Italian-American Achille Onofri, was an acrobat and contortionist who had met trapeze artist Millie Cook in Havana, married her, and then moved to Philadelphia with..... Read More about 1886 American Prison Art by an Italian-American Circus Performer Incarcerated for Murder,...
Author’s Copy. Thirty-six page scholarly paper on Quakers and slavery by Haverford College history professor and later librarian, Allen Clapp Thomas (1846–1920), read in abstract..... Read More about The Attitude of the Society of Friends Toward Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...
The Tappan Papers; correspondence between noted New York abolitionist Lewis Tappan and other important figures from the 19th-century anti-slavery movement. The present work is described..... Read More about A Side-Light on Anglo-American Relations, 1839-1858: Furnished by the Correspondence of Lewis...
Biography of this famed Massachusetts abolitionist written by Archibald Grimké, civil rights leader, high-level officer in the NAACP, and a noted lawyer. The son of..... Read More about William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist
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This distinguished Black American historian discusses an unusual subject matter: How did African Americans in 19th-century America view the abolitionist John Brown? Inscribed and signed..... Read More about Allies for Freedom. Blacks and John Brown. [Inscribed Copy
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“Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was the latter who first reflected the image of the Lincoln that was to live.” (Author’s..... Read More about Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author
History of the English slave trade by historian Charles Malcolm Macinnes (1891–1971), drawn largely from “...hitherto unpublished material and books and pamphlets of the eighteenth..... Read More about England and Slavery
“This interesting analytical study of slavery in Mississippi gives a more complete picture of the actual conditions under which slaves lived than does any other..... Read More about Slavery in Mississippi
Stearns was a Massachusetts abolitionist who spent six years in “Bleeding Kansas.” After the war he became a teacher, missionary, and plantation owner in Columbia..... Read More about The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...
Inscribed on front free endpaper, “To Honorable Michael J. Ryan, with warmest personal regards, Cheesman A. Herrick, March 7, 1927.” Contents include: The Influence of..... Read More about White Servitude in Pennsylvania. Indentured and Redemption Labor in Colony and Commonwealth....
A sequel to Davis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. This second book is described as, “The most profound study of..... Read More about The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
Forty-six incoming letters to Andrew Wallace who worked in 1865–1866 for Menzies & Melrose, Drapers in Stirling. The standout is a letter written by David..... Read More about 1861–1866, Archive of 46 Letters to Andrew Wallace, Draper and Silk Mercer in Stirling and...
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The Utica Convention of 1848 resulted in the formation of the Free Soil Party who opposed the expansion of slavery into Western territories. The pamphlet..... Read More about “Albany Atlas Extra—February, 1848.”] The Utica Convention. Voice of New-York!! Proceedings...
An investigation of slavery in the 18th century examined through the life of Job ben Solomon [Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773)], a literate Muslim slave-owner who..... Read More about The Fortunate Slave, An Illustration of African Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century
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Collected letters of southern attorney, planter, and slaveholder, James Gillespie Birney, who was active in the African American colonization movement before becoming an ardent abolitionist..... Read More about Letters of James Gillespie Birney 1831-1857. [2 volumes
African Americas during the American Civil War as enslaved people, as “contraband”; as fugitives seeking freedom within the Union Army lines. Surprisingly scarce, Dumond is..... Read More about America’s Shame and Redemption
Collection of essays (lectures) by an important social and economic historian of the ante-bellum South. The essays were first published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly..... Read More about The Course of the South to Secession, An Interpretation by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
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Study of African-American psychology and religion and their influence on the slave songs or “spirituals” of the South by this noted Black historiographer, academic, and..... Read More about African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy
An unusual self-published work, inscribed and signed by the author, intersecting the culture, music, and life of African Americans with the world of Jungian psychology..... Read More about Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C.G. Jung
From the dust jacket, “Unlike the South, which used slaves primarily for agricultural labor, the North trained and diversified its slave force to meet the..... Read More about Black Bondage in the North
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Complete in 5 Volumes. Facsimile edition of the first edition, first published between 1926 to 1937, and almost 3,000 pages. Noted scholar, author, lecturer, and..... Read More about Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro. [Five Volumes, Complete
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Complete in 5 Volumes. Noted scholar, author, lecturer, and book collector Charles L. Blockson writes: “Laws on slavery and black rights varied from state to..... Read More about Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro. [Five Volumes, Complete
Enslaved from birth, the biography of Timothy Thomas Fortune who ascended to become the “dean of Negro journalists in America. The program and methods proposed..... Read More about T. Thomas Fortune: Militant Journalist
Union Pamphlets 22: “[A] simple historical and constitutional sketch of the background of the conflict, apparently aimed at those Philadelphia workingmen who were voting so..... Read More about About the War. Plain Words to Plain People by a Plain Man
Documentary account of a general agricultural Southern farm, a non-cotton, sugar, or rice plantation. Such farms “... constituted a most important element in the general..... Read More about Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839. Edited with an Introduction and...
