|
|
Extracts from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Reports of the Directors of the African Institution, Read at their Annual General Meetings, Held in London...1824...1825.
|
1826
|
|
|
|
National Testimonial to William Lloyd Garrison. [Caption title]
|
1866
|
|
|
|
A Short History of the African Union Meeting and School-House, Erected in Providence (R.I.) in the Years 1819, '20, '21; with Rules for Its Future Government.
|
1821
|
|
|
|
City Cries: or, a Peep at Scenes in Town. By an Observer. Illustrated with twenty-four Designs by Croome.
|
1851
|
|
|
|
A Representation of Governor Wall Ordering Serjeant B. Armstrong, Without a Trial, to be tied to a gun, at Coree, in Africa, and inhumanly flogged by Black Slaves, who were changed every twenty-five lashes. [Caption title & partial text]. [Followed by large woodcut of the scene]. 12" x 7." Fine.
|
1802
|
|
|
|
The Sorrows of Yamba; or the Negro Woman's Lamentation. [Taken from the Cheap Repository].
|
1819
|
|
|
|
Cries of the Metropolis: or, Humble Life in New York. [Wrapper title].
|
1857
|
|
|
|
Long Tail Blue. As Originally Sung by Mr. T.B. Nathans. In All the Southern and Philadelphia Circuses. [Caption title]. Broadside, 9" x 9". Printed in two columns with typographical border.
|
1830
|
|
|
|
Henry Richards and Alexander Anderson, Murderers of Mrs. Garber and Mrs. Ream, on Tuesday, December 15th, 1857, at Fruitville, Manheim Township, Lancasteer Co., Penna. [Caption title] 4to wood engraving of the murderers.
|
1857
|
|
|
|
Writ of Habeas Corpus to the Sheriff or Constable or Deputy of Attleborough, [Massachusetts] from Justice John Cary Clarke, May 17, 1707. 8vo. ink mss. document, official red seal, folds, small hole.
|
1707
|
|
|
|
Witness Deposition of an Accident Involving Blacks. Sept. 24, 1924. Charleston, SC. Deposition of Ethel L. Walters taken by William S. Legare, Notary Public for South Carolina (seal). 5 pp. 8” x 12.5” lined paper affixed with orig. brass clasp. Ink. Crisp, clear, some slight cut throughs from pressure of pen.
|
1924
|
|
|
|
Six Civil War Era Studio Tintypes of Blacks. Half plate size, 2.5 x 3.75". 1) Young woman with beribboned hat. Bright, smudge at right not affecting image. 2) Young woman with banana curls. Plate bends, dark. 3) Middle aged woman with hand to chin. Crazing, darkening. 4) Group of four men, one may be wearing railroad conductor's hat. Darkened, bent. 5) Man and wife (?), good. 6) Young woman with necklace and bracelet. Slightly darkened.
|
1865
|
|
|
|
Log of the Edward Stanly, G.M. Yates, Master. Burma to Falmouth, [England] and Then to Liverpool. Dec. 20, 1863 to July 16, 1864. Printed log book, James Imray and Son, London. 10.25 x 13 inches. 215 pp. Blue paper covered board, with red buckram spine. Edge wear, ink splatters on cover, intact, legible hand.
|
1863
|
|
|
|
The Extravaganza of Jim Crow! [Caption title in two lines]. Thirty-Nine (39) Four Line Verses (not including the Chorus, which follows the first verse) in Two Columns, divided by a typographical line. Narrow large folio.
|
1830
|
|
|
|
An Inventory of the Estate of Capt. James Jarvis, Late of Roxbury. Decd. Estate 1753, Taken 1750. 2 Copies (ca. 1753), 2 pages each, taken from the original of dated January 14, 1750. One copy is in old tenor. Sheets 7.5 x 12.5 inches, 4 pp., browned, folds, archival tape repairs. Bright ink.
|
1750
|
|
|
|
I’m Off For Charleston. [Caption title]. Broadside, 8-1/8” x 6-1/8," text only, being 5 quatrains and chorus, within an ornamental border. Tiny stain at upper right corner. Fine.
