Np: March 12, 1864. A fair copy of an anti-slavery poem consisting of extracts from "Derne," first printed... Read More about Autograph manuscript signed, fair copy of his poem The Cause
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Washington: January 30, 1821. A strong pamphlet written against the extension of slavery into Missouri Territory and an argument for not allowing statehood to Missouri is slaveholding is permitted. Read More about To the Electors of the Sixteenth Congressional District in the State of New-York [Drop Title
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1875. Second edition. Read More about The Story of the Jubilee Singers with Their Songs
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Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co, 1856. Fiftieth Thousand. Read More about Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
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New York: Random House, [1967]. First Edition, #482 of 500 signed copies. Styron's famous and artful novel based on the slave revolt in southeastern Virginia of 1831, led by Nat Turner. Read More about The Confessions of Nat Turner. A Novel
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New York: Random House, 1967. First trade edition, publisher's signed issue; signed issue, with an extra publisher's leaf signed by William Styron [as issued by publisher]. SIGNED ISSUE. A fictional account, based on the life of African-American slave Nat Turner, who led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. Winner..... Read More about The Confessions of Nat Turner. A Novel
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California: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1979. First edition, #118 of limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by William Styron. Originally written as part of the novel Sophie's choice, Shadrach was published as a short story in the Nov. 21, 1978, issue of Esquire. Read More about Shadrach
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Washington, D.C: June 16, 1908. Taft sends a telegram, as Secretary of War, to the Republican Party Chairman Frank H. Hitchock during the Republican Convention in Chicago. Taft states his and President Roosevelt’s opposition to “a resolution calling for a reduction of Southern representation. I see no reason why we..... Read More about Copy of telegram to Frank H. Hitchcock, Republican Party Chairman
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Republic of Texas, County of Montgomery: 25 February 1846. Texas Slave Trade. Document acknowledging receipt of seven hundred dollars from Samuel N. Rourk in exchange for “a certain negro man, George, slave for life” confirming that George is “sound in body and mind, except a trifling nearsightedness.” Docketed on verso..... Read More about Autograph receipt, bill of sale for a slave, signed “Harrold Smith,” also with the “scrawl...
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Seguin [Texas]: 27 August 1853. Texas Slave Trade. ¶Document acknowledging receipt of nine hundred dollars “in full payment for a negro woman Kizzy & her child Essex–which woman I warrant sound & a slave for life”. Read More about Autograph receipt, signed “J. R. Johnston”
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Washington, D.C: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858. Read More about The Suicide of Slavery. Speech of Hon. Eli Thayer, of Mass. Delivered in the House of...
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New York: Powell and Co, 1865. A photographic montage featuring portraits (mostly from Mathew Brady's studio) of Lincoln, Vice President Hamlin, and the 157 senators and congressmen who voted to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. The man in the center of the montage is Schuyler Colfax, the journalist and..... Read More about Photomontage of Lincoln, Hamlin and the Congressmen who passed the thirteenth amendment,...
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. Carty, Leo. First edition. Written by Bed-Stuy teacher and author Dawn C. Thomas. Read More about A Tree for Tompkins Park
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New York: Theatre Arts, Inc, July 1919. The sketch for a play about African-American dancers during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Read More about Danse Calinda [in:] Theatre Arts Magazine, volume III, number 3
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New York: Published by Harper & Brothers, 1835. Third edition. Born into slavery as Isabella Van Wagenen in Ulster County, New York in the late eighteenth century, she won her emancipation under New York state law in 1827 and adopted the name Sojourner Truth in 1843.In the years before becoming..... Read More about Matthias and His Impostures or the Progress of Fanaticism
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Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Union, 1832. First edition. A book for children, teaching students the history of the American Colonization Society (and Liberia), history of the slave trade, and the early role of Africans in American history (including Paul Cuffee), written in the form of a dialogue between a mother..... Read More about Claims of the Africans: or, the History of the American Colonization Society
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Salem: Printed at the Tri-Weekly Gazette Office, 1849. “Resolved, That with these views we, the people of Massachusetts … hereby pronounce the attemot, by the southern States or any portion therein, to establish the institution of slavery upon any territory now free, and the common property of the United States..... Read More about Speech of Charles W. Upham, of Salem in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts on the...
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Washington, D.C: Associated Publishers, 1944. Revised Edition. Read More about The Black Man in White America
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Washington, D.C: Associated Publishers, Inc, 1944. Revised edition. Signed by the author on title page. Read More about The Black Man in White America
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[New York: March 8 1946]. Novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) had recently moved back east from California. He worked in a variety of menial jobs and worked on The Third Generation (1954) “the most explicitly autobiographical of his novels” (ANB). Read More about Portrait photograph of Chester Himes
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First trade edition. INSCRIBED TO PAUL ROBESON. A very fine association copy, inscribed in the year of publication to Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, American anthropologist, author, actor and civil rights activist. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper..... Read More about Spider Boy. A Scenario for a Moving Picture
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New York: Various publisher (Sam Fox, Robbins Music, Mills Music], [various date]. Read More about Collection of 7 pieces and anthologies of printed sheet music by Waller: (1) "Black...
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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama: May 24, 1907. With an added note in Washington's hand: "Was very glad to see [you] in New York a few days ago B.T.W." Read More about Letter Signed ("Booker Washington"), to Mr. F.G. Wood of Central N.Y. Tel. & Tel....
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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama: February 24, 1914. Washington writes as Principal of Tuskegee, sending a circular (not present) and soliciting donations to the school's scholarship fund: "There are few institutions in the country where students do more to help themselves than is true here: they provide the cost of their board..... Read More about Letter Signed ("Booker T. Washington") as Principal, to Miss Edson M. Peck
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