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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation Traveling Exhibit
March 7 - April 15, 2011

Forever Free Exhibit

Opening Program & Reception
March 9, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Lincoln & Ohio
March 22, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Emancipation Poster Contest
for CCAD Students
Deadline extended to Feb. 25

Read more in our
February issue of The News

Resources

What's on Display?

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Bibliography of Rare Books on Display

Download Bibliography of Rare Books on Display (PDF)

 

From the Ohio State University Rare Books Collection:

  • The Rev. J.W. Loguen, as a slave and as a freeman: a narrative of real life.(1859)

View online at:http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=wright2;idno=wright2-2016
or http://bit.ly/hmkIRS

  • Aikman, William: The future of the colored race in America: being an article in the Presbyterian Quarterly Review, of July, 1862. (1862)

View online at: http://www.archive.org/details/futureofcoloredr01aikm
      or http://bit.ly/e4jmWX

  • American Anti-Slavery Society:   American slavery as it is: testimony of a thousand witnesses. (1839)

View online at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3114312;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=1
or http://bit.ly/fZHh2M

  • Estes, Matthew: A defence of Negro slavery, as it exists in the United States. (1846)

View online at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075913743
or http://bit.ly/g24tst

  • Garrison, William Lloyd:Thoughts on African colonization, or, an impartial exhibition of the doctrines, principles and purposes of the American Colonization Society, together with the resolutions, addresses and remonstrances of the free people of color. (1832)

View online at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433085766321
or http://bit.ly/euBHQY

  • Harris, Alex.:  The cause of the war shown; or, the inquiries: who are responsible for the Civil War in America?  And what are the designs of its authors?  Answered. (1863)

No online version available.

  • PhiladelphiaYearly Meeting of Friends: A brief statement on the rise and progress of the testimony of the religious Society of Friends, against slavery and the slave trade. (1843)

View online at:  http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=mayantislavery;cc=mayantislavery;view=image;idno=07838213
or http://bit.ly/dTsR7L

  • McBride, Robert W.: Lincoln’s bodyguard the Union Light Guard; the Seventh Independent Company of Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, 1863-1865. (1908)

View online at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t2w37sd4x (online version varies slightly from that of print version on display, but text is virtually the same)
or http://bit.ly/dN1SYz

  • Ross, A.M.: Recollections and experiences of an abolitionist. (1875)

View online at: http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/recollectionsexp00rossuoft
or http://bit.ly/ephzbv

  • Simmons, Geo. F.: Two sermons on the kind of treatment and on the emancipation of slaves. Preached at Mobile, on Sunday the 10th and Sunday the 17th of May, 1840; with a prefatory statement. (1840)

View online at: http://www.archive.org/details/twosermonsonkind00simm
or http://bit.ly/hE0QTS

  • Williams, James: Narrative of James Williams, and American slave, who was for several years a deiver on a cotton plantation in Alabama. (1838)

View online at: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/books/results/image?urn=urn:proquest:US;glhbooks;Genealogy-glh47067472;4;-1;&polarity=&scale=
or http://bit.ly/gVRxwq

  • Constitution and act of incorporation of the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and for the relief of free negroes, unlawfully held in bondage, and for the improving of the condition of the African race. (1820)

View online at: http://www.archive.org/details/constitutionacto00penn
or http://bit.ly/dEh47J

 

From the State Library of Ohio Rare Books Collection

  • Autographs of federal soldiers in the Confederate prison at Portsmouth. (ca. 1861-1865)

View online at: http://worldcat.org/oclc/706141370/viewonline
or http://bit.ly/fDNHuL

  • Political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the celebrated campaign of 1858 in Illinois, including the preceding speeches of each at Chicago, Springfield, etc., also, the two great speeches of Abraham Lincoln in 1859.(1860)

View online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=abn2972.0001.001;view=toc
or http://bit.ly/hcXA0C

  • Proceedings of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Convention, held at Putnam, on the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth of April, 1835.(1835)

View online at: http://worldcat.org/oclc/2405620/viewonline
or http://bit.ly/hA6hIn

  • The pro-slavery argument; as maintained by the most distinguished writers of the southern states, containing the several essays on the subject, of Chancellor Harper, Governor Hammond, Dr. Simms, and Professor Dew.(1852)

View online at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t1kh0gq73
or http://bit.ly/h8u8TR

  • Report of the Committee on Slavery, to the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts. ǂb Presented May 30, 1849.(1849)

View online at: http://www.archive.org/details/reportofcommitte01conv
or http://bit.ly/dGsfxG

  • Ashe, S.A.:Abraham Lincoln, the citizen. (1935)

View online at: http://worldcat.org/oclc/4434046/viewonline
or http://bit.ly/gdyM58

  • Brockett, L.P., and Vaughan, Mary C.:Woman’s work in the Civil War: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience. (1867)

