Rare c.1820s “New Edition” of this Southern woman composer’s patriotic composition dedicated to the United States Marine Corps.¹ “Lady of Charleston” Eliza Crawley Murden’s March..... Read More about March Composed & Dedicated to The United States Marine Corps, by A Lady of Charleston
Biography of this famed Massachusetts abolitionist written by Archibald Grimké, civil rights leader, high-level officer in the NAACP, and a noted lawyer, among many other..... Read More about William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist
“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...
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...
Autograph Edition of this “collection of authentic stories of Negro life in South Carolina” based upon African-American fables and songs told to this white folklorist..... Read More about Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip...
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...
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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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Important biography of the only Southern white women to become abolitionist leaders. Lerner demonstrates how the Grimké sisters had to fight for their rights to..... Read More about The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery. [First Edition
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...
The book documents the slave-hire system with particular focus on the production and use of slave badges and the documentary evidence on the hiring of..... Read More about Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. [signed by both...
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,...
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
An unusual subject: the Free Black—not slave—in South Carolina pre-American Civil War. The author discusses how Free Blacks were allowed to remain free due to..... Read More about A World in Shadow. The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina
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An authoritative treatise of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s activities in South Carolina. Warmly Inscribed and Signed by the author to historian Bell Irvin Wiley. Wiley, in..... Read More about The Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina 1865-1872. [Inscribed and Signed
Important, early American autobiographical slave narrative by Moses Roper, a native of North Carolina who was enslaved in South Carolina and Florida. Facsimile reprint of..... Read More about A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery… [facsimile reprint
Biography of Robert Smalls of South Carolina who liberated himself from slavery during the Civil War and went on to become an important South Carolina..... Read More about From Slavery to Public Service, Robert Smalls 1839–1915
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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...
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...