|
1855
|
|
|
|
Old Uncle Ned. Songster.
|
1855
|
|
|
|
Writ of Attachment for Jenne Burlington, a Black Woman. May 4, 1802. Sterling, Windham County, Connecticut. Signed by John Grafton, Justice of the Peace. Sheet 8 x 12.5 inches. 1 1/2 pp. Docketed. Folds, light browning. Bright ink.
|
1802
|
|
|
ADAMS, F. C.
|
Manuel Pereira; or, the Sovereign Rule of South Carolina.
|
1853
|
|
|
ALSOP, RICHARD.
|
The Echo.
|
1807
|
|
|
ALSOP, RICHARD.
|
The Echo.
|
1807
|
|
|
ANDREWS, STEPHEN PEA
|
The Phonographic Reader: a Complete Course of Inductive Reading Lessons in Phonography.
|
1845
|
|
|
ANDREWS, STEPHEN PEA
|
The Phonographic Word-Book Number Two. Containing the Whole Body of Effective Words in the English Language, Arranged and Classified According to the Modes in Which they Should Be Written in Phonography. Intended Immediately to Succeed the Phonographic Word-Book No. One, and the Phonographic Class-Book and Reader.
|
1849
|
|
|
ANON.
|
A Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the People of Colour, of the City and Districts of Philadelphia.
|
1849
|
|
|
ANON.
|
Postscript to "A Review of the Colonial Slave Registration Acts..."
|
1820
|
|
|
ANON.
|
Brudder Bones' "4-11-44" Joker. Containing a Jolly Lot of Sable Conundrums, Ethiopian Jokes, Burnt Cork Comicalities and Darkey Dialogues.
|
1897
|
|
|
ANON.
|
The Boys of New York. Stump Speaker. Containing a Varied Assortment of Stump Speeches Negro, Dutch and Irish. Also End Men's Jokes. Just the Thing for Home Amusement and Amateur Shows.
|
1902
|
|
|
AVERY, I.W.
|
Supplement to Floridian. Premium List of the First Annual Fair...How to Manage Colored Farm Labor...[Folio broadside headings]. In Four Columns.
|
1890
|
|
|
BAIRD, H.C.
|
General Washington and General Jackson, on Negro Soldiers.
|
1863
|
|
|
BANNERMAN, HELEN.
|
The Story of Little Black Mingo. By the Author of 'The Story of Little Black Sambo'.
|
1902
|
|
|
BARNARD FREEDMEN'S-A
|
Third Annual Report...[Caption title].
|
1867
|
|
|
BEARD, JAMES C. Arti
|
The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870. [Caption]. Vividly hand colored lithograph, 24" x 30".
|
1870
|
|
|
BEARD, JOHN R.
|
The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, The Negro Patriot of Hayti. With Numerous Engravings.
|
1853
|
|
|
BETHUNE, THOMAS G.
|
The Marvelous Musical Prodigy, Blind Tom, the Negro Boy Pianist... Testimonials of Musicians and Savans, and Opinions of the American and English Press, of "Blind Tom."
|
1876
|
|
|
BETHUNE, THOMAS.
|
Blind Tom's March by Blind Tom.
|
1865
|
|
|
BOKER, GEORGE H.
|
The Second Louisiana. May 27th, 1863. [Caption title]. Broadside, 8" x 4.75." Verse printed in two columns.
|
1863
|
|
|
BOKER, GEORGE H.
|
The Second Louisiana. May 27th, 1863. [Caption title]. Broadside, 8" x 4.75." Verse printed in two columns.
|
1863
|
|
|
BUTLER, MAJOR GENERA
|
United States of America. Head Quarters Deparment of Virginia and North Carolina. Provisional Commission. [Caption title]. Sm. folio broadside.
|
1864
|
|
|
CABLE, GEORGE W.
|
The Negro Question.
|
1888
|
|
|
CARMICHAEL, J.R.
