“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 –
![3730551] [Anti-Slavery Sermons:] The Times, and Signs of the Times. Baccalaureate Sermon, to the...](/pictures/thumb/3730551_1.jpg?v=1624502579)
Scarce anti-slavery sermon directed to the senior class of 1862 and given by John W. Scott, president of this small Presbyterian college located near Pittsburgh..... Read More about Anti-Slavery Sermons:] The Times, and Signs of the Times. Baccalaureate Sermon, to the Graduating...
![3730495] Message of the President of the United States, Communicating…Information in Relation...](/pictures/thumb/3730495_1.jpg?v=1620788697)
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...
![3730450] Memorial of The Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on The...](/pictures/thumb/3730450_1.jpg?v=1620792374)
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...
![3730389] The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Dissertation]. Francis Butler Simkins,...](/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
![3730319] Addresses delivered at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Maryland State Colonization...](/pictures/thumb/3730319_1.jpg?v=1620792373)
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,...
![3730339] A Nickel and A Prayer. Jane Edna Hunter](/pictures/thumb/3730339_1.jpg?v=1617841449)
Autobiography of this nurse and lawyer noted for her commitment to help Black American women. A South Carolinian-native born to sharecropper parents, Jane Edna Hunter..... Read More about A Nickel and A Prayer
![3730231] No Compromise of Human Rights. No admission in the Constitution of Inequality of Rights,...](/pictures/thumb/3730231_1.jpg?v=1620792373)
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...
![3730069] “The Higher Law,” in its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill. A Sermon on the...](/pictures/thumb/3730069_1.jpg?v=1620792372)
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...
![3730122] Correspondence, between the Hon. F.H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in...](/pictures/thumb/3730122_1.jpg?v=1612811283)
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,...
![3730009] The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice. Charles H. Martin](/pictures/thumb/3730009_1.jpg?v=1611683835)
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
![3730006] A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography....](/pictures/thumb/3730006_1.jpg?v=1611683834)
A very useful bibliography; this copy inscribed by the author. Philadelphia: Press of Maurice Jacobs, 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. (Signed
![3729960] Writings: The Suppression of the Slave-Trade. The Souls of Black Folk. Dusk of Dawn....](/pictures/thumb/3729960_1.jpg?v=1610651383)
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...
![3729852] 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
![3729839] James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882. Robert Franklin...](/pictures/thumb/3729839_1.jpg?v=1605647027)
Publisher’s review copy and from the personal library of historian Bell Irvin Wiley. Biography of the Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882)..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
![3729815] Negro League Legends. [limited edition print autographed by 5 New York Cubans players]....](/pictures/thumb/3729815_1.jpg?v=1606334902)
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
![3729748] Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the District of Columbia, adverse To any legislation...](/pictures/thumb/3729748_1.jpg?v=1607364601)
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...
![3729747] Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and...](/pictures/thumb/3729747_1.jpg?v=1607364601)
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...
![3729263] The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their...](/pictures/thumb/3729263_1.jpg?v=1600902484)
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...
![3727316] [Autographed by Tad and Scip:] Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps...](/pictures/thumb/3727316_1.jpg?v=1600902482)
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...
![3728759] The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 1776-1891. [Inscribed Copy]....](/pictures/thumb/3728759_1.jpg?v=1599682811)
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
![3729735] The First Abolition Society in the United States. Edward Raymond Turner](/pictures/thumb/3729735_1.jpg?v=1599170970)
History of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage founded in Philadelphia in 1775, the first American abolition society. The..... Read More about The First Abolition Society in the United States
![3729719] Adventures in Negro History. [recording album]. Highlight Radio Productions](/pictures/thumb/3729719_1.jpg?v=1610572104)
Black American history as imagined by this Detroit, Michigan production outfit and issued, in part, to advertise and market Pepsi-Cola. The ambitious album aimed to..... Read More about Adventures in Negro History. [recording album
![3729669] Five Letters of the University Commission on Southern Race Questions. J H. Dillard, The...](/pictures/thumb/3729669_1.jpg?v=1599170964)
Collection of five public letters or appeals concerning issues of race. Section headings include “Lynching,” “Education,” “Migration,” “A New Reconstruction,” and “Interracial Cooperation.” With a...... Read More about Five Letters of the University Commission on Southern Race Questions
![3729658] Savage Serenade from Earl Carroll’s Murder at the Vanities, a Dramatic Mystery Comedy...](/pictures/thumb/3729658_1.jpg?v=1598301683)
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...
![3729638] [Collection: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 57th...](/pictures/thumb/3729638_1.jpg?v=1607458066)
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
