![African-Americans, Race, Lynchings:] Smoking Flax. Hallie Erminie Rives, 1874–1956](/images/noimage-req.png)
Rare to commerce in all editions and one of the nicest copies we’ve handled to date. Controversial novel in favor of lynching, written by Southern..... Read More about African-Americans, Race, Lynchings:] Smoking Flax
![African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy]....](/pictures/thumb/3727447_1.jpg?v=1586388383)
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
Anglo-Irish war correspondent’s published diary of his visit to the United States during the first year of the American Civil War; issued with map showing..... Read More about My Diary North and South
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
![Nat Turner’s Rebellion] The Southampton Insurrection. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]....](/pictures/thumb/3729049_1.jpg?v=1580254840)
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
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
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
![The Negro Question. [with interesting African American provenance]. George W. Cable, J E. Bruce,...](/pictures/thumb/3728478_1.jpg?v=1552931640)
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
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 &...
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
![Slave-Trading in the Old South. [1931 Second Edition]. Frederic Bancroft](/pictures/thumb/3727579_1.jpg?v=1546963423)
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
![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
“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
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
![Darker Phases of the South. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Frank Tannenbaum](/pictures/thumb/3727886_1.jpg?v=1542215484)
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 about Darker Phases of the South. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author
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 about The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South
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 about The Repressible Conflict, 1830-1861
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 about The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South
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 about New Orleans] 1925 Standard Specifications for Grades of Southern Pine Lumber
![Slave-Trading in the Old South. [1931 First Edition]. Frederic Bancroft](/pictures/thumb/3727578_1.jpg?v=1546963423)
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 First Edition
![White Man’s Burden. A Personal Testament. [Presentation Copy]. Ruth Smith](/pictures/thumb/3727402_1.jpg?v=1538422348)
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 about White Man’s Burden. A Personal Testament. [Presentation Copy
