Legal argument in the New Jersey Supreme Court for the immediate abolition of slavery made by Alvan Stewart “to test the institution of slavery in..... Read More
Critique of slavery in the American South by a Methodist Episcopal minister and Maryland native. Long’s controversial treatise, published by himself, drew on his own..... Read More
Fact book for the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church, the first independent U.S. black church, presented in a catechism-like format, with questions and answers. Includes..... Read More
“Henson, known as the ‘real Uncle Tom,’ was thought to be an imposter while he visited England before the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But..... Read More
“A highly important and sophisticated proslavery argument by a professor at the Univ. of Virginia. Bledsoe addresses the abolitionists, the religious implications, the public good..... Read More
Selective and Critical Bibliography of Horace Mann p10: “Contains speeches and letters delivered or written during Mann’s Congressional term [...]; letter written in answer to..... Read More
A Blockson 101 title: “I have never been lucky enough to acquire a copy of this extremely rare item, I do have a copy of... Read More
A book from this African Methodist Episcopal minister in Maryland examining the history of the black race in Africa through a Biblical prism which describes... Read More
A collection of essays. Presentation Copy from the author, inscribed and signed and dated in the year of publication. Paul Green (17 March 1894–04 May... Read More
Inscribed and signed by Paul Green and dated in the year of publication, 1927. Paul Green (17 March 1894–04 May 1981), playwright and champion of... Read More
Civil rights reformer, Mary White Ovington, caucasian, was a founder of the N.A.A.C.P. “Ovington began in 1904 a study of black Manhattan. Focusing particularly on..... Read More
![Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title]. Woodrow Wilson, 1856–1924.](/pictures/thumb/3728280_1.jpg?v=1547593628)
WWI-era poster calling on operators and workers “to assume the burden of producing an ample supply of coal” to win the war: “The existing scarcity..... Read More
![Tell My Horse. [Ex-Library of Charles L. Blockson Collection]. Zora Neale Hurston.](/pictures/thumb/3728269_1.jpg?v=1546963435)
This copy from the library of noted African-American book collector Charles L. Blockson; with his bookplate, and his autographed gift presentation of this volume written... Read More
First edition of an important American Civil War-time work arguing for emancipation of slaves by noted American reformer and former congressman, Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877)... Read More
The author’s first book. Wideman twice won the International PEN/Faulkner Award (the first to do so) and in 2000 won the O. Henry Award. The..... Read More
Autobiography of former Virginia-born slave turned anti-slavery reformer Austin Steward (1793–1865). After moving to New York State and having there asserted his freedom from slavery... Read More
![Negroes with Guns [First Edition with:] Negroes With Guns [1973 Second, Corrected Edition with New Introduction, Inscribed by the Author]. Robert F. Williams, 1925–1996, 1929–1968, 1911–1987, Jr. [; [Truman Nelson Martin Luther King.](/pictures/thumb/3728248_1.jpg?v=1546963433)
Memoir by an African American civil rights activist Robert F. Williams (1925–1996), a native of Monroe, North Carolina. He organized armed black resistance to the... Read More
A little mouse named Suzie who lives with her parents “in an old wooden box in a corner of the garden,” with toadstool “trees” outside..... Read More
![Doctor for the Zoo. [Inscribed Copy]. Charlotte Mason Dickson.](/pictures/thumb/3728246_1.jpg?v=1547075612)
Unrecorded children’s book proposing all of the medical treatments each animal in the zoo would receive should they have a particular ailment. Interestingly, this immediate..... Read More
![A Tip to Florida Tourists…a Visit to the Silver Springs Seminole Indian Village Museum and Exhibit… [advertising card]. Silver Springs Seminole Indian Village Museum and Exhibit.](/pictures/thumb/3728244_1.jpg?v=1546988877)
Small advertising card promoting the Silver Springs Seminole Indian Village Museum and Exhibit. This curious Florida tourist ephemeron describes the museum and exhibit as “...strangely..... Read More
Born a slave in Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940) became the first African-American to graduate from the United States Military Academy. The Colored Cadet... Read More
![The Indian Tipi. Its History, Construction and Use. [Inscribed Copy]. Reginald and Gladys Laubin, Stanley Vestal, Reginald, Gladys Laubin, Tatanka Wanjila na Wiyaka Wastewin.](/pictures/thumb/3728232_1.jpg?v=1547508365)
Monograph on the tipi or cone-shaped dwelling tents of the Indians of the American Great Plains. Includes an introductory essay on “The History of the..... Read More
Late 19th century illustrated textbook history of African Americans by a former slave who became a successful educator, lawyer, and politician in North Carolina and... Read More
Curious astronomical/religious hybrid proposing an innovative and unusual cosmology. Chapter titles include: “The Sun is Not Hot”; “The Nebular Hypothesis and Gravitation are Unscientific”; “The..... Read More
Classic study and important re-interpretation of the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras, by a noted academic and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. “Rejecting the older..... Read More