|
Uncle Ephriam's Eulogy. Carmichael's Buggy. [Wrapper title].
|
1900
|
|
|
CATTO, Rev. WILLIAM
|
A Semi-Centenary Discourse, Delivered in the First African-Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on the Fourth Sabbath of May, 1857: with a History pf tje Church from Its First Organization: Including a Brief Notice of Rev. John Gloucester, Its Ffirst Pastor. Also, an Appendix, Containing sketches of all the Colored Churches in Philadelphia.
|
1857
|
|
|
CHANNING, WILLIAM E.
|
Emancipation.
|
1840
|
|
|
CHAPMAN, Elder HENRY
|
Remember Them That Are in Bonds, as Bound with Them.--Heb. 13:3. [Caption title]. Sm. 4to broadside, printed in two columns.
|
1841
|
|
|
CHAPMAN, JOHN JAY.
|
Memories and Milestones.
|
1915
|
|
|
CHILD, D.L. & HILLAR
|
A Report of the Trial of Pedro Gibert, Bernardo de Soto [et al]... Before the U.S. Circuit Court, on an Indictment Charging Them with the Commission of an Act of Piracy, on Board the Brig Mexican of Salem...
|
1834
|
|
|
CHRISTY, E.P. Singer
|
Music of the Original Christy Minstrels, the Oldest Established Band in the United States. [Tinted pictorial title of the band members in various performances]. "We'll Have a Little Dance To Night Boys." [Caption title of sheet music].
|
1847
|
|
|
CHRISTY, E.P..
|
Christy's Plantation Melodies. Published Under the Authority of E.P. Christy...Originator of Ethiopian Minstrelsy and the First to Harmonize Negro Melodies.
|
1854
|
|
|
CHRISTY, EDWIN P.
|
Christy's Nigga Songster, Containing Songs as are Sung by Christy's, Pierce's White's Sable Brothers, & Dumbleton's Band or Minstrels.
|
1850
|
|
|
CHRISTY, EDWIN P.
|
Christy's Plantation Melodies. No. 5. Published Under the Authority of E.P. Christy, Originator of Ethopian Minstrelsy, and the First to Harmonize Negro Melodies.
|
1853
|
|
|
CLAGETT, RICHARD.
|
Public Sale of Negroes...On Tuesday, March 5th, 1833 at !:00 P.M. the following Slaves will be sold at Potters Mart, in Charleston, S.C. Miscellaneous Lots of Negroes, mostly house servants, some for field work. [Caption title & partial text]. Broadside, 13.5" x 8.5."
|
1833
|
|
|
CLARK, AARON.
|
Communication from His Honor the Mayor, in Relation to the Precautionary Measures Adopted by Him to Secure the Public Peace at the Recent Election in This City, with Documents, and a Report from theComptroller Relative to the Expenses Incurred During Said Election.
|
1839
|
|
|
CLARK, B.C.
|
A Plea for Hayti, with a Glance at Her Relations wih France, England and the United States for the Last Sixty Years. Third Edition.
|
1853
|
|
|
CLARK, GEO. W.
|
The Liberty Minstrel.
|
1844
|
|
|
CLARKE, LEWIS.
|
Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More Than Twenty-Five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of North America. Dictated by Himself.
|
1845
|
|
|
CLAY, HENRY.
|
Speech of the Hon. (Henry Clay, before the) American Colonization Society...with an Appendix...
|
1827
|
|
|
COLE, SAMUEL W.
|
The Muse; or Flowers of Poetry; a Choice Collection of Favorite Odes, Poems, Songs, Elegies, Dirges, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Elegant Extracts, &c.
|
1827
|
|
|
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, S.
|
Twenty-Four Melodies Transcribed for the Piano. Op. 59. With a Preface by Booker T. Washington.
|
1905
|
|
|
COLFAX, RICHARD H.
|
Evidence Against the Views of the Abolitionists, Consisting of Physical and Moral Proofs, of the Natural Inferiority of the Negroes.
