A psychological and sociological study of African Americans living in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The text discusses slavery, the “psychological environment” of..... Read More about St. Thomas Negroes — A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5
Observations by Dr. William Sleigh on the American slave trade and proposals for its gradual abolition and his disgust at the “Anti-Slavery War-Whoop”. The pamphlet..... Read More about Abolitionism exposed! Proving that the Principles of Abolitionism are Injurious to the Slaves...
Massive critical study of progress in African American society, literature, education, and politics written by African Americans themselves. The book—almost certainly published as a subscription..... Read More about Twentieth Century Negro Literature, or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to...
Large paper copy. Influential historical paper on the Founding Fathers’ views on African Americans, read before the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1862, during the American... Read More about An Historical Research respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as...
First edition of Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s final book—containing the important chapter on “Black Power”—with the secretarial signature of King on the free, front endpaper..... Read More about Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? [with secretarial signature of Martin Luther King, Jr
Sweeping novel of the post-Civil War history of African Americans told through the eyes of a fictional woman character, Beulah Jackson. Author, Dr. Charles H.... Read More about Historical Romance of the American Negro
Account of a European tour undertaken by educator, author, and orator, Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute, from August to October 1910. Inscribed by... Read More about The Man Farthest Down. A Record of Observation and Study in Europe. [inscribed and signed by the...
An early 20th century survey of the state of African Americans in the United States written by seven leading African American intellectuals in the fields... Read More about The Negro Problem. A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-Day
The critically-acclaimed, second autobiography of Booker T. Washington, African American educator, author, orator, and first principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, today Tuskegee University (HBCU)... Read More about Up from Slavery. An Autobiography
Well-illustrated survey of African American business success and enterprise in the first decade of the 20th century by black educator, author, and orator, Booker T.... Read More about The Negro in Business
Anthology of poetry edited by William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), African American mixed race poet, literary critic, and some-time professor at Atlanta University. “Braithwaite’s perceptive and..... Read More about Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1958… and Anthology of Poems from the Seventeen Previously...
Illustrated compendium of African American biographies, gathered by Rev. William J. Simmons (1849–1890). Simmons was born into slavery in Charleston, South Carolina and later became... Read More about Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising
Anthology of poetry and prose by Paul Laurence Dunbar, issued as a subscription book and published in the year following his death. Includes a biography..... Read More about The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Containing His Complete Poetical Works, His Best...
Unrecorded, illustrated catalog of churches and other public and private buildings with turret or tower clocks manufactured by J.B. Joyce & Co., Shropshire, England clockmakers..... Read More about Church & Turret Clocks Manufactured by J.B. Joyce & Co., Whitchurch, Shropshire. [cover...
Last book of poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar, published several months after his death. With numerous illustrations of African Americans—many portrait-like or character studies—after photographs..... Read More about Joggin’ Erlong
Volume of black “dialect” poems with numerous half tone illustrations of African Americans—many portrait or character study-like or documentary—after photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner of..... Read More about Li’l’ Gal
Volume of black “dialect” poems with numerous half tone illustrations of African Americans—many portrait or character study-like or documentary—after photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera..... Read More about Poems of Cabin and Field
Paul Laurence Dunbar’s first commercially published book, reprinting poems from his self or privately published first two books, “Oak and Ivy” (1893) and Majors and..... Read More about Lyrics of Lowly Life
Late 19th century Honduran land investment booklet issued by The Honduras Company of Chicago. Laid in—and apparently unrecorded—is a plat map of the proposed settlement..... Read More about Testimony about the Perry Land Grant in Honduras. Owned by The Honduras Company, Owings...
Two letters by Democrat James B. Campbell decrying the Reconstruction government of South Carolina. He argues that his party is “the best friend of the..... Read More about Two Letters from the Hon. James B. Campbell, U.S. Senator Elect from South Carolina, on Public...
Book-length exposition of the sources and facts underlying the fictional narrative of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s enormously influential anti-slavery novel first published in..... Read More about A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story Is...
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“[A] sympathetic account of freed slaves during the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War.” (ANB) Inscribed by the author. First published in 1944..... Read More about Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword
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Poetical and prose anthology of love, marriage and the married life, arranged and anthologized by a married woman. The slim volume, bound in nuptial white... Read More about Married Life. A Blessing to the Truly Married. [Pre-WWI dust jacket
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Limited, signed first edition of American novelist William Styron’s controversial book, The Confessions of Nat Turner, winner of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. “Based..... Read More about The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Limited Signed First Edition
Autobiography of African American composer, cornetist, band leader, and publisher W.C.Handy, edited by Harlem Renaissance novelist Arna Bontemps. Handy is widely known as the “Father..... Read More about Father of the Blues. An Autobiography
