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Militant Boston


Photograph Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the State of Massachusetts. Certificate of initiation: manuscript, 1799. fMS Am 2642 – Gift of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, 2008.


David Walker (1785–1830) Walker's appeal, in four articles, together with a preamble to the colored citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly to those of the United States of America (Boston, 1829) US 5274.5* – Gift of Edward Everett, 1864.
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Photograph The (old) farmer's almanack ... for the year of Our Lord 1836 >(Boston, 1835) *APA.T366F.1836 – Gift of Edward L. Pierce, 1874.

William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Sumner, 19 February 1851. MS Am 1 (6057) – Gift of Edward L. Pierce, 1874.
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Photograph Charles Emery Stevens (1815–1893) Anthony Burns: a history (Boston, 1856); MS Am 784 (481) – Gift of Mrs. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1923.
Boston slave riot and trial of Anthony Burns (Boston, 1854); *48–416 – Gift of J. Dellinger Barney, 1948.


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Photograph Thomas WentworthHigginson (1823–1911). Autograph letter, signed, to William Channing, 6 April 1874 MS Am 784 (481) – Gift of Mrs. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1923.
Lucius M. Sargent (1786–1867) The ballad of the abolition blunder–buss (Boston, 1861) *43–1350 – Gift of W. B. O. Field, 1943.

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Photograph Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Sumner, 29 April 1865. MS Am 1 (1902) – Gift of Edward L. Pierce, 1874.