“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 –
![3729633] Josiah Walls, Florida’s Black Congressman of Reconstruction. Peter D. Klingman](/pictures/thumb/3729633_1.jpg?v=1642439152)
First edition and review copy with publisher’s slip laid in. Biography of Josiah Walls (1842–1905), leading Black Reconstruction politician, a delegate to Florida’s state constitutional..... Read More about Josiah Walls, Florida’s Black Congressman of Reconstruction
![3729632] Dear Ones at Home, Letters from Contraband Camps. selector and Henry L. Swint](/pictures/thumb/3729632_1.jpg?v=1642439152)
First edition. 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..... Read More about Dear Ones at Home, Letters from Contraband Camps
![3729629] Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865. (Signed). William Dusinberre](/pictures/thumb/3729629_1.jpg?v=1642439151)
First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. The politics of race and slavery in Philadelphia form the 1850s through the Civil War. With chapters..... Read More about Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865. (Signed
![3729626] From the Black Bar, Voices for Equal Justice. Gilbert Ware](/pictures/thumb/3729626_1.jpg?v=1619215427)
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
![3729617] Wade Hampton and the Negro, The Road Not Taken. Hampton M. Jarrell](/pictures/thumb/3729617_1.jpg?v=1598113993)
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
![3729610] Recorder of the Black Experience. A Biography of Monroe Nathan Work. Linda O. McMurry](/pictures/thumb/3729610_1.jpg?v=1598113991)
The biography of this historian and scholar who ranks amongst such luminaries as Carter G. Woodson (“The Father of Black History”), Charles H. Wesley, John..... Read More about Recorder of the Black Experience. A Biography of Monroe Nathan Work
![3729607] Black College Sport. Ocania Chalk](/pictures/thumb/3729607_1.jpg?v=1598113990)
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
![3729603] John Brown. Great Loves Observed. (Signed). Richard Warch](/pictures/thumb/3729603_1.jpg?v=1598113989)
First edition and inscribed by the lauded 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. (Signed
![3729602] In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929....](/pictures/thumb/3729602_1.jpg?v=1598113989)
Inscribed and signed by the author, a professor at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, at the 68th meeting of the ASALH in Detroit. A collection of historical..... Read More about In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929. (Signed
![3729521] Black Mosaic, Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography. (Signed). Benjamin...](/pictures/thumb/3729521_1.jpg?v=1642439151)
First edition. Inscribed and signed by Quarles. Twelve essays by on African American history by this historian and long-time professor of history at Morgan State..... Read More about Black Mosaic, Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography. (Signed
![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
![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)
First edition. 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..... 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)....](/pictures/thumb/3729564_1.jpg?v=1597437283)
Inscribed and signed by the author in the year of book’s publication. A profile of this educator, orator, author and activist. Spencer writes of Booker..... Read More about Booker T. Washington and the Negro’s Place in American Life. (Inscribed and signed
![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)
First edition. Digest of civil rights laws in all 50 States and the District of Columbia. Entries for each state are arranged topically under these..... 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)
Signed by the author: “Bicentennial greetings E. Merrill Beach.” Biography of American Black Revolutionary War Patriot and enslaved man, Nero Hawley (1742–1817) of Connecticut. Hawley..... Read More about From Valley Forge to Freedom, A story of a Black Patriot. (Signed
![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)
First edition. Young adult biography of John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851), abolitionist newspaper editor and colonizer of Liberia. Russwurm and co-editor Samuel Cornish published the Freedom’s..... Read More about John Brown Russwurm: The Story of Freedom’s Journal, Freedom’s Journey
