# My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)/Miller, Orton & Mulligan

ARCHY MOORE,
The White Slave,
OR, MEMOIRS OF A FUGITIVE.
BY RICHARD HILDRETH.
WITH A NEW HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION,
Written for this edition by the distinguished author, and unfolding the origin, history and characteristics of this remarkable work.
One vol., 430 pp. 12mo., 8 Illustrations, Price $1 25.
OPINIONS OF REVIEWERS.
Have you yourself read Archy Moore? If you have, why don't you bestow upon it hearty, fervent, overwhelming praise? Why, my dear friend, it is a wonderful book! People of the dullest minds and wildest sympathies, are thrilled by it, as if their benumbed fingers had touched an electric chain. Independent of the sound, consistent principles of freedom which beam on every page, there is a remarkable degree of intellectual vigor and dramatic talent exhibited in the power of language, the choice of circumstances, the combination of events, and the shading of character. Every sentence shows intimate knowledge of the local peculiarities of the south, both in the respect of nature and society.—Lydia Maria Child.
This book, which is very well written, is full of continuous interest, and the adventures, though many of them are startling and exciting, do not run out of the range of probability. It has been translated into French, German and Italian.—N. Y. Times.
Mr. Hildreth describes southern scenes with all the graphic force of an artist, and all the minutiæ of the more ordinary visiter. What he draws with his pen, he fairly brings before the eye of the reader; the consequence is, that nothing is left to perfect the latter's acquaintance with scenes from which he is far removed, but an actual visit to them. The aim of the writer, in sending this work before the public, is suggested by its title. It is an illustration of southern slavery in all its phases and bearings; and apparently a stronger condemnation of the system we never read, than in Mr. Hildreth's pages. Selecting the narrative form for the medium of the homily he seeks to read, the facts he gives, and the conclusions he arrives at, come to us in threefold force, from their unexpectedness, and their apparently natural sequence. Archy Moore is destined to have an extensive circulation.—Dispatch.
This work was published many years ago, under a different title, and was the first issue of the Uncle Tom school of literature. At that time it went begging in vain through New York and Boston for a publisher, and finally the author got it printed himself by the city printer of Boston, who put his name to it as publisher. It was afterward printed in England and France, and translated into the principal languages of Europe. It is now revised, enlarged, republished, and the authorship avowed. It is an ably written and interesting work.—U. S. Journal.
Fiction never performs a nobler office than when she acts as the handmaid of truth. It is in this capacity that her assistance has been invoked by the author of the work before us, and so well is the task accomplished, that we can scarcely persuade ourselves, as we turn over the deeply interesting pages, that we are perusing a narrative of fictitious wrongs and sufferings. Let not the reader suppose, from what we have said, that this is a mere novel. The incidents which diversify this narrative, may have had no real existence in the exact connection and relation in which they are linked together in the story, and the characters may have no prototypes in all their individual features; but we have too much reason to know that such incidents and such characters are too abundantly supplied at the south to require that the novelist should draw very largely on his invention.
The story is written in the style of an autobiography, and with such an air of verisimilitude, that the reader cannot avoid the impression that the task of fiction has been merely to arrange the materials supplied by truth.—Plaindealer.
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, Publishers,
25 Park Row, New York, and 107 Genesee-st., Auburn.
“OUR WORLD,”
A GREAT ANTI-SLAVERY ROMANCE.
One Illustrated 12mo. Volume, 603 Pages. Price $1.25.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS—BRIEF EXTRACTS.
John Wesley said the best tunes had long been in the service of the devil. He thought it well to reclaim them for better purposes. The same is true of novels and romances they have heretofore been almost exclusively devoted either to vice, or to very questionable amusement But the tide is turning. Fiction is beginning to serve the cause of virtue and humanity. Miller, Orton & Mulligan have just brought out a new anti-slavery story, entitled “Our World,” which bids fair to equal anything that has gone before it. It argues well for anti-slavery, when the first publishing houses in the nation—yes, in all nations—find it for their interest to publish such works as “Uncle Tom's Cabin” and “Our World.”—Northern Christian Advocate.
