William Lloyd Garrison The Abolistionist

The author of this volume desires by way of preface to say just two things:—firstly, that it is his earnest hope that this record of a hero may be an aid to brave and true living in the Republic, so that the problems knocking at its door for solution may find the heads, the hands, and the hearts equal to the performance of the duties imposed by them upon the men and women of this generation. William Lloyd Garrison was brave and true. Bravery and truth were the secret of his marvelous career and achievements. May his countrymen and countrywomen imitate his example and be brave and true, not alone in emergent moments, but in everyday things as well.
So much for the author’s firstly, now for his secondly, which is to acknowledge his large indebtedness in the preparation of this book to that storehouse of anti-slavery material, the story of the life of William Lloyd Garrison by his children. Out of its garnered riches he has filled his sack.

So opens the book about the life of the great abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison spent 40 years of his life fighting for human rights. He was the author of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator.

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolistionist by Archibald H. Grimke (Illustrated) PLUS His NY Address “No Compromise with Slavery.”

But, if they are men; if they are to run the same career of immortality with ourselves; if the same law of God is over them as over all others; if they have souls to be saved or lost; if Jesus included them among those for whom he laid down his life; if Christ is within many of them “the hope of glory;” then, when I claim for them all that we claim for ourselves, because we are created in the image of God, I am guilty of no extravagance, but am bound, by every principle of honour, by all the claims of human nature, by obedience to Almighty God, to “remember them that are in bonds as bound with them,” and to demand their immediate and unconditional emancipation. William Lloyd Garrison

The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Continuing in the Black History Month collection:

Learn about the life and times of this great Abolitionist and author of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in this book compiled from her letters and journals.  Illustrated with pictures of the Beecher family and other historic figures of the day. 

LIFE OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Charles Edward Stowe (Illustrated)

The Abolitionists

Another offering for Black History Month is:

THE ABOLITIONISTS TOGETHER WITH PERSONAL MEMORIES OF THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 1830-1864 by JOHN F. HUME

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Learn about these brave men and woman who often risked their lives to battle for human rights and freedom.

From the introduction: "In selecting those who are to receive its remembrance and its honors, the world has always given its preference to such as have battled for freedom. It may have been with the sword; it may have been with the pen; or it may have been with a tongue that was inflamed with holy rage against tyranny and wrong; but whatever the instrumentality employed; in whatever field the battle has been fought; and by whatsoever race, or class, or kind of men; the champions of human liberty have been hailed as the bravest of the brave and the most worthy to receive the acclaims of their fellows.
Now, if that estimate be not altogether inaccurate, what place in the scale of renown must be assigned to those pioneers in the successful movement against African slavery in this country who have commonly been known as "Abolitionists"—a name first given in derision by their enemies? It should, in the opinion of the writer hereof, be the very highest. He is not afraid to challenge the whole record of human achievements by great and good men (always save and except that which is credited to the Saviour of mankind) for exhibitions of heroism superior to theirs."

The Great Conspiracy

“They found them slaves! but who that title gave?

The God of Nature never formed a slave!

Though fraud or force acquire a master’s name,

Nature and justice must remain the same;—

Nature imprints upon whate’er we see,

That has a heart and life in it, BE FREE!”

Cowper

When doing research on abolition and slavery for Black History Month, I had no idea that I would run across this gem of a book. I knew it deserved republishing! Here is a new edition, complete with photographs of historic figures to give it a fresh retelling.

The author, John Alexander Logan was a solider and political leader from Illinois. He was a Republican, a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1867 to 1871, and of the United States Senate from 1871 until 1877 and again from 1879 until his death in 1886.

This is his historic account of the history of slavery, the slave trade and the civil war. As he says in the introduction:

“But, while tracing the history of the Great Conspiracy, from its obscure birth in the brooding brains of a few ambitious men of the earliest days of our Republic, through the subsequent years of its devolution, down to the evil days of Nullification, and to the bitter and bloody period of armed Rebellion, or contemplating it in its still more recent and, perhaps, more sinister development, of to-day, he has conscientiously dealt with it, throughout, in the clear and penetrating light of the voluminous records so readily accessible at the seat of our National Government. So far as was practicable, he has endeavored to allow the chief characters in that Conspiracy—as well as the Union leaders, who, whether in Executive, Legislative, or Military service, devoted their best abilities and energies to its suppression—to speak for themselves, and thus while securing their own proper places in history,”

The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History a partisan account of the Civil War (Complete Volumes) by John A. Logan (Illustrated)