Image Text 4 Items Lysander Spooner letter to Gerrit Smith, November 2, 1855 Letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith, dated November 2, 1855, in which Spooner discusses anti-slavery arguments and the distribution of 300 copies of his book, "the Unconstitutionality of Slavery." View Item
Text By the president of the United States. A proclamation. … That on the first day of January ... one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves ... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free ... Souvenir copy of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, with autograph signatures of Lincoln, William Seward, Secretary of State, and John Nicolay, Private Secretary to the President. This is known as the Leland-Boker edition of the Emancipation Proclamation, after the two men who arranged for its printing by Frederick Leypoldt and subsequent sale at the Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair of June 7-29, 1864. The Sanitary Fairs were created to raise money for sick and wounded soldiers, and to improve conditions in military camps. View Item
Image Text 4 Items To His Excellency Wm. H. Seward, Governor of New York Four-page memorial from a Convention of the Friends of the Negro addressed to His Excellency William H. Seward, Governor of New York, regarding the abolition of slavery in the United States. Signed on behalf of the Convention by Thomas Clarkson, President. The Convention was held by the British and Foreign Antislavery Society in London from the 12th to the 23rd of June 1840. Docket title 'From the World's Anti Slavery Convention, July 25th, 1840.' View Item