Its style is engaging, its logic weighty, and its deductions natural. It does not content itself with abusing an evil from a distance, but grapples and wrestles with it, right manfully. “Our World” will excite, first, attention, then admiration throughout the country, and take its place at the head of all recently published books.—Buffalo Morning Express.
It is a work not to be road and thrown aside, but a work to be read and pandered over. The novel is a perfect melodrama for startling situations and effects, and we have never read a fictitious story which so completely engrossed one's attention from commencement to close.—Boston Evening Gazette.
It is enough to say, that the book will make a stir in the world. It is another battering ram, thundering against the wall of oppression, and is destined to make an impression second only to “Uncle Tom's Cabin.”—Western Literary Messenger.
It is written with great power, and evinces a thorough knowledge of the subject treated.—Buffalo Democracy.
It is the production of one who gleans his facts not from the narratives of others, but from personal observation and experience. The author's birth and education were in New England, but he has long resided in the South, and become intimately familiar with its people and its institutions, and can, therefore, speak accurately and dispassionately of “things as they are.”—Chicago Literary Budget.
We have no hesitation in pronouncing it one of the most remarkable and powerful original works ever published in America.—Philadelphia Daily News.
This work stirs the soul like a trumpet; or, like the sounds from the home of captivity, awakens untold sensations in our heart of hearts, especially if we love freedom.—Albany Spectator.
Nothing on this subject, since the days of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” has at all equaled it, and it promises to have a sale almost rivaling that most popular work.—Hillsdale Gazette.
This book will have an immense sale. Coming at the time it does, when the slave power is rapidly encroaching on free soil, everything which shows the blackness of the stain upon our nation's flag, will be welcomed. This tale shows the deep and damning sin of slavery in its true fight, but at the same time gives all the good which can possibly accrue from the “peculiar institution.” The author has taken a noble stand in the cause of freedom, and while sincere, is tolerant, and while just, is charitable. Every friend of Freedom will read the work.—Poughkeepsie Eagle.
Such a thrilling, truthful tale, so full of interest and of manly thought, we have not read since our eyes saw the finis of “Uncle Tom's Cabin.”—Weekly Visitor.
This book is a picture so true to reality, that it must make its way into the family circle. The pen of the author, under the inspiration of the patriotic fires of Liberty, has diffused the convincing spirit of fact throughout the text, in cubic magnitude.—Daily Advertiser.
The work, throughout, is one of great power and intense interest. It paints in vivid and truthful colors the long train of evils, moral, social, and political, which the monster, slavery, entails upon the white population of the south, no less than the wrongs inflicted upon the slaves. The author does not write from hearsay; he has spent much time in an official capacity at the South, and his position afforded him facilities for observing the workings of the monstrous institution in all its different phases.—Christian Freeman.
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, Publishers,  25 Park Row, New York, and 107 Genesee-st., Auburn.
TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE
The Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York,
Kidnapped in Washington City, in 1841, and Rescued in 1853,
from a Cotton Plantation near Red River, Louisiana. 7 Illustrations, 336 pp. 12mo. Price $1,00.
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
The narrative will be read with interest by every one who can sympathize with a human being struggling for freedom.—Buff. Cour.
The volume cannot fail to gain a wide circulation. No one can contemplate the scenes which are here so naturally set forth, without a new conviction of the hideousness of the institution from which the subject of the narrative has happily escaped.—N. Y. Tribune.
We think the story as affecting as any tale of sorrow could be.—N. Y. Evangelist.
It proves conclusively that Uncle Tom's Cabin is a truthful history of American Slavery, though drawn under the veil of fiction.—Otsego Rep.
Next to Uncle Tom's Cabin, the extraordinary narrative of Solomon Northup, is the most remarkable book that was ever issued from the American press.—Detroit Trib.
This is a simple, earnest, moving narrative of the events, vicissitudes, cruelties and kindnesses of a bondage of 12 years. If there are those who can peruse it unmoved, we pity them. That it will create as great a sensation, and be regarded equally as interesting as “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” is not a question for argument.—Buffalo Express.
