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019772. DeWitt, Clinton T. and others.

WEHMAN'S 11/21/11 22:26:47 Desc Main Case 11-36013-DOT Doc 20 Filed 11/21/11 Entered MINSTREL SKETCHES, CONUNDRUMS AND JOKES [two volumes bound as one]. NY:Wehman Bros., 1879 Document Page 1 of 25 and 1882. original wraps. illustrated covers and ads. 7" x 4.5". (128)pp in all. Pictorial wraps in fine condition; contents tanning as usual. 1st Edn thus. Originally published separately, now combined. Contents: BONES: His Gags and Stump Speeches; Nigger and Dutch Stories and Dialogues; "Broken China" Dialect Pieces, and Other Conundrums [with] DON'T GET WEARY, or, Johnny You've Been A Bad Boy [with] GENTLEMEN COONS PARADE: Music by W.S. Mullaly [with] TAMBO: His Jokes and Funny Sayings, with which is incorporated Hints to the Amateur Minstrel by Bobby Newcomb. 019773. Dumont, Frank. WEHMAN'S BURNT CORK, OR, THE AMATEUR MINSTREL: Humorous Speeches, End Men's Jokes, Conundrums, Recitations and Farces.... NY:Wehman Bros., 1881. original wraps. illustrated covers and ads. 7" x 4.75". pp: 114,(6)ads. Pictorial wraps near fine condition; contents tanning as usual. First Edition. Dumont was formerly with the San Francisco Minstrels. Also contains...Finales for the First Part, and a full and complete description of everything necessary to arrange a minstrel entertainment. Also, Ethiopian Dramas (The Mid-night Train; Cupid's Frolics; A Desperate Situation; Happy Uncle Rufus; Pete and the Peddler; Stupid Servant; etc.).

is HIS JOKES AND FUNNY SAYINGS. With which NY:Wehman Bros., 882 1. . TAMBO: 019774. Newcomb, incorporated Hints to the Amateur Minstrel. original wraps. illustrated covers and ads. 7" x 4.75". pp: 60, (4)ads. Pictorial wraps near fine condition; contents tanning as usual. First Edition. 019775. DeWitt, Clinton T.. BONES: HIS GAGS AND STUMP SPEECHES; Nigger and Dutch Stories in Dialogues, "Broken China" Dialect Pieces, and Other Conundrums. NY:Wehman Bros., 1879. original wraps. illustrated covers and ads. 7" x 4.75". (64)pp. Pictorial wraps and contents in very good condition. First Edition.

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v/Aptheker, Herbert. THE NEGRO IN THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT. NY: International, (1941). original wraps. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4". 48pp. Printed paper covers and contents in very good condition. First Edition. BLOCKSON 9766. Thompson, RACE & REGION, 73. $25.00
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Botkin, E.A., editor. LAY MY BURDEN DOWN: A Folk History of Slavery. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, (1946). original cloth. pictorial dj. frontis & 8pp photo-illus. 9.25" x 6". pp: xxi, 286. Very good condition in a tape-repaired dust jacket. 2nd printing. Selected from the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers Project (WPA), collected in the late 1930s. The narratives are arranged here by general topic: Fooling Master and Catching John; How Come; Pastor and Flock; Hants; The Slave's Chance; They Made Us Sing Dixie; How Freedom Came; &c.; &c. $50.00

3Boutwell, George S.. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE END OF THE FIRST CENTURY. Boston:D.C. Heath, 1895. original cloth. 8.25" x 5.25". pp: xviii, 412. One corner bumped o/w in very good condition. First Edition. Has index. Examines the "organic laws of the U.S." in light of "the leading decisions of the Supreme Court, 1795 to 1895. Includes chapters on: importation of slaves; piracies and felonies; punishment of treason; right of people to bear arms; abolition of slavery; etc. $50.00 vtoyer, Richard 0.. THE LEGEND OF JOHN BROWN: A Biography and a History. NY:Knopf, 1973. original cloth. pictorial dj. 28pp illus from photos, etc.. 10.25" x 7". pp: xxiii, 627. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. First Edition. Has notes, bibliography, and index. [Citation: Blockson Collection, 3214]. Boyer centers on John Brown's "time and its temper, the long cold war over slavery ... and the slow transformation of the American people under the impress of slavery." All the abolitionists and pro-slavery figures appear: from Frederick Douglass and Wendell Phillips to Sergeant Prestiss and Jefferson Davis, as well as the women of the movement such as Harriet Tubman, Lydia Maria Child, and others. $45.00 L>Brink, Carol. HARPS IN THE WIND: The Story of the Singing Hutchinsons. NY:Macmillan, 1947. original cloth. 16pp illus from photographs. 9.5" x 6". pp: vii, 312. Binding and contents in very good condition. First Edition. Has a list of Hutchinson Family songs, bibliography, and index. The Hutchinsons performed as a family here and abroad in the mid19th century, were very active in the cause of Abolition, and penned many well-known songs, including some Abolitionist numbers. $30.00 vCox, LaWanda. LINCOLN AND BLACK FREEDOM: A Study in Presidential Leadership. Columbia:Univ of South Carolina Press, (1981). original cloth. pictorial dj. 9.25" x 6". pp: xiii, 254. Very good condition in a slightly chipped dust jacket. First Edition. Has index. The author questions whether Lincoln had a deep belief in emancipation and in $35.00 civil rights for freedmen.

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/David, Paul A. and others. RECKONING WITH SLAVERY: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. NY:Oxford University Press, 1976. original cloth. printed dj. 8.5" x 5.5". pp: xvi, 398. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. Has bibliography and index. In 1974, the book TIME ON THE CROSS concluded that slavery was a benign institution which was economically effective. This work collects articles by five economists and social $40.00 historians, refuting those views. 3 Davis, Edwin Adams & William Ransom Hogan. THE BARBER OF NATCHEZ: Wherein a Slave is Freed and Rises to a Very High Standing...Writes a 2, 000-page Journal.... Port Washington, NY:Kennikat Press, (1972). original cloth. frontispiece, 4 plates. 8.75" x 5.5". 272pp. Binding and contents in fine condition. Second Edition. William Johnson, freed slave and successful businessman, kept his journal from 1835 until 1851, when he was murdered. $30.00 Degler, Carl N.. THE OTHER SOUTH: Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century. NY:Harper & Row, (1974). original cloth. illustrated dj. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". 392pp w/index. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. Southerners who opposed slavery, supported the Union, became Republicans during Reconstruction, Democrats in the 1880s, &c. $25.00 3lonald, Henderson H.. THE NEGRO FREEDMAN: Life Conditions of the American Negro in the Early Years after Emancipation. NY:Henry Schuman, 1952. original cloth. 9" x 5.75". pp: (vii), 270. Very good condition in a dust jacket with two chips. First Edition. Has bibliography and index. [Citation: Blockson Collection #3475]. $40.00 Aeinstein, Allen & Frank Otto Gatell, editors. AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY: A Modern Reader. NY:Oxford University Press, 1973. original cloth. 8" x 5". pp: xiv, 439. Binding and contents in very good condition. Second Edition. Bibliography. This second edition has much new material since the 1968 edition, including a new preface and notes. $35.00 Tyson, George F., Jr., editor. TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice-Hall, (1973). original cloth. pictorial dj. 8.25" x 5.75". 185pp w/index. Book and dust jacket near fine condition. First Edition. Biography of the Haitian leader based on his speeches and writings, contemporary accounts, and modern scholarly views. $35.00 /Swaney, Charles Baumer. EPISCOPAL METHODISM AND SLAVERY: With 1 Sidelights on Ecclesiastical Politics. NY:Negro Universities Press, (1926/1969). original cloth. 8.75" x 5.75". pp: (xv), 356. Binding and contents near fine condition. Second Edition. Has index. $50.00 1/Miller, John Chester. THE WOLF BY THE EARS: Thomas Jefferson and v Slavery. NY:Free Press, (1977). orig boards. pictorial dj. frontis, 8pp illustrations. 9.5" x 6.25". pp: xii, 318. Dust jacket neatly repaired, else in very good condition. First Edition. Has bibliography and index. This is a scholarly look at TJ's seemingly contradictory views and actions regarding slavery. $35.00

