This list of Archives & Special Collections holdings includes pre-1861 publications supporting or opposing slavery as well as ethnological examinations of race and memoirs of former slaves. Publications listed here are not limited to Mississippi in scope.
John H. Aughey. The Iron Furnace, or Slavery and Secession. Philadelphia: W.S. & A. Martien, 1863. Call Number: E458.7 A9. Author was a refugee from Mississippi.
Steward Austin. Twenty-two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman; Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, while President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West. Rochester, NY: W. Alling, 1857. Call Number: E444 S84.
John Bachman. The Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race Examined on the Principles of Science. Charleston, SC: C. Canning, 1850. Call Number: GN353 B12.
Catherine Esther Beecher. An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females. Philadelphia: H. Perkin, 1837. Call Number: E449 B415.
William O. Blake. The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. The Forms of Slavery that Prevailed in Ancient Nations, Particularly in Greece and Rome. The African Slave Trade and the Political History of Slavery in the United States. Columbus, OH: H. Miller, 1858. Call Number: E441 B55 1857.
Albert Taylor Bledsoe. An Essay on Liberty and Slavery. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856. Author was a professor of mathematics at the University of Mississippi. Call Number: E449 B646.
George Bourne. Picture of Slavery in the United States of America. Middletown, CT: E. Hunt, 1834. Call Number: E449 B773 1834.
Samuel Stillman Boyd. Speech of Hon. Samuel S. Boyd, Delivered at the Great Union Festival, Held at Jackson, Mississippi, on the 10th day of October, 1851. Natchez, MS: Natchez Courier, 1851. Slavery and secession. Call Number: E423 B78.
William Gannaway Brownlow. A Sermon on Slavery: A Vindication of the Methodist Church South: Her Position Stated. Delivered in Temperance Hall, in Knoxville, on Sabbath, August 9, 1857, to the Delegates and Others in Attendance at the Southern Commercial Convention. Knoxville, TN: Kinsloe & Rice, 1857. Call Number: E449 B8851.
Henry Charles Carey. The North and the South. New York: Office of the Tribune, 1854. Pamphlets on slavery. Call Number: E433 C27.
John L. Carey. Some Thoughts Concerning Domestic Slavery, in a Letter to, Esq. of Baltimore. Baltimore: D. Brunner, 1839. Call Number: E449 C271.
David Christy. Cotton Is King: or, The Culture of Cotton, and Its Relation to Agriculture, Manufactures and Commerce; to the Freed Colored People; and to Those Who Hold that Slavery Is in Itself Sinful. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. Call Number: E441 E4 C6.
Thomas Clarkson. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which Was Honored with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785. Dublin: P. Byrne and W. Porter, 1786. Call Number: HT975 C6 1786.
Thomas Read Rootes Cobb. An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America. To Which Is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of Slavery. Philadelphia: T & J.W. Johnson & Co., 1858. Call Number: E441 C65.
Calvin Colton. Abolition a Sedition. Philadelphia: G.W. Donohue, 1839. Call Number: E446 A2.
J.D.B. De Bow. 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, Internal Improvements, etc., Together with Historical and Statistical Sketches of Several of the Southern and South Western States; Their Agriculture, Commerce, etc. New Orleans: 1856. Call Number: E441 S6.
E.N. Elliott. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on This Important Subject. Augusta, GA: Pritchard, Abbot & Loomis, 1860. Call Number: E449 E48.
Matthew Estes. A Defense of Negro Slavery, as It Exists in the United States. Montgomery: Press of the Alabama Journal, 1846. Call Number: E449 E79.
José Ferrer de Couto. Enough of War!: The Question of Slavery Conclusively and Satisfactorily Solved, as Regards Humanity at Large and the Permanent Interests of Present Owners. New York: S. Hallet, 1864. Call Number: HT879 F42.
Granville Sharp. The Just Limitation of Slavery in the Laws of God: Compared with the Unbounded Claims of the African Traders and British American Slaveholders... London: B. White and E. and C. Dilly, 1776. Call Number: HT915 S4.
E.N. Elliott. Cotton Is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on This Important Subject. Augusta, GA: Pritchard, Abbott & Loomis, 1860. Author is described as "President of Planters' College, Mississippi." Call Number: E449 E48.
John Fletcher. Studies on Slavery: In Easy Lessons. Natchez: J. Warner, 1852. Call Number: E449 F61.
Free Negroism, or Results of Emancipation in the North and the West Indian Islands: With Statistics of the Decay of Commerce -- Idleness of the Negro -- His Return to Savagism, and the Effect of Emancipation upon the Farming, Mechanical and Laboring Classes. New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1862. Call Number: E499 F8525 1862.
Richard Hildreth. Despotism in America: or, An Inquiry into the Nature and Results of the Slave-Holding System in the United States. Boston: Whipple and Damrell, 1840. Call Number: E449 H64.
John Livingston Hopkins. Messalina's Questions; or, A Vindication of Slavery. Liverpool: Nevetts. Call Number: E449 H6.
