“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 –
Author’s Copy. Thirty-six page scholarly paper on Quakers and slavery by Haverford College history professor and later librarian, Allen Clapp Thomas (1846–1920), read in abstract..... Read More about The Attitude of the Society of Friends Toward Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...
Sermon in support of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 by Rev. John C. Lord, leading conservative Presbyterian theologian, delivered at the Central Presbyterian Church..... Read More about “The Higher Law,” in its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill. A Sermon on the Duties Men...
Biography of Richard Allen (1760–1831), once-enslaved, the African American, preacher, hymn book publisher, founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church (A.M.E.). The..... Read More about Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom
Number 8 from the Anti-Slavery Examiner. Kentucky reformer, Princeton graduate, and anti-slavery proponent, James Gillespie Birney (1792–1857), here responds to questions from South Carolina’s F.H...... Read More about Correspondence, between the Hon. F.H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress,...
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Published after Mandingo and Drum, the continuing story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless themes of slave-breeding and slavery in the antebellum South as..... Read More about Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition
Surprisingly scarce study of Angelo Herndon (1913–1997), Black labor organizer and Communist Party activist. Herndon was convicted and imprisoned in Georgia in 1933 for attempting..... Read More about The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice
Inscribed and signed by the author. A very useful bibliography. Press of Maurice Jacobs, Philadelphia, 1955. Publisher’s blue cloth. Mild discoloration to boards; Very Good..... Read More about A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography. [Inscribed and...
![The Negro in the American Revolution. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]. Benjamin Quarles,...](/pictures/thumb/3730005_1.jpg?v=1611683834)
“This classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book..... Read More about The Negro in the American Revolution. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
“This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky..... Read More about Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865
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“Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was the latter who first reflected the image of the Lincoln that was to live.” (Author’s..... Read More about Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author
![The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. [Publisher’s Review Copy]. Harold Cruse, 1916–2005](/pictures/thumb/3729974_1.jpg?v=1611683831)
Authoritative critique of the Black intelligentsia by a prominent Black academic. The Crisis offers a powerful précis of black politics since 1945, which Cruse saw..... Read More about The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. [Publisher’s Review Copy
With an Introduction by Nathan Huggins, a collection of standard classics authored by W.E.B. Du Bois. [New York]: The Library of America, (1986). 1334pp. Publisher’s..... Read More about Writings: The Suppression of the Slave-Trade. The Souls of Black Folk. Dusk of Dawn. Essays and...
A study of Philadelphia’s African American population, police, and the law, occasioned by a 1944 racial conflict involving a strike of workers of the Philadelphia..... Read More about Law Administration and Negro-White Relations in Philadelphia. A Study in Race Relations
Published for the first time, the autobiography of this remarkable man enslaved from birth on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the..... Read More about Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
First edition of this biography of this remarkable African American; lawyer, author, librettist, journalist, civil rights leader, educator. Born in Florida, Johnson’s multi-faceted life was..... Read More about James Weldon Johnson: Black Leader, Black Voice
Definitive biography of this important intellectual, often described as America’s first great Black novelist. Chesnutt is known for his important fin de siècle work of..... Read More about Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line
“This interesting analytical study of slavery in Mississippi gives a more complete picture of the actual conditions under which slaves lived than does any other..... Read More about Slavery in Mississippi
![1938–1965 Incoming Letters and Papers of American Civil War Historian Bell I. Wiley]. Bell I....](/pictures/thumb/3729895_1.jpg?v=1608588577)
American Civil War historian and author Bell I. Wiley (1906–1980) taught for 40 years at various Southern colleges and universities including the University of Mississippi..... Read More about 1938–1965 Incoming Letters and Papers of American Civil War Historian Bell I. Wiley
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African American history for school students authored by “The Father of Black History”, Carter G. Woodson, Black historian, and prolific author. The Story of the..... Read More about The Story of the Negro Retold. [Second Edition
Comprehensive history of the post-American Civil War Reconstruction era, from contemporary sources, by long-time Vanderbilt professor of history, Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932). Fleming’s controversial approach..... Read More about Documentary History of Reconstruction. Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational and...
Van Deusen’s book narrative flow is one peppered with facts, an overview of the Black experience in 20th century America, through the author’s interpretation. African-Americans..... Read More about The Black Man in White America
![Reconstruction After the Civil War. [inscribed by the author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009](/pictures/thumb/3729861_1.jpg?v=1604510049)
Important and innovative study on Reconstruction in the South following the American Civil War by a noted African American academic and writer. Franklin’s “work on..... Read More about Reconstruction After the Civil War. [inscribed by the author
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Handbill advertising a cabaret-dance sponsored by the Brothers of Omega Psi Chi fraternity at Lincoln University (HBCU). The evening’s entertainment was held at Town Hall..... Read More about 1961 Lincoln University (HBCU) fraternity broadside:] Cabaret-Dance Relay Rendezvous Part...
![Fifty Years of Howard University. [Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes]. Dwight O. W. Holmes](/pictures/thumb/3729852_1.jpg?v=1604510048)
Separately Issued reprint containing Holmes’s observations of his tenure at Howard University, in two parts and here collected together. Holmes, a native of West Virginia..... Read More about Fifty Years of Howard University. [Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes
Modestly illustrated throughout. Two hundred and thirty-eight items thoroughly described. The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1969. Octavo, 83 pages. First edition. Printed wrappers as issued..... Read More about Negro History 1553-1903. An Exhibition of Books, Prints, and Manuscripts From the Shelves of the...
