Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future.
1883 edition. “One of the few moderate (although paternalistic and segregationist) pleas for justice to blacks in the New South, by a Methodist bishop and... Read More
Georgia
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![1873 Bond Signed by Georgia Reconstruction Governor James M. Smith for Nathan C. Barnett, Georgia Secretary of State]. Nathan C. Barnett, c.1801–1890.](/images/noimage-req.png)
1873 Bond Signed by Georgia Reconstruction Governor James M. Smith for Nathan C. Barnett, Georgia Secretary of State].
Ten thousand dollar bond signed on January 13, 1873 by Georgia Secretary of State, Nathan Crawford Barnett binding himself to the Reconstruction Governor of Georgia... Read More
The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent Outrages of the Latter.
Stearns was a Massachusetts abolitionist who spent six years in “Bleeding Kansas.” After the war he became a teacher, missionary, and plantation owner in Columbia..... Read More
Tuskegee to Voorhees. The Booker T. Washington Idea Projected by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright.
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Evelyn Wright (1872–1906) School founder, educator. A native of Georgia, she founded the Denmark Industrial Institute in Denmark, South Carolina, a school for..... Read More
An Inaugural Essay on the Mutual Subserviencies of the Different Parts of the Body, And the power of one part to perform the Function of Another.
Presentation Copy from the Author. Doctoral dissertation by physician Edwin M’Call, from the southern state of Georgia, submitted to the trustees and medical faculty of..... Read More
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839.
Pierce Butler was a Georgia-born Philadelphian whose marriage to British actress Fanny Kemble was in discord as his ownership of Southern slaves clashed with her... 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, Everhard Delius, Fredk., Everhd. Delius.](/pictures/thumb/3726520_1.jpg?v=1534362400)
[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]
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
![[1904 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry E. Tremain, Georgian Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient for Battle of Resaca, Georgia]. Henry E. Tremain.](/pictures/thumb/3726386_1.jpg?v=1534362364)
[1904 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry E. Tremain, Georgian Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient for Battle of Resaca, Georgia].
Henry E. Tremain was awarded a Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia on May 15, 1864. Through error, two brigades... Read More
The Human Way. Addresses on Race Problems at the Southern Sociological Congress Atlanta, 1913.
Quite scarce. Compilation of addresses on contemporary economic, political, educational, and social issues affecting African Americans. These 17 talks were delivered at the second Southern... Read More
![[1868 Self-Recommendation to Georgia Governor Rufus B. Bullock regarding appointment as 19th Senatorial District Court Judge from William H. McWhorter. With the Autograph Endorsement of Nine Individuals]. William H. McWhorter, et. al.](/pictures/thumb/145300_1.jpg?v=1534362276)
[1868 Self-Recommendation to Georgia Governor Rufus B. Bullock regarding appointment as 19th Senatorial District Court Judge from William H. McWhorter. With the Autograph Endorsement of Nine Individuals].
Georgia Governor Bullock had only been in office four days when he received this request for a judicial appointment. The first page is a brief... Read More
1806 Autograph Letter Signed from John Milledge former Governor of Georgia to Charles Harris, in Savannah, concerning Milledge’s successor as governor.
The New Georgia Encyclopedia describes John Milledge (1757–1818) “as one of the most important political figures in Georgia during the Revolutionary War (1775–83) and early..... Read More
![[Spelman College:] Campus Mirror. Commencement Issue. Volume XX. 1944 Number 8. Nina Charlton, -in-Chief.](/pictures/thumb/3728083_1.jpg?v=1543437610)
[Spelman College:] Campus Mirror. Commencement Issue. Volume XX. 1944 Number 8.
Charming commencement issue from this African American college in Atlanta, Georgia, the oldest private historically black liberal arts college for women. Though not a yearbook... Read More
A Centennial Fourth of July Democratic Celebration. The Massacre of Six Colored Citizens of the United States at Hamburgh, S. C., July 4, 1876. Debate on the Hamburgh Massacre, In the U. S. House of Representatives, July 15th and 18th, 1876.
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
[Two 1798 Autograph Letters Signed from William Robertson, Georgia Secretary to the Senate, to Georgia Governor James Jackson].
Two letters from William Robertson (1749/50–1829) to Georgia Governor James Jackson requesting, in both instances, a leave of absence from his official duties. In full... Read More
1801 Autograph Letter Signed from Samuel Coleman, Virginia clerk, to Georgia Governor David Emanuel, Transmitting a Copy of Recently-Passed Laws by the Legislature of Virginia.
Here, Coleman presents Governor David Emanuel with Virginia’s most recently-enacted laws. The letter is docketed, in part, “Exchange of Laws” and reads, in full: Richmond..... Read More
![[Circa 1793] Observations on the Pine Land of Georgia made at the request of Doctor John Hall. [manuscript caption title; author implicated in Yazoo land scandal]. Judge Stith, William Jr.](/pictures/thumb/3724588_1.jpg?v=1534362290)
[Circa 1793] Observations on the Pine Land of Georgia made at the request of Doctor John Hall. [manuscript caption title; author implicated in Yazoo land scandal].
Circa 1793 manuscript report by Judge William Stith on the pine lands of Eastern Central Georgia. Stith, a Georgia Superior Court judge, was a prominent... Read More
![[African Americans in Georgia] Grand Opening! State Teachers’ Ass’n Held at Cotton Avenue A.M.E. Church, [Macon, Georgia] June 21 ... [1892].](/pictures/thumb/3726620_1.jpg?v=1534362429)
[African Americans in Georgia] Grand Opening! State Teachers’ Ass’n Held at Cotton Avenue A.M.E. Church, [Macon, Georgia] June 21 ... [1892].
A rare unrecorded program announcing the grand opening of the State Teachers’ Association at the A.M.E. Church on Cotton Avenue in Macon, Georgia in 1892..... Read More
![[Georgia - Women’s Clubs - Music:] The Orpheus Club [Six Programs].](/pictures/thumb/3726512_1.jpg?v=1534362398)
[Georgia - Women’s Clubs - Music:] The Orpheus Club [Six Programs]
The Orpheus Club of Columbus, Georgia was founded by Mary Unity Kivlin (1850–1906) in 1895. “[A]n accomplished pianist, organist and music teacher for 30 years... Read More
![[In Manuscript, Printed Circular Letter:] Macon, Georgia, 9th August, 1832. Gentlemen, The undersigned have been appointed a Committee of Correspondence to give effect to the subjoined resolutions. They avail themselves…to request your cordial co-operation at this interesting crisis….](/pictures/thumb/145341_1.jpg?v=1534362277)
[In Manuscript, Printed Circular Letter:] Macon, Georgia, 9th August, 1832. Gentlemen, The undersigned have been appointed a Committee of Correspondence to give effect to the subjoined resolutions. They avail themselves…to request your cordial co-operation at this interesting crisis…
This August 1832 Macon, Georgia circular letter calls on the legislature of Georgia to threaten to nullify or resist protective tariff laws of the United... Read More
The Negro American Artisan.
One of a series of studies of “so-called Negro problems” co-edited by African-American sociologist and academic W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) and his student, Augustus Granville..... Read More
Economic Co-Operation among Negro Americans.
One of a series of academic studies of African Americans published by Atlanta University and edited by African-American sociologist and academic, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)..... Read More
Efforts for Social Social Betterment among Negro Americans.
One of a series of academic studies of African Americans published by Atlanta University and edited by African-American sociologist and academic, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)..... Read More
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