Monograph on the role of African Americans in the Reconstruction-era of South Carolina, by a noted African American historian and academic. In 1922 Taylor [Alrutheus..... Read More about The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction
“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 about Declaration of the Immediate Cause which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from...
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 about An Appeal to Pharaoh. The Negro Problem and its Radical Solution. Edited, with introduction, by...
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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
Broadside advertising regular performances of African American “Plantation Spirituals” at South Carolina’s Cypress Gardens and sung “...entirely by local colored people connected with Dean Hall..... Read More about Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...
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 about Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip...
Goodspeed: “Letters from members of a civilian commission sent to take charge of slaves, crops, & civil affairs in the Sea Island region after its..... Read More about Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War
A biography of one of the most divisive figures in South Carolina’s history: Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847–1918) a.k.a. Pitchfork Ben, white supremacist governor of South..... Read More about Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian
A biography of one of the most divisive figures in South Carolina’s history: Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847–1918) a.k.a. Pitchfork Ben, white supremacist governor of South..... Read More about Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
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Study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S. Senator, Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918), and the popular movement he championed. This copy..... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy
Includes much information on the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and missionary work, plus a chapter on “The Charleston Negro..... Read More about An Appraisal of the Negro In Colonial South Carolina
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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 about Coffee, Tobacco, Cotton etc., Import/Export Trade with America:] Bremen 10, Dec. 1800. Craving...
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 about Aimar’s Neurotic Oil, for Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Painful Swellings, Sprains, &c. Price, 25...
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 about Order of Exercises for the Festival of St. John the Evangelist, and the Centennial Anniversary of...
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 about Hamburgh Riots. Speech of Hon. W.A. Wallace of Pennsylvania, in the Senate of the United States,...
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 about The Prostrate State. South Carolina Under Negro Government
Introduction by Archibald Rutledge. With photographs by Carl Julien. Photos and poems that document the songs and daily life of the “gullah Negroes” of South..... Read More about The Song of the Cotton Picker
Rev. C.C. Dunlap was born in 1860 in Clinton, South Carolina. He attended Allen University in Columbia for six years and eventually served in Abbeville..... Read More about Rev. C. C. Dunlap, D. D. [African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor
An elegant monograph on early South Carolina photographer, Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1935), showing almost 200 of his works. Roberts ran a photo studio in Columbia..... Read More about A True Likeness. The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936
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 about A Centennial Fourth of July Democratic Celebration. The Massacre of Six Colored Citizens of the...
A history of the education experiment of Penn School at St. Helena Island, South Carolina. In the plantation communities, “growing sea-island cotton, the first southern..... Read More about School Acres. An Adventure In Rural Education
An inquiry into the development, customs and culture of the people of St. Helena Island, in South Carolina. From the library of American historian Bell..... Read More about Black Yeomanry: Life on St. Helena Island
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 about The Slave Trade. Slavery and Color
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 about Oration on the Principal Duties of Americans; Delivered before the Washington Society…on...
Jenkins: “Over 800 pages of testimony, correspondence, and reports taken from southern Unionists, Freedman’s Bureau officials, carpetbaggers and Federal soldiers (including a long series of..... Read More about Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session Thirty-Ninth Congress
