Widely-known as a prominent landscape architect, and the designer of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted also wrote three books on his impressions of..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy
“This volume is a major source book on race relations in the South from the American Revolution to the outbreak of the Civil War. The..... Read More about Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860
From the publishers: “In this volume the author studies the body of thought that developed in the Old South in defense of the institution of..... Read More about Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South
From the library of Fletcher Green, Southern Historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
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Author’s presentation copy in a de luxe binding with his albumen portrait photograph (1¾ x 1½ inches) mounted on the leaf opposite title page. A...... Read More about Presentation copy in deluxe binding with author’s photograph] Jottings of a Year’s Sojourn in...
Summary view of Confederate foreign policy in 1863 by Henry St. Paul, a Mobile and New Orleans attorney and Confederate soldier. After the Union capture..... Read More about Our Home and Foreign Policy. November, 1863
This copy bears the dual New York and London imprints, but has “Miller & Company” stamped at the foot of the spine. (Miller & Holman..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy
Inscribed by the dean of Black American history, John Hope Franklin who writes the essay “Jim Crow Goes to School: The Genesis of Legal Segregation..... Read More about The Negro in the South Since 1865. Selected Essays in American Negro History. [Signed by John...
Anthology of 63 primary source materials on the history and economics of the plantation system of agriculture in the southern colonies of British America. Chapters..... Read More about Bases of the Plantation Society
Critical study of post-Civil War Southern writers. The book examines the works of such authors as Sidney Lanier, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, William..... Read More about The Dream of Arcady, Place and Time in Southern Literature
The story of the thousands of free Blacks who lived in the south before the American Civil War and of their struggle to expand their..... Read More about Slaves Without Masters. The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
Collection of essays (lectures) by an important social and economic historian of the ante-bellum South. The essays were first published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly..... Read More about The Course of the South to Secession, An Interpretation by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Chapter titles include “Who Were the Slave Drivers?,” “The Twentieth-Century Narratives,” and “Black Autobiographies.” Plus a chapter on how various historians have examined the phenomenon..... Read More about The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South
Study of Black historiography and bibliography with chapters on “The Why and What of Afro-American Historiography”; “The Philosophy of Black History”; “The Father of Negro..... Read More about The Central Theme of Black History
Study of military conscription in the Confederate army during the American Civil War, based upon examinations of the Official Records of the War and contemporary..... Read More about Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy
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
Observations on American slavery by a British traveler in the South, first published in London in 1857. “[Stirling] gave a critical and sometimes biased picture..... Read More about Letters from the Slave States
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Study of African-American psychology and religion and their influence on the slave songs or “spirituals” of the South by this noted Black historiographer, academic, and..... Read More about African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy
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Toward the end of his literary career, New Orleans-native and Southern author George W. Cable turned from popular novels—e.g. Old Creole Days, Madame Delphine, and..... Read More about The Negro Question. [with interesting African American provenance
Scarce first edition. One of 1500 copies printed. Noted work by this New Orleans native, discussing the “Negro Problem” and especially critical of the Southern..... Read More about The Silent South together with The Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System
Clark, New South (t.p. illustrated) II:6 — “[Archer] seemed unable to divest himself of certain English attitudes. His position on race is indicated by his..... Read More about Through Afro-America. An English Reading of the Race Problem
First edition of this 1922 work describing Baptist missionaries and their efforts in the South to improve the lives of African Americans through education, religion..... Read More about Race Grit. Adventures on the Border-Land of Liberty
Biingual, this 19th-century Texas trade card solicited German-speaking immigrants to stay at the Chicago House. The Chicago House was a hotel in Galveston, Texas. Emigrants..... Read More about Chicago House. Fritz Scheel, Proprietor ... Galveston, Tex
