The Civil War and Reconstruction.
Classic study and important re-interpretation of the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras, by a noted academic and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. “Rejecting the older..... Read More
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Through Afro-America. An English Reading of the Race Problem.
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
![Slave-Trading in the Old South. [1931 Second Edition]. Frederic Bancroft.](/pictures/thumb/3727579_1.jpg?v=1546963423)
Slave-Trading in the Old South. [1931 Second Edition]
Described as the standard history of the domestic slave trade, Bancroft’s book was the “product of more than three decades of research [and] was the..... Read More
![The Clansman. An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. [First Edition]. Thomas Dixon Jr.](/pictures/thumb/3728148_1.jpg?v=1546963426)
The Clansman. An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. [First Edition]
A handsome copy of this famous novel that significantly raised the profile of the Ku Klux Klan and promoted its agenda. Blockson 101: “No American... Read More
Foreigners in the Confederacy.
Germans. Italians. Poles. Irish. Cubans. Persians. Russians. And more. The author explains that contrary to popular notion, the Confederacy was filled with an astonishing numbers... Read More
The Domestic Slave Trade of the Southern States.
Scarce. The standard work on the subject until being supplanted by Bancroft’s Slave-Trading in the Old South. Scholarly treatment, with extensive footnotes, of the history..... Read More
![The Chisolm Massacre. [First Edition]. James M. Wells, 1838–?, James Monroe Wells.](/pictures/thumb/3728133_1.jpg?v=1546963425)
The Chisolm Massacre. [First Edition]
In 1877, several years after the end of Reconstruction in Mississippi, white citizens there went on a murderous rampage. They burned out the homes of... Read More
![The Chisolm Massacre. [Association Copy]. James M. Wells, 1838–?, James Monroe Wells.](/pictures/thumb/3728124_1.jpg?v=1547057101)
The Chisolm Massacre. [Association Copy]
In 1877, several years after the end of Reconstruction in Mississippi, white citizens there went on a murderous rampage. They burned out the homes of... Read More
![Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy]. By One Who Has Been R'd, C. Oscar Beasley.](/pictures/thumb/3727966_1.jpg?v=1543259256)
Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy]
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
A History of Negro Education in the South: From 1619 to the Present.
The author examines the “educational opportunities of Southern Negroes from early colonial times to the present, [showing] that an unintended consequence of the slave economy..... Read More
Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915.
Scarce first edition of Harlan’s analysis of “...the story of public education in the four Southern seaboard states [Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia]..... Read More
Teach the Freeman: The Correspondence of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro Education, Volume I: 1881-1887, Volume II: 1888-1893.
“Hundreds of letters, mainly between Hayes and Atticus Haygood of Georgia, regarding one of the most important educational efforts during the 19th century.” —Jenkins. The..... Read More
The Southern South.
Work, p590. Chapters, in part, upon Negro Character, Life, and the Negro at Work; Is the Negro Rising?, Race Association; Race Separation; Lynching; Cotton; White... Read More
The Southern South.
Work, p590. Chapters, in part, upon Negro Character, Life, and the Negro at Work; Is the Negro Rising?, Race Association; Race Separation; Lynching; Cotton; White... Read More
![Darker Phases of the South. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Frank Tannenbaum.](/pictures/thumb/3727886_1.jpg?v=1542215484)
Darker Phases of the South. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]
Work p. 496: “Discusses the single crop and its social and economic consequences in the South.” Contents include, “The Ku Klux Klan, Its Social Origin..... Read More
The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South.
Scarborough’s book attempts to separate myth from reality when documenting the plantation manager and his role in the Southern agricultural economy. The work, to a...... Read More
The Repressible Conflict, 1830-1861.
Three lectures upon Southern History: “Foundations of Southern Nationalism”, “The Peculiar Institution”, “The Repressible Conflict”. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1939. 97pp. First Edition. Small..... Read More
The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South.
Scarborough’s book attempts to separate myth from reality when documenting the plantation manager and his role in the Southern agricultural economy. The work, to a...... Read More
[New Orleans] 1925 Standard Specifications for Grades of Southern Pine Lumber.
1925 Book of technical specifications for grading, cutting, and fabricating Southern pine lumber for construction and architectural use. The illustrated booklet was prepared by the... Read More
![Slave-Trading in the Old South. [1931 First Edition]. Frederic Bancroft.](/pictures/thumb/3727578_1.jpg?v=1546963423)
Slave-Trading in the Old South. [1931 First Edition]
Described as the standard history of the domestic slave trade, Bancroft’s book was the “product of more than three decades of research [and] was the..... Read More
![White Man’s Burden. A Personal Testament. [Presentation Copy]. Ruth Smith.](/pictures/thumb/3727402_1.jpg?v=1538422348)
White Man’s Burden. A Personal Testament. [Presentation Copy]
Kansas native, Ruth Smith, a white woman school teacher of Nordic descent, removes to Alabama to teach in an all black school for girls. In..... Read More
Race Grit. Adventures on the Border-Land of Liberty.
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
The Rural Negro.
First Edition in the rare pictorial dust jacket, profusely illustrated from original photographs. Woodson, “Father of Black History,” authors an exhaustive study of social and..... Read More
Negro Workaday Songs.
Work: “This volume contains over 250 selections. Includes a chapter which gives special attention to the music for the songs, and a chapter on the... Read More
![Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]. Miles Mark Fisher.](/pictures/thumb/3727285_1.jpg?v=1538433153)
Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]
First Edition, and a very pleasing copy, of Fisher’s study of the haunting melodies and swinging rhythms of African American slave songs and spirituals of..... Read More