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.....
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...
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...
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.....
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.....
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......
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......
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.....
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.....
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.....
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...
From the publishers: “The average North Carolinian of 1860 had seen drastic changes during his lifetime. He had seen the large planter growing more and...
“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.....
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.....
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...
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