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Subversives : antislavery community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865 / Stanley Harrold

Author:
Harrold, Stanley  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
2003
C2003
19th century
To 1878
Topic:
Antislavery movements--History  Search this
Abolitionists--History  Search this
African American abolitionists--History  Search this
Slaves--Political activity  Search this
White people--Politics and government  Search this
Slavery--History  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_717897
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His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the underground railroad / edited by Stuart Seely Sprague

Author:
Parker, John P. 1827-1900  Search this
Sprague, Stuart 1937-  Search this
Subject:
Parker, John P. 1827-1900  Search this
Physical description:
165 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
Southern States
Date:
1996
C1996
Topic:
Slaves  Search this
Freed persons  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
Underground Railroad  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_519560
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Frederick Douglass / by Benjamin Quarles ; introduction by James M. McPherson

Author:
Quarles, Benjamin  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 378 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1997
1948
Topic:
Abolitionists  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
Antislavery movements  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_542132
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Love across color lines : Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass / Maria Diedrich

Author:
Diedrich, Maria  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 Friends and associates  Search this
Assing, Ottilie  Search this
Physical description:
xxix, 480 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1999
19th century
Topic:
Abolitionists  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
Journalists  Search this
Women journalists  Search this
African Americans--Relations with Germans--History  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_565295
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The unboxing of Henry Brown / by Jeffrey Ruggles

Author:
Ruggles, Jeffrey  Search this
Subject:
Brown, Henry Box b. 1816  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 232 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
Virginia
Date:
2003
Topic:
Fugitive slaves  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Slavery--History  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
Underground Railroad  Search this
Call number:
CT275.B8584 R84 2003
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_715007
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Only passing through : the story of Sojourner Truth / by Anne Rockwell ; illustrated by Gregory Christie

Author:
Rockwell, Anne F  Search this
Illustrator:
Christie, R. Gregory 1971-  Search this
Subject:
Truth, Sojourner 1799-1883  Search this
Physical description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm
Type:
Biography
Juvenile literature
Juvenile materials
Place:
United States
Date:
2000
Topic:
African American abolitionists  Search this
African American women  Search this
Abolitionists  Search this
Social reformers  Search this
Reformers  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Women  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_898190
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For all people : the story of Frederick Douglass / Frances T. Humphreville

Author:
Humphreville, Frances T. 1909-  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Physical description:
136 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Type:
Biography
Juvenile literature
Juvenile works
Place:
United States
Date:
1969
©1969
Topic:
Abolitionists  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
Antislavery movements  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1047318
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The slave's cause : a history of abolition / Manisha Sinha

Author:
Sinha, Manisha  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 768 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
Date:
2016
Topic:
Slavery--History  Search this
Antislavery movements--History  Search this
African American abolitionists--History  Search this
African American women abolitionists--History  Search this
Abolitionists--History  Search this
Slave insurrections--History  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1059824
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Picturing Frederick Douglass : an illustrated biography of the nineteenth century's most photographed American / John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier

Author:
Stauffer, John 1965-  Search this
Trodd, Zoe  Search this
Bernier, Celeste-Marie  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Physical description:
xxviii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Type:
Biography
Pictorial works
Biographies
Illustrated works
Place:
United States
Date:
2015
Topic:
African American abolitionists  Search this
Abolitionists  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1052637
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave written by himself

Author:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Author:
Garrison, William Lloyd 1805-1879  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 125 pages, [1] leaf of plates portrait 19 cm
Type:
Biography
Autobiographies
Biographies
Place:
Maryland
Date:
1846
Topic:
Abolitionists  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
Slavery  Search this
Slaves' writings, American  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1059514
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William Cooper Nell : nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, historian, integrationist : selected writings from 1832-1874 / edited by Dorothy Porter Wesley and Constance Porter Uzelac

Author:
Nell, William C (William Cooper) 1816-1874  Search this
Wesley, Dorothy Porter 1905-1995  Search this
Uzelac, Constance Porter  Search this
Subject:
Nell, William C (William Cooper) 1816-1874  Search this
Physical description:
xxxii, 725 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Correspondence
Date:
2002
C2002
Topic:
African American historians  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Call number:
E449.N45 A4 2002
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_744164
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Abolitionists remember : antislavery autobiographies & the unfinished work of emancipation / Julie Roy Jeffrey