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/Lane, Ann J., editor. THE DEBATE OVER SLAVERY: Stanley Elkins and His V Critics. Urbana:University of Illinois Press, (1971). original cloth. 8.25" x 5.5". 378pp. Binding and contents in very good condition. First Edition. Elkins published his pioneering work on slavery and its effects on the slave in 1959. This book collects 14 contemporary views on Elkins's work, especially his focus on the contrasts among slave systems in America and other countries. Authors represented here include Eugene Genovese, Earl E. Thorpe, Herbert S. Klein, Stanley M. $40.00 Elkins, David Brion Davis, and others. Huggins, Nathan Irvin. BLACK ODYSSEY: The Afro-American Ordeal in / Slavery. NY:Pantheon Books, (1977). original cloth. pictorial dj. 8.25" v7 x 5.25". pp: xvi, 250. Near fine condition in a very good dust jacket. First Edition. A leading Black historian reexamines the experience of slavery in the U.S., using African as well as American sources. $25.00 Gutman, Herbert G[eorge]. THE BLACK FAMILY IN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM, 17501925. NY:Pantheon Books, (1976). original cloth. pictorial dj. 17 charts, 91 tables, &c.. 9-1/4" x 6". pp:xxviii, 664. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. 2nd printing. Has indices. Blockson $35.00 9232. /Gravely, William B.. GILBERT HAVEN, METHODIST ABOLITIONIST: A Study in Race, Religion and Reform, 1850-1880. Nashville:Abingdon Press, (1973). leatherette. pictorial dj. frontis and 6pp photo-illus. 9.25" x 6". 272pp w/index. Book and dust jacket near fine condition. First Edition. Haven's work as an antislavery reformer began in 1850 with passage of the Fugitive Slave Law. $30.00

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Auer, J. Jeffery, ed.. ANTISLAVERY AND DISUNION, 1858-1861: Studies in the Rhetoric of Compromise and Conflict. NY:Harper & Row, (1963). original cloth. illustrated dj. 9.5" x 6.25". pp: xii, 427. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Has index. The author taught speech and drama at Oberlin College, Indiana University, and the University of $25.00 Virginia. Douglass, Frederick. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Early Years, 1817-1849 + Pre-Civil War Decade, 1850-1860. NY:International Publishers, (1950). original cloth. two volumes. frontis portrait in each vol. 8.5" x 5.5". pp: 447 + 576. Bindings and contents in very good condition. First Editions. The Douglass writings in each volume are preceded by the appropriate portion of Philip Foner's biography of $85.00 the man. Duberman, Martin, editor. THE ANTISLAVERY VANGUARD: New Essays on the Abolitionists. Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 1965. original cloth. printed dj. 8.25" x 5.5". pp: x, 508. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. Has index. BLOCKSON 9183. PORTER $25.00 1281. Dumond, Dwight Lowell. AMERICA'S SHAME AND REDEMPTION [signed copy]. Marquette:Northern Michigan Univ Press, (1965). original cloth. 8.5" x 5.5". pp: xvi, 171. Binding and contents in very good condition. First Edition. This copy is inscribed: "To Ashley Montagu, distinguished scholar and friend to all mankind," signed Dwight L. Dumond. This expert on the study of US slavery here examines slavery and the Civil War and its legacy, with chapters on the Union Army, Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, denial of civil rights to African-Americans after the War, Southern attitudes, etc. $35.00 Fogel, Robert William & Engerman, Stanley L.. TIME ON THE CROSS: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. London:Wildwood House, (1974). original cloth. pictorial dj. figures & tables in text. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". pp:xviii, 286. Very good condition in a slightly repaired dust jacket. 1st UK Edition. Has index. $20.00 Franklin, John Hope. FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: A History of Negro Americans. NY:Knopf, (1968). original cloth. printed dj. 36 illus from docs & photos. 9.25" x 6". pp: xxii, 686. Very good condition in a dust jacket with several edge tears. 3rd edition. Revised and enlarged edition. $30.00 Furnas, J.C.. THE ROAD TO HARPERS FERRY. NY:William Sloane, 1959. original cloth. printed dj. 8pp photo-illustrations. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". pp:(vii), 477. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. Has notes, bibliography and index. A history of John Brown and the Secret Six. $40.00 Graham, Shirley. THERE WAS ONCE A SLAVE: The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass. NY:Julian Messner, (1947). original cloth. pictorial dj. 8.25" x 5.25". pp: ix, 310. Very good condition in a worn dust jacket. First Edition. Won the Messner Award for the Best Book Combatting Intolerance in America. $30.00

