1850-1859
1850’s pro-slavery literature
(Clicking covers will redirect to the full book)
A defence of the South against the
reproaches and incroachments of the North
– Iveson L. Brookes, 1850
Speech of Hon. I.E. Holmes, of S. Carolina
– I.E. Holmes, 1850
The Union, past and future:
how it works, and how to save it
– R.H. Garnett, 1850
The rightful remedy
– Edward Bryan, 1850
Linda; or, The young pilot of Belle Creole
– Caroline Lee Hentz, 1850
Southern states, their present peril, and
their certain remedy. Why do they not right
themselves? And so fulfil their glorious destiny
– John Townsend, 1850
Speech on the subject of slavery in the territories
– Jefferson Davis, 1850
Southern Convention Speech on Slavery
– Langdon Cheves, 1850
The Present Relations of
Free Labor to Slave Labor
– David Christy, 1850
Address on the history, authority
and influence of slavery
– J.B. Ferguson, 1850
The slave question
– A. G. Brown, 1850
Address on the subject of slavery
– John C. Calhoun, 1850
Speech on the slavery question
– George E. Badger, 1850
The slavery question
– Robert Stockton, 1850
Abolitionism unveiled!
– H.E. James, 1850
An essay on the natural history of mankind:
viewed in connection with negro slavery
– Josiah C. Nott, 1850
Duties of masters to servants
– Rev. A.T. Holmes, Rev. H.N. McTyeire, & Rev. C.F. Sturgis, 1851
Swallow Barn, or, A Soujourn in the Old Dominion
– John Pendleton Kennedy, 1851
A defence of southern slavery
– A Southern Clergyman, 1851
Lecture delivered before the Young men’s library
association, Showing African slavery to be consistent
with the moral and physical progress of a nation
– C.G. Memminger, 1851
Our duty to the African race
– Richard Fuller, 1851
The Dew-drop of the Sunny South:
A Story Written from Every Day Life
– Caroline Rush, 1851
Report on the subject of slavery
– James Thornwell, 1851
A defence of southern slavery
– A Southern Clergyman, 1851
An inquiry into the nature and
results of the anti-slavery agitation
– Unknown, 1851
Negro-mania: being an examination of the falsely
assumed equality of the various races of men
– John Campbell, 1851
Letters of Curtius
– William J. Grayson, 1851
“The higher law, ” in its application to
the Fugitive slave bill: A sermon on the
duties men owe to God and to governments
– John C. Lord, 1851
Life at the South. A Companion to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
– C.H. Wiley, 1852
Bible defence of slavery
– Josiah Priest, 1852
A review of Garrisonian
fanaticism and its influence
– Uknown, 1852
Slavery in the southern states
– Edward Pringle, 1852
Aunt Phillis’s Cabin; or, Southern Life as it is
– Mary H. Eastman, 1852
Recollections of a New England bride and of a southern matron
– Caroline Howard Gilman, 1852
Studies on slavery
– John Fletcher, 1852
Marcus Warland; or, The Long Moss
Spring; a tale of the South
– Caroline Lee Hentz, 1852
Life at the South : or, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” as it is
– William L.G. Smith, 1852
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the
Planter’s Home, or, A Fair View of Both Sides of the Slavery Question
– Robert Criswell, 1852
Letters on the condition of the
African race in the United States
– A Southern Lady, 1852
The North and the South; or
Slavery and Its Contrasts
– Caroline Rush, 1852
The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters
– Charles Jacobs Peterson, 1852
Uncle Robin: In His Cabin in Virginia,
and Tom Without One in Boston
– J.W. Page, 1853
The pro-slavery argument; as maintained by the
most distinguished writers of the southern states
– James Henry Hammond, 1853
African colonization unveiled
– Edmund Ruffin, 1853
Oration, delivered before the Few and
Phi gamma socities, of Emory college
– Robert Augustus Toombs, 1853
Hatchie, the guardian slave, or, The heiress of Bellevue
– Warren T. Ashton, 1853
Essay on the treatment and management of slaves
– Robert Collins, 1853
Mr. Frank, The Underground Mail-Agent
– Vidi, 1853
AntiFanaticism: A Tale of the South
– Martha Haines Butt, 1853
The Sword and the Distaff
– William Gilmore Simms, 1853
The Lofty and the Lowly; or, Good in All and None All Good
– Maria J. McIntosh, 1853
The Women of England Versus the Women of America
– Julia Gardiner Tyler, 1853
The Planter, or, Thirteen Years in the South
– David Brown, 1853
Little Eva, the Flower of the South
– Phillip J. Cozans, 1853
Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question
– Thomas Carlyle, 1853
A South-Side View of Slavery
– Nehemiah Adams, 1854
Negro Slavery, No Evil
– B.F. Stringfellow, 1854
The Planter’s Northern Bride
– Caroline Lee Hentz, 1854
The Hireling, and the Slave
– William Grayson, 1854
Treatise on sociology, theoretical and practical
– Henry Hughes, 1854
English Serfdom and American Slavery or, Ourselves–As Others See Us
– Lucien Chase, 1854
The Scripture doctrine
with regard to slavery
– Unknown, 1854
Sociology for the South; or, The failure of free society
– George Fitzhugh, 1854
The Master’s House: A Tale of Southern Life
– Thomas Bangs Thorpe, 1854
A letter of inquiry to ministers of the
Gospel of all denominations, on slavery
– Nathan Lord, 1854
Tempest and sunshine, or, Life in Kentucky
– Mary Jane Holmes, 1854
Slavery indispensable to the civilization of Africa
– Samuel McKenney, 1855
An address delivered on domestic slavery
– James Shannon, 1855
A common-sense, matter-of-fact examination and discussion
of negro slavery in the United States of America
– Peter G. Camden, 1855
An address on domestic slavery
– James Shannon, 1855
A northern presbyter’s second letter to ministers
of the gospel of all denominations on slavery
– Nathan Lord, 1855
“A Child of the Sun,” The Summer-land: A Southern Story
– D. Appleton, 1855
An essay on liberty and slavery
– Albert Bledsoe, 1856
On the slavery question
– A.G. Brown, 1856
An address, delivered before the Georgia
Democratic State Convention
– William H. Stiles, 1856
Tit For Tat: A Novel
– A Lady of New Orleads, 1856
Cotton is King
– David Christy, 1856
Lectures on the Philosophy
and Practice of Slavery
– William A. Smith, 1856
A Scriptural examination of the institution
of slavery in the United States
– Howell, Cobb, 1856
To the people of Suffolk Co. Information,
acquired from the best authority, with
respect to the institution of slavery
– William Jagger, 1856
African slavery in America.
