Collections

A collection of the African Repository and Colonial Journal which was published in 1837 by the American Colonization Society.

An 1843 publication by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society relating to the abolishment of slavery.

Selected issues of the abolitionist newspaper, The Anti-Slavery Record, published in 1836.

Selected issues of the Christian Investigator, an anti-slavery publication, created by abolitionist William Goodell in the mid-19th century.

The Douglass' Monthly is a newspaper created by Frederick Douglass, following the success of his earlier weekly publications. The newspaper relates to the abolitionist movement as well as other social reform topics.

Selected issues of the abolitionist newspaper, The Emancipator, from 1838 through 1839.

Items from the personal papers and library of abolitionist, suffragist, and peace activist Emily Howland, including her collection of political pamphlets, posters, and program documents.

A collection of the mid-19th century anti-slavery newspaper, the Frederick Douglass' Paper, a successor to Douglass’ first abolitionist paper, The North Star.

Documents and artifacts related to enslaved people and African American servants at Cherry Hill, a historic house located on South Pearl Street in Albany, New York, United States.

Photographs and documents from the mid-1800s to early-1900s, relating to African American life and history in Central New York.

A collection of the noted abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, dating from the mid-19th century and Civil War era.

Selected issues of the newspaper, National Anti-Slavery Standard, which promoted equality and emancipation during the mid-19th century.

An issue of the National Freedman, an anti-slavery publication, from 1865.

The abolitionist newspaper, New National Era, was published by Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. between 1870 and 1874.

One of the nation's first institutes of higher education to accept students with no consideration to race or gender was open from 1849 to 1860.

A collection of the anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, published by noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the mid-19th century.

A collection of the Radical Abolitionist newspaper published by the Central Abolition Committee during the mid-19th century.