Richmond, VA: Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, April 6, 1863. First edition. 8vo. 13 pp. Regulations concerning impressment of private property for military needs, including slaves, in part: “Where slaves are impressed by the confederate government to labor on fortifications or other public works, the impressment shall be made according..... More
Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., Printers and Binders, 1901. First edition, State of Alabama Constitutional Convention, 1901, Document No. 8. 8vo. 30 pp. Cunningham (1855-1921), a physician serving Alabama’s prison system and coal mining companies, was elected to the 1901 constitutional convention and helped to design the measures that disenfranchised..... More
Richmond, VA: House of Representatives, Jan. 10, 1865. First edition. 8vo. 5 pp. Correspondence concerning the conscription of slaves between Secretary of War James A. Seddon and other government officials and military officers (including Maj. Gen. J. L. Kemper) charged with carrying out the impressment. “Rebel Archives” stamp, else a...... More
Chapel Hill, (NC): UNC Press, (c1951). First edition. 8vo. 260 pp. Maps, tables, charts. Books from Chapel Hill (1972 edition), p. 46: “Detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina Negroes who held federal, state, county, and municipal offices. This record shows that the ratio of..... More
Montgomery, (AL): Press of the Alabama Journal, 1846. First edition. 12mo. 260 pp. A high-spot (if such a thing may be said to exist) of antebellum pro-slavery literature. Historian John Ashworth finds in Estes “the fullest expression” of the menial theme in pro-slavery literature: “[Estes] was prepared to ‘state it..... More
Montgomery, AL: Brown printing Co. for the commission, 1916. First edition. 8vo. 125 pp. Well illustrated from photographs, facsimiles, tables, plates. Includes reports on white and African-American illiteracy. The author was serving as secretary-treasurer of the commission at the time of publication. OCLC: “Prints bulletins on illiteracy in Alabama and..... More
Natchez, (MS): Jackson Warner, 1852. Fifth thousand. Thick 8vo. xiv, [7]-637 pp. Pro-slavery "textbook," with numerous passages and citations from the Bible. Sabin 24729. Work, p. 315. LCP/HSP Afro-Americana 3706. Blockson 10112. Owner's name, but a very good copy. Publisher's sheep (rubbed, several skinned spots), marbled endpapers and edges, leather..... More
Natchez, (MS): Jackson Warner, 1852. Fourth thousand. Thick 8vo. xiv, [7]-637 pp. Pro-slavery "textbook," with numerous passages and citations from the Bible. Sabin 24729. Work, p. 315. LCP/HSP Afro-Americana 3706. Blockson 10112. Owner's name, but a very good copy. Publisher's sheep (rubbed, spine and edges skinned), marbled endpapers and edges..... More
[NP: np, 1865]. Broadside, 21.5 x 24.5 cm. One corner torn away and tear in blank center portion of text.This Missouri handbill advertises a community meeting at which then Governor Thomas Fletcher and Henry Taylor Blow, then a U.S. Representative would attend in Liberty, Missouri, on May 15, 1865. It..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): William F. Geddes, Printer, Franklin Place, 1855. First edition. Original printed beige wrappers. 8vo. 16pp. One inch piece cut from top of front wrapper (perhaps removing name) not affecting printing. Discusses the treaty and the suppression of the slave trade because of the African Squadron: "A great country..... More
Boston, MA: Order of the Eastern Star, Prince Hall Affiliated, 1960. Assembly ribbon (6 ¼ x 1 5/8 inches), Masonic symbol at head of ribbon, delegate’s name tag pinned at top). The ribbon of five-colored vertical stripes is printed in green, the delegate represented the Bethlehem Chapter #41 of Orange..... More
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(Ann Arbor, MI): Dissertation Abstracts, 1959. First separate edition (reprinted from "Dissertation Abstracts," Vol. XIX, No. 7). 8vo. (7) pp. Abstract of the full dissertation, earned at Ohio State University in 1953. Fulbright (1919-2012), a native of Springfield Missouri, graduated from Lincoln University in 1941, fought as a bomber pilot..... More
