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
African Americana
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[Brownsville Affair] The Black Battalion. Debate in the United States Senate…1906.
Rare pamphlet transcription of debate proceedings in the U.S. Senate on the “Dismissal of Three Companies of Twenty-Fifth Infantry”—African American troops or “Buffalo Soldiers”—in the..... Read More about Brownsville Affair] The Black Battalion. Debate in the United States Senate…1906
Jazz. [Signed by the Author]
This historical novel by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize author Toni Morrison, is set in 1920’s Harlem. The Franklin Library, 1992. Limited, Signed, First Edition. Signed..... Read More about Jazz. [Signed by the Author
Colored Catholics in the United States. An investigation of Catholic activity in behalf of the Negroes in the United States and a survey of the present condition of the Colored Missions.
Pre-Second World War survey of Black Roman Catholics in the United States. Includes some history of Black Catholics before and after emancipation, plus chapters on..... Read More about Colored Catholics in the United States. An investigation of Catholic activity in behalf of the...
An Appraisal of the Negro In Colonial South Carolina.
Includes much information on the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and missionary work, plus a chapter on “The Charleston Negro..... Read More about An Appraisal of the Negro In Colonial South Carolina
The Heart of a Woman.
The fourth volume in writer, poet, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s autobiography, chronicling events taking place between 1957 and 1962 including her work for..... Read More about The Heart of a Woman
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...
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[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Class Graduation Photograph].
Lincoln University photograph showing an unidentified class of graduates with long-time college president, Rev. Isaac Norton Rendall (1825–1912), the group seated in front of Vail..... Read More about Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Class Graduation Photograph
[Glass Lantern Slide Showing African American Women Caretakers in a Day Nursery with White Children].
Glass lantern projection slide showing two African American women working in a nursery room as childcare caretakers for white children. A handwritten caption reading “Children’s..... Read More about Glass Lantern Slide Showing African American Women Caretakers in a Day Nursery with White Children
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John Brown. [American Crisis Biographies]
A scarce W.E.B. Du Bois title, here published with the American Crisis Biographies series. “After the completion of the Philadelphia study in December 1897, Du..... Read More about John Brown. [American Crisis Biographies
West Chester University Presents a Visit with Maya Angelou Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. February 20, 1984….
During February’s Black History Month in 1984, the celebrated African-American poet Maya Angelou gave a free talk, open to the public, at West Chester University..... Read More about West Chester University Presents a Visit with Maya Angelou Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird...
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[St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph].
C.1920s photograph taken in front of St. Luke’s Union American Methodist Episcopal (U.A.M.E.) Church in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The photograph, taken by long-time West Chester..... Read More about St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph
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Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed]
Floyd Bixler McKissick (1922–1991), Civil Rights activist, lawyer, founder of Soul City, author; born in —and with strong roots to— North Carolina. McKissick experienced prejudice..... Read More about Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed
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[Carte-de-visite of a 19th Century African-American Minister, unidentified].
Found among papers from upstate New York, an intriguing carte de visite photograph depicting an African-American minister. The unusual full-length portrait shows a black man..... Read More about Carte-de-visite of a 19th Century African-American Minister, unidentified
Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session Thirty-Ninth Congress.
Jenkins: “Over 800 pages of testimony, correspondence, and reports taken from southern Unionists, Freedman’s Bureau officials, carpetbaggers and Federal soldiers (including a long series of..... Read More about Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session Thirty-Ninth Congress
The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Signed by the Author]
With the publisher’s booklet. Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning treatment of the story of the Virginia slave insurrection of Nat Turner which he led, the massacre that..... Read More about The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Signed by the Author
An Easy Burden. The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. [Signed by the Author].
Young’s role in the civil rights movement began early. He was the executive directory of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), working closely with Martin..... Read More about An Easy Burden. The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. [Signed by the Author
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
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
Scott’s Official History of The American Negro in the World War.
Handsome copy with bright gilt to the front cover. Well-illustrated history of African Americans in the First World War—96 pages of half tone illustrations and..... Read More about Scott’s Official History of The American Negro in the World War
Negroes and Their Treatment in Virginia from 1865 to 1867.
McConnell documents the upheaval and revolution as black Americans in Virginia transitioned from slaves to full citizenship. Within: “Public Opinion in Virginia in Regard to..... Read More about Negroes and Their Treatment in Virginia from 1865 to 1867
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...
Jefferson’s Pillow, The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]
“In a cogent analysis of the lives of George Washington, George Mason, James Madison, and of course Thomas Jefferson, he explores how class, education, and..... Read More about Jefferson’s Pillow, The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. [Inscribed and...
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