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Hamilton, Virginia. MANY THOUSAND GONE: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. NY:Alfred A. Knopf, (1993). cloth/boards. pictorial dj. many full-page b&w illus. 10.25" x 8.25". 151pp w/index. Prior owner's bookplate on endpaper, else near fine condition. Third Printing. This children's history of slavery in America is built on such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah $12.50 Henson, et al. Hermann, Janet Sharp. THE PURSUIT OF A DREAM. NY:Oxford University Press, 1981. original cloth. pictorial dj. e-p maps, 4pp photo-illus. 81/4" x 5-1/2". pp: xi, 290. Very good condition in a repaired and reinforced dust jacket. First Edition. Has index. Blockson #9879. True account of a slave, Benjamin Montgomery, who becomes manager of a cotton plantation owned by Joseph Davis, the elder brother of Jefferson Davis. After the war, Davis sells the land to the emancipated Montgomery, who uses it to start an African-American utopian community, which becomes the third most successful cotton-growing operation in the $25.00 South. Larison, C.W.. SILVIA DUBOIS (NOW 116 YERS OLD): A BIOGRAFY OF THE SLAV WHO WHIPT HER MISTRES AND GAND HER FREDOM. NY:Negro Universities Press, (1969). original cloth. portrait, 2 full-page illus. 8.75" x 5.5". 124pp. Binding and contents near fine condition. Reprint Edn. First published in 1883, this biography captures the "words and phrases...and profanity" of the former New Jersey slave. Sylvia was still alive when the book appeared. It is printed using the orthographic rules of the 1860s Spelling Reform movement, with a preface by the author, explaining the new rules. $35.00 Litwack, Leon F.. BEEN IN THE STORM SO LONG: The Aftermath of Slavery. NY:Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. cloth/boards. pictorial dj. 9.5" x 6.25". pp: xvi, 651. Very good condition in a lightly chipped dust jacket. First Edition. Has notes, bibliography, and index. Begins with the outbreak of the War Between the States. Based "almost entirely on primary sources--interviews with ex-slaves and diaries and accounts written by former slaveholders." $30.00 Lovejoy, Owen. HUMAN BEINGS NOT PROPERTY. Speech...House of Representatives, February 17, 1858. Washington:Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1858. self-wraps. 9.5" x 6". 8pp. Strip of paper torn from fore-edge, no text lost, else good. First Edition. Double-column format. A strong antislavery speech by this ardent Illinois $25.00 abolitionist. McLaurin, Melton A.. CELIA, A SLAVE. Athens:University of Georgia Press, (1991). original cloth. pictorial dj. 9-1/4" x 5-1/4". pp: xi, 148. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. 2nd printing. Index. Celia was bought by a Missouri widower in 1850; bore his children; he abused her; she killed him; she was hanged. $15.00 Oates, Stephen B.. TO PURGE THIS LAND WITH BLOOD: A Biography of John Brown. NY:Harper & Row, (1970). original cloth. pictorial dj. 32pp photo-illus, 3 maps. 9.5" x 6.25". pp: xii, 434. Very good condition in corner-clipped dust jacket. 2nd printing. This full-scale biography includes details of Brown's career based on eyewitness accounts, diaries, news reports, etc. $30.00

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Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell. AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime. Baton Rouge:Louisiana State Univ Press, (1969). original wraps. 8.5" x 5.25". pp:xxviii, 529. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. 2nd ppbk edn. Has index. This new edition of the 1918 classic has a long foreword by Eugene D. Genovese on Phillips and his critics. $15.00 Redford, Dorothy Spruill. SOMERSET HOMECOMING: Recovering A Lost Heritage. Introduction by Alex Haley. NY:Doubleday, (1988). cloth/boards. pictorial dj. photo-illus, map, chart. 9.25" x 7". pp: xviii, 266. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. Describes a gathering of 2,000 descendants of slaves on the plantation at Somerset Place, Washington County, North Carolina. $20.00
Rosengarten, Theodore & Nate Shaw. ALL GOD'S DANGERS: THE LIFE OF NATE

SHAW. NY:Knopf, 1974. original cloth. pictorial dj. map at front. 9.25" x 6.25". pp: xxv, 561. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. 2nd printing. Has index. This book is drawn from some 1,500 pages dictated by Shaw, an Alabama farmer and the son of former slaves. $20.00 Schwartz, Marie Jenkins. BORN IN BONDAGE: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South. Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 2000. original cloth. pictorial dj. 16pp photo-illus, map. 9" x 6.25". 272pp w/index. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. First Edition. Traces the lives of southern slaves from birth through adolescence, emphasizing their endurance and dignity. $35.00 Sherwin, Oscar. PROPHET OF LIBERTY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WENDELL PHILLIPS. NY:Bookman Associates, (1958). orig boards. pictorial dj. portrait. 8" x 5-1/4". 814pp w/index. Very good condition in a chipped dust jacket. First Edition. Biography of the Boston-born Phillips, 18111884, a spokesman and organizer of the abolition movement. $35.00 Still, Peter & Vina [as told to Mrs. Kate E.R. Pickard]. THE KIDNAPPED AND THE RANSOMED: The Narrative of Peter and Vina Still after Forty Years of Slavery. Philadelphia:Jewish Publ Soc of America, 1970. original cloth. printed dj. 4 plates. 7.5" x 5". pp: 103+409. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. New Edition. Comprises a facsimile of the 1856 slave narrative and a 103-page scholarly essay by Maxwell Whiteman. $35.00

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Elkins, Stanley M.. SLAVERY: A PROBLEM IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, (1967). original cloth. printed dj. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". pp: viii, 248. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. Has index. Citation: Blockson Collection #10061. Compares American slavery to slavery in other countries, and explores why its impact on the African-American $30.00 "personality was so severe and lasting." Franklin, John Hope & Loren Schweninger. RUNAWAY SLAVES: Rebels on the Plantation. NY:Oxford University Press, 1999. orig boards. pictorial dj. illus and documents in text. 9.5" x 6.25. pp: xviii, 455. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. First Edition. The authors identify numerous slave rebellions in the south as well as the white reactions $30.00 to them. Moore, Wilbert E.. AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY AND ABOLITION: A Sociological Study. NY:Third Press / Joseph Okpaku, (1971). original cloth. 8.75" x 5.75". 199pp w/index. Binding and contents in very good condition. $20.00 First Edition. Stevens, Charles Emery. ANTHONY BURNS: A HISTORY. Williamstown, MA: Corner House, 1973. original cloth. pictorial dj. frontispiece, 2 view-plates. 8.5" x 5.5". 295pp. Very good condition in a price-clipped dust jacket. new edition. This eyewitness account of the Boston riots was first published in 1856. In 1854, the slave Anthony Burns escaped from Virginia to Boston. He was arrested there and about to be returned to Virginia, when abolitionists led by Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker roused antislavery feelings. In the ensuing days, a US Deputy Marshall was shot and President Pierce sent in federal troops. Burns was shipped back South, but subsequently purchased out of slavery by white antislavery friends. $25.00 Unger, Irwin & David Reimers. THE SLAVERY EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES. NY:Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970). original wraps. 17 full-page illustrations. 9" x 6". pp: ix, 234. Pictorial covers and contents in very good condition. First Edition. Compiles 12 of the "best articles on American slavery" with emphasis on "how slavery affected its victims." $15.00 Wade, Richard C.. SLAVERY IN THE CITIES: THE SOUTH, 1820-1860. NY: Oxford University Press, (1967). original wraps. 8" x 5.25". pp: (xi), 340. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. 1st ppbk edn. Has index. [Citations: Blockson Collection #10049. Porter, The Negro in the United States, #1435]. Miller, The Negro in America, says of this book: "The author demonstrates that while slavery in urban areas was vastly different from that on the plantation, it was equally degrading, enforced by harsh municipal codes, restrictions on Negro association (e.g., their churches), segregation, and fear." Most were household slaves, but hotels, factories, railroads, and municipalities also had slaves whom they hired out for short-term work. $15.00

