The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol. I, for 1835

American Anti-Slavery Society

Published by R. G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 144 Nassau Street, 1835

[Abolitionism and Slavery] 12mo. Volume I, No. 1-12 plus collective title, index, and appendix.  Bound in publisher's cloth. Gilt spine lettering.  Blind tooled cover decoration. Head of spine chipped.  Scattered foxing. iv, 168 pages.  Numerous illustrations of slavery before most issues.  Includes the whipping of Amos Dresser, and a horrific account of an enslaved women killing her own children and herself.  Anti-Slavery Library bookplate on front paste down. 

The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.  Frederick Doughlass and William Wells Brown were important members.  This volume contains the complete first year of the journal.  The August through December issues are all stated second editions. John Greenleaf Whittier was involved (see Mott, American Magazines, page 457), and one of his poems appears on page 24. Refs: Blockson 9174; Lomazow 321. Sabin 81862; Dumond, page 17.