Book/Printed Material History of American abolitionism : its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican War, Wilmot Proviso, Negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, Compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the southern confederacy Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection copy

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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     It l 1 cp t^o-v-v FROM \m 10 lift A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORICAL FACTS, EMBRACING LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS AND AGITATION WITHOUT. I (OBIGINALLT PUBLISHED IH THE HEW TOBK HEBALD.) By F. G....
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     w
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     r HISTORY OF AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM; |ts Jfmtr dlrcitt (f jnjc|s, EMBRACING NARRATIVES OF THE ORDINANCE OF 1787, COMPROMISE OF 1820, ANNEXATION OF TEXAS, MEXICAN WAR, WILMOT PROVISO, NEGRO INSURRECTIONS, ABOLITION RIOTS, SLAVE...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     Entered, according to Act of Congreia, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, By F. G. db FONTAINE, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States,...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     INTRODUCTION The following pages originally appeared in the New York HERiLn, of February 2d, 1861. By request, they have been reproduced in their present shape, with the view of preserving, in a...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     4 the people and the elements of true government, and struggles for the mainte nance of that sacred pledge by which the United States have heretofore been bound in a common brotherhood....
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     5 moral of slaves from State to State, and the refusal to admit any new State comprising within its limits the institution of domestic slavery—all these being but so many means conducive...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     6 In language no element ever flung out more defiance of authority, contempt of religion, or authority to man. As to agency, no element on earth has broken up more friendships and...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     passage of the Missouri Compromise, 964,667 square miles of this was converted into free territory. Again, by the treaty with Spain, of February, 1819, the United States gained the territory from which...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     8 removing with his slaves into the territory acquired from Mexico—a territory as large as the old thirteen States originally composing the Union. It appears to have been forgotten that whether slavery...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     9 THE FIRST EPOCH. From 1787 to 1820. CHAPTER H. The Ordinance of 1787—The Slave Populat’on of 1790—Abolitionism at that time—The Importation of Slaves the Work of Northerners—-Statistics of the Port of...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     4- IO This sentiment was generally acquiesced in, and satisfaction and tranquility en sued, the abolition societies thereafter limiting their exertions, in respect to the black population, to offices of humanity within...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     11 It is related, that during the debate on the Missouri question, a Senator ft-em South Carolina introduced in the Senate of the United States a document from the Custom House of...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     12 SECOND EPOCH. CHAPTER HE History of the Missouri Compromise, 1820—Benjamin Lundy and the Genius of Universal Eman cipation ”—Insurrection at Charleston, S. C.—The result of agitation in Congress—British Influ ence and...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     13 were, and not a basis of things that were to be that these securities of slavery, as it existed, would be forfeited by an extension of the system; that the honor...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     14 'fc* 4 u- Cm*.* k for ita agitation among the non-slaveholding State?. Fanatics sprang up like mushrooms, and, in the name of God,” proclaimed the enormity of slavery and eternal damnation...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     15 Startled by this terrible intelligence, the military were immediately ordered out and preparations made to suppress the first signs of an outbreak. Finding the city encompassed with patrols and a strict...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     16 Religious fanaticism also had its share in the conspiracy at Charleston, as wall as politics. The secession of a large body of blacks from the white Methodist church formed a hot-bed,...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     B 17 rection, fomented by abolition missionaries, broke out in the island of Jamaica, which was only terminated by a resort to the musket and gibbet—the usual fruit of these incendiary doctrines,...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     18 say that from the time this plan of operation was digested in England, thirty years ago, there is scarcely a movement that has taken place on the chess-board of American abolitionism,...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     19 rations, and, in short, the spirit of reform became epidemic, and the period one of unprecedented moral and political inquiry. It was a period, too, when in many of the States...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     20 persons from the negro race, and present a very considerable check to the progress of the black population, giving them at the same time new interests and feelings. The children thus...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     21 Men of wisdom, intelligence and character have been consulted, and with one voice have recom mended its establishment. Believing, as we do, that the theatre is an institution which all experience...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     22 wrote a few paragraphs that bear out the idea we have advanced—that there was then more real philanthropy in the South than at the North. He says 11 1 issued proposals...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     23 to the slaves, that Jesus came not to bring peace, but a sword 1” Such a tree produced fitting fruits. About midnight on the Sabbath of the 21st of August, 1831,...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     24 Early the next morning they commenced their work again. But the first planta tion they attacked —that of Dr. Blount—they were driven from by the slaves, who rallied around their master,...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     25 CHAPTER V. The New England Anti-Slayery Society ,1832—More Newspapers and Tracts—New York City Anti-Sla very Society and the Incidents of Its Organization—Tlie American Anti-Slavery Society and its Creed—The Extent and System...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     26 l the day the public feeling was excited by the posting through the city of a large placard, of which the following is a copy NOTICE.—to all persons from the south...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     was lion. Theodore Frelinghuysen, then United States Senator from New Jersey, afterwards a candidate for Vice-President of the United States on the ticket with Henry Clay, and he directly charged the abolitionists...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     as vailing idea. The reaction shortly took place. Laws were passed forbidding the reception or circulation of these incendiary articles in the Southern States. Mobs broke into the post-offices and burned all...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     29 with an excited muititnde, armed with saving stones, which they smote together, crying All together. 1 A fence was torn down and converted into clubs, and a barricade of carts 4fas...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     AN ERA OF EXCITEMENT. The year 1835 was one of the most exciting eras of agifation in the early his tory of anti-slavery. The events of the preceding few months had aroused...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     31 Laws of the most stringent character were passed by nearly all the Southern States to prevent the further dissemination among the Southern people of aboli tion doctrines, and an appeal was...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     32 remark, Never waa man so rejoiced to get into jail before.” The rabble, which by the by, waa of an unexceptionable character, soon after dispersed, their object having been effected, and...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     33 who insisted that they would not be satisfied with anything less than its destruc tion. The party in the building determined It should not be given up, and during the angry...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     24 THIRD EPOCH. CHAPTER VI. The Era of Gam and Confrresalonal Petitions—John Quincy Ailams; hia Petition for Djiunion— Legislation from 1635 to 1845—Annexation of Texas—The Liberty Party of 1840, Free Soil Party...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     35 In both branches of Congress, also, the question of abolition for the first time occupied a large share of the deliberations, and was discussed under every possible aspect. From 1831, when...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     -V 4- 36 long and protracted efforts by John Quincy Adams, who was then champion of the abolitionists on the floor of the House, this restriction upon the right of petition was...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     37 on the slave products of the United States, and at the same time set up a barrier to the further extension of Southern civilization in that direction. There was but one...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     38 Birney and Thomas Morris, received 62,300 votes. These, however, were but a smell part of the professed abolitionists of the United States, the great majority voting for the nominees of the...
    • Contributor: De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1861

