![[African-Americans, Race, Lynchings:] Smoking Flax. Hallie Erminie Rives, 1874–1956.](/images/noimage-req.png)
[African-Americans, Race, Lynchings:] Smoking Flax.
Worn, but textually-complete copy of this title; rare to commerce in all editions. Controversial novel in favor of lynching, written by Southern woman author, Hallie... Read More
Slavery
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver; Being an Account of His Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies. Written Out and Edited from the Captain’s Journals, Memoranda and Conversations…
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
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver; Being an Account of His Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies. Written Out and Edited from the Captain’s Journals, Memoranda and Conversations…
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
The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent Outrages of the Latter.
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 System of Colonial Law” Compared with the Eternal Laws of God; and with the Indispensable Principles of the English Constitution.
Important anti-slavery tract by a leading British abolitionist, Granville Sharp (1735–1813). The tract was published shortly before Parliament passed the An Act for the Abolition... Read More
The African Slave in Colonial Peru, 1524-1650.
“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
President Lincoln’s Attitude toward Slavery and Emancipation. With a Review of Events Before and Since the Civil War.
Assessment of Abraham Lincoln’s mind on the questions of slavery and the emancipation of 3.5 million enslaved African Americans, published just over 50 years after... Read More
Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author]
“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
The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]
Centennial history of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed 3.5 million enslaved African Americans. The “evolution of the document in the mind of Lincoln... Read More
Lincoln & The Politics of Slavery.
Study of Abraham Lincoln’s pre-presidency and his evolving political positions on the issue of slavery. With a handy “Political Calendar” providing a digest of Lincoln’s... Read More
Through Afro-America. An English Reading of the Race Problem.
Clark, New South (t.p. illustrated) II:6 — “[Archer] seemed unable to divest himself of certain English attitudes. His position on race is indicated by his... Read More
Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865.
“This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky... Read More
A Side-Light on Anglo-American Relations, 1839-1858: Furnished by the Correspondence of Lewis Tappan and Others with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
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
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839.
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
Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition.
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
The South Carolina Rice Plantation, As Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston.
The rice industry in antebellum South Carolina, seen through the papers of rice lands owner and slaveholder Robert Francis Withers Allston. Allston “cultivated thousands of... Read More
Slave-Trading in the Old South. [1931 Second Edition]
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 Domestic Slave Trade of the Southern States.
Scarce. The standard work on the subject until being supplanted by Bancroft’s Slave-Trading in the Old South. Scholarly treatment, with extensive footnotes, of the history... Read More
![Lectures of George Thompson, With a Full Report of the Discussion Between Mr. Thompson and Mr. Borthwick, the Pro-Slavery Agent Held at the Royal Ampitheatre [...] Also, A Brief History of His Connection With the Anti-Slavery Cause in England. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879, 1804–1878, 1815–1882, William Lloyd Garrison, George Thompson, Samuel C. Fessenden.](/pictures/thumb/3728094_1.jpg?v=1543442809)
Lectures of George Thompson, With a Full Report of the Discussion Between Mr. Thompson and Mr. Borthwick, the Pro-Slavery Agent Held at the Royal Ampitheatre [...] Also, A Brief History of His Connection With the Anti-Slavery Cause in England.
Anti-slavery lectures of British abolitionist George D. Thompson (1804–1878) collected and with an historical introduction to his career by American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)... Read More
Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy.
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 Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States 1638-1870.
The author’s first book. Blockson 101, #47 (for the first edition): “Du Bois launched his interest in black consciousness with his doctoral dissertation. The Suppression... Read More
Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution: In a Correspondence Between the Rev. Richard Fuller of Beaufort, S.C., and the Rev. Francis Wayland, of Providence, R.I.
Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution reprints an epistolary debate between two Baptist clergymen conducted in 1844–1845 in a Boston newspaper, the Christian Reflector... Read More
Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837.
First hand reports of travels in the Caribbean and the effects of the abolition of slavery there by authors Rev. James A. Thome and J.... Read More
Concessions and Compromises.
Urgently-toned tract attributed to John Francis Fisher (1807–1873), published in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 election as president and amid the “hot” talk of... Read More
The Character and Influence of Abolitionism. A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, on Sabbath Evening, December 9th, 1860.
Apparently seen in editions of 24pp. and 31pp. and 38pp., a sermon against abolition. Author Rev. Henry J. Van Dyke (1822–1891), a prominent Presbyterian preacher... Read More