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Walker, Juliet E.K.. FREE FRANK: A BLACK PIONEER ON THE ANTEBELLUM FRONTIER. Lexington:University Press of Kentucky, (1983). original cloth. printed dj. 12 illus from photos & maps. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". pp: xii, 223. Few underlines & notes in red, else in very good condition. First Edition. Has index. Born a slave in 1777, Frank eventually purchased freedom for himself and his wife, went to western Illinois, $20.00 &c. Weyl, Nathaniel & Marina, William. AMERICAN STATESMEN ON SLAVERY AND THE NEGRO. New Rochelle, NY:Arlington House, (1971). original cloth. pictorial dj. 8-3/4" x 6". 448pp w/index. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. Quotes and comments on the writings of statesmen from Colonial times to the Kennedy assassination. $25.00 Yates, Elizabeth. AMOS FORTUNE, FREE MAN. Illustrated by Nora S. Unwin. NY:E.P. Dutton, (1950). cloth/boards. pictorial dj. headpiece illustrations. 8" x 5-1/4". pp: (vii), 181. Very good condition in a lightly worn dust jacket. later printing. Biography of the slave (1710-1801) who bought his freedom in 1770, and became a tanner and leading citizen of New Hampshire. $20.00 Goodwin, Daniel R.. SOUTHERN SLAVERY IN ITS PRESENT ASPECTS: containing A Reply to a late work of the Bishop of Vermont on Slavery. NY:Negro Universities Press, (1969). original cloth. 8.75" x 5.5". 343pp. Binding and contents in fine condition. Second Edition. First published in 1864. $25.00

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0082. Dumond, Dwight Lowell. ANTISLAVERY: The Crusade for Freedom in America [with] A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTISLAVERY IN AMERICA. Ann Arbor & 0 Westport:U Michigan & Greenwood Press, 1961 & 1981. original cloth. 1st title has illus in text. 11.25" x 8.5". pp: 422 + 119. Both volumes are in very good condition. First; reprint. Excellent scholarship: a $125.00 standard reference in the field. 016083. Miller, Joseph C.. SLAVERY: A Worldwide Bibliography, 1900-1982. Millwood, NY:Kraus International, (1989). original cloth. 9.25" x 6". pp: xxvii, 451. Binding and contents near fine condition. 2nd printing. Has author and subject/keyword indices. $200.00 016084. Thompson, Edgar T.. THE PLANTATION: A Bibliography. Washington:Pan American Union, 1957. original wraps. 9.75" x 7". 93pp. Printed paper covers and contents in very good condition. First Edition. Very useful checklist of works dealing with slavery and plantation life in the Old South. $20.00 016085. Olson, James S.. SLAVE LIFE IN AMERICA: A Historiography and Selected Bibliography. Lanham, MD:University Press of America, (1983). original cloth. 8.75" x 5.5". pp: viii, 119. Deaccessioned library copy, else in very good condition. First Edition. $35.00 016086. Ragatz, Lowell Joseph, compiler. A GUIDE FOR THE STUDY OF BRITISH CARIBBEAN HISTORY, 1763-1834, INCLUDING THE ABOLITION AND EMANCIPATION MOVEMENTS. Washington:USGPO, 1932. original cloth. 9.25" x 6". 725pp 40 w/index. Binding slightly mottled, else in very good condition. First Edition. $90.00 016087. Hogg, Peter C.. THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE AND ITS SUPPRESSION: A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and ... Articles. London:Frank Cass, (1973). original cloth. 10" x 6". pp: xvii, 409. Deaccessioned from college library, else in very good condition. First Edition. $50.00


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Abels, Jules. MAN ON FIRE: JOHN BROWN AND THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY. NY: Macmillan Company, (1971). original cloth. pictorial dj. 16pp illus from photographs. 9-1/4" x 6". pp:xviii, 428. Prior owner's name on endpaper, else in very good condition. First Edition. Has bibliography and index. A readable yet scholarly biography of the fiery abolitionist and his crusade against slavery. $25.00 Aptheker, Herbert. THE NEGRO IN THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT. NY: International, (1941). original wraps. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4". 48pp. Printed paper covers and contents in very good condition. First Edition. BLOCKSON 9766. Thompson, RACE & REGION, 73. $25.00 Aptheker, Herbert. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. NY:International Publishers, (1961). original wraps. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4". pp: 22 + 1. Printed paper covers and contents in very good condition. First Edition. Has chapters on the plantation-slaver y system, abolitionism, secession, African-Americans in the war of the rebellion, &c. $10.00 Aptheker, Herbert. ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO. NY: International Publishers, (1945). original cloth. 8-1/4" x 5-3/4". pp: viii, 216. Old tape marks on endpapers, marginalia, else good condition. First Edition. Has a bibliography and a chronology of slave revolts. Four sections: Negro Slave Revolts in the U.S., 1526-1860; The Negro in the American Revolution; The Negro in the Abolitionist Movement; the Negro in the Civil War. $20.00

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Beard, John Reilly and Toussaint L'Ouverture. TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE: A BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Boston:James Redpath, 1863. original cloth. portrait, folding color map. 7.5" x 4.75". pp: x, 372. Binding and contents in very good condition. 1st edn thus. Contains the biography, first published at London in 1853, and an autobiography written by the Haitian General himself. Present also are five literary efforts celebrating Toussaint L'Ouverture, written by John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, King Christophe, Harriet Martineau, and John Bigelow. [Citation: Afro-Americana 990]. $100.00 Bennett, Lerone, Jr.. BLACK POWER U.S.A.: The Human Side of Reconstruction, 1867-1877. Chicago:Johnson Publishing Co., 1967. original cloth. frequent illus in text. 9" x 6". pp: (xiv), 401. Gilt-stamped binding and contents in very good condition. First Edition. Has index. The African-American historian here explores the upsurge of black achievement and hope in the Reconstruction Era. $25.00 Bergman, Peter M.. CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA. NY: Harper & Row, (1969). original cloth. portrait of Geo. W. Williams. 8.25" x 5.25". pp:(iv), 698. Binding and contents in very good condition. First Edition. Index. BLOCKSON 2595. Useful reference work $20.00 with entries from 1492 through 1968. Brent, Linda. INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Edited by L. Maria Child. New Introduction and Notes by Walter Teller. NY:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1973). original wraps. 8" x 5.25". pp: xiv, 210. Pictorial paper covers and contents near fine condition. 5th printing. Autobiographical account of a young African-American woman's $10.00 experiences in the early nineteenth century.

