Public Sentiment

Public Sentiment: A Nineteenth-Century War of Words selected from the Rare Book collections

1786 Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846). An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African, translated from a Latin dissection, which was…London: J. Philips, 1786 First edition xHT975 C6 1786 ARC

1798 Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851). Frankenstein:, or, the modern prometheus./by the… London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley…Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and cumin, Dublin, 1831 Ref., corrected, and illustrated/with a newintroduction, by the author xPR5397 F7 1831

1817 Torrey, Jesse (fl. 1787-1834). A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States: with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral right of the slave,…illustrated with engravings. Philadelphia: Published by the author, John Bioren, printer,1817 First edition xE446 T69

1835 Austin, James Trecothick (1784-1870). Remarks on Dr. Channing’s Slavery. By a citizen of Massachusetts. Boston: Russell, Shattuck and co., and J.H. Eastburn, 1835 First edition xE449 C4555

Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842). Slavery. Boston: J. Munroe and company, 1835 First edition xE449 C454 1835

1836 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club…London, Chapman & Hall, 1836-37 First edition xPR4569 A1 1836

1837 Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892). Poems written during the progress of the abolition question in the United States, between the years 1830- 1838…Boston: I. Knapp,1837 First edition xPS3250 E37

1838 Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, PA). History of Pennsylvania Hall, which was destroyed by a mob, on the 17th of May, 1838. Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gunn, 1838 First edition xF158.8 B83 P4

1839 Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842). Remarks on the slavery question, in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, esq….Boston: J. Munroe and company, 1839 First edition xE449 C453

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). The live and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby…London: Chapmanand Hall, 1839 First edition xPR4565 A1 1839

1840 Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842). Emancipation. Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1840 First edition xE449 C452

Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847). Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky, describing a winter in the West Indies. New York: Press of M. Day, 1840 First American edition xF1611 G96 1840

Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847). A winter in the West Indies, described in familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky…London: John Murray, 1840 Firstedition xF1611 G963 1840

1841 The Monthly offering. By John A. Collins. Boston: Anti-slavery office, 1841-2 xE449 M78 v.1 (1841)

1844 Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882). An address delivered in the courthouse in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st of August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of…Boston: J. Munroe and company, 1844 First edition xE449 E54

1845 The Massachusetts proposition for abolishing the slave representation as guaranteed by the Constitution. Richmond, VA: W. MacFarlane, 1845 xE449 M418

1848 Webster, Daniel (1782-1852). Mr. Webster’s speech at Marshfield, Mass., delivered September 1, 1848, and his speech on the Oregon bill, delivered in the United States…Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin, 1848 First edition xE420 W43 1848

1850 Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870). The lily and the totem, or, The Huguenots in Florida. A series of sketches, picturesque and historical, of the colonies of Coligni, in…New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850 First edition xPS2848 L5 1850

1852 Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, life among the lowly. Boston, MA: John P. Jewett & company. Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852 First edition xPS2954 U5 E52a

Stowe, Harriett Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom’s cabin, or Negro life in the slave states of America, with fifty splendid engravings. London: Clarke & Co., 1852 xPS2954 U5 1852

1853 The Liberty bell:…By friends of freedom. Boston: Massachusetts AntiSlavery Fair, 1853 xE449 L692 1853 ARC

Stowe, Harriett Beecher (1811-1896). A key to Uncle Tom’s cabin; presenting theoriginal facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative…Boston: J.P. Jewett & co.; Cleveland, OH: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington; London: Low and co., 1853 xE449 S89592 1853 ARC

1854 Griffiths, Julia, ed. Autographs for freedom. Auburn: Alden, Beardsley, Rochester, Wanzer, Beardsley, 1854 Second series xE449 G851 1854

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911). Massachusetts in mourning. Boston: J. Munroe, 1854 First edition xE450 H63

Hildreth, Richard (1807-1865). Despotism in America: an inquiry into the nature, results, and legal basis of the slave-holding system in the United States. Boston: J.P. Jewett; New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1854 Third edition xE449 H641 1854

1855 Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870). Richard Hurdis: a tale of Alabama. New York: Redfield, 1855 New and revised edition xPS2848 R5 1855

1856 Bledsoe, Albert Taylor (1809-1877). An essay on liberty and slavery. By Albert Taylor Bledsoe, L.L.D, professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott& co., 1856 First edition xE449 B646

Campbell, John Campbell, Baron (1779-1861). Atrocious judges: lives of judges infamous as tools of tyrants and instruments of oppression compiled from the judicial biographies…New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856 First edition xKD7286 J8 C36 1856

Parker, Theodore (1810-1860). The great battle between slavery and freedom, considered in two speeches delivered before the American Anti-Slavery Society at New York, May 7, 1856. Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1856 First edition xE449 P29

1857 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). Little Dorrit…London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857 First edition, first issue complete in one volume xPR4562 A1 1857

1858 Henson, Josiah (1789-1883). Father Henson’s story of his own life…Boston: J.P. Jewett; Cleveland, OH: H.P.B Jewett, 1858 xE444 H52 1858

1859 Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, MS : 1859). Vicksburg, MI: J.M. Swords, 1859 xAN2 M48 D35

Helper, Hinton Rowan (1829-1909). Compendium of the impending crisis of the South…New York: A.B. Burdick, 1859 First edition xE449 H481 1859

1860 Chase, Ezra B. Teachings of patriots and statesmen; or, The "founders of the republic" on slavery…Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1860 First edition xE441 C48

Greeley, Horace (1811-1872). A political text-books for 1860: Comprising a brief view of presidential nominations and elections: including all the national platforms ever yet adopted: Also, a history of the struggle respecting slavery in the territories, and of the action of Congress as to the freedom of the public lands. New-York: Tribune Association, 1860 First edition xE440 G79 1860

Redpath, James (1833-1891). Echoes of Harper’s Ferry…Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860 First edition xE4451 R31 1860

1861 Harper’s weekly, a journal of civilization. New York, NY: 1861 [Volume 5, February 2, 1861. "The Dream of a Secessionist. Washington and Valley Forge."]

Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897). Incidents in the life of a slave girl. Written by herself…Boston: Published for the author, 1861 First edition xE444 J17 A3 1861

1862 Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832-1907). The golden hour…Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862 First edition xE458.2 C767

1863 Harper’s weekly, a journal of civilization. New York, NY: 1861 [Volume 7, January 24, 1863. "The Emanicipation of the Negroes, January, 1863 – The Past and the Future."]

1866 Russell, Charles Wells (1818-1867). Roebuck: a novel. New York: M. Doolady, 1866 xPZ3 R9118 R6 1866

1884 Twain, Mark (1835-1910). The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884 First English edition xPS1306 A1 1884 

                     Compiled, annotated and edited 12/22/09 by Luise Poulton