“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.....
Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society for the year ending May 1860. This annual titled on the cover in tribute to militant abolitionist John...
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.....
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...
Virulent attack during the Civil War on the abolitionist cause, weighing in on the potential impact of emancipation for American slaves. This anti-abolitionist tract is...
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.....
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.....
“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.....
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.....
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...
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...
Slaves being distributed to their heirs, including one infant child: A Document Signed proving and registering the release of a claim by the heirs of...
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...
Charles Elliott (1792–1869) Emigrated to America from Ireland and became a prominent minister within the Methodists of Ohio. “During the long debate within his church.....
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.....
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.....
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...
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;.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Goodspeed: “Letters from members of a civilian commission sent to take charge of slaves, crops, & civil affairs in the Sea Island region after its.....
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.....
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......
“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......
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