View online at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b61855
or http://bit.ly/gK3e1v

  • Buckingham, J.E.:Reminiscences and souvenirs of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. (1894)

View online at: http://worldcat.org/oclc/2471158/viewonline
or http://bit.ly/hC1xOm

  • Cairnes, J.E.:The slave power: its character, career, and probable designs: being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest. (1862)

View online at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b41534 (Note: online version is for second edition; text is virtually the same as that of the version held by the State Library)
or http://bit.ly/eCMwgZ

  • Carpenter, Francis Bicknell:Six months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln. (1867)

View online at: http://www.archive.org/stream/sixmonthsatwhit01carpgoog#page/n4/mode/2up
or http://bit.ly/fuurD0

  • Carpenter, S.D.:Logic of history. Five hundred political texts: being concentrated extracts of abolitionism; also, results of slavery agitation and emancipation; together with sundry chapters on despotism, usurpations and frauds. (1864)

View online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABJ5673.0001.001 or http://bit.ly/fDMwr4


  • Cheever, George B.:God against slavery: and the freedom and duty of the pulpit to rebuke it, as a sin against God. (1857)

View online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABT9406 or http://bit.ly/dK63mF

  • Citizens’ Committee:Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln in Union Square New York April 25, 1865. (1865)

View online at: http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=mayantislavery;cc=mayantislavery;view=image;idno=32905601 or http://bit.ly/fP2lCv

  • Coggeshall, William T.:Lincoln memorial: the journeys of Abraham Lincoln: from Springfield to Washington, 1861, as President Elect; and from Washington to Springfield, 1865, as President martyred; comprising an account of public ceremonies on the entire route, and full details of both journeys. (1865)

View online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;rgn=full%20text;idno=ACK8354.0001.001;didno=ACK8354.0001.001;view=image;seq=0003 or http://bit.ly/ft3JNB

  • Cowen, Benjamin Rush:Abraham Lincoln: an appreciation by one who knew him. (1909)

View online at: http://www.archive.org/details/abrahamlincolnap01cowe or http://bit.ly/eibmd4

  • Douglass, Frederick: My bondage and my freedom. (1855)

View online at: http://www.archive.org/details/mybondagemyfreed00doug or http://bit.ly/gkbDXd

  • Elliot, Charles:  Sinfulness of American slavery, proved from its evil sources, its injustice, its wrongs, its contrariety to many scriptual commands, prohibitions, and principles, and to the Christian spirit; and from its evil effects; together with observations on emancipation, and the duties of American citizens in regard to slavery.  (1857)

View online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABT6602.0001.001;cc=moa or http://bit.ly/fDm3yT  (Online version is 1850 imprint)

  • Fitzhugh, George:Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters. (1857)

            View online at: http://www.archive.org/details/cannibalsallorsll00fitz or http://bit.ly/hRMNGW

  • Herold, David E.:The conspiracy trial for the murder of the President, and the attempt to overthrow the government by the assassination of its principal officers. (1865)

View online at: http://www.archive.org/details/conspiracytrialf00hero or http://bit.ly/g5k9KZ

  • Hopkins, John Henry:A scriptural, ecclesiastical, and historical view of slavery from the days of the patriarch Abraham to the nineteenth century addressed to the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter.(1864)

View online at:  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABT7253 or http://bit.ly/g2OXIX

  • Keckley, Elizabeth:Behind the scenes…or, thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House. (1868)

View online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABN9052 or http://bit.ly/eMPGH2

  • Lawrence, John:The slavery question. (1854)

View online at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075933964 or http://bit.ly/hBNLmS

  • Miller, Francis Trevelyan:Portrait life of Lincoln. (1910)

View online at: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/2220276.html or http://bit.ly/hROEwW

  • Parsons, C.G.:Inside view of slavery: or a tour among the planters. (1855)

View online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;rgn=full%20text;idno=ABJ1318.0001.001;didno=ABJ1318.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000001 or http://bit.ly/hQcLsp

  • Paxton, J.D.:Letters on slavery; addressed to the Cumberland congregation, Virginia. (1833)

View online at: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/5510452.html or http://bit.ly/hGfTtg

  • Pennell, Orrin H.:Religious view of Abraham Lincoln. (1899)

View online at: http://worldcat.org/oclc/13734272/viewonline or http://bit.ly/feYkYX

  • Pinkerton, Allan:History and evidence of the passage of Abraham Lincoln from Harrisburg, Pa., to Washington, D.C., on the twenty-second and twenty-third of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. (1868)

View online at: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1743290/viewonline or http://bit.ly/h3v5Lp

  • Raymond, Henry J.:History of the administration of President Lincoln. From official documents and private papers, some of which have not before been published. (1865)

View online at: http://worldcat.org/oclc/444274/viewonline or http://bit.ly/gCqPGO