This is one of the most exciting narratives, full of thrilling incidents artlessly told, with all the marks of truth. There are no depicted scenes in “Uncle Tom” more tragic, horrible, and pathetic, than the incidents compassed in the twelve years of this man's life in slavery.—Cincinnati Jour.
He who with an unbiassed mind sits down to the perusal of this book, will arise perfectly satisfied that American slavery is a hell of torments yet untold, and feel like devoting the energies of his life to its extirpation from the face of God's beautiful earth.—Evening Chron.
The story is one of thrilling interest as a mere personal history. He is but a little darker than many who pass for white, and quite as intelligent as most white men.—N. C. Adv.
The book is one of most absorbing interest.—Pittsburgh Dispatch.
It is written in a racy, agreeable style, and narrates with admirable conciseness, yet animation tho story of the sufferings, woes and persecutions of the hero. It is no less remarkable for candor and unity of purpose than for literary ability.—Oneida Her.
It is one of the most effective books against slavery that was ever written. “Archy Moore” and “Uncle Tom” are discredited by many as “romances;” but how the apologists for the institution can dispose of North up we are curious to see.—Syracuse Jour.
It is well told and bears internal evidence of being a clear statement of facts. There is no attempt at display, but the events are so graphically portrayed, that the interest in the perusal is deep and unabated to the last. Some of the scenes have a fearful and exciting power in their delineation.—Cayuga Chief.
It is a strange history, its truth is far stranger than fiction. Think of it! For thirty years A MAN, with all a man's hopes, fears and aspirations with a wife and children to call him by the endearing names of husband and father with a home, humble it may be, but still a HOME, beneath the shelter of whose roof none had a right to molest or make him afraid then for twelve years A THING, a chattel personal, classed with mules and horses and treated with less consideration than they; torn from his home and family, and the free labor by which he earned their bread, and driven to unremitting, unrequited toil in a cotton field, under a burning southern sun, by the lash of an inhuman master. Oh! it is horrible. It chills the blood to think that such things are.—Fred. Douglass' Paper.
It comes before us with highly respectable vouchers, and is a plain and simple statement of what happened to the author while in bondage to southern masters. It is a well told story, full of interest, and may be said to be the reality of “life among the lowly.”—Buff. Com. Adv.
Let it be read by all those good easy souls, who think slavery is, on the whole a good thing. Let it be read by all who think that although slavery is politically and economically a bad thing, it is not very bad for the slaves. Let it be read by all those M. C.'s and supporters who are always ready to give their votes, in aid of slavery and the slave trade with all the kidnapping inseparable from it. Let it be read, too, by our southern friends, who pity with so much Christian sensibility, the wretched condition of the free negroes at the north, and rejoice at the enviable condition of their own slaves.—N. Y. Ind.
          Published by MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN,
          No. 25 Park Row, New York, and 107 Genesee-st., Auburn
TEMPERANCE AND FREEDOM!
THE SUBJECTS AND THE MEN!
AMERICAN
AGITATORS AND REFORMERS!
BY D. W. BARTLETT.
One vol. 12mo., 396 pp., 6 Steel Portraits. Price $1.25.
Containing bold, vigorous and life-like sketches of the rise, progress, and present position of the principal Temperance and Anti-Slavery leaders of this country, including such eminent Reformers as the Beechers, Mrs. Stowe, Greeley, Seward, Gough, Chapin, Frederick Douglass, &c. &c., with extracts from their writings.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS—BRIEF EXTRACTS.
If any wish for a bound picture gallery of very distinguished persons, let them buy this book.—Religious Herald.
The descriptions are animated and critical, and besides giving information which everybody desires to know, present many noble and just views of reform.—N. Y. Evangelist.
Thousands feel the want of just such an acquaintance as this volume gives, with the early history and struggles of the men who are giving character to this age and nation.—Christian Messenger.
It contains some of the best selections from the best works of the best writers and best men in the country.—American News.
