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
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
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
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
Sheet music for this hit song inscribed and dated by African American composer, cornetist, band leader W.C. Handy; here “Successfully Featured by Abe Lyman, Movieland’s..... Read More about W.C. Handy’s Saint Louis Blues. [Signed by W.C. Handy
Compendium of service by black Americans in all of America’s conflicts. A healthy segment is devoted to action during the American Civil War and the..... Read More about Camp-Fires of the Afro-American; or The Colored Man as a Patriot Soldier, Sailor, and Hero in the...
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
By 1888, George Washington Williams (1849–1891) was considered a forefront historian for black Americans. His 1883 History of the Negro Race in America…, an enormous..... Read More about A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Preceded by a Review of the...
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
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
“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...
“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 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
A biography of one of the most divisive figures in South Carolina’s history: Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847–1918) a.k.a. Pitchfork Ben, white supremacist governor of South..... Read More about Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian
Certificate or “Award of Merit” presented by Philadelphia’s Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons to that city’s Tuscan Morning Star Lodge, a black Freemasonic..... Read More about Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons Award of Merit to Tuscan Morning Star Lodge F. &...
Massive one-volume reference work on Africa and the African Diaspora, an encyclopedia of the black world inspired by a dream of African American scholar, W.E.B...... Read More about Africana. The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
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
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
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
Digest of the controversial 1857 book, The Impending Crisis, by North Carolina-native Hinton Rowan Helper. “The book called for the abolition of slavery because it..... Read More about Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South. [U.S. Colored Troops’ Officer’s copy
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
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...
From Pennsylvania, during the 1920s, here is a group of eight Harrisburg, Pennsylvania theater programs, including two blackface minstrel shows. The various performances were accomplished..... Read More about A 1923–1929 Collection of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Amateur Theater Performances
Comprehensive history of this African American college in Atlanta, Georgia, the oldest private historically black liberal arts college for women. inscribed and signed by the..... Read More about The Story of Spelman College
Well-illustrated survey history of African American churches and religious movements by Carter G. Woodson, “the father of Black History.” “Woodson…pioneered in the study of black..... Read More about The History of the Negro Church
