Exhaustive study of Daniel Decatur Emmett, banjoist, fiddler, singer, composer and lyricist, comedian and playwright. Nathan’s book combines musicology, biography, and history to situate Emmett’s... Read More
The second book in the Falconcrest trilogy, preceded by Mandingo, and followed by Master of Falconhurst. The story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless... Read More
Field: ““This treatise, written by the celebrated advocate of the abolition of slavery, is a glowing arraignment of the government of the United States for... Read More
Between 1900 to 1945, Delaware whipped over 1600 prisoners. A centuries old tradition of doing so preceded this time frame. “Originally the ‘post’ in southern... Read More
Comprehensive study of prisons in America specific to all aspects of convict labor; polemical and written as an expose to the many brutalities committed (“The... Read More
Religious biography of Liberian Prince and evangelical preacher, Samuel Kaboo Morris (1873–1893). Morris emigrated to the United States and, because of his gift of preaching... Read More
Religious biography of Liberian prince and evangelical preacher, Samuel Kaboo Morris (1873–1893). Morris emigrated to the United States and, because of his gift of preaching... Read More
Published after Mandingo and Drum, the continuing story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless themes of slave-breeding and slavery in the antebellum South as... Read More
A lively, albeit disturbing, image using an African-American family to use humor and exaggeration to sell iron stove polish in 1882. On the illustrative side... Read More
Guide to New York City night-life and culture in the month of March and year of 1929. Includes a day-by-day guide to dances, luncheons, dinners... Read More
![[African-Americana:] Class Day ’95. Lincoln University. Lincoln University.](/pictures/thumb/3726691_1.jpg?v=1534362442)
1895 Class Day program of music and oratory from Lincoln University, an historically black university in Pennsylvania founded in 1854. The day’s activities included morning... Read More
Interesting photograph of an American camping party of young men and women posing with sporting equipment and hunting and fishing gear. Joining them, but on... Read More
![The White Slave. [Stereoview Card]. Dealer in.. Stereoscopes William Harrison, Views.. Philadelphia.](/pictures/thumb/3726682_1.jpg?v=1534362441)
Stereoview photograph of an African-American dandy having his shoes shined by a little white boy. The caption title, The White Slave, archly refers both to... Read More
![[Thurgood Marshall Graduates from Law School, First in His Class, Cum Laude, in 1933 within:] The Sixty-fourth Annual Commencement. Howard University … Friday, June the Ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Three [1933]…. Thurgood Marshall.](/pictures/thumb/3726645_1.jpg?v=1534362432)
For Baltimore-native Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, the nascence of his storied law career... Read More
![[African Americans in Georgia] Grand Opening! State Teachers’ Ass’n Held at Cotton Avenue A.M.E. Church, [Macon, Georgia] June 21 ... [1892]. Various.](/pictures/thumb/3726620_1.jpg?v=1534362429)
A rare unrecorded program announcing the grand opening of the State Teachers’ Association at the A.M.E. Church on Cotton Avenue in Macon, Georgia in 1892... Read More
With modestly decorative ornamental typography, this business or calling card documents the availability of this singing group who offered a repertoire of sacred and secular... Read More
![The Golden Age. Campaign Tracts. The Philadelphia Failure, A Review of Grant’s Renomination. [cover title]. Theodore Tilton, Horace Greeley, 1811–1872.](/pictures/thumb/3726563_1.jpg?v=1534362413)
Scarce throwaway polemical campaign literature from the 1872 presidential election with the intent to discredit the Republican nominee and sitting-president, Ulysses S. Grant, and promote... Read More
![Cornell Minstrels [...] Dec. 10, 1888. Base Ball Benefit. Cornell Minstrels.](/pictures/thumb/3726496_1.jpg?v=1534362395)
Founded in 1872, the Cornelian Minstrels was the first dramatic club organized at Cornell University. Performing in 1888 as “The Cornell Minstrels,” they joined with... Read More
Philadelphia minstrel show broadside for the “Black and White Revue” with racist, stereotype illustration. One-third of the broadside comprises an illustration of two men in... Read More
AUTOGRAPHED BY MILLIE-CHRISTINE.¹ Millie-Christine McCoy (1851-1912) were conjoined African-American slaves born in Columbus County, North Carolina. From childhood, these “Carolina Twins” a.k.a. “United African Twins”... Read More
Small archive of autograph letters and notes etc. signed by George S. Boutwell (1818–1905), abolitionist sympathizer, Massachusetts politician, and Congressional champion of African-American voting rights... Read More
As the Civil War continues, over 200 African-American Californians seek relief from Congress for racial discrimination. The petition begins this: This memorial of colored persons... Read More
Military discharge document for Private Will T. Johnson of Philadelphia’s “Gray Invincibles,” an African American infantry militia unit of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Baltimore-native Johnson... Read More
In 1816, William Ramsay, Alvin Cleveland and James Hayes were tasked with appraising Samuel Black’s estate in pounds and shillings. Black was well-to-do. He owned... Read More
1837 printed circular for the Basking-Ridge Classical and Scientific School in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. The circular was apparently issued as a way of introducing... Read More