|
1833
|
|
|
COOLEY, TIMOTHY MATH
|
Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, for Many Years Pastor of a Church in Rutland, Vt., and Late in Granville, New-York. With Some Introductory Remarks by William B. Sprague.
|
1839
|
|
|
COOLEY, TIMOTHY MATH
|
Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, for Many Years Pastor of a Church in Rutland, Vt., and Late in Granville, New-York. With Some Introductory Remarks by William B. Sprague.
|
1838
|
|
|
CROLY, DAVID G.
|
Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro. Reprinted from the New York Edition.
|
1864
|
|
|
CURRIER & IVES.
|
Wm. Tillman, the Colored Steward, of the Schooner S.J. Waring which was captured by the Piratical Brig Jeff Davis and recaptured by Tillman and Wm. Steding the German Sailor after having killed three of the Pirates in charge of her. He is receiving Visitors daily at Barnum's Museum, New York. [Full caption title].
|
1861
|
|
|
DAVIS, CHARLES W.
|
Manuscript Journal Copies of 120 Business Letters, 1837-69. In ink in a very legible hand.
|
1837
|
|
|
DAY, WILLIAM HOWARD.
|
Celebration by the Colored People's Educational Monument Association in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, on the Fourth of July, 1865, in the Presidential Grounds, Washington, D.C.
|
1865
|
|
|
DE BECK, WILLIAM L.
|
Murder Will Out. The First Step in Crime Leads to the Gallows. The Horrors of the Queen City....By an Old Citizens.
|
1867
|
|
|
DE VOE, THOMAS.
|
The Market Book Containing a Historical Account of the Public Markets in the Cities of New York Boston Philadelphia and Brooklyn With a brief Description of every Article of Human Food sold therein the Introduction of Cattle in America...In Two Volumes. Vol. I [all pub.].
|
1862
|
|
|
DICKSON, W.M.
|
Review of the Letter of General Cox, of Ohio.
|
1865
|
|
|
DIXON, THOMAS, JR.
|
The Clansman. An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.
|
1905
|
|
|
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.
|
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman. With an Introduction. By Dr. James M'Cune Smith.
|
1855
|
|
|
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.
|
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman. With an Introduction. By Dr. James M'Cune Smith.
|
1855
|
|
|
ELDRIDGE, ELLEANOR.
|
Elleanor's Second Book.
|
1839
|
|
|
ELDRIDGE, ELLEANOR.
|
Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge.
|
1840
|
|
|
ELDRIDGE, ELLEANOR.
|
Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge.
|
1843
|
|
|
EMERSON, R.W.
|
An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies.
|
1844
|
|
|
EMERSON, R.W.
|
An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies.
|
1844
|
|
|
FLIPPER, HENRY O.
|
The Colored Cadet at West Point. Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy.
|
1878
|
|
|
FREEMAN, FREDERICK.
|
Africa's Redemption. The Salvation of our Country.
|
1852
|
|
|
GARRISON, FANNY & HE
|
Engraved Invitation to the Marriage of Henry Villard and Fanny Garrison, at the Residence of William Lloyd Garrison, January 3, 1866. Directed to, in holograph, Mr. & Mrs. J.B. Smith, Cambridgeport, with the Envelope with "G" on the Flap.
|
1866
|
|
|
GARRISON, WM. LLOYD.
|
Thoughts on African Colonization: or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color.
|
1832
|
|
|
GORHAM, AMOS T.?
|
Journal Containing News of the 1841 Rhode Island Convention, and the Rev. Avery and Sarah Cornell Murder Case. N.A. Probable Author: Amos T. Gorham. February 17, 1823 (one page only) January 1, 1833 to January 25, 1841. 1844 and 1848 (one page only). Bristol, Rhode Island. 6.5 x 7.5 inches, 115 pp., board covers, some pen & ink illus., some pasted news clippings first few pages. Spine mostly separated, pages loose and browned with some edge fraying. Ink.
|
1841
|
|
|
GRAY, E.H.
|
Assaults Upon Freedom! Or, Kidnapping an Outrage Upon Humanity and Abhorrent to God. A Discourse, Occasioned by the Rendition of Anthony Burns.
