“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
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
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
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... 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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..... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pierce Butler was a Georgia-born Philadelphian whose marriage to British actress Fanny Kemble was in discord as his ownership of Southern slaves clashed with her... Read More
Described as the standard history of the domestic slave trade, Bancroft’s book was the “product of more than three decades of research [and] was the..... Read More
Described as the standard history of the domestic slave trade, Bancroft’s book was the “product of more than three decades of research [and] was the..... 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
“This work sets forth the intricacies and iniquities of the slave traffic to the colony, the part played by the African in the economy of..... Read More
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