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Davis, David Brion. SLAVERY AND HUMAN PROGRESS. NY:Oxford University Press, 1984. cloth/boards. printed dj. 9" x 5-3/4". pp: xix, 374. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. First Edition. Has notes and index. Blockson #10020. The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author here surveys slavery and emancipation from ancient times through 20th-century debates in the League of Nations and the U.N. $25.00 Davis, Edwin Adams and William Ransom Hogan. THE BARBER OF NATCHEZ: Wherein a Slave is Freed and Rises to a Very High Standing...Writes a 2, 000-page Journal. Baton Rouge:Louisiana State Univ Press, (1228). stiff wraps. frontispiece portrait. 8.5" x 5.5". 278pp. Pictorial paper covers and contents near fine condition. later printing. William Johnson, freed slave and successful businessman, kept his journal from 1835 until 1851, when he was murdered. $10.00 /0-1`.% Donald, Henderson H.. THE NEGRO FREEDMAN: Life Conditions of the American Negro in the Early Years after Emancipation. NY:Henry Schuman, 1952. original cloth. 9" x 5.75". pp: (vii), 270. Binding and contents in very good condition. First Edition. Has notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 Elkins, Stanley M.. SLAVERY: A PROBLEM IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, (1967). original cloth. printed dj. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". pp: viii, 248. Prior ,4,LA.p.) owner's name, minor spots on dj, else in VG condition. 4th printing. Has index. Blockson #10061. Compares American slavery to slavery in other countries, and explores why its impact on the African-American "personality was so severe and lasting." $25.00

Foster, William Z.. THE NEGRO PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY. NY: International Publishers, (1970). original cloth. 8.25" x 5.25". 608pp w/index. Binding and contents in very good condition. 2nd printing. Blue cloth, white spine lettering, pictorial cover pastedowns. $25.00 Franklin, John Hope. FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: A History of Negro Americans. Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged. NY:Knopf, 1967. original cloth. printed dj. 19pp illus from photographs. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". pp: xv, 639. Very good condition in a chipped dust jacket. 10th printing. Has index. Blockson, 101 Influential Books, #83. ()(c;At16.)0,;46 $35.00 Glenn, Norval D. & Bonjean, Charles M., editors. BLACKS IN THE UNITED STATES. San Francisco:Chandler Publishing, (1969). original cloth. pictorial dj. 9.25" x 6". pp: xiii, 621. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. Has index. Blockson 2474. Comprises 45 $25.00 articles by 57 contributors. Grier, William H. and Price M. Cobbs. BLACK RAGE. NY:Basic Books, Inc., (1968). original cloth. printed dj. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". pp: viii, 213. Very good condition in a price-clipped dust jacket. First Edition. Blockson #2423. Both authors were psychiatrists in San Francisco when this work was published. They examine the modern-day effects of slavery, $15.00 myths and fears, mental illness among African-Americans, &c.

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(H., J.W.). A.M. MACKAY, PIONEER MISSIONARY OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY TO UGANDA. By His Sister. NY:A.C. Armstrong & Son, 1901. original cloth. portrait, folding color map. 7-1/2" x 5". pp: viii, 488. Binding and contents in very good condition. "Author's Edn". Mackay joined the Uganda mission in 1876. This work includes a chapter $45.00 on "Slave Raiding and the Slave Trade." Harris, N. Dwight. THE HISTORY OF NEGRO SERVITUDE IN ILLINOIS, AND OF THE SLAVERY AGITATION IN THAT STATE, 1719-1864. NY:Haskell House, 1969. original cloth. 8 plates from photos, etc.. 8.75" x 5.5". pp: xi, 276. Binding and contents near fine condition. Second Edition. Has bibliography and index. Written as a U. Chicago thesis, and first $30.00 published in 1904. Johnson, Charles. MIDDLE PASSAGE: A Novel. NY:Atheneum, 1990. cloth/boards. pictorial dj. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". pp: (ix), 209. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. Later printing. Winner of the 1990 National Book Award, this novel centers on a newly freed slave who, in $10.00 the 1830s, stows away on a slave ship. Jordan, Winthrop D.. THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States. NY:Oxford University Press, 1974. original cloth. pictorial dj. 8.5" x 5.5". pp: xvi, 229. Scholar's occasional red marks in margins, else near very good. First Edition. Examines Jefferson's beliefs re African-Americans, enslavement in America before 1700, Elizabethan concepts of race, etc. $25.00 McClure, A.K.. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND MEN OF WAR-TIMES: Personal Recollections of War and Politics during the Lincoln Administration. Philadelphia:Times Publishing Company, 1892. original cloth. 32 plates from photographs. 9" x 6". 462pp w/index. Prior owner's name on endpaper, else in very good condition. Third Edition. Has chapters on "Lincoln and Emancipation," "An Episode of John Brown's Raid," &c. In the publisher's gilt-pictorial binding. $40.00 Palmer, Colin A.. HUMAN CARGOES: The British Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1700-1739. Urbana:Univ of Illinois Press, (1981). orig boards. pictorial dj. 2 maps, many charts & tables. 9.25" x 6". pp: xv, 183. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. First Edition. Has bibliography and index. Examines the British slave trade with the Spanish empire in America at a time when England dominated the field. Includes dealings in Argentina, Venezuela, Jamaica and Panama, focusing on the Royal African Company and the South Sea Company. $35.00 Russell, Sharman Apt. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Abolitionist Editor. Introductory Essay by Coretta Scott King. NY:Chelsea House, (1989). orig boards. many illus old photos/prints. 9.5" x 7.5". 143pp w/index. Glazed pictorial boards and contents in very good condition. First Edition. This biography is a title in the series "Black Americans of Achievement". $10.00

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Rutledge, Archibald. HOME BY THE RIVER. Indianapolis:Bobbs-Merrill, (1941). original cloth. pictorial dj. 28pp illus from photographs. 9.75" x 6.5". 167pp + plates. Book near fine condition in an edge-worn dust jacket. First Edition. Foldout map of the plantation bound at front. Plantation photographs by Noble Bretzman. This is the author's account of how he and seven descendants of old slave families restored Hampton Plantation, 40 miles northeast of Charleston, South Carolina. $50.00 Sherwin, Oscar. PROPHET OF LIBERTY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WENDELL PHILLIPS. NY:Bookman Associates, (1958). orig boards. pictorial dj. portrait. 8" x 5-1/4". 814pp w/index. Very good condition in a chipped dust jacket. First Edition. Biography of the Boston-born Phillips, 1811$25.00 1884, a spokesman and organizer of the abolition movement., Simkins, Francis Butler. THE SOUTH, OLD AND NEW: A History, 1820-1947. NY:Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. original cloth. 5 maps, 16pp illustrations. 8.5" x 5.5". pp: xvi, 527. Prior owner's name on endpaper, else in very good condition. First Edition. Has bibliography and index. This scholarly work traces the development of the "political and social traits" of the South. Starting with "the Negro question" in 1820, the book has major sections on the slave system, antebellum society, free Negroes, Black reconstruction, lynching, peonage, chain gangs, the Communist lure, the Negro press, the back-to-Africa movement, etc., as $40.00 well as much on Southern literature, education, religion, etc. Taylor, M.W.. HARRIET TUBMAN: ANTISLAVERY ACTIVIST. Introductory Essay by Coretta Scott King. NY:Chelsea House, (1991). orig boards. many illus old photos/prints. 9.5" x 7.5". lllpp w/index. Glazed pictorial boards and contents in fine condition. First Edition. This biography of the Underground Railroad heroine is a title in the series "Black $10.00 Americans of Achievement". Vernon, Amelia Wallace. AFRICAN AMERICANS AT MARS BLUFF, SOUTH CAROLINA. Baton Rouge:Louisiana State Univ Press, (1993). original cloth. pictorial dj. 52 photo-illus, 9 maps. 9" x 5.75". pp: xiii, 309. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. 2nd printing. Has bibliography and index. Traces the history of Mars Bluff, SC, based on local $20.00 interviews. Washington, Booker T.. UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography. NY:Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. original cloth. frontis portrait with guard. 8" x 5-1/4". pp: ix, 330. Spine ends lightly rubbed, else in very good condition. Second Edition. Has index. First published in 1901. Brignano $40.00 394. Blockson #10188. Afro-Americana 10970.

