Autographs for freedom. [Second volume] / edited by Julia Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society.

Griffiths, Julia, -1895.

Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

Abolitionists.

Autographs--Facsimiles.

Autographs.

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309, 2, 4, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates ) ill., ports., facsims. ;

Place of Publication:

Auburn [N.Y.] : Alden, Beardsley & Co., 1854 (New York : Stereotyped by T.B. Smith)

Summary:

A collection of articles, poems, etc. (all but ca. five signed in facsimile), by men and women prominent in the anti-slavery movement.

Notes:

"In commending this, the second volume of 'The autographs for freedom,' to the attention of the public, 'The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society' would congratulate themselves and the friends of freedom generally on the progress made, during the past year, by the cause to which the book is devoted"--Pref.

Publisher's advertising: 2 p., 2nd count; 4 p., 3rd count; [1] p., 4th count.

All twelve portraits signed in print: "engraved by J.C. Buttre."

Each portrait (J.R. Giddings, Antoinette L. Brown, Wm. W. Brown, Lewis Tappan, Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, Gerrit Smith, Chas. L. Reason, E.H. Chapin, Frederick Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher, and H.B. Stowe) includes facsimile autograph.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 28835.

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

13