The story of the thousands of free blacks who lived in the south before the American Civil War and of their struggle to expand their..... Read More about Slaves Without Masters. The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
Scholarly study of the middle class in the antebelllum South by Vanderbilt University professor of history, Frank Lawrence Owsley (1890–1956). Owsley’s investigation is based on..... Read More about Plain Folk of the Old South
Collection of essays (lectures) by an important social and economic historian of the ante-bellum South. The essays were first published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly..... Read More about The Course of the South to Secession, An Interpretation by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Chapter titles include “Who Were the Slave Drivers?,” “The Twentieth-Century Narratives,” and “Black Autobiographies.” Plus a chapter on how various historians have examined the phenomenon..... Read More about The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South
Collection of 19th century primary-source documents, with modern historical introductions and notes, of Black State Conventions held in 16 states before the American Civil War..... Read More about Proceedings of the Black State Conventions, 1840-1865 [2 volumes; inscribed co-editor, labor...
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Collected letters of southern attorney, planter, and slaveholder, James Gillespie Birney, who was active in the African American colonization movement before becoming an ardent abolitionist..... Read More about Letters of James Gillespie Birney 1831-1857. [2 volumes
Study of the origin, growth and distribution of Free African Americans and the character of free Black communities by pioneering Black sociologist, E. Franklin Frazier..... Read More about The Free Negro Family, A Study of Family Origins Before the Civil War
Autobiography of author, editor, and antislavery activist Henry Walton Bibb (1815–1854), born into slavery in Shelby County, Kentucky. This modern, facsimile reprint of Bibb’s autobiography..... Read More about Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave. Written by Himself....
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
Study of Virginia’s retreat from rising anti-slavery and abolitionist sentiments of the late 18th and early 19th centuries to a defense of slavery in the..... Read More about Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832
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Unusual handwritten, American astrological album from 1837 with hand-drawn horoscopes or star charts and predictive, future portrait drawings of those analyzed, family members, and of..... Read More about Horoscope 1837. [caption title of illustrated manuscript American astrological notebook
Register or handbook for the United States Military Academy at West Point issued in 1850. Includes lists of cadets arranged by class and by “order..... Read More about Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New-York....
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
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Sammelband of rare and ephemeral law pamphlets kept by attorney Henry Bucher Swoope (1831–1874) of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. These 21 pamphlets—virtually all of which bear..... Read More about Sammelband of 1852 to 1864 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Arguments made by H.B. Swoope, Attorney
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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 about Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition
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Remarkably fresh, American publisher’s de luxe bookbinding with bright gilt decoration and a woman’s ownership inscription. The red morocco hand-volume—a combination New Testament and Psalter—was..... Read More about De Luxe Binding:] The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ… [and] The Book of...
Fourth of July address delivered in the immediate aftermath of the Nullification Crisis by Thomas S. Grimké, South Carolina lawyer, education reformer, and peace advocate..... Read More about Oration on the Principal Duties of Americans; Delivered before the Washington Society…on...
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After the California Gold Rush of 1848–1855, gold bullion was minted in San Francisco into official United States coins. Some of these coins and gold..... Read More about Banking House of Cronise & Co., ...1857. We annex rates for SPECIE [opening lines of circular
