“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
– Frederick Douglass –
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
– Frederick Douglass –
The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. was founded in 1915 by Black historian and prolific author Carter G. Woodson, “The..... Read More about Home Study Department of the Extension Division of The Association for the Study of Negro Life...
A classic, well illustrated reference. A “definitive study of the intense development of the anti-slavery movement” and being a work of excellent scholarship. Dumond describes..... Read More about Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America
Concerns lengthy communiques concerning accusations and affidavits by various Portuguese slavers that American-flagged vessels—whalers, barques, and so forth—were abducting their enslaved sailors or “cargo.” President..... Read More about Message of the President of the United States, Communicating…Information in Relation to the...
Anti-slavery petition to Congress by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the Mid-Atlantic states seeking the suppression of “...the African slave trade..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on The African...
The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. was founded in 1915 by Black historian and prolific author Carter G. Woodson, “The..... Read More about Home Study Department of the Extension Division of The Association for the Study of Negro Life...
First monograph ever of a Black American artist (Anne Monahan, op. cited); a survey of the paintings of self-taught painter Horace Pippin (1888–1946). The well-illustrated..... Read More about Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America
![The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Dissertation]. Francis Butler Simkins, 1897–1966](/pictures/thumb/3730389_1.jpg?v=1619831146)
This is the original dissertation by Simkins, which was later published. A study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S...... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Dissertation
![First Black Florida Congressman:] Papers in the Case of Jesse J. Finley vs. Josiah T. Walls....](/pictures/thumb/3730381_1.jpg?v=1619699175)
Josiah T. Walls (1842–1905) was the first African American Congressman from Florida, and the only one, until Corrine Brown’s victory in 1992. This lengthy text..... Read More about First Black Florida Congressman:] Papers in the Case of Jesse J. Finley vs. Josiah T. Walls....
Collection of five speeches by politicians, lawyers, and a clergyman on the controversial proposal to “repatriate” Black Americans to Africa, delivered at a meeting of..... Read More about Addresses delivered at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Maryland State Colonization Society,...
Founded in 1816, the American Colonization Society promoted the migration of free Black Americans to Africa. The society’s Thirty-Fifth Annual Report publishes remarks by its..... Read More about Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society…January 20th, 1852. To which is...
![White Over Black. American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812. [First Edition]. Winthrop D. Jordan](/pictures/thumb/3730359_1.jpg?v=1618427053)
First edition of this important work examining how Colonial Englishmen created chattel slavery and were, in turn, confronted by it. “Jordan’s assertion in White Over..... Read More about White Over Black. American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812. [First Edition
Separately issued public letter, “History Made to Order,” by Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black History” and prolific author, making a sustained critique of..... Read More about “History Made to Order”: Public Letter by Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black...
Rare. Early Republic sermon concerning Joseph Mountain, an escaped enslaved African American executed for the capital crime of raping a young white girl. An estimated..... Read More about The Intent of Capital Punishment. A Discourse Delivered in the City of New-Haven, October 20,...
Autobiography of Jane Edna Hunter (1892–1971), a nurse and lawyer, and noted for her commitment to help Black American women. A South Carolinian-native born to..... Read More about A Nickel and A Prayer
First of two important 1866 speeches given by abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a leading advocate for civil rights for Black Americans. Here, Sumner..... Read More about The Equal Rights of All. The Great Guarantee and Present Necessity, For the Sake of Security, and...
Second of two important 1866 speeches given by abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a leading advocate for civil rights for Black Americans. Sumner attacks..... Read More about No Compromise of Human Rights. No admission in the Constitution of Inequality of Rights, or...
Study of the publication and distribution through the mails of abolitionist and anti-slavery literature and newspapers. Examines the publications of such abolitionist journalists as Elihu..... Read More about The Controversy over the Distribution of Abolition Literature 1830-1860
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958) was an African-American female poet and reclusive celibate lesbian who was born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
![The Journal of Negro History, Volume IX, 1924 [complete]. Carter G. Woodson, 1875–1950](/pictures/thumb/3730273_1.jpg?v=1617818797)
Ninth Volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume IX, 1924 [complete
![The Journal of Negro History, Volume VIII, 1923 [complete]. Carter G. Woodson, 1875–1950](/pictures/thumb/3730272_1.jpg?v=1617818797)
Eighth Volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume VIII, 1923 [complete
Fourth volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume IV, 1919 [complete; from the library of Black historian...
Second volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume II, 1917 [complete; from the library of Black historian...
A superior copy. Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel of Southern plantation life and slavery, first published in 1852..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....
Captioned the “Historian and Antislavery Lecturer of the Crisis”, this reprinted portrait commemorates Black abolitionist William Wells Brown (c.1814–1884), author of the 1847 best-seller, Narrative..... Read More about Portrait Print of Black Abolitionist and Writer, William Wells Brown, issued by Associated...
![Africa and the Afro-American Experience. Eight Essays. [inscribed and signed]. John Hope...](/pictures/thumb/3730297_1.jpg?v=1618427052)
Inscribed and signed by two co-authors within, both towering historians of African-American history, John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles. The essays focus on the theme..... Read More about Africa and the Afro-American Experience. Eight Essays. [inscribed and signed
