Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America.
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;.....
Slavery
The Negro in Pennsylvania. Slavery - Servitude - Freedom, 1639-1861.
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.....
The Negro in Maryland. A Study of the Institution of Slavery.
A history of African American slavery in the state of Maryland from 1634 to 1888. From the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political...
Slavery in Mississippi.
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.....
White Servitude in Pennsylvania. Indentured and Redemption Labor in Colony and Commonwealth. [Inscribed Copy]
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...
The Negro In Virginia. From 1619 to the Present Day.
Important history of African Americans in Virginia written by African-Americans and published under the auspices of the federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) in Virginia and...
Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840’s by Isaac, one of Thomas Jefferson’s Slaves.
Autobiographical memoir of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved blacksmith Isaac Jefferson (1775–1850) as recorded by author and teacher Charles Campbell. Edited and with an historical and bibliographical.....
The Free Negro in North Carolina 1790-1860. [Inscribed Copy]
The first book authored by this noted historian upon this subject, inscribed and signed on the half-title. Franklin’s dispassionate examination of the “legal status of.....
The Anti-Slavery History of the John Brown Year; Being the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society. [cover title]
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...
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
“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......
The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864. [Inscribed by author]
The book studies, in part, the beginnings of slavery in Illinois Country (1719-1783), slavery in the Illinois Territory (1800-1818), the slavery question in the courts...
The African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865.
A study of the American Colonization Society from 1816-1865 and the early colonies such as Liberia. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. 323pp. First edition...
Plantation Slavery In Georgia.
An examination of the “foundation of slavery in Georgia, to trace the development and operation of the plantation régime to the outbreak of the Civil.....
Black Bondage in the North.
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.....
Slavery In Alabama.
From the dust jacket, “Here for the first time is a comprehensive history of Negro slavery in Alabama. The social and economic aspects of slavery.....
Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana. A Social History of White Farmers and Laborers During Slavery and After, 1840-1875. [Inscribed by Author]
An analysis of the class struggle of Louisiana white farmers and laborers from the antebellum to the civil rights act of 1875. This copy owned...
[1860 Maine Temperance Manuscript Address mentioning Slavery and discussing the Role of Women in Temperance Associations].
Temperance address delivered by Thomas Small, Esq. of Andover, Oxford County, Maine¹ at the annual meeting of the Union Temperance Association of Woodstock, in the.....
Speeches, Lectures, and Letters.
Compilation of anti-slavery speeches delivered by celebrated orator and abolitionist, Wendell Phillips (1811–1884). “They will serve, therefore at least, as a contribution to the history.....
[1854 Document Signed concerning the willing of the Infant Slave Elizabeth, the Child of Enslaved Woman Amanda in Wake County, North Carolina].
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...
Herbert Aptheker ... Speaking On… Styron’s “Confessions of Nat Turner” Myth or Reality? And Black Militancy in U.S. History [broadside].
One year after the 1967 publication of William Styron’s controversial novel of an 1831 slave rebellion, Confessions of Nat Turner, a lecture by the Marxist...
[1813 Writ of Detention concerning the Surrender of the Slave Woman Lucy and the Slave Girl Nancy in Orange County, North Carolina].
War of 1812-era partly printed writ of detention concerning two female slaves in Orange County North Carolina. Court Clerk John Taylor orders the sheriff to.....
[1822 Writ of Detention concerning the Surrender of a Two Slave Girls Named Lucy and Nancy in Orange County, North Carolina].
Partly printed writ of detention, with imprint, concerning two slave girls in Orange County North Carolina. Court Clerk John Taylor orders the sheriff to convey.....
Truth Stranger than Fiction. Father Henson’s Story of His own Life. With an Introduction by Mrs. H.B. Stowe.
“Henson, known as the ‘real Uncle Tom,’ was thought to be an imposter while he visited England before the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But.....
An Historical Memoir of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. Compiled from the Minutes of the Society and Other Official Documents, by Edward Needles, and Published by Authority of the Society.
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.....
Historical and legal examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case, which declares the unconstitutionality of the Missouri compromise act, and the self-extension of the Constitution to territories, carrying slavery along with it.
A superior copy. A lengthy and critical attack of Chief Justice Taney’s opinion in the Dred Scott decision by this well-regarded statesman from the slave.....