Isaac Knapp

Isaac Knapp (January 11, 1804 – September 14, 1843) was a printer and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts.

Biography

Knapp was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts to Philip Coombs Knapp and Abigail Remmick; siblings included Abigail Knapp. In 1825 he was proprietor of the Essex Courant newspaper.

With his friend William Lloyd Garrison he produced the anti-slavery Liberator newspaper, 1831-1841. He also co-founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society. His printing office was located on Congress Street (circa 1831) and then on Cornhill.

Garrison and Knapp had a falling out around 1840, and Knapp left the Liberator. In a otherwise favorable eulogy written by Garrison and printed in the Liberator, Garrison implies Knapp became an alcoholic and that his death resulted from this.

Works issued by Knapp

• Constitution of the New England Anti-Slavery Society. 1832.

1836

• Report on the condition of the people of color in the state of Ohio: From the Proceedings of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Convention, held at Putnam, on the 22d, 23d, and 24th of April, 1835, 1836 
• Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (1836), Annual Report 
• Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (1836), A Full Statement Respecting Abolitionists and Anti-Slavery Societies 
• Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1836–1838), Annual report 
  • 1837

1837

• Olaudah Equiano (1837). The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African.  (first published in 1789 in London)
• Slavery illustrated in its effects upon woman and domestic society, 1837 
• Proceedings of the 4th New-England Anti-Slavery Convention, held in Boston, 1837 
• Harvey Newcomb (1837), The 'Negro pew': being an inquiry concerning the propriety of distinctions in the house of God, on account of color 

1838

• N. Southard (ed.), American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838 
• Thomas Treadwell Stone (1838), Martyr of Freedom 
• John Gabriel Stedman (1838). Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam. 
• Elizabeth Heyrick (1838), Immediate, not gradual abolition: or, An inquiry into the shortest, safest, and most effectual means of getting rid of West Indian slavery 
• Sarah Moore Grimké (1838), Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman 
• James Williams (1838). Narrative of James Williams, an American slave, who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama. OCLC 13131138. 
• Phillis Wheatley (1838). Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley, a native African and a slave (3rd ed.). , along with poems by George Moses Horton

1839

• New England Non-Resistance Society (1839), National Organizations 

Catalogues

• "Descriptive Catalogue of Anti-Slavery Works, for Sale by Isaac Knapp" (PDF), Liberator, November 10, 1837 
  • Titles listed: Abolition of the Slave Trade, Adams' Letters, Adams' Oration, Adin Ballou's Discourse, Anti-Slavery Catechism, Anti-Slavery Manual, Anti-Slavery Record, Archy Moore, Authentic Anecdotes of American Slavery, Barrows on the Slave Question, Birney's Second Letter, Bourne's Picture, British Apprenticeships, Channing on Slavery, Channing on Texas, Charles Ball, Chloe Spear, Crandall's Trial, Discussion, Dissertation on Servitude, Dresser, Stones' Letters, &c., Enemies of the Constitution Discovered, Evils and Cure, Godwin on Slavery, Granville Sharp, Gustavus Vassa, Important Pamphlet, James Jackson, Jay's Inquiry, Juvenile Poems, Kentucky Address, Lemuel Haynes, Liberty, Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, Miss Beecher Reviewed, Miss Grimke's Appeal, Miss Grimke's Epistle, Mott's Sketches, Mrs. Child's Appeal, Mrs. Stewart's Productions, Objections Answered, Our Liberties in Danger, Phillis Wheatley, Rankin's Letters, Right and Wrong in Boston, Slave Produce, Slave's Friend, Smith's Bible Argument, Songs of the Free, Stanton's Remarks, Stewart's West India Question, Testimony of God Against Slavery, The Fountain, The Generous Planter, The Negro Pew, The Oasis, Thompson at Manchester, Thompson in America, Thompson in G. Britain, Thompson's Lectures and Debates, Valuable Documents, Vigilance Committee, Whittier's Poems, Wilberforce.
• Standard Anti-Slavery Books for Sale by Isaac Knapp, no.25 Cornhill, 1838 

• Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock, ed. (2007). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33480-1. 
• Charles L. Nichols, "Notes on the Almanacs of Massachusetts" (PDF), Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 22 (1): 15-134. 1912