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,...
1839 Letter by Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the influential book Democracy in America, here writing as a member of the French Chamber of Deputies..... Read More about 1839 Autograph Letter Signed by Alexis de Tocqueville concerning the Publication of his Report...
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
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
Seldom seen, first edition of this classic study in the history of slavery as a legal institution. With the signature of Elbert Jay Benton; author..... Read More about History of Slavery in Virginia
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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
Illustrated edition of Up from Slavery, Black educator and race leader Booker T. Washington’s critically acclaimed autobiography, first published in 1901 and translated into 18..... Read More about Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver...
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An 1850 call for unity in the Methodist church in Missouri over the issue of slavery in the wake of the 1844 separation of the..... Read More about An Appeal to the Methodists of Missouri by a Missouri Methodist. [Slavery in Missouri
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....
Lincoln University printed matter—a small broadside and a student newspaper—promoting a campus visit, book signing, and lecture by Black novelist and university instructor, David Bradley..... Read More about Lincoln University Broadside and Newspaper for a Lecture by David Bradley, author of the...
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
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
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
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
