Payson’s Indelible Ink.
Antebellum bottle on indelible ink for marking textiles manufactured by A. Lyman Williston (b.1834) of Northampton, Massachusetts, a noted temperance and anti-slavery advocate and benefactor... Read More
Ante-Bellum America
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Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New-York. June, 1850.
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
![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..... Read More
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..... Read More
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
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
![[Sammelband of 1852 to 1864 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Arguments made by H.B. Swoope, Attorney]. H B. Swoope, 1831–1874, Henry Bucher Swoope.](/pictures/thumb/3727702_1.jpg?v=1538508661)
[Sammelband of 1852 to 1864 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Arguments made by H.B. Swoope, Attorney].
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
![Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]. Miles Mark Fisher.](/pictures/thumb/3727285_1.jpg?v=1538433153)
Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]
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
![[De Luxe Binding:] The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ… [and] The Book of Psalms…. Bible.](/pictures/thumb/3724735_1.jpg?v=1534362293)
[De Luxe Binding:] The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ… [and] The Book of Psalms…
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
![Drum. [Falconcrest Series]. Kyle Onstott.](/pictures/thumb/3727337_1.jpg?v=1542657645)
Drum. [Falconcrest Series]
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
Ante-Bellum North Carolina. A Social History.
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... Read More
![[Semi-Literate’s 1854 Pocket Diary from Lindenwood, Ogle County, Illinois with Original Literary Essays]. C. Blanchard.](/pictures/thumb/3726315_1.jpg?v=1535480925)
[Semi-Literate’s 1854 Pocket Diary from Lindenwood, Ogle County, Illinois with Original Literary Essays].
“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
Oration on the Principal Duties of Americans; Delivered before the Washington Society…on Thursday the 4th of July. With the Farewell Address of the Hon. William Drayton…
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
![Banking House of Cronise & Co., ...1857. We annex rates for SPECIE [opening lines of circular]. Cronise, Co.](/pictures/thumb/3725200_1.jpg?v=1534362303)
Banking House of Cronise & Co., ...1857. We annex rates for SPECIE [opening lines of circular].
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
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