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3732700] In Barbary. Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and the Sahara. E. Alexander Powell

In Barbary. Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and the Sahara.

First edition in publisher’s pictorial cloth; graphics and gilt in stunning condition. The publisher’s laud Powell’s travel book for its “discussion of historical, religious, racial..... Read More about In Barbary. Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and the Sahara

Price: $75.00

3732702] Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, A Narrative of Exploration. Joseph Thomson

Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, A Narrative of Exploration.

First edition. Singerman p400 — “Jews are encountered in Marrakesh and Mogador (today Essaouira), also in the Atlas Mountains. Thomson offers an account of conditions..... Read More about Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, A Narrative of Exploration

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3731997] Kwamina. The New Musical. Afred de Liagre Jr

Kwamina. The New Musical.

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

Price: $85.00

3731460] The Life and Travels of Mungo Park; with the Account of his Death from the Journal of...

The Life and Travels of Mungo Park; with the Account of his Death from the Journal of Isaaco, the Substance of Later Discoveries relative to His Lamented Fate, and the Termination of the Niger.

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...

Price: $75.00

3731410] Temple University Presents, A Reading by Chinua Achebe. May, 10, 1988. [opening lines]....

Temple University Presents, A Reading by Chinua Achebe. May, 10, 1988. [opening lines]

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

Price: $35.00

3730375] Ohio Colonization Society. Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society....

Ohio Colonization Society. Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes]

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,...

Price: $350.00

3731389] My Missionary Day and Other Poems

My Missionary Day and Other Poems.

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

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3730850] Grant’s Sketch of Calabar. Donald G. Simmons, James Grant

Grant’s Sketch of Calabar.

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

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3730625] Black Power, A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos. Richard Wright, 1908–1960

Black Power, A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos.

Black novelist Richard Wright’s non-fiction book about his 1953–1954 trip to Africa’s Gold Coast (Ghana). During the 1950s, Wright made extensive foreign travels and it..... Read More about Black Power, A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos

Price: $35.00

3730319] Addresses delivered at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Maryland State Colonization...

Addresses delivered at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Maryland State Colonization Society, held at Annapolis, February 2d, 1838.

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,...

Price: $50.00

3729928] [Autograph Portrait Print of Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and South...

[Autograph Portrait Print of Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and South African Non-Violent, Anti-Apartheid Activist].

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...

Price: $450.00

3729747] Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and...

Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of Africa, praying The establishment of a commercial agency at the colony of Liberia…

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...

Price: $45.00

3729306] [1960s–1970s Archive of Missionary Linguistic activities in Côte d’Ivoire, i.e.,...

[1960s–1970s Archive of Missionary Linguistic activities in Côte d’Ivoire, i.e., The Ivory Coast].

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

Price: $2,250.00

3729570] In Search of Meanings: Roots, Media and the Public Response. Ronald George Fitzgerald,...

In Search of Meanings: Roots, Media and the Public Response.

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

Price: $75.00

3729456] The Fortunate Slave, An Illustration of African Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century....

The Fortunate Slave, An Illustration of African Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century.

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

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3729336] Black History. Patricia J. F. Rosof

Black History.

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

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3727496] [Six New York 1872 Wool Brokers’ Circulars issued by Kitching Brothers; Statistical...

[Six New York 1872 Wool Brokers’ Circulars issued by Kitching Brothers; Statistical Data for Imports from South America, Cape of Good Hope, and Australia].

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...

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3729043] Africana. The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise...

Africana. The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk Reference.

Abridged edition of the editors’ almost 2,100-page reference work of the same title, a work inspired by a dream of African American scholar, W.E.B. Du..... Read More about Africana. The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk...

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3728031] The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer. Rayford Whittingham Logan, 1897–1982

The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer.

Immediate post-World War II survey of the plight Blacks in Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States by Howard University professor, author..... Read More about The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer

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3728203] The Loyal Blacks. Ellen Gibson Wilson

The Loyal Blacks.

“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

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3727817] Slave Ships and Slaving. George Francis Dow

Slave Ships and Slaving.

An historical narrative of the African slave trade between the early 1500’s to 1859. Dow’s book “describes the warfare between tribes and the taking of..... Read More about Slave Ships and Slaving

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3727117] A Two Thousand Fold Agency. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes]. B F. Romaine,...

A Two Thousand Fold Agency. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes]

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

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3726649] Mémoire Adressé par le Conseil des Délégués des Colonies, à Messieurs les Membres...

Mémoire Adressé par le Conseil des Délégués des Colonies, à Messieurs les Membres du Conseil des Ministres.

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...

Price: $250.00

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