“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 –
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
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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
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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...
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
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...
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...
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,...
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
A very useful bibliography and inscribed by the author. Press of Maurice Jacobs, Philadelphia, 1955. Publisher’s blue cloth. Mild discoloration to boards; Very Good. Inscribed..... Read More about A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography. (Signed
“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
First edition and nicely inscribed by the author, a prominent historian, on the title page. “Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was..... Read More about Lincoln and the Negro. (Signed
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...
First edition of this biography of this remarkable lawyer, author, librettist, journalist, civil rights leader, and educator. Born in Florida, Johnson’s multi-faceted life was one..... Read More about James Weldon Johnson: Black Leader, Black Voice
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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
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
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Autographed by five Negro League Baseball players all of whom played for the New York Cubans. The New York Cubans team was organized in 1935..... Read More about Negro League Legends. [limited edition print autographed by 5 New York Cubans players
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Unrecorded 1940 Republican U.S. Presidential campaign handbill or small broadside enlisting the Black vote issued in the aftermath of a “shocking ” and, as suggested..... Read More about Negro Policeman Kicked by Roosevelt’s Secretary. [caption title
Memorial supporting the rights of slaveholders by 220 citizens of Washington, D.C. who “...do not desire the enactment of any law for the extinction of..... Read More about Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the District of Columbia, adverse To any legislation on the...
Memorial of Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of Africa here joining with the national American Colonization Society to promote..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of...
Rare broadside advertising this African-American albino quartet, shown performing in a minstrel array, playing the bones, the fiddle, the banjo and the tambourine. The quartet..... Read More about The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical...
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Autograph Edition of this “collection of authentic stories of Negro life in South Carolina” based upon African-American fables and songs told to this white folklorist..... Read More about Autographed by Tad and Scip:] Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the...
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Warmly inscribed by the author to James Phinney Baxter III, historian, academic, Pulitzer Prize-winner for history. An exhaustive study of this topic; “This is the..... Read More about The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 1776-1891. [Inscribed Copy
