Manuscript copy of a major address on labor and capital by Wendell Phillips, celebrated American abolitionist, orator, and reformer. Phillips’ December 1865 address, “The Eight..... Read More about “The Eight Hour Movement,” an Address by Wendell Phillips, Tremont Temple. Dec 21, 1865...
An extraordinary unpublished 1755 letter by an American Quaker woman providing ministerial comfort to an infamous mass murderer, within his “dungeon” cell as he awaits..... Read More about 1755 Autograph Letter Written by a Woman Traveling in Philadelphia, likely a Quaker...
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First nine volumes of the collected speeches and outgoing and incoming letters of Booker T. Washington (1856?–1915), educator, orator, African American civic leader, and author... Read More about The Booker T. Washington Papers [9 volumes (of 14
Collected letters of newspaper editor, reformer, and seminal American abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison from 1822, at age 17, to his death in 1879. “[M]ost historians... Read More about The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison [6 volume set complete
Collected essays, addresses, sermons, and letters by and to anti-slavery and civil rights activist Francis J. Grimké (1850–1937), an African American member of the noted..... Read More about The Works of Francis J. Grimke [4 volume set complete
First two volumes—eight issues in all—of Phylon, a quarterly academic journal dedicated to issues of race and culture from an African American perspective, edited by..... Read More about Phylon, The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture [Volumes I and II
The author’s first book. Family memoir of prominent civil rights and women’s rights activist, lawyer, author, and Baltimore-native, Pauli Murray (1910–1985). Presentation copy with inscription..... Read More about Proud Shoes. [Presentation Copy
Good historical survey of the progress African Americans from the days of slavery and the Underground Railroad to the times of cultural uplifting by such... Read More about The White Side of a Black Subject, Enlarged and Brought Down to Date. A Vindication of the...
Historical and thematic study of African American newspaper publishing with an emphasis on civil rights and issues of race. Discusses such newspapers as Samuel Cornish’s..... Read More about The Negro Press in the United States
In lovely condition, a scarce, well-illustrated anthology of historical essays, brief biographical portraits, newspaper accounts, and poetry concerning the role of African American troops in... Read More about A Pictorial History of The Negro in the Great World War, 1917-1918
February 1972 issue of American Heritage magazine featuring the article “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” about her key role in the second phase of the African..... Read More about Signed by Rosa Parks:] “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” within American Heritage, February 1972
A catalog for fruit, nut and pop corn lovers, this pamphlet shows machines and tools such as; Yankee Pop Corn Crisp Machine; Black Walnut Cracker;... Read More about Equipment for Nut Foods and Pop Corn
Facsimile reprints of four state or national Colored Conventions convened by African Americans in the mid-19th century. Each has a modern bibliographical note and/or historical..... Read More about Afro-American History Series, Collection 5: Convention Pamphlets [facsimile reprints of four...
Children’s poems by Margaret Arndt written for her two daughters, here collected and illustrated with line drawings by Edith Calvert. As an introduction, the book..... Read More about The Meadows of Play. [introduction by G.K. Chesterton
Examination of George Washington as a slaveholding Virginia planter, Revolutionary War general, and U.S. president, issued by noted African American publishing house, The Associated Publishers..... Read More about George Washington and the Negro
Autobiography of American Civil War general (brevet) and U.S. Commissioner of Education, John Eaton (1829–1906). Eaton attended Andover Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1861... Read More about Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen. Reminiscences of the Civil War with Special Reference to the...
History of the English slave trade by historian Charles Malcolm Macinnes (1891–1971), drawn largely from “...hitherto unpublished material and books and pamphlets of the eighteenth..... Read More about England and Slavery
Illustrated guidebook to the African nation of Ghana, prepared for the expatriate, English-speaking community there. Includes a shopping guide to the capital and largest city... Read More about Ghana Welcomes You
An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern viewpoints by Civil War historian, Lincoln biographer, and..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
Immediate post-World War II survey of the plight Blacks in Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States by Howard University professor, author... Read More about The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer
1860–1861 Journalistic dispatches on President-elect Abraham Lincoln by New York Herald reporter Henry Villard (1835–1900), here collected and edited by his sons, one of whom... Read More about Lincoln on the Eve of ‘61, A Journalist’s Story by Henry Villard [inscribed by co-editor
Study of internal U.S. opposition to Abraham Lincoln’s political policies and other seditious conspiracies by noted Civil War historian and Tennessee journalist, George Fort Milton..... Read More about Abraham Lincoln and the Fifth Column [inscribed and signed by the author
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Exceedingly rare and possibly unrecorded. The first institution in Malta to actually call itself a bank was the Anglo-Maltese Bank, established on 23 June 1809... Read More about Printed 1809 Circular concerning Malta, Establishing the Anglo-Maltese Bank
In 1785 John Dickinson, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania ordered John Lukens to survey 400 acres of land in Bedford County sold... Read More about Copy of 1785 John Dickinson Land Warrant Ordering a Survey in Bedford County, Pennsylvania;...
1781 letter from Irish-American colonial surveyor and official William Lyon of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania to Pennsylvania Surveyor General John Lukens. The letter is written... Read More about 1781 Letter of Colonial Surveyor and Official William Lyon to Pennsylvania Surveyor General John...