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Title
History of American abolitionism : its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican War, Wilmot Proviso, Negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, Compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the southern confederacy
Other Title
American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861
Summary
A critique of American abolitionism after 1787, with emphasis upon the negative impact of the movement on the South and slavery. De Fontaine blames fanatic abolitionists for causing dissolution of the Union and for spoiling chances for gradual emancipation in the South. He also gives basic facts and figures on the initial six states of the southern confederacy, including biographies of Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stevens and the slave and free populations of these states.
Contributor Names
De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory), 1832-1896.
Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne, 1852-1925, former owner.
Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1861.
Subject Headings
-  Antislavery movements--United States
Notes
-  "Originally published in the New York herald."
-  Also available in digital form.
Medium
66 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
E441 .D31
E449 .D16 vol. 26, no. 5A Another copy. Inscription in ink on cover: For Mr. Daniel Murray Library of Congress. Inscription in pencil on p. 12: Political discussion. Inscription in pencil on p. 14 trimmed: [m]any noble [m]en came to front at [?] period. Pencil checkmarks on p. 12-13.
E185 .A254 container D, no. 76 Another copy. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 15467.
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A critique of American abolitionism after 1787, with emphasis upon the negative impact of the movement on the South and slavery. De Fontaine blames fanatic abolitionists for causing dissolution of the Union and for spoiling chances for gradual emancipation in the South. He also gives basic facts and figures on the initial six states of the southern confederacy, including biographies of Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stevens and the slave and free populations of these states.
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De Fontaine, F. G, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection, and African American Pamphlet Collection. History of American abolitionism: its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of , compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican War, Wilmot Proviso, Negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, Compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the southern confederacy. New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1861. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/04020568/.

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De Fontaine, F. G., Murray, D. A. P., Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection & African American Pamphlet Collection. (1861) History of American abolitionism: its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of , compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican War, Wilmot Proviso, Negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, Compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the southern confederacy. New York: D. Appleton & Co. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/04020568/.

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De Fontaine, F. G, et al. History of American abolitionism: its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of , compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican War, Wilmot Proviso, Negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, Compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the southern confederacy. New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1861. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/04020568/>.