Np: 1870-1900. The images are unidentified, and likely unrelated to each other, but include some nice studio portraits. Read More about Small album of tintypes and cdvs of African American men, women and children, plus cdvs of prints...

New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838. The Anti-Slavery Examiner No. 5. Reprinted from the New-York Evening Post, with additionbs by the author. Read More about The Power of Congress over the District of Columbia

à Geneve: Chez Jean-Leonard Pellet, Imprimeur de la Ville & de l'Academie, 1780. Third edition (octavo issue). The celebrated attack on the excesses of European colonial economies, slavery, the complicity of the church, and the ancien régime; the book was condemned and Raynal was obliged to leave France. Read More about Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Établissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans les...

Tibbee Station, Mississippi: June 24, 1868. In May 1868, the Mississippi constitutional convention, sometimes referred to as the "black and tan" convention as it included for the first time both white and black delegates, adopted the state's third constitution and referred it to the people for ratification. The radical Republican..... Read More about Autograph letter signed concerning the ratification vote for the Mississippi Constitution of...

Washington, D.C: 1850. Read More about Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, in Favor of...

New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. The first book from this Afro-American poet and sculptress, inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: “ For Louise with great love & admiration…Barbara!”. Read More about From Memphis & Peking

Boston: Munroe & Francis; New York: Charles S. Francis, 1827. First edition. First edition of the first cookbook written by an African American and the first book by a black American ever published by a commercial publisher. Roberts (1780-1860) was employed for many years by Christopher Gore, governor and senator..... Read More about The House Servant's Directory, Or a Monitor for Private Families: Comprising hints for...

Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press for the The University Museum, 1943. Paul Robeson's Copy. A useful handbook prepared by two American agronomists. From the library of Paul Robeson, signed "Robeson" on upper cover. Read More about The Food Resources of Africa

White Plains, N.Y: The Westchester Committee for a Fair Inquiry into the Peekskill Violence, October, 1949. “Where will the next Peekskill be? What new battleground have the reactionary police and those behind them selected? Where will they demonstrate further the ‘old Southern custom’ of beating in the heads of Negroes..... Read More about Eyewitness: Peekskill U.S.A. Aug. 27; Sept. 4, 1949 [Cover title]. A Documentary Report prepared...

Camden, New Jersey: RCA Victor, [1939]. Robeson Sings "Ballad for Americans" Read More about Phonograph recording of "Ballad for Americans," sung by Paul Robeson. Music by Earl...

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First edition, second printing. Presentation Copy to Eleanor Roosevelt. Presentation copy, inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt by David Kahn and Thomas Sugrue on the flyleaf. Segrue writes: "I dared not inject my own opinions into this record of Colonel Starling, but I was happy to..... Read More about Starling of the White House. The Story of the Man whose Secret Service Detail Guarded Five...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First edition. The personal account of this famous black journalist who returned to his native south to make a 6000 mile tour and ask dangerous questions. His first book. Read More about South of Freedom