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Self-Evident Lie, A: Southern slavery and the threat to American freedom /.. Various
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Self-Evident Lie, A: Southern slavery and the threat to American freedom /..


Various

Hardcover. United States, Kent State University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 460557


Price: $31.00 

Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War Martineau, Harriet
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Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War


Martineau, Harriet

Hardcover. DeKalb, iL, Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear to edges of jacket, scuffing and fading. Sticker residue on lower spine of jacket. Spine slightly cocked, textblock clean and tight. "Review Only" copy stamped in front end papers.

Record # 2230819


Price: $44.00 

Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase Kennedy, Roger G.
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Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase


Kennedy, Roger G.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 452797


Price: $12.00 

North Star to Freedom by: Gorrell, Gena K.
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North Star to Freedom by: Gorrell, Gena K.

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1st Am, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. (3) magine escaping from the terrors of plantation slavery, only to live for years in a swamp full of biting insects and deadly snakes. Picture yourself making a dangerous journey to freedom, guided by nothing but courage and the North Star. Record # 454522
Price: $12.00 

 

William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery


Tuckerman, Bayard

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead & Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages. Ex-library with markings on spine, card-pocket in rear and previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. INSCRIBED BY Williams son John Jay on front end paper. Light wear and rubbing to covers, no dust jacket issued. Faint foxing to edges. Internally clean and bright.

Record # 855918


Price: $75.00 

 

Americans From Africa: Slavery and Its Aftermath by: Rose, Peter I.

Hardcover. New York, Atherton Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 459 pages. Gilt titles on spine and decoration on front cover. Foxing to dust jacket and top and side edges. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857241
Price: $12.00 

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding Wilentz, Sean
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No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding


Wilentz, Sean

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very light remnants of pencil marking in front end papers, otherwise very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2231006


Price: $19.00 

 

Slaves in the Family


Ball, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st , 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Winner of National Book Award

Record # 50910


Price: $30.00 

 

Roving Editor, The or Talks with Slaves in the Southern States


Redpath, James

Paperback. University Park, PA, Penn Sate Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Interviews with Slaves in the South by a Redpath, a journalist from the North. Edited by John R. McKivigan. Beautiful, new seeming condition. Paperback, 356 pgs.

Record # 109170


Price: $20.00 

 

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny


Morrison, Michael A.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 396 pages. Tan cloth cover, some light wear, very minor foxing. Dust jacket has some edgewear. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 455537


Price: $19.00 

Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves Starobin, Robert S. (editor)
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Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves


Starobin, Robert S. (editor)

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Markus Wiener Pub, 2nd , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 172 pages. Softcover with only light edge wear to wrappers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 470226


Price: $13.00 

 

Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly


Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Illust. by: Miguel Covarrubias

Hardcover. Norwalk CT, Easton Press, Ltd. Ed., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages, illustrated in b&w by Miguel Covarrubias, color frontispiece portrait of author(uncedited). Leather bound with gilt decorations, raised bands on spine. All edges gilt, ribbon marker, moire end papers.Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 601356


Price: $28.00 

 

Black Odyssey - The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery


Huggins, Nathan Irvin

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1st UK, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON DEDICATION PAGE. Foxing to top edge, with spots to foredge. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612479


Price: $75.00 

 

Blind African Slave, The, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace (SIGNED)


Brace, Jeffrey

Paperback. Madison WI, The University of Wisconsin Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages, paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf, inscribed to Bill McKibben. The life and times of Jeffrey Brace, a well-respected abolitionist with legendary powers of memory.

Record # 952492


Price: $31.00 

 

Man of the Crowd, The: Edgar Allan Poe and the City


Peeples, Scott, Michelle Van Parys (Photographs)

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st edition, 2020, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 206 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition, like new. Featuring evocative photographs by Michelle Van Parys, The Man of the Crowd challenges the popular conception of Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings.

Record # 32316


Price: $19.00 

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African by: Equiano, Olaudah Edit. Costanzo, Angelo
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African by: Equiano, Olaudah Edit. Costanzo, Angelo

Softcover. Toronto, ON, Broadview Literary Texts, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 331 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This is a memoir written by Olaudah Equiano, an influential African advocate of abolishing the slave trade in Britain during the late 18th century. Clean copy. Record # 33665
Price: $15.00 

Jackson & Lee: Legends in Gray by: Robertson, James I. Jr., Illust. by: Kunstler, Mort
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Jackson & Lee: Legends in Gray by: Robertson, James I. Jr., Illust. by: Kunstler, Mort

Hardcover. Nashville, TN, Rutledge Hill Press, 2nd Pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color illustrations throughout, with B&W portraits on the end pages. This book is a stunning visual history of the two most well-known confederate generals by the premier historical artist of our time, accompanied by a compelling verbal portrait by one of America's leading Civil War historians. This is a large-format volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34710
Price: $12.00 

 

Pursuit of a Dream, The


Hermann, Janet Sharp

NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages.

Record # 61968


Price: $15.00 

 

One More River to Cross - An African American Photograph Album


Myers, Walter Dean

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages. Black & white historical photography. Golden Kite Award seal on dust jacket.

Record # 207901


Price: $25.00 

Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North (SIGNED COPY) Manegold, C.S.
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Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North (SIGNED COPY)


Manegold, C.S.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press , 2nd pr., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Record # 411255


Price: $38.00 

Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 by: Kay, Marvin L.
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Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 by: Kay, Marvin L.

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, The, 1st, July 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Smokey odour. Foxing to top edge and smudge on fore-edge. Wear to cover edges. Light wear to dust jacket. Else a tight copy. Record # 454951
Price: $12.00 

 

Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South


Weisenburger, Steven

Hardcover. New York, Book Club, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456664


Price: $12.00 

Slavery and the Annexation of Texas Merk, Frederick
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Slavery and the Annexation of Texas


Merk, Frederick

Hardcover. Random House Children's Books, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages, plus index in rear. Light dust jacket edge wear, remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457953


Price: $25.00 

IMPERFECT GOD. AN: GEORGE WASHINGTON, HIS SLAVES, AND THE CREATION OF AMERICA by: Wiencek, Henry
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IMPERFECT GOD. AN: GEORGE WASHINGTON, HIS SLAVES, AND THE CREATION OF AMERICA by: Wiencek, Henry

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Good, 404 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 404 pages. Record # 467422 Record # 467422
Price: $12.00