Freedom Road. (Inscribed copy)
Inscribed and signed on the book’s front endpaper. “To Wally and Celine Carson. Howard Fast.” First published in 1944, this new edition was issued as..... Read More about Freedom Road. (Inscribed copy
Inscribed and signed on the book’s front endpaper. “To Wally and Celine Carson. Howard Fast.” First published in 1944, this new edition was issued as..... Read More about Freedom Road. (Inscribed copy
This Reconstruction Era edition of Morrison’s Stranger’s Guide for Washington City (1868) is quite scarce to commerce. A handsome copy, the large map of the..... Read More about Morrison’s Stranger’s Guide for Washington City, Illustrated with Wood and Steel Engravings
History of the political right of suffrage and with a discussion on African Americans, as citizens and as voters, in ante-bellum United States. Hancock covers..... Read More about The Great Question for the People! Essays on the Elective Franchise or, Who has the Right to Vote?
First edition. An authoritative treatise of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s activities in South Carolina. From the preface, “...I have raised some points about what might have..... Read More about The Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina 1865-1872
Three speeches delivered during and after the Civil War by Union Brigadier General Christopher Columbus Andrews in Little Rock, Alabama and Brenham, Texas. After the..... Read More about Early Steps in Reconstruction. Speeches of General C.C. Andrews, of Minnesota, In Texas and Arkansas
Inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin; and also by contributor Loren Schweninger. Here, ten scholars offer their interpretations of various facets of Reconstruction. Titles..... Read More about The Facts of Reconstruction. Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. [Inscribed by John Hope...
Author-poet Caspar Bruchhausen (1806-1891) was a homeopathist physician. The book’s more interesting poems (pp92-119) reveal his perspectives on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The..... Read More about Rhymes of the Times and Other Chimes
Report on the murder of Union soldiers in South Carolina, a capital case touching on habeas corpus and the jurisdiction of military courts in the..... Read More about Murder of Union Soldiers [caption title of U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee Report
First edition and review copy with publisher’s slip laid in. Biography of Josiah Walls (1842–1905), leading Black Reconstruction politician, a delegate to Florida’s state constitutional..... Read More about Josiah Walls, Florida’s Black Congressman of Reconstruction
Inscribed and signed by the author, a professor at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, at the 68th meeting of the ASALH in Detroit. A collection of historical..... Read More about In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929. (Signed
Focused examination of the era of Reconstruction in North Carolina on the Lower Cape Fear River. Among the benefits of the the book is the..... Read More about Ballots and Fence Rails. Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear
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
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
First edition of this important account of Mississippi during Reconstruction and written by this former Representative, 1873–1877 and 1882–1883. “In 1913 he published his Facts..... Read More about Facts of Reconstruction
A review of African-American intellectual thought on social reform after the end of the Civil War. Leaders such as Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar..... Read More about The Resurgence Of Race. Black Social Theory From Reconstruction To The Pan-African Conferences
“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
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....
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...
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...