![3732811] The Rendition of Anthony Burns. Its Causes and Consequences. A Discourse on Christian...](/images/noimage-req.png)
First edition of The Rendition of Anthony Burns, a sermon given by Boston’s Transcendentalist an abolitionist preacher, James Freeman Clarke. Clarke’s anti-slavery speech proved popular..... Read More about The Rendition of Anthony Burns. Its Causes and Consequences. A Discourse on Christian Politics,...
![3732013] Flight and Rebellion. Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. Gerald W. Mullin](/pictures/thumb/3732013_1.jpg?v=1659034749)
Mullin examines resistance by African Americans in Virginia during the 18th-century as the predecessor to the extraordinary slave revolt in 1800, the insurrection led by..... Read More about Flight and Rebellion. Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
![3731934] Thomas Aldridge vs. Andrew Morgan: 1815 Virginia Legal document. John W](/pictures/thumb/3731934_1.jpg?v=1654034757)
A continuation of a dispute over the estate of David Morgan, of Richmond County, Virginia, who died intestate in 1780. The dispute started started as..... Read More about Thomas Aldridge vs. Andrew Morgan: 1815 Virginia Legal document
![3731930] 1873 Virginia ALS by Burr Powell Noland involving former Confederate General William...](/pictures/thumb/3731930_1.jpg?v=1654034756)
Former Confederate officer Burr Powell Noland (1818–1889) writes to William A. Brent, Esq. about a mistake on the acreage reported on a deed and the..... Read More about 1873 Virginia ALS by Burr Powell Noland involving former Confederate General William H.F. Payne
![3731462] To All Whom it May Concern, Know Ye, that Edwin A. Collins, a Musician of the Fifth...](/pictures/thumb/3731462_1.jpg?v=1654398347)
The 1862-dated discharge paper for Edwin A. Collins (b.1819), a forty-three year-old shoemaker-turned-musician and native of Salem County, New Jersey. Collins was one of eleven..... Read More about To All Whom it May Concern, Know Ye, that Edwin A. Collins, a Musician of the Fifth Regiment of...
![3731399] Frissell, The Builder. Robert Russa Moton, 1867–1940](/pictures/thumb/3731399_1.jpg?v=1647209117)
Separately-issued memorial tribute to Hollis Burke Frissell (1852–1917), second principal and first Black principal of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia (now Hampton University)..... Read More about Frissell, The Builder
![3731227] Speech of Mr. Leigh, of Virginia, on Mr. Benton’s Motion to Expunge from the Journal...](/pictures/thumb/3731227_1.jpg?v=1638338784)
Leigh was a prominent Richmond lawyer and United States Senator. He resigned from Congress in the year this pamphlet was published and resumed practicing law..... Read More about Speech of Mr. Leigh, of Virginia, on Mr. Benton’s Motion to Expunge from the Journal of the...
![3731210] The Chickahominy Indians of Virginia. Yesterday and Today. Eleanor West Hertz](/pictures/thumb/3731210_1.jpg?v=1642439159)
A survey of the Chickahominy from the past to the present. Oklahoma: Indian University Press, 1991. 50pp. Original printed stiff card covers. Modestly illustrated. Read More about The Chickahominy Indians of Virginia. Yesterday and Today
![3731154] Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia. Robert McColley](/pictures/thumb/3731154_1.jpg?v=1639955138)
“Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine..... Read More about Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
![3730087] [Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond,...](/pictures/thumb/3730087_1.jpg?v=1619699168)
Confederate General Order issued in Gettysburg’s aftermath. In their retreat South, across the Potomac, Confederate force suffered 5,000 casualties, including 3500 captured troops. The Order..... Read More about Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, August 1,...
![3730086] [Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond,...](/pictures/thumb/3730086_1.jpg?v=1619699168)
Illustrated in Parrish & Willingham (2429), this Confederate General Order was issued during the Battle of Fredericksburg. The battle was fought in and around Fredericksburg..... Read More about Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, December 13,...
![3729100] The Confessions of Nat Turner. (Signed Copy). William Styron](/pictures/thumb/3729100_1.jpg?v=1610572103)
Styron’s interpretation of the story of the Virginia insurrection led by Nat Turner; the massacre that ensued, Turner’s capture, subsequent trial, and hanging along with..... Read More about The Confessions of Nat Turner. (Signed Copy
![3729062] The Jefferson Scandals, A Rebuttal. Virginius Dabney](/pictures/thumb/3729062.jpg?v=1592939173)
“In The Jefferson Scandals: A Rebuttal, Virginius Dabney, former editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, winner of the Pulitzer Prize ... presents his inquiry into the..... Read More about The Jefferson Scandals, A Rebuttal
![3729061] The Wolf by the Ears, Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. John Chester Miller](/pictures/thumb/3729061.jpg?v=1592939173)
“The Wolf by the Ears brings us closer to the workings of Jefferson’s mind on the slavery issue than any other book.” (dust jacket) New..... Read More about The Wolf by the Ears, Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
![3729047] Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832. Theodore M. Whitfield, 1905–?, Theodore...](/pictures/thumb/3729047.jpg?v=1593636995)
Study of Virginia’s retreat from rising anti-slavery and abolitionist sentiments of the late 18th and early 19th centuries to a defense of slavery in the..... Read More about Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832
![3728605] Man From Deep Creek. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]. Sheila Sawyer](/pictures/thumb/3728605.jpg?v=1592862863)
“The story of a man from Deep Creek, Virginia and how he became a man of New York City, and a father to be adored..... Read More about Man From Deep Creek. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
![3727777] [Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook,...](/pictures/thumb/3727777_1.jpg?v=1539214280)
Four stereoview photographs of scenes in Richmond, Virginia photographed and published by Cook, Anderson Gallery of Richmond. The images, likely from the 1870s, are from..... Read More about Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs
![3726478] C.1902 ALS by Virginian John Paul Bocock, Attorney, Poet, and Journalist. John Paul...](/pictures/thumb/3726478_1.jpg?v=1534362391)
Interesting letter on the publication of magazine articles by attorney-turned-journalist and popular writer, John Paul Bocock (1856–1903). A Virginian from a leading family, Bocock earned..... Read More about C.1902 ALS by Virginian John Paul Bocock, Attorney, Poet, and Journalist
