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Slave-Trading in the Old South. [First Edition]
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
Anti-slavery
The Slave Trade. Slavery and Color.
Theodore Dehon Jervey, South Carolina attorney, judge, historian, author, journalist, conservative, here offers a radical solution to “The Negro Problem” —encourage the African-American population of... Read More
The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States.
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
A Defence of Southern Slavery, Against the Attacks of Henry Clay and Alex’r Campbell: In Which Much of the False Philanthropy and Mawkish Sentimentalism of the Abolitionists Is Met and Refuted…
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
Archy Lee.
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
[Speech Upon Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia, within:] The Bradford Argus…Towanda, Bradford Co., Pa., April 17, 1862.
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
A Legal Argument before the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, At the May Term, 1845, at Trenton, for the Deliverance of Four Thousand Persons from Bondage.
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
The Prostrate State. South Carolina Under Negro Government.
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
Slave Insurrections in the United States 1800-1865
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
William Wells Brown: Author & Reformer.
First edition of this first biography of William Wells Brown, “Kentucky-born slave who became a self-educated writer and advocate of abolition, temperance, and international peace.”... Read More
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, written by himself.
[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
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, written by himself. His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time…
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
Young Frederick Douglass. The Maryland Years. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed]
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
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
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
Free at Last. The Life of Frederick Douglass.
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
The Mind and Heart of Frederick Douglass: Excerpts from Speeches of the Great Negro Orator.
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
Narrative of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
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
Frederick Douglass’ Civil War. Keeping Faith in Jubilee.
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
There Was Once a Slave ... The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass.
Winner of the Julian Messner Award for the “Best Book Combatting Intolerance in America.” An interpretation of the life story of Frederick Douglass “—a man... Read More
My Bondage and My Freedom.
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
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Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies]
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
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. [Three Volumes (of Four)]
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
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The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. [Complete Four Volumes With Supplementary Volume]
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
Frederick Douglass. A Biography.
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
The Mind of Frederick Douglass.
From the publishers: “Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American in the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator... Read More