Results for: AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY


212 pp, 4to. Cloth in slipcase, w/ Sandglass laid in. Light wear to spine foot, sm. nick to fore-edge of front board. Faint foxing/soil to textblock. Interior clean and bright, binding tight. Slipcase lightly sunned and edgeworn, soil/scuff to side panel. Illustrated by Denver Gillen.
Up from Slavery.
Washington, Booker T.
Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1970.
Price: $15.00
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380 pp. 8vo. Cloth in dustjacket. Minor shelfwear, sl. scuffing/soil to textblock. P.o.'s ink name and notation to ffep, ink marginalia to first chapter and copyright pg. Text otherwise clean. Dj lightly shelfworn and scuffed.
In the Shadow of Slavery:: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
Harris, Leslie M.
Chicago and London: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2003.
Price: $32.50
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40 pp, 8vo (square). Stapled booklet. Lightly edgeworn and scuffed/soiled, sm. price sticker to back cover. Pages clean and crisp. B&w illustrations throughout.
A Heritage Uncovered:: The Black Experience in Upstate New York 1800-1925
Armstead, Myra B. Young, et al.
Elmira, NY: Chemung County Historical Society, 1988.
Price: $35.00
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514 pp, 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First printing. Spine ends lightly bumped, else fine. Clean and crisp, binding tight. Dj lightly shelfworn, sm. coffee stain to front panel, minor soil to spine.
More Than Freedom:: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
Kantrowitz, Stephen.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2012.
Price: $22.50
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The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White.
Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Price: $15.00
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12mo. 277 pp. Small pieces missing to spine ends, corners bumped, open tear to rear hinge, spine sunned. Bookplate to fpd, upper right corner of fpd stuck to fpd, former owner's blind stamp to dedication page. Biographies of former slaves.
The Freedmen's Book.
Child, L. Marie.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865.
Price: $750.00
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The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston.
Von Frank, Albert J.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Price: $15.00
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King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Haygood, Wil.
NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
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The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Resconstruction.
McPherson, James M.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Price: $75.00
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The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research.
Allen, Robert L. (editor).
Sausalito, CA: The Black World Foundation.
Price: $15.00
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8vo. 35 pp. Wraps lightly soiled, creased, light wear to corners, spine. Signed with inscription on cover. Light crease to middle of book.
Slavery as it Once Prevailed in Massachusetts.
Washburn, Emory.
Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1869.
Price: $60.00
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8vo. 215 pp. with supplementary note and index, 21 pp. Wraps are lightly soiled, spine lightly creased, small tear to corner at foot of spine. Former owner's name to ffep, otherwise pages clean. Supplement has light edgewear, covers detached. Published to resolve the question of whether or not Black troops should be allowed to fight in the Civil War. Livermore is on the side of allowing blacks, using the examples of the leaders of the American Revolution.
An Historical Research, respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negoes as Slaves, As Citizens, and as Soldiers.
Livermore, George.
Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1862.
Price: $275.00
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Black Adult Development and Aging.
Jones, Reginald L., Ed.
Berkeley: Cobb & Henry, 1989.
Price: $25.00
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The Future of the Race.
West, Cornell and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Price: $50.00
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Black America.
Nearing, Scott.
New York, NY: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1970.
Price: $25.00
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8vo. 115 pp. Green cloth cover with gilt title, lightly scuffed and soiled, with wear to edges and corners. Pencil marks to front endpapers. Owner's writing to ffep and 2nd page. Pages very slightly yellowed, but clean and tight. Early compilation of teh lyrics and music to African American spirituals.
Slave Songs of the United States.
(musical collection).
New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867.
Price: $850.00
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Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem.
Sacks, Howard L. & Judith Rose Sacks.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
Price: $25.00
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24mo. 128 pp. Marbled boards rubbed, edgeworn. Cloth spine sl. worn, soiled, with paper spine label soiled, chipped at edges. Endpapers/interior moderately to heavily foxed. Fpd has a small label to bottom corner, soft pencil notes (a poem). Pp. 113-114 closed 2" tear at spine/interior corner; pp. 115-116 missing 1" chip bottom interior corner, no text missing. Frontispiece portrait: engraving. Ms. Eldridge's father was a freeman who fought in the Revolution, the son of an African taken into slavery from Zaire; her mother was Narragansett. This book was published by her friends and employers in Providence to help Elleanor replace the loss of her property, taken unfairly by creditors. Appendix contains further testamonials and poems. (The last four pages may have been reproduced and sewn in: the paper is markedly without foxing.)
Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge.
(Eldridge, Elleanor).
Providence, RI: B. T. Albro, 1838.
Price: $550.00
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The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life.
(Loguen).
Syracuse, NY: J. K. Truair & Co., 1859.
Price: $425.00
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Complete History of the Colored Soldiers in the World War.
New York: Bennett & Churchill, 1919.
Price: $235.00
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