Nouvelle-Orléans: Imprimerie Franco-Américaine, 1881. First edition. Rare Creole Plantation Novel. The rare first edition of this plantation novel... Read More about L'Habitation Saint-Ybars ou Maitres et Esclaves en Louisiane, Récit Social
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New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1810. First edition. Black Female Charity Schools. Dwight's sermon on the importance of charity, especially the Charity Societies, citing one in particular that was of interest to him. A school that was established in New Haven to educate black female children. Dwight emphasized the responsibility to..... Read More about The Charitable Blessed. A Sermon Preached in the First Church in New Haven August 8, 1810
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[New Haven]: Printed by T. and S. Green, 1791. First edition. The ninth child of the Great Awakening theologian Jonathan Edwards, Edwards the younger was noted for his intellect as well as his defense of the rights of Native Americans and African Americans. Even before the Revolution, Edwards was writing..... Read More about The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade, and of the Slavery of the Africans: Illustrated in...
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Boston: The Fraternity, 1860. The opening tribute ( 6 pp. on pages 14-19 ) is a tribute to Parker by Emerson. Also contains eulogies by William Lloyd Garrison, Frank Sanborn, James Freeman Clark, and Wendell Phillips. Read More about Tribute To Theodore Parker Comprising The Exercises At The Music Hall, On Sunday, June 17, 1860....
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First Edition. INSCRIBED, DELUXE ISSUE. "To Arthur Helps, Esq/ with cordial regard of/ R. W. Emerson." INSCRIBED by Emerson on the front flyleaf: "To Arthur Helps, Esq. With kindest regards of R. W. Emerson." Most of Emerson's presentation copies were inscribed "R.W.E." but in this..... Read More about May-Day and Other Pieces
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Washington; Princeton; New York: War Department; Opinion Research Corporation; General Electric Company, 1947-1964. These materials document changing aspects of race and employment in America from the immediate postwar years, when separate Negro units were organized in the armed forces, through the optimism of the early 1960s. Read More about Lot of 6 publications on equal rights and employment issues, including Army Talk 170; The Trend...
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New York: The Blue Heron Press, 1952. First edition with Du Bois Foreword. Read More about Freedom Road. With a Foreword by W.E.B. Du Bois
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New York: January 19, 1940. Van Vechten, Carl. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN (1978). Read More about Portrait Photograph of Ella Fitzgerald
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New York: D. Appleton, 1854. First edition. Foote's own account of his experience as commander of the Perry off the African coast in the early 1850's, where his dogged attempts to suppress the African slave trade (illegal then under American law) became legendary. His impassioned account here did much to..... Read More about Africa and the American Flag
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Boston: Januray 30, 1808. Michael Fortune was a negro poet and his poem appears here directly below a notice thta the Slave Trade ceased in Great Britain and in the U.S.A. on 1/1/ 1808 and it is noted "The following anthem, written by a black, on the occasion, was sung..... Read More about New Year's Anthem, for 1808 (9 quatrains) appearing on p.4, first column of The Columbian...
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Litchfield [CT]: 12th Day of September 1781. Runaway 'Servant & Slave for Life'. An evocative Revolutionary War era court summons written on behalf of Phlimon Sanford, who was seeking compensation from two of his neighbors for allegedly inducing one of his slaves to runaway. Reading in part: "In the name..... Read More about Autograph document signed Andrew Adams ("Andr: Adams Assistant") to the...
