Negroes in Britain. A Study of Racial Relations in English Society.
“[T]he study of one of the problems of our own urban society, namely the social effects of an admixture of coloured people in the population... Read More
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Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World.
The author argues that racial problems of the modern world are not of biological origin, but “are one aspect of the total cultural problem created... Read More
Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution.
“An Authentic Presentation of a Neglected Chapter in the Heroic Years of the Revolutionary War.” (dust jacket blurb) Philadelphia: George S. MacManus Co., 1952. 104pp... Read More
The Loyal Blacks.
“The definitive account of the first American blacks emancipated in the Revolution, their return to Africa, and their creation of a new society there.” (dust... Read More
Dark Companion.
Biography of African American explorer Matthew A. Henson (1866–1955), credited as the first man to reach the North Pole. In 1908–1909, Henson accompanied explorer and... Read More
[African-Americans, Race, Lynchings:] Smoking Flax.
Worn, but textually-complete copy of this title; rare to commerce in all editions. Controversial novel in favor of lynching, written by Southern woman author, Hallie... Read More
General Catalogue Number 39. Electrical Supplies. Central Electric Company.
Electrical supply trade catalog from the Central Electric Company whose offices and showrooms were located in Chicago. Extremely well illustrated with their inventory of electrical... Read More
The World And Africa: An Inquiry Into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History.
The World And Africa challenges Euro-centric readers to consider the exploitation and centuries-old oppression of the peoples of the African continent. W.E.B. Du Bois advanced... Read More
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver; Being an Account of His Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies. Written Out and Edited from the Captain’s Journals, Memoranda and Conversations…
Classic account of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade by a participant, Captain Theodore Canot (1804–1860). His narrative as a slaver in Africa and the West Indies... Read More
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver; Being an Account of His Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies. Written Out and Edited from the Captain’s Journals, Memoranda and Conversations…
Classic account of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade by a participant, Captain Theodore Canot (1804–1860). His narrative as a slaver in Africa and the West Indies... Read More
The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent Outrages of the Latter.
Stearns was a Massachusetts abolitionist who spent six years in “Bleeding Kansas.” After the war he became a teacher, missionary, and plantation owner in Columbia... Read More
The Udderzook Mystery! Containing a Detailed and Accurate Account of the Life of the Murderer, His Trial and Sentence…
A variant issue from McDade 1013.¹ Sensational account of the 1872 murder in Baltimore of Winfield S. Goss by his bother-in-law, William Udderzook. Or was... Read More
A Portrayal of Negro Life. [With Publisher’s Illustrated Prospectus]
Twenty-seven portraits of idealized black Americans, one a self portrait of Cooper himself. Each portrait is displayed full-page in black-and-white, reproduced from the original artwork... Read More
“The System of Colonial Law” Compared with the Eternal Laws of God; and with the Indispensable Principles of the English Constitution.
Important anti-slavery tract by a leading British abolitionist, Granville Sharp (1735–1813). The tract was published shortly before Parliament passed the An Act for the Abolition... Read More
![[1844 Autograph Letter Signed by James Gettys McGready Ramsey of Mecklenburg, Tennessee concerning Politics in East Tennessee, the Press, and the Recent Election of James K. Polk as U.S. President]. J G. M. Ramsey, 1797–1884, James Gettys McGready Ramsey.](/pictures/thumb/3728178_1.jpg?v=1544633435)
[1844 Autograph Letter Signed by James Gettys McGready Ramsey of Mecklenburg, Tennessee concerning Politics in East Tennessee, the Press, and the Recent Election of James K. Polk as U.S. President].
Good political letter by J.G.M. Ramsey (1797–1884) of Mecklenburg, Tennessee, physician, businessman, and author of The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth... Read More
Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New-York. June, 1850.
Register or handbook for the United States Military Academy at West Point issued in 1850. Includes lists of cadets arranged by class and by “order... Read More
Defence Before a General Court-Martial, Held at West-Point, in the State of New-York, in the month of May, Eighteen Hundred and Nineteen.
West Point cadet Thomas Ragland’s defense before a military Court of Inquiry for his role in leading a “mutiny” or revolt against Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872)... Read More
![[Wilberforce Eames’ Copy; Annotated with Lenox Library Bids:] Catalogue of the Library and Autographs of William F. Johnson Esq., of Boston Mass. ...To Be Sold At Auction…January 27-30, 1890, by Bangs & Co. William F. Johnson Esq., 1855–1937, Wilberforce Eames.](/pictures/thumb/3728168_1.jpg?v=1544633433)
[Wilberforce Eames’ Copy; Annotated with Lenox Library Bids:] Catalogue of the Library and Autographs of William F. Johnson Esq., of Boston Mass. ...To Be Sold At Auction…January 27-30, 1890, by Bangs & Co.
Catalog of the 1890 auction sale of the books and manuscripts of William F. Johnson, Esq. of Boston, possibly documenting bids on behalf of the... Read More
Observations on The Yellow Fever, with an Account of a New Mode of Treatment and Cure for the Same…Second Edition.
Observations on Yellow Fever by Philadelphia surgeon and dentist Anthony Plantou, addressed to the “Board of Health of the city of New-York.” Plantou draws on... Read More
Observations on a Letter from Dr. N. Chapman, of Philadelphia, to Dr. W.B. Tyler, of Frederick (Md.) on the Subject of Cholera, as Appearing in Philadelphia, August, 1832.
Letters on “pestilential cholera” by Dr. Nathaniel Chapman of Philadelphia, reprinted from newspapers and private correspondence. Includes a fold-out statistical table of “Hospital Reports to... Read More
James Buchanan and His Cabinet, On The Eve of Secession. [Inscribed and signed by the author].
A privately printed history of President James Buchanan by history professor, Philip Gerald Auchampaugh of Duluth, Minnesota. [Lancaster, Pennsylvania]: Privately Printed, 1926. First Edition. 224pp... Read More
![Ethiopia, A Pawn in European Diplomacy. [Signed by Author]. Ernest Work, 1877–1957, Frank Ernest Work.](/pictures/thumb/3728040_1.jpg?v=1544633432)
Ethiopia, A Pawn in European Diplomacy. [Signed by Author]
A study of late 19th and early 20th century Ethiopia and its relations with the English, French, and Italian colonizers of East Africa. The monograph... Read More
The Native Tribes of South West Africa.
Five-part ethnographic study of tribal groups in South West Africa: the Ovambo by Carl Hugo Linsingen Hahn; the Bushmen of South West Africa by Louis... Read More
East Africa and its Invaders: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Seyyid Said in 1856.
A study of Mid-East Africa, including the period of Portuguese occupation, based on research in the heretofore “...rarely opened files at the Record Office and... Read More
The African Slave in Colonial Peru, 1524-1650.
“This work sets forth the intricacies and iniquities of the slave traffic to the colony, the part played by the African in the economy of... Read More