“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 –
![3729586] Ballots and Fence Rails. Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear. W. McKee Evans](/pictures/thumb/3729586_1.jpg?v=1597517365)
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
![3729580] A World in Shadow. The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina. Marina Wikramanayake](/pictures/thumb/3729580_1.jpg?v=1597693168)
The author discusses how Free Blacks in South Carolina pre-American Civil War were allowed to remain free due to their tremendous economic output and presents..... Read More about A World in Shadow. The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina
![3729576] Powder Keg. Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement 1831-1840. Lorman Ratner](/pictures/thumb/3729576_1.jpg?v=1597693167)
This study examines the realities that the Free North held a substantial population who opposed the abolition of slavery, describing the history of this phenomenon..... Read More about Powder Keg. Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement 1831-1840
![3729572] Booker T. Washington. Great Lives Observed. E L. Thornbrough](/pictures/thumb/3729572_1.jpg?v=1597517364)
Engaging study of the educator, orator, U.S. presidential advisor, and race leader, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), the founder of the Tuskegee Institute (HBCU) in Alabama..... Read More about Booker T. Washington. Great Lives Observed
![3729571] Tide Without Turning: Elijah P. Lovejoy and Freedom of the Press. John Gill](/pictures/thumb/3729571_1.jpg?v=1597517364)
Biography of clergyman, newspaper editor, and abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802–1837) who was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois when they tried to..... Read More about Tide Without Turning: Elijah P. Lovejoy and Freedom of the Press
![3729570] In Search of Meanings: Roots, Media and the Public Response. Ronald George Fitzgerald,...](/pictures/thumb/3729570_1.jpg?v=1597944920)
Dissertation discussing the tremendous cultural respond of the television phenomenon and adaptation of Roots by Alex Haley written in 1976. Roots: The Saga of an..... Read More about In Search of Meanings: Roots, Media and the Public Response
![3729564] Booker T. Washington and the Negro’s Place in American Life. [Inscribed and Signed by...](/pictures/thumb/3729564_1.jpg?v=1597437283)
A profile of this distinguished Black American educator, orator, author and activist. Spencer writes of Booker T. Washington, the establishment of the Tuskegee Institute in..... Read More about Booker T. Washington and the Negro’s Place in American Life. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
![3729563] In Hope of Liberty. Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks,...](/pictures/thumb/3729563_1.jpg?v=1597437283)
“Many African Americans had fought for America’s liberty and their own in the Revolution, but their place in the new nation was unresolved. As slavery..... Read More about In Hope of Liberty. Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860
![3729561] Famous American Negroes. Langston Hughes](/pictures/thumb/3729561_1.jpg?v=1597437283)
First Edition, thus. One of the “Apollo Editions” and a collection of biographical sketches of prominent Black Americans written by this Harlem Renaissance writer, poet..... Read More about Famous American Negroes
![3729560] Where the States Stand on Civil Rights. Richard Barnett, Joseph Garai](/pictures/thumb/3729560_1.jpg?v=1597517363)
Digest of civil rights laws in all 50 States and the District of Columbia. Entries for each state are arranged topically under these headings: voting..... Read More about Where the States Stand on Civil Rights
![3729554] Forum for Protest, The Black Press During World War II. Lee Finkle](/pictures/thumb/3729554_1.jpg?v=1597517362)
An examination of the wartime role of the Black press on the home front and in the armed services during the Second World War. Section..... Read More about Forum for Protest, The Black Press During World War II
![3729553] The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough, An American Journey from Slavery to...](/pictures/thumb/3729553_1.jpg?v=1597437282)
Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough (1852–1926), formerly enslaved, who became the president of Wilberforce University (HBCU) and the first Black member of the Modern Language..... Read More about The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough, An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship
![3729551] From Valley Forge to Freedom, A story of a Black Patriot. [signed]. E. Merrill Beach,...](/pictures/thumb/3729551_1.jpg?v=1597437282)
Biography of American Black Revolutionary War Patriot and enslaved man, Nero Hawley (1742–1817) of Connecticut. Hawley served for four years in the Continental Army in..... Read More about From Valley Forge to Freedom, A story of a Black Patriot. [signed
![3729547] The American Negro, a Study in Racial Crossing. Melville J. Herskovits, 1895–1963](/pictures/thumb/3729547_1.jpg?v=1597517362)
Anthropological study of Black Americans undertaken at the suggestion and with the guidance of famed American anthropologist Franz Boas (1858–1942). Includes the chapters “The Amalgam..... Read More about The American Negro, a Study in Racial Crossing
![3729545] [W.E.B. Du Bois:] America’s Race Problems. Addresses at the Annual Meeting of the...](/pictures/thumb/3729545_1.jpg?v=1605737169)
Notable for including the essay “The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South” by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, the great Black scholar..... Read More about W.E.B. Du Bois:] America’s Race Problems. Addresses at the Annual Meeting of the American...
