![[New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban. Adolphe Belot, Henry L. Williams.](/images/noimage-req.png)
“The octoroon despised, spurned, penned up in scornful coolness, liable to public sale and scourge—the colored woman you see yonder, kept a white man for... Read More
An excellent copy. Baltimore: J.H. Furst, 1931. First Edition. Frontis, 415pp., top-edge gilt. Publisher’s maroon and gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated with numerous plates. A near fine... Read More
Theodore Dehon Jervey, South Carolina attorney, judge, historian, author, journalist, conservative, here offers a radical solution to “The Negro Problem” —encourage the African-American population of... Read More
Stroyer was a former slave born on a South Carolina plantation. Emancipated, he eventually became a minister in Massachusetts. Brignano: “An African Methodist Episcopal minister... Read More
Brookes, a significant Southern slave-owner, uses these pages to assert the divine order of master and slave as unassailable while attacking Henry Clay and Alexander... Read More
Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775–1818), member of Parliament, author, often referred to as “Monk Lewis” for his popular 1796 gothic novel The Monk, within Lord Byron’s... Read More
Archy Lee was a slave brought to California who became fugitive when he realized his master would return him to Mississippi. He was caught in... Read More
Entire front-page Civil-War-era anti-slavery speech arguing for the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C. by Free Soil Republican State Senator George Landon. Landon’s speech printed... Read More
Legal argument in the New Jersey Supreme Court for the immediate abolition of slavery made by Alvan Stewart “to test the institution of slavery in... Read More
The Palmetto State in the years after the American Civil War, under the control of the powerful Radical Republicans. Historian Henry Steele Commager described Pike’s... Read More
Comprehensive survey by this African American author of the most important slave rebellions in America, ante-bellum, up until and during the American Civil War. The... Read More
Born into slavery, the biography of Timothy Thomas Fortune who ascended to become the “dean of Negro journalists in America. The program and methods proposed... Read More
[Title continues:] Published for the Frederick Douglass Historical and Cultural League, in preparation for the One Hundredth Anniversary of Douglass’ first Public Appearance in the... Read More
1882 edition of the final autobiographical memoir of Frederick Douglass, first published in 1881 by the same publisher. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass “did... Read More
The author explores, among other things, the claims of his detractors that Frederick Douglass could not have come from such lowly origins in Maryland and... Read More
The third autobiography authored by Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American 19th century American author, orator, and reformer. This edition noted for its ten-page Introduction... Read More
Bontemps’ biography of this extraordinary African American author, orator, and statesman, born a slave, self-educated, author of three autobiographies and a friend of Abraham Lincoln... Read More
With a colorful dust jacket design by James Barkley, selections from the speeches, writings, and texts of Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American orator, author... Read More
The first autobiography of three written by Frederick Douglass, the preeminent black American author, orator, reformer and statesman of nineteenth century America. With a seventeen-page... Read More
The author studies in detail how the American Civil War affected the thinking and views of Frederick Douglass, the former slave who became one one... Read More
Winner of the Julian Messner Award for the “Best Book Combatting Intolerance in America.” An interpretation of the life story of Frederick Douglass “—a man... Read More
A facsimile edition from the “Ebony Classics” of the second of three autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass with a four-page Foreword... Read More
![Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies]. Booker T. Washington.](/pictures/thumb/3727260_1.jpg?v=1538436645)
With two copies only in OCLC, a very scarce early reprint edition of this biography from the “American Crisis Biographies” —written by one great African... Read More
First three (of four and a later supplement) volumes of the extensive writings of Frederick Douglass with pithy and explanatory footnotes and a full-length biography... Read More
![The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. [Complete Four Volumes With Supplementary Volume]. Frederick Douglass; Philip S. Foner.](/pictures/thumb/3727258_1.jpg?v=1538425889)
The extensive writings of Frederick Douglass with pithy and explanatory footnotes and a full-length biography of Frederick Douglass by the editor, Philip S. Foner. Foner... Read More
