“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
– Frederick Douglass –
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
– Frederick Douglass –
![White Over Black. American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812. [First Edition]. Winthrop D. Jordan](/pictures/thumb/3730359_1.jpg?v=1618427053)
First edition of this important work examining how Colonial Englishmen created chattel slavery and were, in turn, confronted by it. “Jordan’s assertion in White Over..... Read More about White Over Black. American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812. [First Edition
![Unwritten History. [With the curious provenance of a Sallie E. Robinson]. Bishop L. J. Coppin,...](/pictures/thumb/3730354_1.jpg?v=1619132673)
Per a case of blackmail, a potentially-interesting copy of this autobiography of noted Black American Levi Jenkins Coppin (1848–1924), a free born Eastern Shore, Maryland-native..... Read More about Unwritten History. [With the curious provenance of a Sallie E. Robinson
Separately issued public letter, “History Made to Order,” by Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black History” and prolific author, making a sustained critique of..... Read More about “History Made to Order”: Public Letter by Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black...
Rare. Early Republic sermon concerning Joseph Mountain, an escaped enslaved African American executed for the capital crime of raping a young white girl. An estimated..... Read More about The Intent of Capital Punishment. A Discourse Delivered in the City of New-Haven, October 20,...
Autobiography of Jane Edna Hunter (1892–1971), a nurse and lawyer, and noted for her commitment to help Black American women. A South Carolinian-native born to..... Read More about A Nickel and A Prayer
![1892 Autograph Letter Signed by Robert James Harlan, Black American Civil Rights Leader.]. Robert...](/pictures/thumb/3730336_1.jpg?v=1617841447)
Brief rare autograph letter signed by this important nineteenth-century African American social reformer. Robert James Harlan (1816–1897) was born into slavery in Kentucky from the..... Read More about 1892 Autograph Letter Signed by Robert James Harlan, Black American Civil Rights Leader
Anti-slavery petition to Congress by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the Mid-Atlantic states seeking the suppression of “...the African slave trade..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on The African...
First of two important 1866 speeches given by abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a leading advocate for civil rights for Black Americans. Here, Sumner..... Read More about The Equal Rights of All. The Great Guarantee and Present Necessity, For the Sake of Security, and...
Second of two important 1866 speeches given by abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a leading advocate for civil rights for Black Americans. Sumner attacks..... Read More about No Compromise of Human Rights. No admission in the Constitution of Inequality of Rights, or...
A “definitive study of the intense development of the anti-slavery movement” and being a work of excellent scholarship. Dumond describes all scenarios of the movement;..... Read More about Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America
Study of the publication and distribution through the mails of abolitionist and anti-slavery literature and newspapers. Examines the publications of such abolitionist journalists as Elihu..... Read More about The Controversy over the Distribution of Abolition Literature 1830-1860
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958) was an African-American female poet and reclusive celibate lesbian who was born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
![The Journal of Negro History, Volume IX, 1924 [complete]. Carter G. Woodson, 1875–1950](/pictures/thumb/3730273_1.jpg?v=1617818797)
Ninth Volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume IX, 1924 [complete
![The Journal of Negro History, Volume VIII, 1923 [complete]. Carter G. Woodson, 1875–1950](/pictures/thumb/3730272_1.jpg?v=1617818797)
Eighth Volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume VIII, 1923 [complete
![The Journal of Negro History, Volume V, 1920 [complete]. Carter G. Woodson, 1875–1950](/pictures/thumb/3730271_1.jpg?v=1617818796)
Fifth Volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume V, 1920 [complete
Fourth volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume IV, 1919 [complete; from the library of Black historian...
Second volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume II, 1917 [complete; from the library of Black historian...
![The Journal of Negro History, Volume I, 1916 [complete]. Carter G. Woodson, 1875–1950](/pictures/thumb/3730268_1.jpg?v=1617818795)
First Volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume I, 1916 [complete
A superior copy. Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel of Southern plantation life and slavery, first published in 1852..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....
Captioned the “Historian and Antislavery Lecturer of the Crisis”, this reprinted portrait commemorates Black abolitionist William Wells Brown (c.1814–1884), author of the 1847 best-seller, Narrative..... Read More about Portrait Print of Black Abolitionist and Writer, William Wells Brown, issued by Associated...
![Africa and the Afro-American Experience. Eight Essays. [inscribed and signed]. John Hope...](/pictures/thumb/3730297_1.jpg?v=1618427052)
Inscribed and signed by two co-authors within, both towering historians of African-American history, John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles. The essays focus on the theme..... Read More about Africa and the Afro-American Experience. Eight Essays. [inscribed and signed
Associated Publishers, Inc. of Washington, D.C., were a Black publishing concern founded by the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson. Beginning by at least..... Read More about 22 Portraits Prominent African Americans to Display at Home or School, possibly from the “One...
![An Appeal to the Methodists of Missouri by a Missouri Methodist. [Slavery in Missouri]. “By...](/pictures/thumb/3730249_1.jpg?v=1614219488)
An 1850 call for unity in the Methodist church in Missouri over the issue of slavery in the wake of the 1844 separation of the..... Read More about An Appeal to the Methodists of Missouri by a Missouri Methodist. [Slavery in Missouri
Author’s Copy. Thirty-six page scholarly paper on Quakers and slavery by Haverford College history professor and later librarian, Allen Clapp Thomas (1846–1920), read in abstract..... Read More about The Attitude of the Society of Friends Toward Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...
Sermon in support of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 by Rev. John C. Lord, leading conservative Presbyterian theologian, delivered at the Central Presbyterian Church..... Read More about “The Higher Law,” in its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill. A Sermon on the Duties Men...
