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Anti-Slavery Materials in Special Collections

Note: this material does not circulate outside of Special Collections.

Madison & Oneida Counties.

Newspapers.

Madison County Abolitionist (Cazenovia). Nov. 2, 1841; Nov. 16, 1841.

The Liberty Press. (Utica) May 9, 1843; August 27, 1844; June 14, 1845; August 2, 1845; Nov. 22, 1845; Nov. 12, 1846; Jan. 28, 1847; April 15, 1847; April 29, 1847; May 27, 1847.

Utica Liberty Press. June 1, 1848; June 22, 1848; Nov. 2, 1848.

The Friend of Man. (Utica) April 13, 1841.

Christian Contributor. (Utica) March 21, 1849.

Hamilton Student and Christian Reformer. 1847-48. [This was the first Colgate newspaper. Its editor, George Ritchie, was expelled by the university for publishing anti-slavery tracts by Gerrit Smith and others.]

While not strictly speaking an abolitionist newspaper, The Baptist Register published in Utica has a great many anti-slavery accounts and editorials. We have a run of this from 1838 through 1856.

The pre-Civil War Hamilton newspapers also carry occasional articles on the subject and mention of Gerrit Smith and other area activities, usually critical. These have never, to my knowledge, been indexed.

Diaries

I. K. Brownson. Student diary, 1837-38. [Brownson was from Peterboro and there is occasional mention of Gerrit Smith. The opening pages give an excellent account of the attempted formation of an Anti-Slavery Society by the students of the Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution. Also of a disrupted anti-slavery meeting at the Baptist Church in Hamilton. Otherwise, the diary is only of intermittent interest on this subject and is overall rather turgidly written.]

[From] Hamilton History Files

Folder 34. "The Late Otis Simmons," Democratic Republican, March 26, 1885. 2 p. [Account of local worker on Underground Railroad]

Folder 35. The Mid-York Weekly. "Chips and Shavings" columns on slavery in New York State. [Anecdotal].

Folder 38. Articles on Carlton Rice from Saturday Globe, Utica, Jan. 30, 1897. 3 p. [Another local worker on the Underground Railroad]

Broadsides

Gerrit Smith. "Letter to the Honorable William H. Seward." Peterboro. March 13, 1855.
Gerrit Smith. "To the Voters of the State of New York." Peterboro. Oct. 10, 1846.
Gerrit Smith. "Letter to John Thomas, Chairman of the Jerry Rescue Committee." Peterboro. Aug. 27, 1859.
Gerrit Smith. "To the Men Who Put Me in Nomination." Peterboro. Nov. 5, 1858.
Gerrit Smith. "To the New York Tribune." Peterboro. July 17, 1855.
Gerrit Smith. "Letter to Green C. Bronson." Peterboro. Oct. 8, 1854.
Gerrit Smith. "Letter to Frederick Douglass." Peterboro. May 25, 1852.
Gerrit Smith. "Letter to John Cochran [et al]." Peterboro. Jan. 4, 1850.
Gerrit Smith. "Gerrit Smith's acceptance. With 'Mr. Smith's Reply.'" Peterboro. August 5, 1858.
Gerrit Smith. "Compensated Emancipation." Cleveland, Ohio. August 25-27, 1857.
Gerrit Smith. "Letter to Chancellor Walworth." Peterboro. August 25, 1849.
Gerrit Smith. "Address to the Jerry Rescue Committee." Syracuse. Oct. 1, 1857.
Gerrit Smith. "Second Letter to…the New York Tribune." Peterboro. July 31, 1855.
Gerrit Smith. "To the Editors of the Emancipator, Boston." Peterboro. August 24, 1847.
Gerrit Smith. "The Poor Man's Party." Peterboro. Oct. 17, 1846.

Books

Anti-fugitive slave law meeting : At a large meeting of persons from various parts of the state of New York, held in the city of Syracuse January 9th, 1851, and of which Frederick Douglass was president, the following resolutions and address were unanimously adopted. The address is the same ... which were reported by Gerrit Smith to the state convention. [Syracuse, N.Y.? : n.p., 1851]
CASE Special Collect E449 .A58 1851

Foss, Andrew T., 1803-
Facts for Baptist churches / collected, arranged and reviewed by A. T. Foss and E. Matthews.
Utica : American Baptist Free Mission Society, 1850. CASE Special Collect HT917.B26 F68 1850

Humphreys, Hugh C.
"Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!" The Great Fugitive Slave Law Convention and its Rare Daguerreotype. Madison County Historical Society. 1994. Special Collect E442 .H85 1994.

Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the New-York State Anti-Slavery Society, convened at Utica, Oct. 19, 1936. Utica: N.Y., Pub. for the Society, 1836. CASE Special Collect 326.973 N42

Schmucker, S. S. (Samuel Simon), 1799-1873
Letters of Rev. Dr. Schmucker and Gerrit Smith. Peterboro. 1838.
CASE Special Collect E449 .L58 1838

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie, of the State of Mississippi. New York : Pub. by R. G. Williams, for the American anti-slavery society, 1837. CASE Special Collect E449 .S67 1837

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Speech of Gerrit Smith, on War. Washington, D.C. : Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1854.
CASE Special Collect E453 .S65 1854

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874. Sermons and speeches of Gerrit Smith. Arno Press. 1969.
CASE Special Collect 326.40973 Sm58s

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
To those ministers in the county of Madison, who refuse to preach politics.
[Peterboro?, N.Y. : s.n., 1845] CASE Special Collect HT913 .S64 1845

National & International

Newspapers

Genius of Universal Emancipation. Nov. 19, 1825, through August 23, 1828.
Anti-Slavery Record. 1835; 1836; 1837.
The Monthly Offering. July 1840, through Dec. 1841.
National Anti-Slavery Standard. July 18, 1868.

Books

Adams, Nehemiah. A south-side view of slavery; or three months at the south. Boston. 1854.

Bacon, Leonard. Slavery discussed in occasional essays, from 1833 to 1846. New York. 1846.

Barnes, Albert. The church and slavery. Philadelphia. 1857.

Barnes, Albert. An inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery. Philadelphia. 1846.

Blake, W. O. The history of slavery and the slave trade….Columbus, Ohio. 1858.

Cheever, George B. God against slavery…. New York. 1857.

Child, Mrs. An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans. New York. 1836.

Clark, George W. The liberty minstrel. 7^th ed. New York. 1844.

Clarkson, Thomas. History of the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave trade by the British Parliament. London. 1839.

The Constitution of the United States, with all the acts of Congress relating to slavery…. Rochester, 1854.

"Defensor." The enemies of the constitution discovered…. New York. 1835.

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass…. Boston. 1845

Douglass, Frederick. My bondage and my freedom. New York. 1857.

"A Former Resident of the South." Leaven for doughfaces; or threescore and ten parables touching slavery. Cincinnati. 1856.

Freeman, F. Yaradee: a plea for Africa. Philadelphia. 1836.

Fuller, Richard. Domestic slavery…. New York. 1847.

Goodell, William. Slavery & anti-slavery: a history of the great struggle in both hemispheres. New York. 1853.

Greeley, Horace. A history of the struggle for slavery extension or restriction in the United States….New York. 1856.

Halliday, Andrew. The West Indies…. London. 1837.

Helper, Hinton. The impending crisis of the south: how to meet it. New York. 1857.

Hovey, Sylvester. Letters from the West Indies….New York. 1838.

Jay, William. An inquiry into the character and tendency of the American colonization, and American anti-slavery societies. New York. 1835.

Jones, J. Elizabeth. The young abolitionists; or conversations on slavery. Boston. 1848.

Kemble, Frances Anne. Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839. New York. 1863.

Letters on American slavery. Boston. 1860.

Locke, Mary. Anti-slavery in America. Boston. 1901.

McDougall, Marion Gleason. Fugitive slaves. Boston. 1891.

Mellen, G. W. F. An argument on the unconstitutionality of slavery….Boston. 1841.

Moore, George H. Notes on the history of slavery in Massachusetts. New York. 1876.

Mott, Alexander. Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of color. New York. 1837. 2^nd ed.

Northup, Solomon. Narrative of Solomon Northrup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853….Auburn, N.Y. 1853.

Parker, Theodore. Letter to the people of the United States touching the matter of slavery. Boston. 1848.

Pettit, Eber M. Sketches in the history of the Underground Railroad. Fredonia, NY. 1879. [Includes an account of the Jerry Rescue in Syracuse]

Pillsbury, Parker. Acts of the anti-slavery apostles. Concord, N.H. 1883.

Rankin, John. Letters on American slavery. 2^nd ed. Newburyport. 1836.

Rankin, John. 5^th ed. of above.

Report of the Select Committee on the petitions to prevent slave hunting in the State of New York. Albany. 1860.

Sawyer, Leicester A. A dissertation on servitude…. New Haven. 1837.

Seward, William H. Speech on the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise…. Washington, DC. 1854.

Slavery or involuntary servitude: does it really exist? Albany. 1864.

Smith, E. Inquiry into scriptural ancient servitude. Mansfield, Ohio. 1852.

Spooner, Lysander. The unconstitutionality of slavery. Boston. 1856.

Still, William. The Underground Railroad…. Rev. ed. Philadelphia. 1878.

Sumner, Charles. Speech in the Senate, Feb. 21, 1854. Washington, DC. 1854.

Thome, James A. Emancipation in the West Indies…. New York. 1838.

Treadwell, S. B. American liberties and American slavery. New York. 1838.