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Cooley, Rossa B.. HOMES OF THE FREED. Introduction by J.H. Dillard. Four wood cuts by J.J. Lankes. NY:New Republic, 1926. original wraps. 4 woodcut illustrations. 7.25" x 4.75". pp: xiv, 199. Edges of paper covers chipped as usual, else in good condition. First Edition. In 1904, the author, a Vassar graduate who had taught for seven years at Hampton Institute, went to St. Helena Island, off Beaufort, South Carolina, "to test out in a community of some 6,000 Negroes (with fewer than 100 whites) the scheme for industrial training for which Hampton and Tuskegee stand." St. Helena, the "first freed soil" in the Civil War, was the site of the Penn School for African-Americans, opened in 1862. The author settled there to observe "the oncoming of three generations of women from the plantation street of slavery days, as observed from the coign of vantage of the oldest school for Negroes in $100.00 the South." Johnson, Edward A.. A SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE NEGRO RACE IN AMERICA...SHORT SKETCH OF LIBERIA [bound with] NEGRO SOLDIERS IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. NY:Isaac Goldman Co., Printers, 1911. original cloth. illus from woodcuts & photos. 8.25" x 5.25". 400pp w/index. Binding and contents in very good condition. Revised Edn. [Citation: Blockson Collection #3952]. This two-volumes-in-one edition has commentary not found in earlier editions. Written by an African-American teacher who believed that "the children of the race ought to study...information on the many brave deeds and noble characters of their own race...." Chapters include: Employment of Negro Soldiers; Educational Progress; Some Noted Negroes; Free People of Color in North Carolina; Financial Progress; Negro Heroes of the Revolution; Liberia; Nat Turner and Others Who Struck for Freedom; &c. $350.00 Miller, Kelly. RACE ADJUSTMENT: Essays on the Negro in America. NY & Washington:Neale Publishing, 1908. original cloth. 8.25" x 5.25". 306pp. Binding cloth a bit mottled, else near very good condition. First Edition. Comprises 19 essays by Miller (1863-1939), a Howard University graduate and Washington University professor and dean. A few titles of essays in this book: The City Negro; Rise of the Professional Class; Roosevelt [Teddy] and the Negro; Social Equality; etc. $150.00 Parrish, Lydia. SLAVE SONGS OF THE GEORGIA SEA'ISLANDS. Music transcribed by Creighton Churchill and Robert MacGimsey. Intro by Olin Downes. NY:Creative Age Press, 1942. original cloth. pictorial dj. 34pp photo-illus, map. 11.25" x 8.5". pp:xxxi, 256. Minor endpaper scars, top-edge stamp, still very good condition. First Edition. Has excellent photographs (portraits, dances, &c., one inset on cover). Includes words and music to 60 songs. $200.00

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Washington, Booker T.. A NEW NEGRO FOR A NEW CENTURY: An Accurate and Up-to-date Record of the Upward Struggles of the Negro Race.... Chicago: American Publishing House, nd [ca. 1900]. original cloth. 60 portraits from photos. 7.5" x 5.25". 428pp. 1/4" gnawed from top of spine o/w in very good condition. First Edition. In the publisher's decorative cloth with an inset photo of Booker T. Washington on the cover, flanked by American flags. Title-page continues: "...The Spanish-American War...Superb Heroism and Daring Deeds of the Negro Soldier...'Colored Officers or No Colored Soldiers'... Industrial Schools, Colleges, Universities, and their relationship to the Race Problem...Reconstruction and Industrial Advancement, by N.B. Wood...The Colored Woman and Her part in Race Regeneration...The Names and Location of the Clubs in the National Association of Colored Women of the United States and their benefits to Our Sisters in Black, by the famous club woman, writer and author Fannie Barrier Williams...." Has photographic portraits of women club members, African-American authors and heroes, &c. Chapters include: Afro-American Volunteers and Regiments in the Philippines; Afro-American Regulars in Cuba; Afro-American Education; Slavery; Underground Railroads; Black Phalanx in the Rebellion; Fathers to the Race; National Association of Colored Women and their Mission; &c. $150.00 Weeden, [Miss] Howard. BANDANNA BALLADS, INCLUDING "SHADOWS ON THE WALL". Verses and Pictures by Howard Weeden. Introduction by Joel Chandler Harris. NY:Doubleday & McClure, 1899. original cloth. 24 portrait plates. 8.75" x 6.25". pp: xvi, 90. Light gray cloth is a bit dusted, else in very good condition. First Edition. [Citations: Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature, #7133. Blockson Collection #4733]. This is the author's second book, comprising 23 dialect poems and ballads, accompanied by her portraits of African-American men and women of the Old South. $100.00

