Inscribed an signed by the author, a professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, to a Black bibliophile at the 68th meeting of the ASALH in..... Read More about In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929. [inscribed copy
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This rare, anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
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 about 1873 Bond Signed by Georgia Reconstruction Governor James M. Smith for Nathan C. Barnett, Georgia...
Illustrated edition of Up from Slavery, Black educator and race leader Booker T. Washington’s critically acclaimed autobiography, first published in 1901 and translated into 18..... Read More about Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver...
![Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy]. By One Who Has Been R'd, C....](/pictures/thumb/3727966_1.jpg?v=1543259256)
Presentation copy of this curious Reconstruction novel. The story appears to be set in fictional Georgia or North Carolina, near an early Moravian settlement. The..... Read More about Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy
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Inscribed and signed by the eminent historian of Black American history John Hope Franklin who writes the essay “Jim Crow Goes to School: The Genesis..... Read More about The Negro in the South Since 1865. Selected Essays in American Negro History. [inscribed
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 about The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...
True copy of a U.S. Treasury Auditor’s report concerning Quartermaster Corps expenses in the Department of North Carolina. The report, called a “Statement of Differences,”..... Read More about Statement of Differences arising on settlement of the accounts of Joseph Fulton Boyd Brig. Genl....
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Inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin. Here, ten scholars offer their interpretations of various facets of Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, (1991). First edition..... Read More about The Facts of Reconstruction. Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. [Inscribed Copy
The author examines the “responses of white racists to emancipation and reconstruction ... it is a description of the origins and early applications of American..... Read More about Black Scare. The Racist Response to Emancipation and Reconstruction
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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
Assessment of Abraham Lincoln’s mind on the questions of slavery and the emancipation of 3.5 million enslaved African Americans, published just over 50 years after..... Read More about President Lincoln’s Attitude toward Slavery and Emancipation. With a Review of Events Before...
![Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword]. Howard Fast, 1914–2003,...](/pictures/thumb/3728935_1.jpg?v=1571682576)
“[A] sympathetic account of freed slaves during the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War.” (ANB) Inscribed by the author. First published in 1944..... Read More about Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword
1874 advertising broadside for a United States Army quartermaster’s sale in Reconstruction-era Mississippi, apparently unrecorded. The sale of camp stores and garrison equipage was held..... Read More about Public Sale! ... There will be sold in the City of Jackson, Miss. ...May 16, 1874, the following...
Civil War-time speech of U.S. Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan concerning the re-admission to the Union of the former Confederate State of Louisiana, then..... Read More about Speech of Hon. Jacob M. Howard, of Michigan, on the Joint Resolution for the Recognition and...
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Important and innovative study on Reconstruction in the South following the American Civil War by a noted African American academic and writer. Franklin’s “work on..... Read More about Reconstruction After the Civil War. [inscribed by the author
Important account of Reconstruction in Mississippi written by an African American participant there at the time, John R. Lynch, former U.S. Congressman, 1873–1877 and 1882–1883..... Read More about Facts of Reconstruction
Published for the first time, the autobiography of this remarkable man born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the..... Read More about Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
“This study concentrates on the gradual decline of the Negro’s status in the post-Reconstruction era. The author describes blacks’ fight for equity in the political..... Read More about The Negro in Texas, 1874-1900
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A full rich biographical treatment of the life of Black Reconstruction leader James T. Rapier of Alabama and a “fascinating view of the upper strata..... Read More about James T. Rapier and Reconstruction. [inscribed by John Hope Franklin
![The Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina 1865-1872. [Inscribed and Signed]. Martin Abbott](/pictures/thumb/3729565_1.jpg?v=1597437284)
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
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 about 1868 Self-Recommendation to Georgia Governor Rufus B. Bullock regarding appointment as 19th...
Announcement for town lots and residences near Springfield, Tennessee. According to this American broadside, one day after Independence Day, on July 5th, 1869, the auctions..... Read More about Chancery Sales! In pursuance of Decrees rendered by the Chancery Court for Robertson County, at...
Anthology of articles examining the current bibliography and historiography of various topics in Black history: “Colonial Africa”; “The Impact of the Slave Trade on Africa”;..... Read More about Black History
Biography of Josiah Walls (1842–1905), leading Black Reconstruction politician, a delegate to Florida’s state constitutional convention of 1868, state politician, and U.S. Congressman from 1871..... Read More about Josiah Walls, Florida’s Black Congressman of Reconstruction
