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African American History in the Press, 1851-1899 : From the Coming of the Civil War to the Rise of Jim Crow As Reported and Illustrated in Selected Newspapers of the Time. VOLUME 1: 1851-1869 and Volume 2: 1870-1899)


Schneider, Rich

Hardcover. New York, Gale Group, 2nd, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes/1325 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to laminated covers.

Record # 468241


Price: $50.00 

 

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 

Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American SlavesStarobin, 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 

 

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 

 

Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas


Scott, Terry Anne

Hardcover. Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear. A tight copy.

Record # 2230416


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 

 

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 

Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana PurchaseKennedy, 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 

 

Nature of Sacrifice, The: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64


Bundy, Carol

Hardcover. New York, NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, First Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 548 pages. Hardcover. Ivory cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations, very clean & unmarked inside. Dime sized, faint mark to top edge. Dust jacket with only marginal wear to edges. A very nice, crisp copy.

Record # 751465


Price: $19.00 

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's FoundingWilentz, 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 

 

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 

 

Personal Reminiscences of the Anti-Slavery and Other Reforms and Reformers


Powell, Aaron M.

Hardcover. Plainfield, Anna Rice Powell, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor stains along top edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612438


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

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 

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 

 

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 

Slavery and the Annexation of TexasMerk, 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 

 

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 

Sweet Hell Inside, The: A Family HistoryBall, Edward
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Sweet Hell Inside, The: A Family History


Ball, Edward

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 384 pages. B&w photography throughout. Previous owners bookplate on front fly leaf. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468019


Price: $13.00 

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 

The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical EditionMcKivingan, John R.
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The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical Edition


McKivingan, John R.

Softcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 645 pages. Softcover. Very wear to cover, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2231047


Price: $19.00 

Uncle Tom's Cabin for ChildrenStowe, Harriet Beecher
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Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children


Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Penn Publishing Co, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some wear to edges of covers, and partial separation to cover hinges, though they are holding to binding. Front end paper title page fully separated and torn down middle. Name of previous owner on front end papers in pencil. Illustrated throughout.

Record # 2230697


Price: $188.00 

 

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 

 

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 


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