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The famous anti-slavery newspaper... Capture of Atlanta...



Item # 678092

September 09, 1864

THE LIBERATOR, Boston, Sept. 9, 1864  This is the famous anti-slavery newspaper by famed abolitionist publisher William Lloyd Garrison. The masthead features two engravings, one of a slave auction and the other showing slaves being emancipated.
Articles include: "Abolition First & Foremost" "A Rebel View of the Situation" a letter signed in type: U. S. Grant concerning an exchange of prisoners; "The President's View of the Democratic Policy" "Treatment of Prisoners" "Colored Troops" "A Call For a National Convention of Colored Citizens of the United States".
And then there are some nice reports from the war including: "Capture of Atlanta" "President Lincoln & the Peace Commissioners", a small report of the: "Defeat & Death of John Morgan" among other items.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, wear at folds, some fold foxing, generally good.

Item from our most recent catalog - #357, released for August, 2025

Category: Yankee