|
1854
|
|
|
HAILMANN, et al.
|
The Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association, Session of the Year 1886, at Topeka, Kansas.
|
1887
|
|
|
HAMLET, JAMES.
|
The Fugitive Slave Bill: Its History and Unconstitutionality; with an Account of the Seizure and Enslavement of James Hamlet, and His Subsequent Restoration to Liberty.
|
1850
|
|
|
HARRIGAN, EDWARD.
|
The Ten Little Mulligan Guards. [Wrapper title].
|
1874
|
|
|
HAWKINS, JOSEPH.
|
A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa, and Travels into the Interior of that Country; Containing Particular descriptions of the Climate and Inhabitants, and interesting particulars concerning the Slave Trade....The Second Edition.
|
1797
|
|
|
HELM, MARY.
|
The Upward Path: the Evolution of a Race.
|
1909
|
|
|
HILDRETH, RICHARD
|
The Slave: or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Sixth Edition. Two volumes in One.
|
1846
|
|
|
HILDRETH, RICHARD.
|
The Slave: or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Second Edition. Two Volumes in One.
|
1840
|
|
|
HILDRETH, RICHARD.
|
The Slave: or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Third Edition. Two Volumes in One.
|
1840
|
|
|
HILTON, JOHN T. Ward
|
We the Master, Wardens and Secretary of African Lodge, No. 459, held in the Town of Boston...Do Certify, that the Bearer hereof...has been regularly initiated into the third Degree of Masonry...[Printed & holograph title]. [Broadside, 10.5" x 9." With engraved pillars, tools and eye. Ribbon threaded down the left side, remnant of seal.
|
1826
|
|
|
HOPPIN, AUGUSTUS.
|
Two Compton Boys. With Ninety-Three Illustrations by the Author.
|
1885
|
|
|
HORNE, MELVILLE.
|
A Sermon Preached at the Parish Church...June 4, 1811, Before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East...Second American Edition.
|
1811
|
|
|
HOUSTON, ADDISON CHA
|
Hugh Harrison, (A Mulatto).
|
1890
|
|
|
HOWE, MRS. JULIA WAR
|
Battle Hymn of the Republic. [Caption title]. 4to broadside.
|
1863
|
|
|
JOHNSON, H.U.
|
From Dixie to Canada. Romances and Realities of the Underground Railroad. Vol. I. [All publ.] First Thousand.
|
1894
|
|
|
JOHNSON, JAMES WELDO
|
Black Manhattan.
|
1930
|
|
|
JOHNSON, T.
|
Cobbett and the Negro. To the Editor of an Evening Paper. [Caption title]. 4to broadside.
|
1820
|
|
|
JOHNSTON, ANNIE FELL
|
Ole Mammy's Torment. Illustrated by Mary G. Johnston and Amy M. Sacker.
|
1897
|
|
|
KELLEY, WILLIAM D.
|
Why Colored People in Philadelphia are Excluded from the Street Cars.
|
1866
|
|
|
KLETZING, H.F. & W.H
|
Progress of a Race or the Remarkable Advancement of the Afro-American Negro. From the Bondage of Slavery, Ignorance and Poverty to the Freedom of Citizenship, Intelligence, Affluence, Honor and Trust. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington.
|
1898
|
|
|
LANE, AARON.
|
4to manuscript invoice, in ink, to William Nevill, May 9, 1818, "...wages in hunting 3 days for his Negro Charles..."
|
1818
|
|
|
LARKINS, JOLLY JOHN
|
R. Voelckel Presents The Black Patti Co. With Sissieretta Jones and Jolly John Larkins. A Trip to Africa. A Three Act Musical Farce Comedy. [Cover title, printed in green & black (Illustrated).
|
1909
|
|
|
LEWIS, R.B.
|
Light and Truth...the Universal History of the Colored and the Indian Race...to the Present Time.