The author has given brief and interesting biographies, quoting extensively from the writings of the persons sketched, making a very attractive book. Mr. Bartlett is a strong friend of freedom. He admires and loves those who battle for the right His task has evidently been a very pleasant one. We commend the book to our readers, as one which will pay perusal.—Cayuga Chief.
Pleasantly and well written sketches of notable Americans, who have taken an active part in various reforms which have been going on in the Union for many years.—British Whig.
No one can read it without profit and pleasure of the highest order. The “principles” and the “Men” portrayed are given with the pen of a ready writer.—Wesleyan.
We venture the assertion that there is not a volume in existence which contains better specimens of eloquence, impassioned, pathetic, indignatory eloquence that rouses up the better feelings of humanity than are contained in this volume. The sketches are superior specimens of pen-portraits.—Boston Visitor.
The book is a capital one replete with instructive, stirring matter.—Temperance Standard.
25 Park Row, New York, and 107 Genesee-st., Auburn.
MINNIE HERMON,
The Landlord's Daughter,
The great Temperance Tale. By T. W. Brown, Editor of the “Cayuga Chief,” and author of “Temperance Tales.” Portrait and four illustrations. Muslin, 472 pp. 12mo. Price $1,25.
Brief Extracts from Notices of the Press.
This work bears the impress of life-like scenes.—Boston Olive Branch.
The story is dramatically worked up, involving a great variety of moving scenes.—N. Y. Evangelist.
This is a powerfully written and absorbingly interesting volume.—Rural New Yorker.
This is a freshly, boldly written story, free from fanaticism, and advocating the cause of temperance by argumentative incidents taken from real life.—Dodge's Lit. Museum.
Mr. Brown is a vigorous and agreeable writer, and never forgets the object he has in view, the correction of a great public evil.—Buffalo Republic.
Its incidents are life-like, and are thrillingly related terrible pictures of the misfortune and scandal of fallen man.—Buffalo Christian Advocate.
It is smoothly and strongly written full of incident and makes eloquent appeals to the heart and the conscience.—Buffalo Express.
It appeals eloquently to the better feelings of humanity, and we predict that it will become the “Uncle Tom” of teetotalism.—Yankee Blade.
Its matter is drawn from life, “written with a throbbing nib, and its truth scaled with the endorsement of a scalding tear.”—Syracuse Journal.
Among the many works which the Temperance Reform has of late years produced, few will rank as high as Minnie Hermon.—Syracuse Religious Recorder.
Mr. Brown has attained considerable reputation as a writer of Temperance stories. His works of that description have had a wide circulation.—Cincinnati Commercial.
This is a thrilling Temperance narrative.—Pittsburg Christian Advocate.
The characters are all drawn from life, and are sketched with a vigorous and fearless pen.—Maine Farmer.
There are many passages of surpassing power and beauty, the effect of which the reader will find it difficult to resist.—Auburn Advertiser.
Mr. Brown narrates scenes which are strikingly true to nature, which stir the blood and provoke scalding tears.—Detroit Ch. Herald.
The evils of the License system are drawn out with fearful distinctness.—Toledo Blade.
The work will be found a powerful ally by the friends of the Temperance Reform, and should be circulated far and wide.—N. Y. Tribune.
Minnie Hermon is a story of thrilling interest, and of the highest moral tendencies. It is truly a “Tale for the Times.”—Phrenol. Journal.
A beautiful volume, and though called a tale, yet every chapter is drawn from life.—Baltimore Lutheran Observer.
Minnie Hermon is a book that will make its mark in a book making age. It is worthy of a wide circulation.—Northern Christian Advocate.
All of it sweet toned and pure, and some scenes really powerful.—Sat. Eve. Post.
Some of its passages have a beauty and force rivaling the great masters of fiction.—Richmond Christian Advocate.
This excellent story should be read by both old and young.—Star Spangled Banner.
It is a Temperance Tale, told attractively, and printed and bound in first-rate style.—Alb. Eve. Journal.
Minnie Hermon is a vivid delineation, in the form of a romance, of the evils of Intemperance.—N. Y. Eve. Post.
A valuable adjunct in the great moral movement of the age.—American Courier.