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Fanon, Frantz. THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH. Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated by Constance Farrington. NY:Grove Press, (1968). original wraps. 7" x 4.25". 316pp. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. 1st ppbk edn. From the library of theater-historian Doris Abramson, with her signature on the front endpaper. Cover subtitle: "The handbook for the Black Revolution that is changing the $10.00 shape of the world." *Douglass, Frederick, 1817-1895. LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.... Centenary Memorial Subscribers' Edition. NY: Pathway Press, (1941). original cloth. frontis portrait, 12 plates. 9.25" x 6". 695pp w/index. Spine gilt dulled, else in very good condition. Limited Edn. This is copy #98, with the original subscriber's name. Issued on the 100th anniversary of Douglass's "first public appearance in the cause of emancipation." Appendices contain the text of two of his speeches along with his manumission papers. $50.00 Stowe, Harriet Beecher. THE ANNOTATED UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Edited, with an introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern. NY:Bramhall House, (1964). original cloth. pictorial dj. 16pp illustrations. 9.5" x 6.25". 591pp w/notes. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Second Edition. Has an introduction by Stern, the full UTC text, Stowe's sources, character origins and contemporary connotations, &c. $35.00 Brown, H. Rap. DIE NIGGER DIE! A Political Autobiography. NY:Dial Press, 1969. original cloth. pictorial dj. lOpp illus from photographs. 8.25" x 5.5". pp: (vii), 145. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. [Citations: Brignano, Black Americans in Autobiography, 45. Brasch, Bibliography of American Black English, 38]. $45.00 Conrad, Earl. THE INVENTION OF THE NEGRO. NY:Paul S. Eriksson, (1966). cloth/boards. 8.5" x 5.5". pp: xi, 244. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. From the library of theater-historian Doris Abramson, with her signature on the front endpaper. Has bibliography and index. Conrad, a longtime Civil Rights activist, here shows how African-Americans came to be treated as second-class citizens. He traces the history of white racist theories and examines "what the white man--English, European, or above all the American--has $25.00 done or failed to do for his Negro brother." Piersen, William D.. BLACK YANKEES: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England. Amherst:Univ of Massachusetts Press, (1988). original cloth. pictorial dj. double-page map. 9.25" x 6". pp: xii, 237. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. First Edition. This study of African-American slave culture in colonial New England considers religion, work habits, crafts, music, etc. $25.00 Hornsby, Alton, Jr., editor. IN THE CAGE: Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929. Chicago:Quadrangle Books, 1971. original cloth. pictorial dj. 8.25" x 5.25". 272pp w/index. Book and dust jacket near fine condition. First Edition. [Citation: Blockson Collection #3103]. The Morehouse College professor presents accounts of African-American life by Europeans and others travelling in the post-reconstruction South. Topics include education, jobs, leisure-time, religion, superstition, manners and morals, crime and punishment, $25.00 politics, &c.

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Logan, Spencer. A NEGRO'S FAITH IN AMERICA. NY:Macmillan, 1946. original cloth. printed dj. 8.25" x 5.5". pp: vi, 88. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. Born in New Jersey, Logan attended Rutgers for a year, ran out of money, entered domestic service, $20.00 worked with the NAACP, &c. Hammon, Jupiter. JUPITER HAMMON: AMERICAN NEGRO POET. Selections from His Writings and a Bibliography by Oscar Wegelin. Miami, Florida: Mnemosyne Publishing, (1969). original wraps. 5 facsimiles of early texts. 8.5" x 5.25". 51pp. Paper covers lightly rubbed, else in very good condition. Student Edn. Poetry by the first African-American to write and publish poetry in the US, antedating Phyllis Wheatley by some $15.00 10 years. Du Bois, W.E.B.. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF W.E.B. DU BOIS: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century. NY: International Publishers, (1968). original cloth. 16pp illus from photographs. 8.25" x 5.5". 448pp w/index. Binding and contents in very good condition. First Edition. From the library of theater-historian Doris Abramson, with her signature on the front endpaper. At age 90, Du Bois covers his entire life span, including his 15th trip abroad, a stay in the USSR, thoughts on Communism, the NAACP, etc. $40.00

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Johnson, James Weldon. ALONG THIS WAY: The Autobiography. NY:Viking Press, 1969. original cloth. 16 plates from photographs. 8" x 5". 418pp w/index. Publisher's red stamp on endpaper, else in very good condition. Viking Compass. [Citations: Blockson #4660. Brignano #198]. His own story by the poet-novelist-essayist and 14-year Secretary of $50.00 the NAACP. Yellin, Jean Fagan. THE INTRICATE KNOT: Black Figures in American Literature, 1776-1863. NY:New York University Press, 1972. original cloth. manuscript facs frontispiece. 9.25" x 5.75". pp: (xii), 260. Binding and contents in very good condition. First Edition. Has chronology, bibliography and index. Examines depictions of African-Americans in American prose "from the time of the Declaration of Independence to the Emancipation Proclamation, including Jefferson's Notes, a series of Plantation Visions, a series of Abolitionist Views, $30.00 etc. Jackson, Rebecca. GIFTS OF POWER: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress. Edited by Jean McMahon Humez. s.1.: Univ of Massachusetts Press, (1981). original cloth. pictorial dj. 14pp photo-illus, 2 maps. 9.5" x 6.25". pp: viii, 368. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. Rebecca Cox Johnson (1795-1871) was a free black itinerant preacher who founded a predominantly black Shaker sisterhood in Philadelphia. $30.00 Sollors, Werner. AMIRI BARAKA / LEROI JONES: The Quest for a "Populist Modernism" [signed]. NY:Columbia University Press, 1978. original cloth. pictorial dj. 8pp illus from photos. 9.25" x 6". pp: xii, 338. Very good condition in a dust jacket with light edge wear. First Edition. From the library of theater-historian Doris Abramson, inscribed to her and a friend and signed by Werner in 1978. Also has the publisher's bookplate, stating "With the compliments of the Author." This is a scholarly analysis of "all the major works of Baraka's multifarious career as a politically committed writer," starting with his early Beat material through his political protests and Black cultural nationalism writings to his Maoist works in the $50.00 1970s. Brown, William Wells. THE NARRATIVE OF WILLIAM W. BROWN, A FUGITIVE SLAVE; & Lecture Delivered before the Female Anti-slavery Society of Salem, 1847. Reading, MA:Addison-Wesley, (1969). original wraps. 8.25" x 5.25". pp: xxviii, 98. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. Reprint Edn. Reprints the second, enlarged edition of this fugitive slave narrative of 1848, here with an introduction by Larry Gara. Also includes Brown's 1848 essay on "The American Slave Trade," extracts from American slave codes, and the text of his 1847 $20.00 lecture before the Female Anti-slavery Society of Salem. Wells-Barnett, Ida B.. ON LYNCHINGS: Southern Horrors, A Red Record, Mob Rule in New Orleans. Salem, NH:Ayer, (1987). original cloth. few illus photos & drawings. 8.5" x 5.5". pp: 24,101,48. Binding and contents in fine condition. Reprint Edn. Comprises facsimiles of these three works on lynching, taken from the originals in Howard University $75.00 Library.