|
1844
|
|
|
MARSH, J.B.I. Editor
|
The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with Their Songs. Seventh Edition. Completing Fifty-Fourth Thousand.
|
1877
|
|
|
MASSACHUSETTS.
|
Two manuscript letters, one dated July 12, 1798, from the town of Cambridge to the Overseers of the Poor of the town of Medfield, concerning one Anthony Frederick, a Negro; the second, a retained copy of a reply by the town of Medfield, to the town of Cambridge, dated August 11, 1798.
|
1798
|
|
|
MAYER, BRANTZ.
|
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Being an Account of His Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies. Written Out and Edited from the Captain's Journals, Memoranda and Conversations. Tenth Thousand.
|
1854
|
|
|
McCALLUM, J.
|
Four (4) Page ALS to Wife "Ellen" Concerning Slaves in the South and His Hay Dealing Business Trip. Memphis, Tennessee. July 27, 1857. Sheet, blue paper, ink. 9.75 x 15.50 inches. No cover. Folds. Legible hand.
|
1857
|
|
|
McDANIEL, G., Presid
|
A Grand National Celebration Will Be Held on the Third of August, 1895 By the Colored Population of Clinton, Missouri. [Caption title (in 6 lines)]. Folio broadside, brown ink on tan paper, with typographical border. Very attractive.
|
1895
|
|
|
McNAMARA, JOHN.
|
In Perils by mine own Countrymen. Three Years on the Kansas Border. By a Clergyman.
|
1856
|
|
|
McTYEIRE, H.N.
|
Duties of Masters to Servants: Three Premium Essays.
|
1851
|
|
|
MILLER, KELLY.
|
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Being an Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War...and the Important Part Taken by the Negro...Illustrated with 128 genuine pictures from recent official photographs, also outline map drawings...
|
1919
|
|
|
MILLER, KELLY.
|
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Being an Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War...and the Important Part Taken by the Negro...Illustrated with 128 genuine pictures from recent official photographs, also outline map drawings...
|
1919
|
|
|
MOORE, GEORGE H.
|
Historical Notes on the Employment of Negroes in the American Army of the Revolution.
|
1862
|
|
|
MOTT, ED.
|
The Black Homer of Jimtown.
|
1900
|
|
|
MYERS, SAMUEL.
|
ANs. to Mr. Leslie Regarding the Hiring of His Negro. Norfolk, Jan 9, 1819. Six lines; on verso: "No. 11 no. 6 Samuel Myers note for 140 (sic) dollars." Ink. Folds, browned and lightly foxed, small bites at edges.
|
1819
|
|
|
NELL, WILLIAM C.
|
Services of Colored Americans, in the Wars of 1776 and 1812.
|
1851
|
|
|
NELL, WILLIAM C.
|
Services of Colored Americans, in the Wars of 1776 and 1812. Second Edition.
|
1852
|
|
|
PAGE, MOSES B.
|
Speech...of Berwick, in the House of Representatives of Maine, February 27, 1863, in Opposition to the "Emancipation Resolutions."
|
1863
|
|
|
PAGE, THOMAS NELSON.
|
The Negro: the Southerner's Problem.
|
1904
|
|
|
PALMER, BENJAMIN M.
|
The South: Her Peril, and her Duty. A Discourse, delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, Nov. 29, 1860.
|
1860
|
|
|
PHILLIPS, WENDELL.
|
ALS, n.d., 16mo., 3 pp. Ink. To Mrs. Joshua Bean Smith. Ca. 1865?
|
1865
|
|
|
PIPKIN, J.J.
|
The Story of a Rising Race. The Negro in Revelation, in History, and in Citizenship...with Introduction by Gen. John B. Gordon.
|
1902
|
|
|
PROCTOR, C.H.
|
The Life of James Williams, Better Known As Professor Jim, for Half a Century Janitor of Trinity College
|
1873
|
|
|
PURVIS, ROBERT.
|
Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania.
|
1838
|
|
|
PURVIS, ROBERT.
|
A Tribute to the Memory of Thomas Shipley, the Philanthropist.