![3729544] A History of the Freedmen’s Bureau. George R. Bentley](/pictures/thumb/3729544_1.jpg?v=1597517362)
Important history of the post-Civil War agency established in 1865 by President Abraham Lincoln to aid Black refugees and those formerly-enslaved. In 1872, Congress failed..... Read More about A History of the Freedmen’s Bureau
![3729513] America’s Shame and Redemption. Dwight Lowell Dumond](/pictures/thumb/3729513_1.jpg?v=1597437279)
African Americas during the American Civil War as enslaved people, as “contraband”; as fugitives seeking freedom within the Union Army lines. Surprisingly scarce, Dumond is..... Read More about America’s Shame and Redemption
![3729503] John Brown Russwurm: The Story of Freedom’s Journal, Freedom’s Journey. Mary Sagarin](/pictures/thumb/3729503_1.jpg?v=1597437278)
Young adult biography of John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851), abolitionist newspaper editor and colonizer of Liberia. Russwurm and co-editor Samuel Cornish published the abolitionist newspaper, Freedom’s..... Read More about John Brown Russwurm: The Story of Freedom’s Journal, Freedom’s Journey
![3729501] Mutiny on the Amistad. The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition,...](/pictures/thumb/3729501_1.jpg?v=1597437278)
First edition of this important full-length treatment of the case of the Amistad, arguably the most significant legal case involving slavery before the Dred Scott..... Read More about Mutiny on the Amistad. The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and...
![3729494] Pennsylvania’s Black History. Charles L. Blockson, Louise D. Stone, b.1933](/pictures/thumb/3729494_1.jpg?v=1597437277)
Biographical and anecdotal history of African Americans in Pennsylvania, arranged by geographic region and with numerous illustrations. Written by this scholar, author, lecturer, and noted..... Read More about Pennsylvania’s Black History
![3729492] The Lion, A Record of Achievements Published by The Class of 1935 [Phi Lamda Mu] Lincoln...](/pictures/thumb/3729492_1.jpg?v=1597693166)
1935 Yearbook for Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), the first degree-granting Black college (HBCU) in the United States. This copy owned by Lincoln University chemistry professor and..... Read More about The Lion, A Record of Achievements Published by The Class of 1935 [Phi Lamda Mu] Lincoln University
![3729481] The Course of the South to Secession, An Interpretation by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. E....](/pictures/thumb/3729481_1.jpg?v=1597517360)
Collection of essays (lectures) by an important social and economic historian of the ante-bellum South. The essays were first published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly..... Read More about The Course of the South to Secession, An Interpretation by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
![3729472] Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. [signed...](/pictures/thumb/3729472_1.jpg?v=1597437275)
The book documents the slave-hire system with particular focus on the production and use of slave badges and the documentary evidence on the hiring of..... Read More about Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. [signed by both...
![3729463] The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South. William...](/pictures/thumb/3729463_1.jpg?v=1597437273)
Chapter titles include “Who Were the Slave Drivers?,” “The Twentieth-Century Narratives,” and “Black Autobiographies.” Plus a chapter on how various historians have examined the phenomenon..... Read More about The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South
![3729456] The Fortunate Slave, An Illustration of African Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century....](/pictures/thumb/3729456_1.jpg?v=1597437272)
An investigation of slavery in the 18th century examined through the life of Job ben Solomon [Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773)], a literate Muslim slave-owner who..... Read More about The Fortunate Slave, An Illustration of African Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century
