Hello - I am trying to locate an obscure privately printed book(let)
from the 1883.  Can you please let me know what library and address
for the library may have the following?  I suspect that this has to do
with the abolishion movement/slavery. I don't know what A. T. stands
for.

A. T. Rankin's "Truth Vindicated and Slander Repelled," Ironton, Ohio,
privately printed, 1883.

Thank you!

Is it possible that you have in mind the Rev. John Rankin, a prominent
abolitionist who resided in Ironton, Ohio and died there in 1886?  If
so, perhaps the Lawrence County Museum could be of assistance.  It is
located in his former home at 506 S. 6th St., Ironton, OH 45638.

The initials A. T. could stand for Alexander Taylor Rankin
(1803-1885):
http://www.gillean.com/Roots/db/dat318.htm

John, mentioned in the previous comment by buckram-ga, was his
brother:

http://www.nationaltrust.org/magazine/archives/arc_news/013002.htm

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/08/05/loc_wwwloc1slave5.html

http://jordan.fortwayne.com/ns/heartland/history/blackhis.php


The Library of Congress Online Catalog
http://catalog.loc.gov/

mentions the following titles:

The Presbytery of Baltimore vindicated from the slanderous statements
of Rev. George Morrison's pamphlet / by Alex. T. Rankin.
Baltimore : [s.n.], 1877. 25 p. ; 22 cm.

Alexander Taylor Rankin, 1803-1885, his diary and letters; a pioneer
minister who fought lawlessness with religion on the prairies of
eastern Kansas and the frontier settlements of Denver, where life was
harsh and brutal. [Edited] by Nolie Mumey.
Boulder, Colo., Johnson Pub. Co., 1966. 188 p. illus., ports. 29 cm

However, I haven't found the book you are looking for.

Thank you both for your comments.  I'm still searching for the
reference and will try the leads you suggested!

Another booklet title by A.T. Rankin:

A brief history of the lives and death-bed scenes of M. Voltaire and
Thomas Paine : with some examples of the power of truth upon the minds
of the skeptical.
A T Rankin
Cincinnati : Elm Street Print. Co., 1884
16 pages. ; 23 cm.

hummer