Lincoln and the South.
From the library of J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, American historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
Slavery
Still’s Underground Rail Road Records. Revised Edition. With a Life of the Author. Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts for Freedom. Together with Sketches of Some of the Eminent Friends of Freedom, and Most Liberal Aiders and Advisers of the Road.
Revised edition of William Still’s The Underground Rail Road, first published in 1872 and here re-published by the author himself a with a new 64-page..... Read More about Still’s Underground Rail Road Records. Revised Edition. With a Life of the Author. Narrating...
History of Slavery in Virginia.
Seldom seen, first edition of this classic study in the history of slavery as a legal institution. With the signature of Elbert Jay Benton; author..... Read More about History of Slavery in Virginia
The Underground Rail Road. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c, Narrating the Hardships, Hair-breadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their efforts for Freedom, as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author; Together With Sketches of some of the Largest Stockholders, and Most Liberal Aiders…
Still’s monumental work, approaching 800 pages, documented the efforts and frequent successes of fugitive slaves to seek freedom as they made their way north along..... Read More about The Underground Rail Road. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c, Narrating...
Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830-1860.
“A hitherto neglected field is opened up by this study of the economic, rather than the merely legal and political, aspects of free Negro life..... Read More about Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830-1860
Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia.
“Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine..... Read More about Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
[Nat Turner’s Rebellion] The Southampton Insurrection. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]
Well-illustrated history of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion Southampton County, Virginia. This copy inscribed and signed by the author who writes in the Preface: “Persons..... Read More about Nat Turner’s Rebellion] The Southampton Insurrection. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author
American Negro Slave Revolts. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]
Classic study of African American slave revolts by Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker whose master’s thesis examined Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia. This copy..... Read More about American Negro Slave Revolts. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author
Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832.
Study of Virginia’s retreat from rising anti-slavery and abolitionist sentiments of the late 18th and early 19th centuries to a defense of slavery in the..... Read More about Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832
Friend Anthony Benezet.
Biography of early American abolitionist and Quaker educator, Anthony Benezet (1713–1784) of Philadelphia. In 1775, Benezet was the founder of one of the world’s first..... Read More about Friend Anthony Benezet
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823.
A sequel to Davis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. This second book is described as, “The most profound study of..... Read More about The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen. Reminiscences of the Civil War with Special Reference to the Work for the Contrabands and Freedmen of the Mississippi Valley.
Autobiography of American Civil War general (brevet) and U.S. Commissioner of Education, John Eaton (1829–1906). Eaton attended Andover Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1861..... Read More about Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen. Reminiscences of the Civil War with Special Reference to the...
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Author.
Exceptionally handsome copy of this classic work on observations of Southern life in antebellum America. While Olmsted is known today for his landscape architecture, he..... Read More about The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States....
The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch.
An account of the Christiana Riot, an incident of African American-led armed resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just over the..... Read More about The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch
[19th Century American Prison Art, possibly of African-American Slaves or Sharecroppers, by an Acrobat and Contortionist Incarcerated for Murder].
Italian-American Achille Onofri, was an acrobat and contortionist who had met trapeze artist Millie Cook in Havana, married her, and then moved to Philadelphia with..... Read More about 19th Century American Prison Art, possibly of African-American Slaves or Sharecroppers, by an...
Up from Slavery. An Autobiography.
The critically-acclaimed, second autobiography of Booker T. Washington, African American educator, author, orator, and first principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, today Tuskegee University (HBCU)..... Read More about Up from Slavery. An Autobiography
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story Is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work.
Book-length exposition of the sources and facts underlying the fictional narrative of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s enormously influential anti-slavery novel first published in..... Read More about A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story Is...
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Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword]
“[A] sympathetic account of freed slaves during the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War.” (ANB) Inscribed by the author. First published in 1944..... Read More about Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword
George Washington and the Negro.
Examination of George Washington as a slaveholding Virginia planter, Revolutionary War general, and U.S. president, issued by noted African American publishing house, The Associated Publishers..... Read More about George Washington and the Negro
Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen. Reminiscences of the Civil War with Special Reference to the Work for the Contrabands and Freedmen of the Mississippi Valley.
Autobiography of American Civil War general (brevet) and U.S. Commissioner of Education, John Eaton (1829–1906). Eaton attended Andover Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1861..... Read More about Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen. Reminiscences of the Civil War with Special Reference to the...
England and Slavery.
History of the English slave trade by historian Charles Malcolm Macinnes (1891–1971), drawn largely from “...hitherto unpublished material and books and pamphlets of the eighteenth..... Read More about England and Slavery
Harriet Tubman.
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
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;..... Read More about Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America
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..... Read More about The Negro in Pennsylvania. Slavery - Servitude - Freedom, 1639-1861
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..... Read More about The Negro in Maryland. A Study of the Institution of Slavery