“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 –
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 African American insurrectionist, Denmark Vesey (1767?–1822). Vesey instigated and led a 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
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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
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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
Documentary account of this Black antebellum armed resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just over the Mason-Dixon line, in reaction to..... Read More about Resistance at Christiana, The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, September 11,...
Biography of Wade Hampton III (1818–1902), wealthy planter—one of the largest slaveholders in the Southeast—Confederate officer, and controversial South Carolina governor and two-term U.S. Senator..... Read More about Wade Hampton and the Negro, The Road Not Taken
Economic study of urban slavery refuting the long-held view that slavery was incompatible with city living. The author’s data is presented in over 30 Tables..... Read More about Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820-1860, A Quantitative History
Anthology of Black History on such topics as “Africa and the Beginnings,” “Slavery Takes Root in the Americas,” “The Negro Response,” “The Struggle for Freedom..... Read More about Black History, a Reappraisal. [inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles,...
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Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title. A study of the thread of violence that runs through the history of the American South..... Read More about The Militant South. [inscribed and signed by the author
Biography of Robert Russa Moton (1867–1940) who worked at Hampton Institute and then became the long-time Tuskegee Institute principal and successor to Booker T. Washington..... Read More about Robert Russa Moton of Hampton and Tuskegee
Important biography of this Black historian and scholar who ranks amongst such luminaries as Carter G. Woodson (“The Father of Black History”), Charles H. Wesley..... Read More about Recorder of the Black Experience. A Biography of Monroe Nathan Work
Written by a Black American, an extensive treatment of the history of male African Americans playing baseball, football, running and so forth, whether in All-Black..... Read More about Black College Sport
The story of the thousands of free Blacks who lived in the south before the American Civil War and of their struggle to expand their..... Read More about Slaves Without Masters. The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
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Inscribed and signed by the lauded Black historian Benjamin Quarles who contributes an essay within. This book is a combination of documentary evidence and scholarly..... Read More about John Brown. Great Loves Observed. [inscribed
Inscribed an signed by the author, a professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, to a Black bibliophile at the 68th meeting of the ASALH in..... Read More about In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929. [inscribed copy
Presentation Copy from Fletcher M. Green (1895–1978) who edited, wrote the introduction and provided notes for this important memoir first published in 1887, “The classic..... Read More about Memorials of a Southern Planter
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Inscribed and signed by the eminent historian of Black American history John Hope Franklin who writes the essay “Jim Crow Goes to School: The Genesis..... Read More about The Negro in the South Since 1865. Selected Essays in American Negro History. [inscribed
The author argues that “enslaved Africans were not at all passive objects but [were] rather active and vital subjects of their own history. ...blacks were..... Read More about The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography ... From Sundown to Sunup, The Making of the Black...
Twelve essays by on African American history by Black historian and long-time professor of history at Morgan State University (HBCU) in Baltimore. Chapter titles include..... Read More about Black Mosaic, Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography. [inscribed and signed
Inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles, both Black Americans and distinguished authors and historians of African American history. Both Franklin and..... Read More about The Segregation Era 1863-1954. A Modern Reader. [inscribed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin...
Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles, editor and a prolific and prominent Black American historian. With a 7-page introduction and single-page commentary by Quarles at..... Read More about Blacks on John Brown
Focused examination of the era of Reconstruction in North Carolina on the Lower Cape Fear River. Among the benefits of the the book is the..... Read More about Ballots and Fence Rails. Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear
