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
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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
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
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
Speech of Congressman Samuel S. Cox, Democrat of Ohio on the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 introducing a legislative plan for Reconstruction. The bill “…was less..... Read More about The Nation’s Hope in the Democracy—- Historic Lessons for Civil War. Speech of Hon. S.S. Cox,...
Speech of Ohio Republican Congressman William Lawrence concerning a legislative bill from the Reconstruction Committee on the readmission to the Union of the former Confederate..... Read More about Admission of Georgia. Speech of Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives,...
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...
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...
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
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
![The Negro in the South Since 1865. Selected Essays in American Negro History. [inscribed]....](/pictures/thumb/3729598_1.jpg?v=1598113988)
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
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
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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
Comprehensive history of the post-American Civil War Reconstruction era, from contemporary sources, by long-time Vanderbilt professor of history, Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932) and first published..... Read More about Documentary History of Reconstruction. Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational and...
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
![Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title]. Anon](/pictures/thumb/3729194.jpg?v=1580949172)
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
![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
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
![The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy]. Francis Butler Simkins,...](/pictures/thumb/3728813_1.jpg?v=1561563387)
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
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
![The Facts of Reconstruction. Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. [Inscribed Copy]. Alfred A....](/pictures/thumb/3728231_1.jpg?v=1545242465)
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
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...