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London: T. Cautley Newby, Publisher. 30, Welbeck Street, 1873. First edition. Slavery in Brazil. Written in English by a Portuguese nobleman and set in Brazil, on a slave owning plantation. Homeopathy, Brazilian Independence, the Emancipation of the Slaves and the conditions of the blacks are all subjects touched upon. Read More about Palmitos. A Novel
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Kentucky: 21st of June 1823. Reading in part, “I do hereby certify that Isaac Steward of the county aforersaid this day personally appeared before the undersigned and made oath that he had purchased … two Negroes (A woman & child) and that had Brought them into this sate for his..... Read More about Autograph Statement, signed (“Wesley M Garnett”), concerning Isaac Steward and his slaves
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New York: Nov 20, 1958. Fine image of the tennis champion who broke the color barrier in lawn tennis, and won both the U.S. National and Wimbledon championships in 1957 and '58; in both years she was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press. Read More about Portrait photograph of Althea Gibson
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Columbus , Ohio: Follett & Foster, 1858. First edition. Here he tells the tragic history of the Second Seminole War. Read More about The Exiles of Florida: or, the Crimes Committed by our Government against the Maroons, Who Fled...
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New York: Dec 2, 1955. Van Vechten, Carl. Read More about Portrait Photograph of John Birks ('Dizzy') Gillespie
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New York: Dec 2, 1955. Van Vechten, Carl. Reproduced (from this print) in Mauriber's PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN (1978). Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN (1978)..... Read More about Portrait Photograph of John Birks ('Dizzy') Gillespie
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N.p: n.d. [c. 1945]. The Poet of the Virgin Islands in Praise of FDR. This rare poetic broadside comes from an unusual American source: the poet of the Virgin Islands, José P. Gimenez, born on the Island of St. Thomas, (v. French, et. al., Afro-American Poetry & Drama 1760-1975, p...... Read More about Broadside poem, entitled “A Virgin Islands’ Tribute to the Memory of our Beloved President...
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New York: Mark H. Newman, 1844. Stepen Girard' will left money to establish a school for white, male boys and provided that no ecclesiastic, misionary or minister ever be admitted to the grounds. The family challenged the will on the grounds that the conditions were contrary to Pennsylvania law, and..... Read More about A Defense of the Christian Religion and the Religuous Instruction of the Young. Delivered in the...
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Boston: James B. Dow, 1836. First American edition, revised and augmented from the original London, 1830 edition. From the Providence Anti-Slavery Society Library. Provenance: Providence Anti-Slavery Society Library, with contemporary black on yellow square printed paper ticket (5.5 x 5.5 cm.) advertising an anti-slavery bookshop at No. 78, third story..... Read More about Lectures on Slavery … From the London Edition, with Additions to the American Edition
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[London: Thomas Astley, 1745-7]. Engraving showing "Negro Canoas carying Slaves aboard at Mansrow," extracted from A New Collection of Voyages and Travels (4 vols, London: Thomas Astley, 1745-7). Read More about Prospect of the Coast from El Mina to Mowri, from Barbot & Smith
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. First edition of Page's second book, Gordon's first. (BAL indicates 1500 copies printed). Inscribed by Page. Inscribed on the title page: "After de War / Thomas Nelson Page." Read More about Befo' de War. Echoes in Negro Dialect
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New York: July 18, 1946. Fine, inscribed portrait, and a rare image of the playwright and historian Shirley Graham (1896-1977). Graham was the author of several plays, including "Elijah's Ravens" (1930), "Tom-Tom" (1932), "Dust to Earth" (1940), and "It's Morning" (1940). Graham was also a serious historian of Afro-American history..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Shirley Graham DuBois, inscribed to Saul Mauriber
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Boston: Oliver Johnson, 1844. Second American from the last London Edition. Born a slave in Camden County, North Carolina, at age ten Moses Grandy was hired out for work building the Dismal Swamp Canal. Able to keep a portion of his earnings from navigating boats along the waterway, Grandy twice..... Read More about Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Formerly a Slave in the United States of America ... Sold...
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Paris: Chez Maradan, Libraire, 1808. First edition. First edition of the first history of black literature. Grégoire (1750-1831) was an abolitionist and a former Bishop of Blois. His De la Littérature des Nègres (Paris, 1808) was aimed at the seemingly false sympathy of Thomas Jefferson as expressed in his Notes..... Read More about De la Littérature des Nègres, ou recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles, leurs...
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London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1965. First English Edition. Read More about Nigger. An Autobiography…
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