![3734194] The Life and Work of Jacob Kenoly. C C. Smith](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734194.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736268683)
First edition. Born to enslaved parents in Mississippi, Jacob Kenoly, pursued education in Edwards, Mississippi, and later traveled to Liberia as a missionary. There, he..... Read More about The Life and Work of Jacob Kenoly
![3734269] Missionary Reminiscences. An Autobiography. Lewis B. Sider](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734269.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1725379473)
This scarce missionary’s autobiography details Lewis B. Sider’s journey from life in Saskatchewan and Oklahoma, leading up to a transformative period in Africa. It covers..... Read More about Missionary Reminiscences. An Autobiography
![3727529] An Appeal to Pharaoh. The Negro Problem and its Radical Solution. Edited, with...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3727529.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727109153)
A Fine copy. A vocal proponent of black expatriation, Georgia-born Carlyle Mckinley (1847-1904) was a Confederate soldier, journalist, essayist, poet, and associate editor of the..... Read More about An Appeal to Pharaoh. The Negro Problem and its Radical Solution. Edited, with introduction, by...
![3733561] Ba Coiffeur [i.e., “The Hairdresser”]. 20th century African School](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733561.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707430934)
A striking signboard employed by a 1960s Central African itinerant barber, adorned in a lively and cheerful color scheme. African barbers and hair salons often..... Read More about Ba Coiffeur [i.e., “The Hairdresser”
![3732705] Tafilet. The Narrative of a Journey of Exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the Oases...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732705.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706601310)
First edition, first printing of Walter Harris’ recounting of his 1893 expedition to Morocco’s vast Tafilet oasis, providing a meticulous narrative of his interactions with..... Read More about Tafilet. The Narrative of a Journey of Exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the Oases of the...
![3732704] [Morocco] Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas. Joseph Dalton Hooker, John Ball](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732704.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696553713)
First edition, first printing. This travelogue documents the scientific expedition of Joseph Dalton Hooker and John Ball to Morocco and the Great Atlas region. The..... Read More about Morocco] Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas
![3732703] Mogreb-El-Acksa. A Journey in Morocco. R B. Cunninghame Graham](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732703.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706666305)
First edition of this classic of British Victorian-era travel literature written by this “flamboyant adventurer” who was nicknamed “the uncrowned king of the Scots” and..... Read More about Mogreb-El-Acksa. A Journey in Morocco
![3731997] Kwamina. The New Musical. Afred de Liagre Jr](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731997.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658773283)
This 54th Street Theatre Broadway flop was set in a Western African nation as it was about the gain independence from Britain. While the dances..... Read More about Kwamina. The New Musical
![3731460] The Life and Travels of Mungo Park; with the Account of his Death from the Journal of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731460.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1649620554)
Firs published in 1799, an especially lovely copy of this 1844 reprint edition that gave readers a description of daily life in west Africa. “Park..... Read More about The Life and Travels of Mungo Park; with the Account of his Death from the Journal of Isaaco, the...
![3731410] Temple University Presents, A Reading by Chinua Achebe. May, 10, 1988. [opening lines]....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731410.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704333127)
An ephemeral program for a reading given at Temple University in 1988 by Chinua Achebe, the award-winning Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart. Achebe may..... Read More about Temple University Presents, A Reading by Chinua Achebe. May, 10, 1988. [opening lines
![3730375] Ohio Colonization Society. Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730375.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1619221347)
1870 broadsheet issued by the Ohio Colonization Society defending the colonization of African-Americans in Liberia and writing passionately of those “...having been torn from their..... Read More about Ohio Colonization Society. Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society. [Liberia,...
![3731389] My Missionary Day and Other Poems](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731389.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1644620865)
All of these poems were written by women missionaries. (“These poems have been written by members of the West African Mission and most of them..... Read More about My Missionary Day and Other Poems
![3730850] Grant’s Sketch of Calabar. Donald G. Simmons, James Grant](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730850.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632595562)
A mid-20th c. printing of a 19th century description of Calabar, West Africa by James Grant, Liverpool-based commercial and slave trader, written during one of..... Read More about Grant’s Sketch of Calabar
![3730319] Addresses delivered at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Maryland State Colonization...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730319.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620790163)
Collection of five speeches by politicians, lawyers, and a clergyman on the controversial proposal to “repatriate” Black Americans to Africa, delivered at a meeting of..... Read More about Addresses delivered at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Maryland State Colonization Society,...
![3729928] [Autograph Portrait Print of Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and South...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729928.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1610399881)
Autographed portrait print of a triumphant Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient. The image of Bishop Tutu—then Bishop of Lesotho..... Read More about Autograph Portrait Print of Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and South African...
![3729747] Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729747.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1607361682)
Memorial of Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of Africa here joining with the national American Colonization Society to promote..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of...
![3729306] [1960s–1970s Archive of Missionary Linguistic activities in Côte d’Ivoire, i.e.,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729306.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1590514971)
Archive of illustrated African-language grammar primers, missionary religious periodicals, photographs, and related ephemera documenting an evangelical and linguistic outreach to the Senufo people, in the..... Read More about 1960s–1970s Archive of Missionary Linguistic activities in Côte d’Ivoire, i.e., The Ivory Coast
![3729570] In Search of Meanings: Roots, Media and the Public Response. Ronald George Fitzgerald,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729570.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1597941569)
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
![3729456] The Fortunate Slave, An Illustration of African Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729456.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1597351173)
An investigation of slavery in the 18th century examined through the life of Job ben Solomon [Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773)], a literate Muslim slave-owner who..... Read More about The Fortunate Slave, An Illustration of African Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century
![3729336] Black History. Patricia J. F. Rosof](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729336.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593462580)
Anthology of articles examining the current bibliography and historiography of various topics in Black history: “Colonial Africa”; “The Impact of the Slave Trade on Africa”;..... Read More about Black History
![3727496] [Six New York 1872 Wool Brokers’ Circulars issued by Kitching Brothers; Statistical...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3727496.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1579732260)
New York City wool broker’s circulars issued by Kitching Brothers reporting on ship arrivals in New York and Boston; the import and export of clothing..... Read More about Six New York 1872 Wool Brokers’ Circulars issued by Kitching Brothers; Statistical Data for...
![3728203] The Loyal Blacks. Ellen Gibson Wilson](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728203.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706666288)
“The definitive account of the first American blacks emancipated in the Revolution, their return to Africa, and their creation of a new society there.” (dust..... Read More about The Loyal Blacks
![3727117] A Two Thousand Fold Agency. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes]. B F. Romaine, Rev....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3727117.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1540245472)
1870s broadside issued by the Ohio Colonization Society promoting colonization of African Americans in Liberia. The society was formed in 1827 to encourage Black Ohioans..... Read More about A Two Thousand Fold Agency. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes
![3726649] Mémoire Adressé par le Conseil des Délégués des Colonies, à Messieurs les Membres...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726649.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1541010229)
1842 French governmental report on its colonies of Martinique, Guadalupe, and Guyane (French Guyana), in the Caribbean, and Bourbon (today Réunion), east of Madagascar in..... Read More about Mémoire Adressé par le Conseil des Délégués des Colonies, à Messieurs les Membres du...
