Brookes, a significant Southern slave-owner, uses these pages to assert the divine order of master and slave as unassailable while attacking Henry Clay and Alexander... Read More
“Counterfeit” edition of this 1860 Confederate imprint originally published in Charleston, South Carolina by “Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention” which famously prints the... Read More
A vocal proponent of black expatriation, Georgia-born Carlyle Mckinley (1847-1904) was a Confederate soldier, journalist, essayist, poet, and associate editor of the Charleston New &... Read More
First edition of this collection of tales of folklore from the Carolinas. Congaree Sketches is described by the publisher as “A collection of authentic stories... Read More
![[Coffee, Tobacco, Cotton etc., Import/Export Trade with America:] Bremen 10, Dec. 1800. Craving Your Reference to our circular… [opening lines of circular letter with price list]. Frederick and Everhard Delius, Fredk., Everhd. Delius.](/pictures/thumb/3726520_1.jpg?v=1534362400)
Signed 18th century circular letter and price list from Frederick and Everhard Delius, merchants of Bremen. The firm imported food goods and other commodities from... Read More
![Aimar’s Neurotic Oil, for Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Painful Swellings, Sprains, &c. Price, 25 Cents [broadside caption title]. Wineman & Co. Goodrich, G W. Aimar.](/pictures/thumb/3726330_1.jpg?v=1534362354)
Patent medicine advertising broadside for South Carolinian G.W. Aimar’s “Neurotic Oil” for neuralgia and rheumatism and for treating swellings and sprains. Also promoted here is... Read More
![Order of Exercises for the Festival of St. John the Evangelist, and the Centennial Anniversary of the Organization of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of South-Carolina, Celebrated at the Hall of the South-Carolina Institute, Charleston, 27th December A. L. 5854.[i.e., 1854]. Grand Lodge of Freemasons of South Carolina.](/pictures/thumb/145347_2.jpg?v=1534362277)
Antebellum broadside outlining the order of exercises for the centennial of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of South Carolina. The lyrics for two anthems and... Read More
This speech by William Andrew Wallace (1827–1896), U.S. Senator, is given a month later in the aftermath of the Hamburg Massacre or Hamburg Riot. On... Read More
Stroyer was a former slave born on a South Carolina plantation. Emancipated, he eventually became a minister in Massachusetts. Brignano: “An African Methodist Episcopal minister... Read More
A reprint of the 1872 work by the same name. This edition notable for an over twenty-page Introduction by the noted American scholar and historian... Read More
The Palmetto State in the years after the American Civil War, under the control of the powerful Radical Republicans. Historian Henry Steele Commager described Pike’s... Read More
Comprehensive survey by this African American author of the most important slave rebellions in America, ante-bellum, up until and during the American Civil War. The... Read More
South Carolina Representative Albert Smalls (1839–1915) faced brutal opposition during the election year of 1876. On July 4th, in the all-black community of Hamburgh (Hamburg)... Read More
Theodore Dehon Jervey, South Carolina attorney, judge, historian, author, journalist, conservative, here offers a radical solution to “The Negro Problem” —encourage the African-American population of... Read More
Fourth of July address delivered in the immediate aftermath of the Nullification Crisis by Thomas S. Grimké, South Carolina lawyer, education reformer, and peace advocate... Read More
On July 4th, in the all-black community of Hamburgh (Hamburg) South Carolina, all-black members of a local militia were harassed by angry planters trying to... Read More