This book must become very popular, and obtain a large circulation.—Milwaukie Sent.
A valuable addition to the Temperance literature of our country.—N. Y. Alliance.
It is written in a forcible and graphic style.—Temperance Banner.
This Life-Tale, we are sure, will command the best commendation in the reading.—Lancaster Express.
As an addition to the Temperance literature of the day, it has its mission, and contains elements of power that cannot fail to execute that mission successfully.—Chicago Christ. Advocate.
The author has succeeded in producing a work of rare merit. We hope it will be widely circulated.—Christian Ambasssador.
Published by MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, 25 Park Row, New York, and 107 Genesee-st., Auburn.
DANIEL BOONE,
AND THE
HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY.
By W. H. Bogart. One 12mo, Vol., Illustrated. Price, $1,25.
WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS,
“One name, above all others, shall be associated with the first step of western enterprise. That name is Daniel Boone. The common opinion that he was only a ‘bold hunter and Indian fighter,’ is erroneous. He was more. He led a great nation to its place of power. His life is in the annals of our forest chivalry; and in all the stirring records of the bold and the daring—the determined and the adventurous—the first place, by common consent, is his. He
‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . left behind a name, Simple, severe, the antipodes of, shame, Which Hate or Envy could not tinge with wrong.’ ”
NOTICES OF THE PRESS. BRIEF EXTRACTS.
Boone certainly deserves to be ranked with a class of “representative men” a class especially significant in American history. Belonging to a transition period of society, he himself formed a transition style of character, partaking of the wild freedom of savage life, and the sustained force and enterprise of civilization. His story is well told in this volume, and will be read with intense interest by all who love to trace the steps by which the western wilderness has been won to civilization.—N. Y. Tribune.
It will be a popular work, and, at the same time, truly deserving of its popularity. I put it among the Fireside books of our country.—T. Romeyn Beck.
It is really a remarkable volume—more like a romance than a history; although we have no reason to think that the events recorded, and in which Daniel Boone has been the principal actor, are either distorted or exaggerated. The author presents us a mass of materials almost sufficient in importance and interest for a heroic poem.—Philadelphia News.
It is a work that cannot fail to interest every one who delights in reading of the hardships and hair-breadth escapes of the early pioneers of the Great West—Rock River Dem.
Daniel Boone was not merely a bold hunter, but a noble man, inspired by a lofty purpose,—that of opening the great West, with its boundless resources, to the progress of the Anglo-American race, pointing out the path of empire, and smoothing the obstacles to its incipient tread. The work does ample justice to his memory, and is written in a style entirely worthy of the subject.—N. Y. Evening Mirror.
This is a very interesting book. It seems to present all that is reliable in our records of the Pioneer of Kentucky, and in a style quite characteristic of the author; always rapid and lively; often graphic and sparkling. The incidents of frontier life which it portrays, are exciting, and sometimes thrilling, and heighten the grateful contrasts of the scenes of peace and refinement which are here and there so gracefully introduced. We commend this book to the lovers of our early history, as well as to the general reader.—Albany Evening Journal.
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, Publishers,  25 Park Row, New York, and 107 Genesee-st., Auburn.
How a Farmer may become Rich—in Mind, Body, and Estate.
FARMERS' EYERY DAY BOOK,
Or, Sketches of Social Life in the Country;
WITH THE
Popular Elements of Practical and Theoretical Agriculture,
AND TWELVE HUNDRED LACONICS AND APOTHEGMS, RELATING TO ETHICS, RELIGION, AND GENERAL LITERATURE. ALSO, FIVE HUNDRED RECEIPTS ON HYGEIAN AND DOMESTIC AND RURAL ECONOMY.
BY REV. JOHN L. BLAKE, D. D.,
Author of a Family Encyclopedia of General Literature, Biographical Dictionary, &c.
ILLUSTRATED WITH TEN SPIRITED ENGRAVINGS.
