“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 –
![Reconstruction. America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877. [First Edition]. Eric Foner](/pictures/thumb/3729498_1.jpg?v=1597437277)
Scarce first edition of this compelling documenting the changes wrought by the Civil War and the end of slavery. Foner’s book was a National Book..... Read More about Reconstruction. America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877. [First Edition
Profusely illustrated, an important exhibition catalog on Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first black American artist to attain international distinction. Born in Pennsylvania, Tanner is known..... Read More about Henry Ossawa Tanner
Comprehensive history of the post-American Civil War Reconstruction era, from contemporary sources, by long-time Vanderbilt professor of history, Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932) and first published..... Read More about Documentary History of Reconstruction. Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational and...
![Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro. [Five Volumes, Complete]. Helen...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Complete in 5 Volumes. Facsimile edition of the first edition, first published between 1926 to 1937, and almost 3,000 pages. Noted scholar, author, lecturer, and..... Read More about Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro. [Five Volumes, Complete
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
Race inequality overview by long-time Tuskegee Institute principal and successor to Booker T. Washington, Robert Russa Moton. From the text: “Meanwhile nothing can contribute more..... Read More about What The Negro Thinks
![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
Monograph on self-taught African American artist Horace Pippin (1888–1946), illustrated with numerous color plates. Includes a chronology of the artist, an exhibition history of his..... Read More about I Tell My Heart, The Art of Horace Pippin
![The Quality of Hurt, The Autobiography of Chester Himes. Volume 1. [Signed by Author]. Chester...](/pictures/thumb/3729490_1.jpg?v=1602783051)
Autographed autobiography of African American author Chester Himes, noted for employing an autobiographical style in his early novels. In 1956, after starting a self-exile in..... Read More about The Quality of Hurt, The Autobiography of Chester Himes. Volume 1. [Signed by Author
Facsimile reprint of an exhaustive and magisterial study of international and American law covering all aspects of bondage and chattel slavery. With indexes to case..... Read More about The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States. [2 Volumes
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
![Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester Area School District & Community Presents Past, Present and...](/pictures/thumb/3729477_1.jpg?v=1597437276)
Black History Month school program celebrating civil rights and with the event’s guests of honor being leading African American activists, Rosa L. Parks, Fred D...... Read More about Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester Area School District & Community Presents Past, Present and...
Biography of Rayford Whittingham Logan (1897–1981), civil rights and Pan-Africanist activist, long-time Howard University academic and collaborator of W.E.B. Du Bois, and historian of the..... Read More about Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual
![Color and Race. [Inscribed by John Hope Franklin]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009](/pictures/thumb/3729474_1.jpg?v=1598301680)
Anthology of scholarly articles on race and skin color in societies and civilizations around the world including Japan, India, South Africa, Great Britain, Central America..... Read More about Color and Race. [Inscribed by John Hope Franklin
![The Long Road] The History of the Coloured Canadian in Windsor, Ontario, 1867-1967. Charlotte...](/pictures/thumb/3729473_1.jpg?v=1597517359)
History of Windsor, Ontario, Canada from a Black perspective. The book contains some general historical information but functions more as a directory of prominent Black..... Read More about The Long Road] The History of the Coloured Canadian in Windsor, Ontario, 1867-1967
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...
Chapters include “The Negro in the Senate,” “The Negro in the House of Representatives during Reconstruction, 1877–1901,” and “Unsuccessful Negro Aspirants for Congress.” The author..... Read More about The Negro in Congress, 1870–1901
An historico-documentary, biographical, and bibliographical guide to Black history in America. Sections include “Early Negro Petitions and Protests,” “Congressional Medal of Honor Winners,” “Population Census..... Read More about A Layman’s Guide to Negro History. [from the library of Black civil right activist Pauli Murray
First Edition of this important work that became a touchstone of scientific racism in America. “In May 1896, Frederick L. Hoffman, a statistician at the..... Read More about Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro
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
Fuller’s play, loosely based on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, concerns racism and the murder of a Black army officer on a Louisiana military base during..... Read More about A Soldier’s Play
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
Antholgy of 19th century writings on Black nationalism. Includes the full text of The Ethiopian Manifesto by Robert Alexander Young; Walker’s Appeal by David Walker;..... Read More about The Ideological Origins of Black Nationalism
Anthology of essays on the military experiences of African Americans from the days of the Spansih Conquistadors up to 1918. Includes examinations of four all-Black..... Read More about The Black Military Experience in the American West
Biography of Paul Cuffe (1759–1817), Massachusetts freeman, Wealthy shipping entrepreneur, and Pan-Africanist. The book includes significant transcriptions from Cuffe’s journal and from his letters. Cuffe..... Read More about Paul Cuffe, Black America and the African Return
