“American Negro Slavery (1918), the first systematic analysis of slavery in the entire South, made Phillips the unexcelled authority on the ‘peculiar institution.’ Its use..... Read More about American Negro Slavery. A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as...
Rare contemporary political cartoon depicting the dramatic discovery in October 1846 of George Kirk, an escaped slave from Savannah, Georgia. Kirk had been the subject... Read More about Arrest of the Slave George Kirk
Autographed by the author, a former slave, beneath his photographic portrait. Bruner was the slave of a cruel tanner, a man possibly his father, who... Read More about A Slave’s Adventures Toward Freedom: Not Fiction, but the True Story of a Struggle
Autobiographical vignettes from former slaves, many obscure individuals, who found freedom from slavery by escaping to Canada. These former slaves’s vignettes, numbering over one hundred..... Read More about The Refugee: or the Narratives of the Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by themselves, with an...
“Slavery is not yet abolished. Social Rights and Political Liberty are not yet won. Not only did we fail to give the colored and white..... Read More about False Reconstruction; or, The Slavery that is not Abolished
The illustrated dust jacket shows Harriet Tubman, rifle at her side, pointing and leading the way to her people from enslavement to freedom. Carter G.... Read More about Harriet Tubman
Rare in this edition. Foote was the daughter of slaves: I was born in 1823, in Schenectady, N.Y. I was my mother’s fourth child. My..... Read More about A Brand Plucked from the Fire. An Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Julia A.J. Foote
First Edition. Gifted by Charles Blockson, from his library, with his bookplate, inscribed in his hand, to a fellow collector of African Americana. This is... Read More about Frederick Douglass. A Biography
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
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..... Read More about The Negro in Pennsylvania. Slavery - Servitude - Freedom, 1639-1861
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... Read More about The Negro in Maryland. A Study of the Institution of Slavery
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..... Read More about Slavery in Mississippi
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....
“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...... Read More about The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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... Read More about The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864....
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... Read More about The African Colonization Movement, 1816-1865
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..... Read More about Plantation Slavery In Georgia
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
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..... Read More about Slavery In Alabama
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... Read More about Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana. A Social History of White Farmers and Laborers During...
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..... Read More about Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
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... Read More about 1854 Document Signed concerning the willing of the Infant Slave Elizabeth, the Child of Enslaved...
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... Read More about Herbert Aptheker ... Speaking On… Styron’s “Confessions of Nat Turner” Myth or Reality?...
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..... Read More about 1813 Writ of Detention concerning the Surrender of the Slave Woman Lucy and the Slave Girl Nancy...
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..... Read More about 1822 Writ of Detention concerning the Surrender of a Two Slave Girls Named Lucy and Nancy in...