Fanny Kemble. The Views of Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins on Negro Slavery at the South: Illustrated from the Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. [Philadelphia: 1863]. Call Number: E449 K31 1863.
Liberty Chimes. Providence: Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, 1845. Call Number: E449 L695.
John Dixon Long. Pictures of Slavery in Church and State; Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Etc. with an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery. Philadelphia: 1857. Call Number: E449 L84.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. Letters on the Epistle of Paul to Philemon, or The Connection of Apostolical Christianity with Slavery. Charleston, SC: B. Jenkins, 1845. Author was chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1849 to 1856. Call Number: E449 L88.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. A Voice from the South: Comprising Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts, and to the Southern States. Baltimore: Western Continent Press, 1847. Slavery; author was chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1849 to 1856. Call Number: E416 L85.
Henry A. Murray. Lands of te Slave and the Free: or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada. London: J.W. Parker, 1855. Two volumes. Call Number: E166 M978.
Josiah Clark Nott and George R. Gliddon. Indigenous Races of the Earth: or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry; Including Monographs on Special Departments. London: Trubner & Co., 1857. Call Number: GN23 N88.
Josiah Clark Nott and George R. Gliddon. Types of Mankind: or, Ethnological Researches, Based upon the Ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania of Races, and upon Their Natural, Geographical, Philological, and Biblical History, Illustrated by Selections from the Edited Papers of Samuel George Morton... Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1855. Call Number: GN23 N89 1855.
George Peck. Slavery and the Episcopacy: Being an Examination of Dr. Bascom's Review of the Reply of the Majority to the Protest of the Minority of the Late General Conference of the M.E. Church, in the Case of Bishop Andrew. New York: G. Lane & C.B. Tippett, 1845. Call Number: E449 B296.
Edward Alfred Pollard. Black Diamonds Gathered in the Darkey Homes of the South. New York: Pudney & Russell, 1859. Slavery. Call Number: E449 P771.
Edward Alfred Pollard. The Southern Spy: or, Curiosities of Negro Slavery in the South. Letters from a Southerner to a Northern Friend. Washington: H. Polkinhorn, 1859. Call Number: E449 P77.
James Cowles Prichard. The Natural History of Man: Comprising Inquiries into the Modifying Influence of Physical and Moral Agencies on the Different Tribes of the Human Family. London: H. Bailliere, 1843. Call Number: GN23 P86.
Josiah Priest. Bible Defense of Slavery: or, The Origin, History and Fortunes of the Negro Race, as Deduced from History, Both Sacred and Profane, The Natural Relations -- Moral, Mental, and Physical -- to the Other Races of Mankind, Compared and Illustrated -- Their Future Destiny Predicted, Etc...To Which Is Added a Plan of National Colonization Adequate to the Entire Removal of the Free Blacks, and All that May Hereafter Become Free, in a Manner Harmonizing with the Peace and Well-being of Both Races. Louisville, KY: J.F. Brennan, 1851. Call Number: E449 P941 1851.
Granville Sharp. The Just Limitation of Slavery in the Laws of God: Compared with the Unbounded Claims of the African Traders and British American Slaveholders... London: B. White and E. and C. Dilly, 1776. Call Number: HT915 S4.
James A. Sloan. The Great Question Answered: or, Is Slavery a Sin in Itself (Per Se?) Answered According to the Scriptures. Memphis: Hutton, Galloway & Co., 1857. Author was a Mississippi minister. Call Number: E449 S635.
Gerrit Smith. Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: of the State of Mississippi. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837. Call Number: E449 S67.
Joseph C. Stiles. Modern Reform Examined: or, The Union of North and South on the Subject of Slavery. J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1857. Call Number: E449 S855.
T.C. Thornton. An Inquiry into the History of Slavery; Its Introduction into the United States; Causes of Its Continuance; and Remarks upon the Abolition Tracts of William E. Channing, D.D. Washington: W.M. Morrison, 1841. Call Number: E449 T51.
John B. Thrasher. Slavery, a Divine Institution. A Speech Made before the Breckinridge and Lane Club, November 5, 1860. Port Gibson, MS: Southern Reveille Book and Job Office, 1861. Call Number: E453 T52.
William B. Trotter. A History and Defense of African Slavery. [Quitman, MS]: 1861. Call Number: E449 T85.
John H. Van Evrie. Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race; the Latter Its Normal Condition. New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1861. Call Number: E449 V253.
Robert J. Walker. American Slavery and Finances. London: W. Ridway, 1864. Mississippi author. Call Number: E458 W17.
Robert Walsh. An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America: Part First, Containing an Historical Outline of Their Merits and Wrongs as Colonies, and Strictures upon the Calumnies of the British Writers. Philadelphia: Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819. Slavery. Call Number: E188 W2.
[Samuel Dexter Ward]. Remarks upon the Controversy between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of South Carolina. Boston: W. Crosby & H.P. Nichols, 1845. Slavery. Call Number: F273 R38 1845.
Theodore Dwight Weld. American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839. Call Number: E449 W442 1839.