History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860.
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...
South
Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840’s by Isaac, one of Thomas Jefferson’s Slaves.
Autobiographical memoir of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved blacksmith Isaac Jefferson (1775–1850) as recorded by author and teacher Charles Campbell. Edited and with an historical and bibliographical.....
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The Negro Question. [with interesting African American provenance]
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.....
The Silent South together with The Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System.
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.....
[1847–1992 Archive pertaining to Rev. John S. Long (1830–1902), Southern Orator and North Carolinian].
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...
Documentary History of Reconstruction. Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time. With facsimiles. [two volumes]
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.....
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.....
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.....
![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.....
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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...
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...
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.....
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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...
![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...
![Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy]. By One Who Has Been R'd, C....](/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...
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.....
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].....
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.....
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...
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...
![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.....
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......
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.....
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......
[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...