Jenkins: “Over 800 pages of testimony, correspondence, and reports taken from southern Unionists, Freedman’s Bureau officials, carpetbaggers and Federal soldiers (including a long series of..... Read More about Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session Thirty-Ninth Congress
Well-illustrated history of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion Southampton County, Virginia. This copy inscribed and signed by the author who writes in the Preface: “Persons..... Read More about Nat Turner’s Rebellion] The Southampton Insurrection. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author
Digest of the controversial 1857 book, The Impending Crisis, by North Carolina-native Hinton Rowan Helper. “The book called for the abolition of slavery because it..... Read More about Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South. [U.S. Colored Troops’ Officer’s copy
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Study of ante-bellum Southern cotton plantations examined through letters found in the correspondence of U.S. President James Knox Polk. The letters discuss agricultural and economic..... Read More about The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in his Letters. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
A biography of one of the most divisive figures in South Carolina’s history: Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847–1918) a.k.a. Pitchfork Ben, white supremacist governor of South..... Read More about Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
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Rare to commerce in all editions. Controversial novel in favor of lynching, written by Southern woman author, Hallie Erminie Rives (1874–1956). The book concerns issues..... Read More about African-Americans, Race, Lynchings:] Smoking Flax
Exceptionally handsome copy of this classic work on observations of Southern life in antebellum America. While Olmsted is known today for his landscape architecture, he..... Read More about The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States....
An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern viewpoints by Civil War historian, Lincoln biographer, and..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
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First Edition of Richard Wright’s fourth book. The haunting tale of his incredibly chaotic and extraordinarily difficult Southern childhood. One filled with constant hunger, a...... Read More about Black Boy. A Record of Childhood and Youth. [Signed by Richard Wright
Monograph on the role of African Americans in the Reconstruction-era of South Carolina, by a noted African American historian and academic. In 1922 Taylor [Alrutheus..... Read More about The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction
American economic history in the agriculture sector of the southern states. A monumental study cited by numerous scholars since its publication. Washington: Carnegie Institution of..... Read More about History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860
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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
Abstract: Archive of 10 original academic, Confederate memorial, and religious manuscript orations and other writings by Rev. John S. Long of North Carolina. Four of..... Read More about 1847–1992 Archive pertaining to Rev. John S. Long (1830–1902), Southern Orator and North...
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). Fleming’s controversial approach..... Read More about Documentary History of Reconstruction. Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational &...
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 about The Civil War and Reconstruction
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
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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 about Slave-Trading in the Old South. [1931 Second Edition
![The Clansman. An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. [First Edition]. Thomas Dixon Jr](/pictures/thumb/3728148_1.jpg?v=1546963426)
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 about The Clansman. An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. [First Edition
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 about The Domestic Slave Trade of the Southern States
![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
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 about A History of Negro Education in the South: From 1619 to the Present
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 about Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915
“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 about Teach the Freeman: The Correspondence of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro...
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 about The Southern South
