“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 –
Lincoln University printed matter—a small broadside and a student newspaper—promoting a campus visit, book signing, and lecture by Black novelist and university instructor, David Bradley..... Read More about Lincoln University Broadside and Newspaper for a Lecture by David Bradley, author of the...
Sheet music for the song “Savage Serenade,” about a Caribbean island celebration, a musical number featured in the 1933 Broadway musical / murder mystery, Murder..... Read More about Savage Serenade from Earl Carroll’s Murder at the Vanities, a Dramatic Mystery Comedy by...
Illustrated edition of Up from Slavery, Black educator and race leader Booker T. Washington’s critically acclaimed autobiography, first published in 1901 and translated into 18..... Read More about Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver...
From the publishers: “In this volume the author studies the body of thought that developed in the Old South in defense of the institution of..... Read More about Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South
A superior copy. Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel of Southern plantation slave life, first published in 1852. This..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....
Five issues of The Lincoln University Bulletin, a university news organ and alumni newsletter published by Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the first degree-granting Black college..... Read More about The Lincoln University Bulletin. [five issues, 1962/63–1965, including “Emancipation...
Author’s most important book published in 1947, the same year he joined the faculty of Howard University. “That year Alfred A. Knopf published his most..... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. [first edition, inscribed and signed by...
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Important set, exhaustive in its presentation of the underpinnings of the slave trade from 1441 to 1807 and comprising approximately 2,500 pages. The volumes focus..... Read More about Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America. [four volumes complete
Three items, viz., 1. Souvenir Journal Commemorating the Fifty-Seventh Anniversary of the ASNLH ... Cincinnati, Ohio, October 19-22, 1972. [Washington, D.C.: The Association for the..... Read More about Collection: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 57th Anniversary ...1972
Using the literary genre of autobiography, the author examines the life-stories of 23 Black Americans to appraise the Black writer’s place in American letters. In..... Read More about Witnesses for Freedom, Negro Americans in Autobiography
Anthology of writings, sermons, speeches, letters, and documents emphasizing America’s racial past and arranged by theme: slavery, free Blacks, abolition and pro-slavery, Civil War and..... Read More about The Burden of Race, A Documentary History of Negro-White Relations in America
Biography of New Orleans writer George Washington Cable (1844–1925), focused on his later years in Northampton, Massachusetts. Cable lectured throughout the South on the evils..... Read More about George Washington Cable: the Northampton Years
Biography of Josiah Walls (1842–1905), leading Black Reconstruction politician, a delegate to Florida’s state constitutional convention of 1868, state politician, and U.S. Congressman from 1871..... Read More about Josiah Walls, Florida’s Black Congressman of Reconstruction
Civil War-era letters from two Northern women, Quakers Lucy and Sarah Chase of Worcester, Massachusetts, presenting a first-hand description of the conditions in freedpersons’ or..... Read More about Dear Ones at Home, Letters from Contraband Camps
Textbook anthology of poems and essays by Black authors, expressing the attitudes of the Black community. The book is illustrated in black and white with..... Read More about Black Perspectives
Biography of Black South Carolina slave insurrectionist, Denmark Vesey (1767?–1822). Vesey instigated and led a failed slave revolt in Charleston in 1822, but the conspiracy..... Read More about Insurrection in South Carolina, The Turbulent World of Denmark Vesey
The politics of race and slavery in Philadelphia form the 1850s through the Civil War. With chapters on “Abolitionism and the Fugitive Slave Question”; “The..... Read More about Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865. [inscribed and signed by the author
Important work of Black Americans and their role in the Union Army as soldiers, scouts, spies and propagandists, nurses, and workers in the Underground Railroad..... Read More about The Negro in the Civil War. [inscribed and signed by the author
Anthology of essays on Black American literature by Blyden Jackson, the first Black full professor at the University of North Carolina and the first Black..... Read More about The Waiting Years, Essays on American Negro Literature. [inscribed and signed by the author
Anthology of 25 essays on race and the law, written by Black law professors, judges, attorneys, etc. on the themes of “Race, Justice, and Politics”;..... Read More about From the Black Bar, Voices for Equal Justice
A history of American sectionalism in the decade before the Civil War. Chapter titles include: “Repeal of the Missouri Compromise,” “Kansas Difficulties,” “The Supreme Court..... Read More about A Decade of Sectional Controversy, 1851-1861. [inscribed and signed by the author
Biography of Albion Winegar Tourgée (1838–1905), attorney, politician and civil rights activist, noted for litigating the landmark New Orleans court case successfully challenging segregation on..... Read More about Carpetbagger’s Crusade: The Life of Albion Winegar Tourgée
A documentary account of Black antebellum armed slave resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just over the Mason-Dixon line, in reaction..... Read More about Resistance at Christiana, The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, September 11,...
Annotated reprint of American journalist and abolitionist George Bourne’s work, The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable, “...the first sustained examination of the relationship between slavery and..... Read More about George Bourne and The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable. [signed by co-author, John W. Christie
Comprehensive history of African American folk music, specific to the liturgical archetype. “Advanced and perceptive, this is the definitive history of a simple musical form..... Read More about Black Song: The Forge and the Flame. The Story of How the Afro-American Spiritual was Hammered Out
