave stealing was not uncommon and had been going on in the American colonies and the fledgling United States for a long time. According to Timothy F. Reilly in "Slave Stealing in the Early Domestic Trade as Revealed by a Loyal Manservant" published in Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Vol. 55 No. 1 Winter 2004 pp.5-39: "Slave stealing plagued domestic slaveholders as far back as the colonial period when those who would unlawfully deprive a property owner of human chattel were detested as 'Negro jockeys.' Whether operating in the northern or southern colonies a 'man-stealer' lurking about either as a piratical thief or as a high-minded abolitionist was guilty of one of the worst crimes against the sanctity of property. By the 1830s man stealing reached epidemic levels in parts of the South." Despite the seeming prevalence of slave theft for a long period of time in the United States primary source records of court cases are very scarce. unknown

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Three Early Court Documents Concerning the Theft of Three Slaves in Howard County Missouri

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Slavery in CubaBiblio.com

Pre-Abolition Spanish Colonial Cuba Bill of Sale for 4 Enslaved Creole and African Persons 1870

1870rif. 231221870. Slavery Cuba Spanish colonial slave sale manuscript recording the transfer of four enslaved individuals in Cuba in 1870. Produced within the official bureaucratic framework of Spanish colonial governance the document reflects the legal normalization of slavery in Cuba even as abolitionist pressures mounted across the Atlantic world. The document records the sale of four enslaved people described as "criollos" and African-born individuals situating the transaction within a labor system that combined locally born and imported enslaved populations. Created at a time when Spain had formally restricted the transatlantic slave trade but continued to permit slavery itself the manuscript demonstrates the persistence of legalized human commodification and the integration of enslaved labor into the island's economic structure sixteen years prior to abolition in 1886. Official Cuban slave contract documenting the sale of four enslaved individuals to Don Pedro Catasús by Don Enfemia Ochoa for the sum of 1100 pesos on November 29 1870. Single manuscript leaf written in Spanish cursive in black ink measuring 8.25" x 12". A green "50 cs de escudo" revenue stamp is affixed at the top center with a blind embossed Spanish crest at the upper left and a circular black ink government seal impressed at the lower left. Large vertical docketing appears on the verso. A stylized watermark is visible within the paper. The text organizes the enslaved individuals within a standardized transactional structure while the signatures of Enfemia Ochoa Pedro Catasús and A. Díaz de Rada authenticate the exchange and identify participants within the slaveholding economy. By 1870 Cuba remained a central node in the late Atlantic slave system with plantation agriculture especially sugar dependent on enslaved labor despite mounting abolitionist pressure. Although Spain had curtailed official slave imports earlier in the century illegal trafficking persisted into the 1860s and other coerced labor systems including the importation of Chinese indentured workers overlapped with slavery into the 1870s. The presence of both Creole and African individuals in this document reflects the layered composition of the enslaved population during this period. Light toning scattered foxing and edge wear visible. A closed wormhole extends from the upper right margin approximately five inches into the sheet resulting in partial loss of text. Evidence of prior tape reinforcement visible on the verso along with offsetting from previously adjacent material. Overall in very good condition. This document provides named transactional evidence of late-period slavery in Cuba offering concrete material for examining race labor and legal practice within Spanish colonial society. unknown

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Slavery in CubaBiblio.com

Pre-Abolition Spanish Colonial Cuba Bill of Sale for Enslaved Creole Women and Children 1870

1870rif. 231191870. Slavery Cuba Spanish colonial manuscript documenting the late persistence of slavery in Cuba recording the sale of five enslaved Creole individuals including women and children 1870. Produced within the official bureaucratic framework of Spanish colonial governance the document reflects the legal normalization of slavery in Cuba even as abolitionist pressures mounted across the Atlantic world. The presence of multiple children within the transaction underscores the hereditary nature of enslavement and the commodification of family units offering direct material evidence of how slavery functioned socially and economically in its final decades on the island. Although Spain had formally ended the transatlantic slave trade earlier in the century illegal trafficking and internal slave markets persisted and slavery itself would not be abolished in Cuba until 1886 placing this document within a crucial transitional period marked by reform debates gradual emancipation laws and continued exploitation. Official Cuban slave contract recording the sale of five enslaved individuals identified as "criollos" including one adult woman and four children from Santiago Simón Fambi to Don Pedro Catasús for the sum of 1200 pesos on November 21 1870. Single page manuscript leaf measuring 8.25" x 12". The manuscript is written in Spanish cursive hand in black ink. The upper left bears a blind embossed crest of Spain while a circular black ink government seal is impressed at the lower left partially overlapping the text. The text enumerates the enslaved individuals with ages and names embedding human lives within the formulaic language of sale and valuation while the bold signatures of both seller Santiago Simón Fambi and buyer Pedro Catasús anchor the transaction in identifiable actors within the colonial economy. By 1870 slavery in Spanish Cuba remained central to the island's plantation economy particularly in sugar production which had expanded rapidly in the mid-19th century with industrialized mills and global demand. Enslaved people were primarily forced into agricultural labor under highly regimented and brutal conditions though others were used in urban domestic service skilled trades or as hired laborers generating income for their owners. This document exhibits light toning edge wear and scattered foxing throughout. A closed wormhole extends approximately two inches from the upper right margin inward not affecting legibility of the text. Minor losses and small tears along the edges. Overall in very good condition. Given that this document records a woman and four children the family was likely intended for a combination of field labor and domestic or auxiliary work with the children gradually incorporated into plantation labor as they aged reflecting the system's reliance on both immediate exploitation and the reproduction of enslaved labor over time. unknown