Author:
Jeffrey, Julie Roy  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 337 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
2008
C2008
19th century
Civil War, 1861-1865
Topic:
Abolitionists  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
Fugitive slaves  Search this
Autobiography  Search this
Autobiography--African American authors  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Antislavery movements--History  Search this
African Americans--Civil rights--History  Search this
Memory--Social aspects--History  Search this
History  Search this
Causes  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_895455
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Giants : the parallel lives of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln / John Stauffer

Author:
Stauffer, John 1965-  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 432 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
2008
Topic:
African American abolitionists  Search this
Abolitionists  Search this
Presidents  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_903667
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African-American activism before the Civil War : the freedom struggle in the antebellum North / edited by Patrick Rael

Author:
Rael, Patrick  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 307 p. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Northeastern States
Date:
2008
19th century
Topic:
African Americans--Civil rights--History  Search this
Antislavery movements--History  Search this
African American abolitionists--History  Search this
African American civil rights workers--History  Search this
African American political activists--History  Search this
African American leadership--History  Search this
African Americans--Intellectual life  Search this
African Americans--Politics and government  Search this
Race relations  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_897098
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Douglass and Lincoln : how a revolutionary black leader and a reluctant liberator struggled to end slavery and save the Union / Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick

Author:
Kendrick, Paul 1983-  Search this
Kendrick, Stephen 1954-  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Views on slavery  Search this
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Relations with African Americans  Search this
Physical description:
x, 306 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
2008
19th century
1861-1865
1857-1861
Topic:
African American abolitionists  Search this
Presidents  Search this
Antislavery movements--History  Search this
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_897381
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Frederick Douglass : challenge and response : a speech delivered at the first Frederick Douglass Memorial Lecture at Morgan State University, February 14, 1967 / by Benjamin A. Quarles ; introduction by Roland C. McConnell and introductory remarks by Daniel B. Brewster

Author:
Quarles, Benjamin  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Physical description:
vii, 8 p. : port. ; 28 cm
Type:
Biography
Date:
1997
Topic:
African American abolitionists  Search this
Call number:
E449.D75 Q373 1997
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_741529
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The "colored hero" of Harpers Ferry : John Anthony Copeland and the war against slavery / Steven Lubet, Northwestern University School of Law

Title:
John Anthony Copeland and the war against slavery
Author:
Lubet, Steven  Search this
Subject:
Copeland, John A (John Anthony)  Search this
Brown, John 1800-1859 Friends and associates  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 272 pages ; 23 cm
Type:
Biography
History
Place:
Ohio
Oberlin
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
Date:
2015
19th century
John Brown's Raid, 1859
Topic:
African American abolitionists  Search this
Antislavery movements--History  Search this
Abolitionists  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1047214
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Glorying in tribulation : the lifework of Sojourner Truth / Erlene Stetson, Linda David

Author:
Stetson, Erlene 1949-  Search this
David, Linda  Search this
Subject:
Truth, Sojourner 1799-1883  Search this
Physical description:
242 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1994
Topic:
African American abolitionists  Search this
Abolitionists  Search this
Social reformers  Search this
Call number:
CT275.T868S8 1994
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_473420
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Majestic in his wrath : a pictorial life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick S. Voss ; introduction by Robert K. Sutton ; foreword by Waldo E. Martin, Jr

Author:
Voss, Frederick  Search this
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Physical description:
xxiii, 104 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Illustrated works
Place:
United States
Date:
1995
Topic:
Abolitionists  Search this
Fugitive slaves  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
Call number:
CT275.D73 V96 1995
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_474097
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by himself

Author:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Contributor:
Garrison, William Lloyd 1805-1879  Search this
Phillips, Wendell 1811-1884  Search this
Publisher:
Anti-Slavery Office  Search this
Subject:
Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 125, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 18 cm
Type:
Biography
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Engravings
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
Place:
United States
Maryland
Date:
1845
19th century
Topic:
Slave narratives  Search this
Abolitionists  Search this
African American abolitionists  Search this
Slaves  Search this
Antislavery movements  Search this
Slavery  Search this
Slaves--Social conditions  Search this
Fugitive slaves  Search this
Plantation life--History  Search this
Call number:
E449 .D749 1845
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_408353

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