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“The octoroon despised, spurned, penned up in scornful coolness, liable to public sale and scourge—the colored woman you see yonder, kept a white man for..... Read More about New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban
First edition, in publisher’s original polished cloth, a collection of anti-slavery lectures by Amos A. Phelps (1805–1847), Congregational Minister in Boston and agent of the..... Read More about Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy
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...
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 about Free at Last. The Life of Frederick Douglass
Three lectures upon Southern History: “Foundations of Southern Nationalism”, “The Peculiar Institution”, “The Repressible Conflict”. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1939. 97pp. First Edition. Small..... Read More about The Repressible Conflict, 1830-1861
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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 about Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies
The critically-acclaimed, second autobiography of Booker T. Washington, African American educator, author, orator, and first principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, today Tuskegee University (HBCU)... Read More about Up from Slavery. An Autobiography
Classic account of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade by a participant, Captain Theodore Canot (1804–1860). His narrative as a slaver in Africa and the West Indies... Read More about Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver; Being an Account of His Career and...
Classic account of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade by a participant, Captain Theodore Canot (1804–1860). His narrative as a slaver in Africa and the West Indies... Read More about Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver; Being an Account of His Career and...
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Presentation copy of this curious Reconstruction novel. The story appears to be set in fictional Georgia or North Carolina, near an early Moravian settlement. The... Read More about Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy
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
Sweeping novel of the post-Civil War history of African Americans told through the eyes of a fictional woman character, Beulah Jackson. Author, Dr. Charles H.... Read More about Historical Romance of the American Negro
From the dust jacket: “This interesting analytical study of slavery in Mississippi gives a more complete picture of the actual conditions under which slaves lived..... 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 “definitive study of the intense development of the anti-slavery movement” and being a work of excellent scholarship. Dumond describes all scenarios of the movement;..... Read More about Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America
The illustrated dust jacket shows Harriet Tubman, rifle at her side, pointing and leading the way to her people from enslavement to freedom. Carter G.... Read More about Harriet Tubman
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
Memoir of the first American abolition society; scarce to commerce and with no auction records found over the last thirty years. The compiler, Quaker Edward..... Read More about An Historical Memoir of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; the...
A specific study of the “legal, social, and economic history of the Pennsylvania negro in his rise from slavery to freedom.” Winner of the Justin..... Read More about The Negro in Pennsylvania. Slavery - Servitude - Freedom, 1639-1861
Goodspeed: “Letters from members of a civilian commission sent to take charge of slaves, crops, & civil affairs in the Sea Island region after its..... Read More about Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War
Born into slavery, 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
From slavery to emancipation, popular Civil War era fiction written by this Gloucester, Massachusetts native about the emancipated male African American slave “Peculiar Institution”, a.k.a...... Read More about Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition
“This brilliant fictional autobiography [is] told in the finest tradition of oral history. [T]he life story of a black lady born in slavery on a...... Read More about The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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