The Publishers respectfully announce that they have undertaken the publication of this large and beautiful work, with a view to supply a desideratum that has long been felt—a book for every Farmer's Library—believing that the venerable author has produced a work which will be worth its weight in gold to every farmer's family that thoroughly peruse it. It is proper to state that Dr. Blake is a practical farmer, and has reclaimed a sterile and worn-out piece of land into a valuable and productive farm which experience, with his well known qualifications as an author, peculiarly fit him to prepare a book for farmers.
The work contains 654 pages, large octavo, with a motto surrounding each page. It is printed on fine paper, and bound in substantial imitation Turkey Morocco, gilt back. Invariable retail price, $2,50.
Among the most interesting and useful works connected with agriculture, it must hold a conspicuous and high rank. Besides a large amount of practical matter, it abounds in valuable articles and sentiments that tend to improve the taste and elevate the farming community. The work is executed in a neat and handsome style, and embellished with neat and very appropriate engravings. Dr. Blake has been long and extensively known as a popular author of numerous works, and we are pleased that, with the wisdom of long experience and the ripeness of vigorous age, he has given his attention to agriculture, and has commended and adorned it with his pen. His work should not only be in the library of every farmer, but it should hold a prominent place in the library of every family in the country, for it presents ably and truly the importance of agriculture, and the advantages and pleasures of rural pursuits.—New England Farmer.
The Farmer's Every Day Book, or Sketches of Social Life in the Country, is the volume which was advertised in our January number, and we are happy to be able to announce to our readers that, upon perusal, it fully makes good the claim set up for it in said advertisement. Its great merit consists in the selection of topics fruitful in their practical bearings upon country life, and presenting them in a most popular and attractive form, thus blending amusement and instruction, in a most felicitous style of execution. In reading it, you are not conducted over a barren desert, but through green fields and along purling brooks, amid fruits and flowers, bleating flocks, lowing herds, and singing birds.
Farmers, if you want to get in love with your profession, and learn how to do everything imaginable pertaining to it, in the very best manner, with all your gettings do not fail to get this book.—Michigan Farmer.
This is a common sense book for farmers; it is well worth reading and keeping for family use. The author recommends no extravagant theories for farmers, and avoids all the hyperboles that are so offensive to those who know what it is to overcome difficulties, and to manage so as to make both ends meet.—Massachusetts Ploughman.
“The Farmer's Every Day Book” contains a whole library of miscellaneous information, and will be found to be a valuable compend for the rural household, and an amusing companion for the rainy day or winter evening.—New York Tribune.
The “Farmer's Every Day Book,” by Dr. Blake, N. T., is the best work on agriculture and rural economy, as connected with information upon almost every topic of morals. Every family ought to have a copy, and will richly find their money's worth.—D. Lee, Pres't Agricultural Society.
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, Publishers,
25 Park Row, New York, and 107 Genesee-st., Auburn.
MAGNIFICENT WORK OF HISTORY!
A whole Library in Itself—No Library is Complete without it!
Cost $11,000—1223 Pages—70 Maps—700 Engravings.
HISTORY OF ALL NATIONS!
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO 1854;
OR,
UNIVERSAL HISTORY;
IN WHICH THE
HISTORY OF EVERY NATION, ANCIENT AND MODERN,
IS SEPARATELY GIVEN.
BY S. G. GOODRICH,
Consul to Paris, and Author of Several Works of History, Parley's Tales, &c.
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It is believed that the above work, by Mr. Goodrich, will be very acceptable to the American public. It is the result of years of toil and labor, assisted in his researches by several scholars of known ability, and has been got up at a great expense by the proprietors. No pains have been spared in the execution of the Illustrations and Maps, which are entirely new, and prepared by the distinguished author expressly for the work. Indeed, all the other historical writings of Mr. Goodrich sink into insignificance, when compared with this, the result of his maturer years. It is admitted that One Hundred Dollars could not purchase the same matter in any other shape; and the publishers confidently expect that, in consideration of the great literary value of the work, the large sum expended in preparing it for the press, and the exceedingly moderate price at which it is offered, that it will be favorably received by every lover of good books.
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, Publishers,
25 Park Row, New York, and 107 Genesee-st., Auburn.