Pioneering study of Black suffrage in the American South by Paul Lewinson (1900–1988), then visiting professor of history at Swarthmore College and later archivist of..... Read More about Race, Class, & Party. A history of Negro Suffrage and White Politics in the South....
Important systematic investigation of American slavery with particular regard to agriculture and the plantation system. Includes chapters on “The Early Exploitation of Guinea,” “The Maritime..... Read More about American Negro Slavery. A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as...
Important Congressional joint committee journal on Reconstruction from 1865–1867, heretofore unpublished until the manuscript was acquired by Columbia University. Includes the Committee of Fifteen’s complete..... Read More about The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction, 39th Congress, 1865-1867
Documentary account of a general agricultural Southern farm, a non-cotton, sugar, or rice plantation. Such farms “... constituted a most important element in the general..... Read More about Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839. Edited with an Introduction and...
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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. [inscribed and signed by author
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
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Includes much on slavery. Chapter titles include “Intimacy and Affection Between the Races in the Old South”; “Southern Democracy and the Triumph of Repression”; “The..... Read More about Eros and Freedom in Southern Life and Thought. [inscribed and signed by author
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
![Smoking Flax. [Second Edition: Black Americans, Race, Lynchings]. Hallie Erminie Rives,...](/pictures/thumb/3729176_1.jpg?v=1595876514)
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 Smoking Flax. [Second Edition: Black Americans, Race, Lynchings
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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
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
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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
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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
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
![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
“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
