Legal argument in the New Jersey Supreme Court for the immediate abolition of slavery made by Alvan Stewart “to test the institution of slavery in... Read More
Bontemps’ biography of this extraordinary African American author, orator, and statesman, born a slave, self-educated, author of three autobiographies and a friend of Abraham Lincoln... Read More
![Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies]. Booker T. Washington.](/pictures/thumb/3727260_1.jpg?v=1538436645)
With two copies only in OCLC, a very scarce early reprint edition of this biography from the “American Crisis Biographies” —written by one great African... Read More
Brookes, a significant Southern slave-owner, uses these pages to assert the divine order of master and slave as unassailable while attacking Henry Clay and Alexander... Read More
Preface: “This clerico-political study seeks to discover the mind of the Northern Clergy: their ideas, opinions, convictions and attitudes toward the South from 1860 through... Read More
The author studies in detail how the American Civil War affected the thinking and views of Frederick Douglass, the former slave who became one one... Read More
The author explores, among other things, the claims of his detractors that Frederick Douglass could not have come from such lowly origins in Maryland and... Read More
An excellent copy. Baltimore: J.H. Furst, 1931. First Edition. Frontis, 415pp., top-edge gilt. Publisher’s maroon and gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated with numerous plates. A near fine... Read More
1882 edition of the final autobiographical memoir of Frederick Douglass, first published in 1881 by the same publisher. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass “did... Read More
The third autobiography authored by Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American 19th century American author, orator, and reformer. This edition noted for its ten-page Introduction... Read More
With a colorful dust jacket design by James Barkley, selections from the speeches, writings, and texts of Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American orator, author... Read More
A facsimile edition from the “Ebony Classics” of the second of three autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass with a four-page Foreword... Read More
The first autobiography of three written by Frederick Douglass, the preeminent black American author, orator, reformer and statesman of nineteenth century America. With a seventeen-page... Read More
[Title continues:] Published for the Frederick Douglass Historical and Cultural League, in preparation for the One Hundredth Anniversary of Douglass’ first Public Appearance in the... Read More
![The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. [Complete Four Volumes With Supplementary Volume]. Frederick Douglass; Philip S. Foner.](/pictures/thumb/3727258_1.jpg?v=1538425889)
The extensive writings of Frederick Douglass with pithy and explanatory footnotes and a full-length biography of Frederick Douglass by the editor, Philip S. Foner. Foner... Read More
First three (of four and a later supplement) volumes of the extensive writings of Frederick Douglass with pithy and explanatory footnotes and a full-length biography... Read More
Entire front-page Civil-War-era anti-slavery speech arguing for the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C. by Free Soil Republican State Senator George Landon. Landon’s speech printed... Read More
Profusely illustrated with half-tones from original photographs. Both authors were born into American slavery. Daniel Webster Davis (1862–1913), Richmond, Virginia teacher, poet, lecturer, pastor. “In... Read More
Ten line letter written by English reformer Henry Vincent while on tour in America, March 1865, espousing anti-slavery beliefs through public lecture. In this letter... Read More
![[“Am I not a Man and a Brother?” within:] Tableaux Vivants for Amateur Representation. J. V. Pritchard.](/pictures/thumb/3726502_1.jpg?v=1534362396)
Preface—“Perhaps foremost among the beneficial effects which the culture of Art has exerted upon society stands the successful production of a series of Tableaux Vivants... Read More
The Palmetto State in the years after the American Civil War, under the control of the powerful Radical Republicans. Historian Henry Steele Commager described Pike’s... Read More
Comprehensive survey by this African American author of the most important slave rebellions in America, ante-bellum, up until and during the American Civil War. The... Read More
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
From the publishers: “The definitive biography of [Frederick Douglass] the man, born a slave, who became one of the greatest public figures in 19th century... Read More
Archy Lee was a slave brought to California who became fugitive when he realized his master would return him to Mississippi. He was caught in... Read More