– C. J. Ingersoll, 1856
Ten letters on the subject of slavery
– N.L. Rice, 1856
Lectures on the philosophy
and practice of slavery
– William A. Smith, 1856
Slaveholding not sinful. Slavery,
the punishment of man’s sin
– Samuel B. How, 1856
Letter of an adopted Catholic
– Unknown, 1856
Abolitionism unveiled or, Its origin, progress
and pernicious tendency fully developed
– Henry Field James, 1856
White Acre vs. Black Acre
– William M. Burwell, 1856
The southern states, embracing a series of papers condensed
from the earlier volumes of De Bow’s review, upon slavery
and the slave institutions of the South
– J.D.B. De Bow, 1856
Household Mysteries,
A Romance of Southern Life
– Lizzie Cutler, 1856
South Carolina and Massachusetts.
– J.J. Evans, 1856
Scriptural and Statistical Views in Favor of Slavery
– Thornton Stringfellow, 1856
Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada
– Amelia M. Murray, 1856
The Creole Orphans: Or Lights and Shadows
of Southern Life. A Tale of Louisiana
– James Peacocke, 1856
Home and the World
– Judith Rives, 1857
The truth restored in
regard to polygamy and slavery
– F.A. Ross & John Colenso, 1857
The great question answered,
or, Is slavery a sin in itself
– James Sloan, 1857
Speech of Peachy R. Grattan, Esq.
– Peachy Grattan, 1857
Cannibals all! or, slaves without masters
– George Fitzhugh, 1857
The Christian Doctrine of Slavery
– George Armstrong, 1857
Modern reform examined or, The union of
North and South on the subject of slavery
– Joseph C. Stiles, 1857
A sermon on slavery; a vindication
of the Methodist church, South
– William G. Brownolow, 1857
Dominion, Or the Unity and Trinity of the Human Race
– Samuel Davies Baldwin, 1857
Position of the Southern
Church in relation to Slavery
– Frederick Augustus Ross, 1857
Slavery Ordained of God
– Frederick Augustus Ross, 1857.
The Olive Branch; or White Oak Farm
– Anonymous, 1857
Economical causes of
slavery in the United States
– Henry Middleton, 1857
Meadow Brook
– Marry J. Holmes, 1857
Ethel Sommers, or The Fate of the Union
– James Smythe, 1857
The Brother Clerks, a Tale of New Orleans
– Mrs. Gideon Townsend, 1857
A report and treatise on slavery
and the slavery agitation
– John Brown, 1857
The political economy of slavery
– Edmund Ruffin, 1857
A controversy on slavery
George Fitzhugh Debates A. Hogeboom, 1857
Southern institutes; or, An inquiry into the origin
and early prevalence of slavery and the slave-trade
– George Sawyer, 1858
Ought American slavery to be perpetuated?
Rev. W.G. Brownlow Debates Rev. A. Pryne. Debate, 1858
An inquiry into the law of Negro slavery
in the United States of America
– Thomas Cobb, 1858
New England Chattels; or, Life in the Northern Poor House
– Samuel .H. Elliot, 1858
The disunionist: a brief treatise upon the evils
of the union between the North and the South, and
the propriety of separation and the formation
of a southern United States.
– Herbert Fielder, 1858
Organization of the cotton power
– Unknown, 1858
An address delivered before the seventh annual
meeting of the Virginia state agricultural society
– James Holcombe, 1858
The foreign slave trade, the source of
political power, of material progress,
of social integrity, and of social
emancipation to the South.
– L. W. Spratt, 1858
The origin of slavery
– Lawrence M. Keitt, 1858
Southern education for southern youth
– William H. Stiles, 1858
A discussion on slaveholding. Three letters to a conservative
George D. Armstrong, 1858
Domestic slavery in the South
– Lucius J. Gartrell, 1858
Speech delivered at Barnwell C.H.
– James Henry Hammond, 1858
Elements of moral philosophy
– R.H. Rivers, 1859
Beulah
– Augusta J. Evans, 1859
The African apprentice system
– Henry Hughes, 1859
Wild southern scenes.
A tale of disunion! and border war!
– John Beauchamp Jones, 1859
A scriptural view of the moral
relations of African slavery
– David Ewart, 1859
Duties of Christian masters.
– H. N. M’Tyeire, 1859
The religious instruction
of our colored population
– Unknown, 1859
The Colored Population of
Maryland and slavery
– Robert S. Reeder, 1859
Speech on slavery issues
– C.C. Clay, 1859
“Negro Slavery Not Unjust”
– Charles O’Conor, 1859