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...
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Special issue of journal Dædalus, devoted to the theme “Slavery, Colonialism, Racism.” With articles by such writers and scholars as David Brion Davis, Edward Kamau..... Read More about “Slavery, Colonialism, Racism” Issue:] Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and...
Selective and Critical Bibliography of Horace Mann: “Opposes bill proposing abolition, not of slavery, but of the slave trade, in the District of Columbia; ‘slavery..... Read More about Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives, Feb 28, 1849, on Slavery...
Discourse by this Transcendentalist and Boston Unitarian minister on the American Civil War with some remarks on Black Americans and slavery: “And even as regards..... Read More about Discourse on The Aspects of the War, Delivered in The Indiana-Place Chapel, Boston, on Fast Day,...
First edition and scarce, thus. An account of the Christiana Riot, an incident of African American-led armed resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster..... Read More about The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch
Here, published in its entirely, Hensel’s account of the Christiana Riot, an incident of African American-led armed resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster..... Read More about The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch. [within Papers Read...
Third Edition of the author’s most important book published in 1947, the same year he joined the faculty of Howard University. “That year Alfred A...... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. [Third edition, inscribed and signed by...
Fifth Edition of the author’s most important book published in 1947, the same year he joined the faculty of Howard University. “That year Alfred A...... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. [Fifth edition, inscribed and signed by...
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...
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...
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 about Slave Trading in the Old South
Author’s most important book published in 1947, the same year he joined the faculty of Howard University. “That year Alfred A. Knopf published his most..... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. [first edition, inscribed and signed by...
Important set, exhaustive in its presentation of the underpinnings of the slave trade from 1441 to 1807 and comprising approximately 2,500 pages. The volumes focus..... Read More about Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America. [four volumes complete
From the publisher’s “From the planters of the South, New York business men received the greater portion of their trade; their daughters and sons had..... Read More about Business and Slavery. The New York Merchants & the Irrepressible Conflict. [inscribed and signed
A documentary account of Black antebellum armed slave resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just over the Mason-Dixon line, in reaction..... Read More about Resistance at Christiana, The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, September 11,...
A study of the legal efforts to prevent American ships, citizens, and port facilities from being used or participating in the African slave trade in..... Read More about American Slavers and the Federal Law, 1837–1862
One of the most significant and mysterious slave revolts in American history, “Nat Turner’s Revolt” is understood through a voluminous collection of documentary material; accounts..... Read More about The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831. A Compilation of Source Material
The story of the thousands of free blacks who lived in the south before the American Civil War and of their struggle to expand their..... Read More about Slaves Without Masters. The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
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Inscribed and signed by the lauded Black historian Benjamin Quarles who contributes an essay within. This book is a combination of documentary evidence and scholarly..... Read More about John Brown. Great Loves Observed. [inscribed
Presentation Copy from Fletcher M. Green (1895–1978) who edited, wrote the introduction and provided notes for this important memoir first published in 1887, “The classic..... Read More about Memorials of a Southern Planter
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Lovely copy of this important work examining how Colonial Englishmen created chattel slavery and were, in turn, confronted by it. “Jordan’s assertion in White Over..... Read More about White Over Black. American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812. [First Edition
Facsimile of this 1835 treatise on slavery in antebellum America first published in Paris. Beaumont accompanied Tocqueville on his travels to examine America’s penal systems..... Read More about Marie or Slavery in the United States. A Novel of Jacksonian America
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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
Mullin examines slave resistance in Virginia during the 18th-century as the predecessor to the extraordinary slave revolt in 1800, the insurrection led by Gabriel Prosser..... Read More about Flight and Rebellion. Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Dissertation discussing the tremendous cultural respond of the television phenomenon and adaptation of Roots by Alex Haley written in 1976. Roots: The Saga of an..... Read More about In Search of Meanings: Roots, Media and the Public Response