New York: William Abbatt, 1909. Second edition with additions. Red cloth, gilt title on spine. No. 17 of 100 copies. 21.5 cm. 136 pp., 12 illustrations, including frontis. Blind stamp of the Brooklyn Historical Library on title page [withdrawal stamp on verso]. Thumbnail sized bend on outer edge of front..... More
Washington, [DC]: Printed by Lemuel Towers, 1858. First edition. 8vo. 15pp. Disbound. Slip signed by Hammond exercising his free frank tipped to title. "The chief event of his senatorial career was his speech of March 4, 1858, in reply to Seward's boast that henceforth the North would rule the South..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 648pp. Black cloth with gold and silver stamping on spine burgundy dust jacket. Association copy inscribed by author to a colleague at Univ. of Virginia. Very good. More
Boston, [MA]: Crosby & Nichols, 1863. First edition. 8vo. Engraved frontis. [4], v-xii, 13- 305pp. Blind stamped pebbled brown cloth with gilt spine title. Some abrasions on pastedowns, small hole on front endpaper, some foxing to first few leaves and to frontis., otherwise a clean tight copy. LCP/HSP: 4665 WORK..... More
Charlottesville, (VA): U. Press of Virginia, (c1999). First edition (paperback original). 4to. x, (2), 81 pp. Illustrated from photographs, old art, and line drawings, facsimiles, maps & plans. Original color illustrated wrappers. Very good. More
London: James W. Parker and Son West Strand, 1855-1861. First edition. 8vo. xv, 528; vii, 526; viii, 584; viii, 510, 8 pp. Maps. Larned: “Standard work, written in a vein of philanthropic philosophy, not intended as a narrative of the annals of the conquest, but rather as a study of..... More
Nashville, TN: Publishing House M.E. Church, South, Printed for the author, 1919. First published edition. 8vo. 111 pp. From the "introduction and viewpoint" [of a descendant of slave owners]: "Setting forth the cause of certain phenomena operative for good or ill in an economic way in the negro race ....... More
Utica, MS: The institute, 1911. 8vo. 8 pp. Table of receipts and disbursements on final page. Accompanied by a one-page typed letter, signed by Holtzclaw 24 January 1912, on institute letterhead, to a past donor in Buffalo, N.Y., soliciting a further contribution. Holtzclaw (1870-1943), an Alabama native and Tuskegee graduate..... More
Washington, DC: Institute for the Preservation and Study of African-American Writing: D.C. Community Humanities Council, 1990. Paperwraps, front cover illustrated with photographs. 28cm. iv, 75pp. illus., portraits. Of the twelve oral histories recorded here all but one are done by women. OCLC: Am. Univ., DC Pub. Lib., George Washington Univ..... More
[Topeka, KS]: Plaindealer Print. 1910. Revised edition (first published 1904). 16mo. 92 pp. Includes Grand Lodge Constitution and By-Laws, beneficiary laws, and subordinate lodge constitution and by-laws. This African-American branch of the Knights of Pythias (denoted by its use of the six continents in its name), a mutual aid organization..... More
Columbia, SC: State Commercial Printing Co., 1955. First edition. 4to. ix, (1), 222 pp. Plates, endpaper maps. Illustrated survey of plantations, owners, and low country life from the 17th century to the turn of the 20th century. Reprints are relatively common, but the first edition appears to be rather scarce..... More
NY: Random House, (c2000). First edition. 4to. 144 pp. Illustrated from photographs, some in color, old art, ephemera, portraits, map. Chapters on the families of Thomas Jefferson, through both his wife Martha and his slave Sally Hemings; the author is a descendant of Jefferson and Hemings. Cloth-backed blue boards, illustrated..... More
NY: Random House, (c2002). First paperback edition, with added material. 4to. 160 pp. Illustrated from photographs, some in color, old art, ephemera, portraits, map. Chapters on the families of Thomas Jefferson, through both his wife Martha and his slave Sally Hemings; the author is a descendant of Jefferson and Hemings..... More
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