|
1836
|
|
|
QUIER, ARVINE C.
|
Saw Mill Accounts. 1850-1860. (Supplied title). Sq. 8vo. Note Book. Contemp. marbled boards, calf spine. 210 pp. Ink & pencil. First ten pages overpasted with five color lithographic advertisements featuring Negroes, & five news clippings, also 3 more pages at end. Also one loose lithograph (7.5 x 9 in.) (untitled) depicting man in a nightcap grabbing a pistol and a man ringing a bell. Spine separating at bottom, cover worn, paper browned.
|
1850
|
|
|
RICHINGS, G.F.
|
Evidences of Progress Among Colored People. Second Edition.
|
1896
|
|
|
ROPER, MOSES.
|
Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery. With an Appendix, Containing a List of Places Visited by the Author in Great Britain and Ireland and the British Isles; and Other Matter. Thirty-eighth thousand.
|
1848
|
|
|
RUFFIN, FRANK G.
|
The Negro as a Political and Social Factor. [Wrapper title].
|
1888
|
|
|
RUSSELL, CHARLES THE
|
Report of the Minority of the Committee Upon the Petitions of John T. Hilton and Others, Colored Citizens of Boston, Praying for the Abolition of the Smith School, and that Colored Children May be Permitted to Attend the Other Schools of the City. Submitted by…. Printed by Order of the School Committee.
|
1849
|
|
|
SHELDON, EDWARD BREW
|
The Nigger. [Wrapper title only].
|
1909
|
|
|
SHERMAN, ELEAZER.
|
The Narrative of Eleazer Sherman, Giving an Account of His Life, Experience, Calll to the Ministry of the Gospel, and Travels as such to the present time. Volume I.
|
1828
|
|
|
SHERMAN, ELEAZER.
|
The Narrative of Eleazer Sherman, Giving an Account of His Life, Experience, Call to the Ministry of the Gospel, and Travels as such to the Present Time. Volumes I-III (all).
|
1832
|
|
|
SMITH, AMANDA.
|
An Autobiography. The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist. Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India and Africa, as an Independent Missionary. With an Introduction by Bishop Thorburn, of India.
|
1893
|
|
|
SMITH, AMANDA.
|
An Autobiography. The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist. Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India and Africa, as an Independent Missionary. With an Introduction by Bishop Thorburn, of India.
|
1893
|
|
|
SMITH, BENG'N! F.
|
$150 Reward. [Caption title]. Broadside, 6" x 7.5."
|
1826
|
|
|
SMITH, GERRIT.
|
One land indenture dated May 26, 1837 (folio), broken at the folds, with the signature of both Gerrit Smith and his wife Ann, conveying parcels in East Oswego, N.Y. to James Lyon; 1 1/2 pp. LS, dated May 16, 1838, accepting the same land back and foregoing all financial claims, dated May 1, 1838; ALS from James Lyon to Gerrit Smith, 1 p., 4to, dated at Oswego, Dec. 28, 1848, relative to the same parcel of land, noting that another portion of land was not properly conveyed, with extensive discussion; on the verso is a long letter in a nearly illegible hand from Smith, dated Jan. 1, 1849 re the complexities of the land dealings with James Lyon.
|
1837
|
|
|
SOUDER, CASPER JR.
|
The Mysteries and Miseries of Philadelphia, as Exhibited and Illustrated by a Late Presentment of the Grand Jury, and by a Sketch of the Condition of the Most Degraded Classes in the City. Dedicated to the Citizens of Philadelphia.
|
1853
|
|
|
SPENCE, WILLIAM.
|
The Radical Cause of the Present Distresses of the West-India Planters Pointed Out; and the Inefficiency of the Measures which have been hitherto proposed for relieving them, Demonstrated: with Remarks on the Publications of Sir William Young, Charles Bosanquet and Joseph Lowe; Relative to the Value of the West-India Trade.
|
1807
|
|
|
STEARNS, GEORGE L.
|
Universal and Equal Suffrage, Tariff, Internal Revenue, Currency. [Caption title]. 4to broadside.
