Negro in Tennessee.
TAYLOR, Alrutheus A. The Negro in Tennessee, 1865-1880. Wash., 1941. 1st ed. 306pp. Very good in orig. cloth.
TAYLOR, Alrutheus A. The Negro in Tennessee, 1865-1880. Wash., 1941. 1st ed. 306pp. Very good in orig. cloth.
CORRELL, [Charles J.] and GOSDEN, [Freeman F.]. Sam 'n' Henry. Original cloth, priceclipped dustjacket. Chicago: Shrewesbury Publishing Co., [1926]. First edition. Inscribed by the authors on front free endpaper. Collection of radio scripts from the show that preceded the authors' better known and similar, Amos 'n' Andy. Jacket chipped and.....
JERVEY, Theodore D. The Slave Trade: Slavery and Color. Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, 1925. 1st ed. vi, 344 pp. Illus. Orig. cloth in d/j. A fine copy.
KENNEDY, Louise Venable. The Negro Peasant Turns Cityward. Effects of Recent Migrations to Northern Centers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1930. 1st ed. 8vo. 273pp. Original dark blue, gilt stamped cloth. Name of previous owner on front free end paper and title page, else bright and near fine. Scarce. A......
LLOYD, Arthur Y. The Slavery Controversy 1831-1860. Chapel Hill, 1939. 1st ed., xi, 337pp. Fine in d/j.
MERRITT, Elizabeth. James Henry Hammond, 1807-1864. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Series XLI, no. 4. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1923. 1st ed. 8vo, 151pp. Original printed wraps. A crisp, partially unopened, near fine copy. The first, and for many years, the only biography of the South.....
NASSAU, Robert Hamill. In an Elephant Corral, And Other Tales of West African Experiences. N.Y.: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. 1st ed. 180pp. A fine copy in a pictorial binding. Krick 336. A scarce Neale imprint.
PEIRCE, Paul Skeels. The Freedmen's Bureau: A Chapter in the History of Reconstruction. Iowa City: State University of Iowa, 1904. 1st ed. vii,200pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers worn, a few marginal annotations, else very good. Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 to help former black slaves and poor whites.....
ROSENTHAL, Eric. Stars and Stripes in Africa. Being a History of American Achievements in Africa by Explorers, Missionaries, Pirates, Adventurers, Hunters, Miners, Merchants, Scientists, Soldiers, Showmen, Engineers and others, with some account of Africans who have played a part in American affairs. London, [1938]. 1st ed. Illus. xiii, 306pp. Some.....
THOMPSON, George. Prison Life and Reflections; or, A Narrative of the Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, and Deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson, Who Suffered an Unjust and Cruel Imprisonment in Missouri Penitentiary, for Attempting to Aid some Slaves to Liberty. Dayton, 1860. 377pp. Frontis. Orig. blindstamped cloth.....
WORK, Monroe N. A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America. Original cloth. New York: Argosy-Antiquarian Ltd., 1965. Reprint of the 1928 edition. Very good.
WORK, Monroe N. Negro Year Book: An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1918-1919. Tuskegee Institute, AL: The Negro Year Book Publishing Company, 1919. 1st ed. viii,523pp. Maps. Orig. printed wrappers. Outer front hinge starting at foot, uniform toning, else very good. Fifth annual Negro Year Book of encyclopedic and statistical.....
WYLLY, Charles Spalding. The Seed that was Sown in the Colony of Georgia: the Harvest and the Aftermath, 1740-1870. New York; The Neale Publishing Company, 1910. 1st ed. 163pp. Orig. cloth. cloth lightly rubbed, else very good. Krick 574: "The sole theme of this volume is that slavery was an.....
ADAMS, E[dward] C.L. Potee's Gal. A drama of Negro Life NEar the Big Congaree Swamps. Columbia, SC: The State Co., 1929. 8vo, 49pp. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in lightly worn d/j. One of 250 copies signed by Adams. Scarce. Turnbull V, 297.
(CHESNUTT, CHARLES W.). CHESNUTT, Helen M. Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line. Original cloth, priceclipped dust jacket. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1952]. First edition. Biography by the author's daughter. Fine in fine d/j.
DRAKE, Thomas E. Quakers and Slavery in America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1950. 1st ed. ix,245pp. Orig. cloth. Marginal note on p. 116, else near fine.
GREELY, Horace and CLEVELAND, John F., comp. A Political Text-Book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential Nominations and Elections: Including All the National Platforms Ever Yet Adopted: also, a history of the Struggle Respecting Slavery in the Territories, and of the Action of Congress as to the Reedom.....
HAMILL, H[oward] M[elancthon]. The Old South: A Monograph. Nashville, TN: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, [1913]. 79pp. Portrait frontis., portraits, plates. Orig. pictorial cloth. Cloth lightly rubbed, faint scattered foxing, else very good or better. Hamill divides Old South into slaveholders, slaves, and non-slaveholding whites. .
(WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.). HARLAN, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: the Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. 1st ed. xii, 379 pp. Portait frontis., illus., portraits. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Moderate wear to d/j, else a very good copy. Based on Washington's papers, this biography.....
HAYNES, Elizabeth Ross. The Black Boy of Atlanta. Boston: The House of Edinboro, [1952]. 1st ed. 237pp Portrait frontis., portraits, plates. Orig.. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Some waterstaining to d/j, spine panel chipped, faint water stain to top free corner of first few leaves, else every good. Inscribed by the author.....
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson's Letter of 20 May 1826 to James Heaton on the Abolition of Slavery. edited by Walter Muir Whitehill. Wash.: Dunbarton Oaks Garden Library, 1967. Facsimile. 20pp. Tall thin 4to. A fine copy in orig. cloth-backed patterned boards. Limited to 150 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press.....
RANDLE, E[dwin] H. Characteristics of the SOuthern Negro. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910. 1st ed. 129pp. Orig. cloth. Faint speckling to cloth, tiny hole to front outer hinge, else very good. "An ardent defense of slavery as the logical role for Blacks, and an attack on the situation.....
SOULSBY, Hugh G. The Right of Search and the Slave Trade in Anglo-American Relations 1814-1862. Baltimore, 1933. 185pp. Very good in slightly chipped printed wrappers.
THOMAS, Robert B. The Farmer's Almanack, Calculated on a New and Improved Plan, for the Year of Our Lord, 1800. Boston: Manning & Loring, for John West, [1799]. 24 leaves. Sewn. Complete. Lacks lower half of titlepage., final leaf worn, else very good. [Bound with]: The Farmer's Almanack, Calculated on.....
WEEDEN, [Maria] Howard. HARRIS, Joel Chandler (intro.). Bandanna Ballads Including "Shadows on the Wall." New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. 1st ed. xvi, [2], 90, [2] pp., frontis., illus. In orig. cloth. An exceptionally bright copy with trivial rubbing to the board edges. Near fine. Weeden was a noted.....