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Bontemps, Arna & Jack Conroy. THEY SEEK A CITY. Garden City:Doubleday, Doran, 1945. original cloth. 8" x 5.5". pp: xvii, 266. Binding and contents in very good condition. First Edition. This history of the four waves of South-to-North migration of African-Americans includes a $45.00 bibliography and an index. Aptheker, Herbert. THE NEGRO IN THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT. NY: International, (1941). original wraps. 7.75" x 5.25". 48pp. Printed paper covers and contents in very good condition. 13th printing?. [Citations: BLOCKSON COLLECTION 9766; Thompson, RACE & REGION, 73.] $25.00 Washington, Joseph R., Jr.. BLACK RELIGION: The Negro and Christianity in the United States. Boston:Beacon Press, (1964). cloth/boards. 8.25" x 5.5". pp: (xi), 308. Bindin g and contents in very good condition. $20.00 First Edition. Has index. Clark, Kenneth B. and others. THE NEGRO PROTEST: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King talk with Kenneth B. Clark. Boston:Beacon Press, (1963). cloth/boards. illustrated dj. 8.25" x 5.25". 56pp. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. From the library of theater-historian Doris Abramson, with her signature on the front $60.00 endpaper. Kaplan, Sidney. AMERICAN STUDIES IN BLACK AND WHITE: Selected Essays, 1949-1989. Edited by Allan D. Austin. Amherst:Univ of Massachusetts Press, (1991). original cloth. pictorial dj. many illus fr old prints, &c. 9.5" x 7". pp: xvii, 260. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. First Edition. Foreword by John Hope Franklin. Laid in is the publisher's "compliments" slip. Comprises 12 essays by this pioneer in African-American studies: three on Colonial and Revolutionary America; two on the Civil War era, including a long work on the depiction of African-Americans in literature and art of the period; four literary essays on how people of color are depicted by Melville, Poe, and others; a section on portrayals of African-Americans in art; and little-known African-American inventors. $25.00 Smith, Venture and others. FIVE BLACK LIVES: Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, Rev. G.W. Offley, James L. Smith. Middletown, CT:Wesleyan University Press, (1971). original cloth. printed dj. facsimiles of 5 title-pages. 9.25" x 6". pp: x, 240. Near fine condition in a price-clipped dust jacket. First Edition. All five of the authors of these slave narratives escaped to freedom in Connecticut. Introduction by Arna Bontemps. $40.00

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Green, Ely. ELY: TOO BLACK, TOO WHITE. Edited by Elizabeth N. & Arthur Ben Chitty. Amherst:Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1970. cloth/boards. pictorial dj. manuscript facsimile frontis. 9.25" x 6". pp:(xviii),637. Top of dust jacket lightly tanned, else near fine condition. First Edition. From the library of theater-historian Doris Abramson, with her signature on the front endpaper. Green (1893-1968), born in Tennessee to a white father and an African-American mother, kept this journal that describes his experiences with the segregated US Army in France and his various civilian jobs (prize-fighter, valet, trainer for the Detroit Tigers, &c.). He states that he was "too black for employment in the segregated oil fields" of Texas, and "too white to be a Pullman porter," &c., &c. Lacking formal education, Green embarked on a self-education plan which included keeping a journal. $35.00 Sewall, Samuel. THE SELLING OF JOSEPH: A Memorial. Edited, with Notes & Commentary, by Sidney Kaplan. Amherst:Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1969. original wraps. portrait by Leonard Baskin. 8.25" x 5.5". 67pp. Faint mark on cover, else in very good condition. 1st trade edn. This handsome edition first appeared in 1969 as Gehenna Press Tract I. Sewall (1652-1730) was a merchant, renowned diarist, and Colonial magistrate known for admitting in public his errors as a judge in the Salem witch trials. He was concerned with the plight of Native Americans and Negro slaves and, in 1700, published this tract, "one of the earliest appeals in the anti-slavery cause" (DAB) and the first to be printed in New England. $20.00 Woll, Allen. BLACK MUSICAL THEATRE: From Coontown to Dreamgirls. Baton Rouge:Louisiana State Univ Press, (1989). original cloth. printed dj. 34pp illus from photographs. 9.25" x 6". pp: (xvii),301. Book and dust jacket near fine condition. First Edition. Has index. Explores the contributions of Will Marion Cook, George Walker, Bob Cole, Bert Williams, Johnson Brothers, et al. $25.00 Culbertson, Anne Virginia. BANJO TALKS. Illustrated from photographs by Mary Morgan Keipp & Heustis Pratt Cook. Indianapolis:Bobbs-Merrill, (1905). original cloth. 23 plates from photographs. 7.75" x 5.25". pp: (ix), 171. Spine lightly rubbed, else in very good condition. First Edition. Cover and spine decorated in banjo and floral motif. The high-quality photographs feature plantation life and African-American service people. The poetry is in stereotypical black dialect. $85.00 Herndon, Angelo. LET ME LIVE [signed]. NY:Random House, (1937). original cloth. 4 plates from photographs. 8" x 5.5". 409pp. Some faint spotting of binding, else in very good condition. First Edition. Inscribed and signed: "To Comrade Percy Shostac--Best Comradely Greetings, Angelo Herndon." Herndon was convicted in Georgia of trying to incite an insurrection and was sentenced to 20 years on a chain gang after publication of this book. The US Supreme Court overturned his conviction. The case, argued by Benjamin Davis, Jr., was a cause $175.00 celebre for the CPUSA, who counted Herndon among their number.

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1,017327. Gordon, Taylor. BORN TO BE. Introduction by Muriel Draper. Foreword by Carl Van Vechten. Illustrations by Covarrubias. NY:Covici-Friede, 1929. original cloth. color frontis, 9 b&w plates. 8.5" x 5.5". pp: xviii, 236. Edges of boards shelf-worn, contents in very good condition. 2nd printing. Taylor shared the stage with J. Rosamund Johson in introducing spirituals to European audiences. Here, he describes his Montana childhood among the sporting women of White Sulphur Springs, his adventures as a Pullman porter, his life as a chauffeur to circus-owner John Ringling, and the early years of his singing career. $65.00

017441. Brown, Josephine & Frances Rollin. TWO BIOGRAPHIES BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN. With an introduction by William L. Andrews. NY: Oxford University Press, 1991. original cloth. 6.75" x 4.75". pp: xliii, 367. Binding and contents near fine condition. Modern Edition. Has a 20-page foreword by Henry Louis Gates. Contains Josephine Brown's 1856 life of her father, abolitionist and author William Wells Brown (BIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN BONDMAN by His Daughter) and Frances Rollins's 1868 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF MARTIN R. DELANY. $30.00

017431. Martin, Fletcher, editor. OUR GREAT AMERICANS: The Negro Ah Contribution to American Progress. Chicago:Gamma Corp., (1953). 'T original wraps. text illus from photographs. 11" x 8.5". 96pp. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. First Edition. Contains 66 one-page biographies with photos of well-known African-Americans, arranged by their fields of accomplishment. $35.00

NO DAY OF TRIUMPH. With an introduction by 017439. Redding, J. Saunders. & Brothers, (1942). original cloth. 8.75" x NY:Harper Richard Wright. 5.75". pp: (x), 342. Binding and contents in very good condition. Second Edition. Wright calls this book "another hallmark in the 75.00 $ coming-of-age of the modern Negro...a manifesto to the Negro."

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. Moon, Bucklin, editor. PRIMER FOR WHITE FOLKS. Garden City:Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. original cloth. printed dj. 8" x 5.5". pp: xiv, 491. Very good condition in a heavily chipped dust jacket. First Edition. [Citations: Blockson Collection, 3785; Thompson, Race and Region, 136.] This anthology of fiction and nonfiction writings by and about African- Americans is presented in three sections: Heritage (african culture, slavery, emancipation, reconstruction); Black and White Mores (African- Americans in a white society); and, Today and Tomorrow (thoughts on the "Negro question," race and racism, &c.). Authors include W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Roi Ottley, Chester Himes, and others. $25.00

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