Research Guides: 19th Century Literature: Politics and Travel

Abolitionism and the Civil War

Slavery in the United States; a Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who Lived Forty Years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave... by Charles Ball
Call Number: E444.B18 1836
Publication Date: 1836
Lewistown, Pa., J. W. Shugert, 1836.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Call Number: E449.D746
Publication Date: 1845
Boston: Pub. at the Anti-slavery office, 1845.
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Call Number: E449.D738
Publication Date: 1855
New York, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.
The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave; Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape by John Thompson
Call Number: E444.T47
Publication Date: 1856
Worcester, J. Thompson, 1856.
Letters on American Slavery from Victor Hugo, de Tocqueville, Emile de Girardin, Carnot, Passy, Mazzini, Humboldt, O. Lafayette
Call Number: E449.L661 1860
Publication Date: 1860
Boston, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.
Addresses of the Hon. W. D. Kelley, Miss Anna E. Dickinson, and Mr. Frederick Douglass, at a Mass Meeting... Philadelphia, July 6, 1863, for the Promotion of Colored Enlistments
Call Number: E540.N3K3
Publication Date: 1863
[Philadelphia, 1863]
Address of the Unconditional Union State Central Committee to the People of Maryland, September 16th, 1863 by Unconditional Union Party
Call Number: E512.U55
Publication Date: 1863
Baltimore: Sherwood & Co., 1863.
The Equality of All Men Before the Law: Claimed and Defended in Speeches by Hon. William D. Kelley, Wendell Phillips, and Frederick Douglass, and Letters From Elizur Wright and Wm. Heighton. by Frederick Douglass
Call Number: E185.2.K29 1865
Publication Date: 1865
Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1865.
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, his Escape from Bondage, and his Complete History to the Present Time, Including his Connection with the Anti-Slavery Movement by Frederick Douglass
Call Number: E449.D74
Publication Date: 1881
Hartford, Conn., Park publishing, 1881.

Socialism and Worker's Rights

Alfred Linnell: Killed in Trafalgar Square, November 20, 1887: A Death Song by William Morris
Call Number: PR5080.A43 1887
Publication Date: 1887
[London]: R. Lambert, [1887]
How I Became a Socialist by William Morris
Call Number: HX246.M8 1896
Publication Date: 1896
[London, Twentieth Century Press, limited, 1896]
Fabian Essays in Socialism by G. Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb, William Clarke, Sydney Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, and Hubert Bland. Edited by G. Bernard Shaw.
Call Number: HX246.F2 1889
Publication Date: 1889
London: The Fabian Society, 63 Fleet Street and 180 Portsdown Road, 1889.

Temperance

Liberty, Individuality and the Suicide of Liberty: A Lecture by William Kirkus
Call Number: HV5088.K57 1883
Publication Date: 1883
Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey, 1883.
The Foundation of Death: A Study of the Drink-Question by Axel Gustafson
Call Number: HV5035.G8
Publication Date: 1884
Boston: Ginn, Heath, & Co., 1884.

Travel

Letters from Europe by D.L. Bartlett
Call Number: D919.B29
Publication Date: 1886
Baltimore, Priv. Print., 1886.
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia by George Croly
Call Number: DS48.C76 1842
Publication Date: 1842
London, F.G. Moon, 1842-1843.
American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens
Call Number: E165.D53 1842
Publication Date: 1842
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1842.
Portraits of Places by Henry James
Call Number: D919.J27
Publication Date: 1884
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884.
Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 by Mary Wollstonecraft
Call Number: D919.S54
Publication Date: 1844
London, E. Moxon, 1844.
Etiquette at Washington; Together With the Customs Adopted by Polite Society in the Other Cities of the United States. To Which is Added an Appendix, Containing an Accurate Description of the Public Buildings in Washington by A Citizen of Washington
Call Number: BJ1858.E85 1850
Publication Date: 1850
Baltimore, J. Murphy, printers and Publishers, 1850.

Women's Sufferage

Constitutional equality a right of woman; or, a Consideration of the Various Relations Which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; With Her Duties to Herself--Together With a Review of the Constitution of the United States, by Lady Tennessee Caflin Cook
Call Number: JK1901.C7 1871
Publication Date: 1871
New York, Woodhull, Claflin & co., 1871.
History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Call Number: JK1896.S8 1887
Publication Date: 1887
New York, Fowler & Wells, 1887-[c1922]
Some of the Reasons Against Woman Suffrage by Francis Parkman
Call Number: JF835.P3
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