![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
![American Negro Slave Revolts. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Herbert Aptheker,...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Classic study of African American slave revolts by Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker whose master’s thesis examined Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia. This copy..... Read More about American Negro Slave Revolts. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author
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
Anthology of ante-bellum American letters concerning free and enslaved African Americans and anti-slavery activities, edited by Carter G. Woodson, the “father of black history.” This..... Read More about The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written During the Crisis 1800-1860
![Horoscope 1837. [caption title of illustrated manuscript American astrological notebook]. Unkwn](/pictures/thumb/3728502_1.jpg?v=1554912602)
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....
![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
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
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
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
![Sammelband of 1852 to 1864 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Arguments made by H.B. Swoope, Attorney]. H...](/pictures/thumb/3727702_1.jpg?v=1538508661)
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
![Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]. Miles Mark Fisher](/pictures/thumb/3727285_1.jpg?v=1538433153)
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
![De Luxe Binding:] The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ… [and] The Book of...](/pictures/thumb/3724735_1.jpg?v=1534362293)
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...
![Drum. [Falconcrest Series]. Kyle Onstott](/pictures/thumb/3727337_1.jpg?v=1542657645)
The second book in the Falconcrest trilogy, preceded by Mandingo, and followed by Master of Falconhurst. The story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless..... Read More about Drum. [Falconcrest Series
“What is there more beautiful than the rolling prarie? [sic]” Interesting ante-bellum diary kept by an older boy or young man in the summer and..... Read More about Semi-Literate’s 1854 Pocket Diary from Lindenwood, Ogle County, Illinois with Original Literary...
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...
![Banking House of Cronise & Co., ...1857. We annex rates for SPECIE [opening lines of circular]....](/pictures/thumb/3725200_1.jpg?v=1534362303)
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