|
1865
|
|
|
STOKES, ELIE WORTHIN
|
Certificate with Seal & Signature of the Lord Bishop of Ripon, Permitting E.W. Stokes to Perform Divine Service and to Administer the Sacraments...Sept. 24, 1848. Signed by Ripon under the seal. Docketed.
|
1848
|
|
|
STOWE, HARRIET BEECH
|
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. One Hundred and Seventy-Third Thousand.
|
1852
|
|
|
STROYER, JACOB.
|
My Life in the South. New and Enlarged Edition.
|
1898
|
|
|
SUTCLIFF, ROBERT.
|
Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806.
|
1812
|
|
|
SUTTON, THOMAS H.
|
Typed letter, signed (with stamp) from Winston, N.C. Lawyer Thomas H. Sutton, to Col. S. McD. Tate of Morganton, N.C., dated March 24, 1892, requesting that Tate be prepared to support the city of Winston’s application to have the A & M College for the Colored Race located in Winston rather than Greensboro, N.C. 4to. 1 page. With the original envelope addressed to Tate.
|
1892
|
|
|
TAGGART, JOHN H. Pre
|
Free Military School for Applicants for Command of Colored Troops...Established by the Philadelphia Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments. Rules for the Government of the free Military School, for Applicants for Command of Colored Troops. [Caption title.] 4to broadside.
|
1863
|
|
|
TRACY, JOSEPH.
|
Colonization and Missions. A Historical Examination of the State of Society in Western Africa, as fomred by Paganism and Muhammedianism, Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Piracy, and of the Remedial Influence of Colonization and Missions. Fifth Edition, revised and enlarged.
|
1846
|
|
|
WARNER, SAMUEL.
|
Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August Last, When Fifty-Five of its Inhabitants (mostly women and children) were inhumanly Massacred by the Blacks! Communicated by those who were eye witnesses of the bloody scene, and confirmed by the confessions of several of the Blacks while under Sentence of Death.
|
1831
|
|
|
WASHINGTON, BOOKER T
|
The Future of the American Negro.
|
1899
|
|
|
WASHINGTON, BOOKER T
|
The Negro in the South. His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development.
|
1907
|
|
|
WEEKS, STEPHEN B.
|
The History of Negro Suffrage in the South. Reprinted from Political Science Quarterly, Vol. IX, No. 4.
|
1894
|
|
|
WHITTIER, JOHN G.
|
Anti-Slavery Examiner. No. 6. Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave. [Caption title].
|
1838
|
|
|
WHITTIER.
|
The Free Soil Minstrel.
|
1848
|
|
|
WIGGINS, THOMAS.
|
Mother Dear Mother I Still Think of Thee. Sung by Blind Tom, at His Popular Concerts, with the Greatest Success.
|
1875
|
|
|
WIGGINS, THOMAS.
|
Mother Dear Mother I Still Think of Thee. Sung by Blind Tom, at His Popular Concerts, with the Greatest Success.
|
1875
|
|
|
WIGGINS, THOMAS.
|
Mother dear mother I still think of thee. As sung by Blind Tom. Respectfully Dedicated to Miss Rebecca Vasser.
|
1865
|
|
|
WILKESON, SAMUEL.
|
Concise History of the Commencement, Progress and Present Condition of the Amiercan Colonies in Liberia. [Wrapper title].
|
1839
|
|
|
WILSON, JOSEPH T.
|
The Black Phalanx; a History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65. 56 Illustrations.
|
1888
|
|
|
WOOD, EPHRAIM ALBERT
|
Officer’s Journal of a “Colored” Regiment. July 21-August 26, 1863. Charleston S.C. area--Folly’s Island. 23pp. 12mo. Includes a copy of Wood’s certificate of disability for discharge. Ink, slight browning, very good.
|
1863
|
|
|
WOODSIDE, JOHN W.
|
Why Pat Was a Democrat, and Other Campaign Arguments, in Verse. [Wrapper title.]
|
1888
|
|
|
|