Finish the civil war! A Spartacist pamphlet
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, [1989?]. Pamphlet. 32p., 8.25x11 inches, wraps, pages toned else very good condition. Black history and the class struggle 5. More
Cat.No: 125017
Reconstruction
Mass meeting of the citizens of New-York, held at the Cooper Institute, February 22d, 1866, to approve the principles announced in the messages of Andrew Johnson, president of the United States
New York: George F. Nesbitt & Co., Printers and Stationers, 1866. Pamphlet. 38p., disbound with threads lacking, adhered but first few leaves at risk; 8.5x5.5 inch self-wraps, a few penciled numerals lower right cover-corner, alkaline paperstock, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 174854
Report of the Civil Service Commission to the President. April 15, 1874
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1874. Pamphlet. 98 pages, stab-sewn pamphlet. Very Good. Report on Civil Service reforms instituted in 1871. The reforms were meant to end the spoils (or patronage) system which allowed ruling political parties to directly appoint civil servants and was a major point of debate during..... More
Cat.No: 340810
Reconstruction; the battle for democracy, 1865-1876
New York: International Publishers, 1937. 256p., very good hardcover. More
Cat.No: 348008
A documentary history of the Negro people in the United States; II, from Reconstruction to 1910
New York: The Citadel Press, 1964. vi, 410p., paperback; first wraps edition of volume 2, slightly shelfworn. Good. More
Cat.No: 112501
The West and Reconstruction
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981. Hardcover. xiv, 294p., top edge of textblock lightly foxed, else very good first edition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 155067
Beating against the barriers; biographical essays in nineteenth-century Afro-American history
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Trade Paperback. xviii, 417p., very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 89000
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. Hardcover. xx+888p., scattered illustrations with fine endsheet photoportraits (in youth, in old age) and a colorized photo decorating the dj; first edition of the hardcover issue, enclosed in its dust jacket. A fine copy, with just one inconspicuous crease to front dustwrapper flap, dj..... More
Cat.No: 331931
Science & Society; a Marxian quarterly, volume 1, no. 3 (Spring 1937)
New York: Science and Society, Inc., 1937. Magazine. Continuous pagination, pp. 273-444, single issue of the quarterly publication, 6x9 inches; minor soiling on wraps, toned spine, mild shelfwear on wrapper corners, some pencil tick marks on the table of contents, else in very good condition. Content on the Civil Rights..... More
Cat.No: 296868
Science & Society; a Marxian quarterly, volume 1, no. 3 (Spring 1937)
New York: Science and Society, Inc., 1937. Magazine. Continuous pagination, pp. 273-444, single issue of the quarterly publication, 6x9 inches; front wrap somewhat soiled, minor damp stain on top right corner, else in very good condition. Content on the Civil Rights movement, Italian fascism, Reconstruction, and more. Contributions from Louis..... More
Cat.No: 296869
Lizzie's story: a slave family's journey to freedom
[Joliet, IL]: 1stbooks, 2002. Trade Paperback. xii, 136p. including illus. from period family photoportraits, inscribed by Boswell, very good condition in wraps. On her family's Kentucky-centered history, historical narrative supplemented with reconstructed dialogue. From their arrival in chains in America through the end of slavery and reconstruction. The author has..... More
Cat.No: 104264
The truth about Gone with the Wind
Detroit: the author, [1993]. 12p., 8,5x11 inches, wraps bound with duct tape (as issued), very good condition. A critique of the book's stereotypes of African Americans, Irish Americans and the view of reconstruction, particularly contesting the racism of Samuel Eliot Morison. More
Cat.No: 155632
Racism, revolution, reaction, 1861-1877: The rise and fall of radical reconstruction
New York: Pathfinder Press, 2002. Paperback. 307p., wraps, very good condition. First published in 1976. More
Cat.No: 138442
Racism, revolution, reaction, 1861-1877: The rise and fall of radical reconstruction
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1994. Paperback. 269p., wraps, very good condition. First published in 1976. More
Cat.No: 318663
Chains of fear; American race relations since reconstruction
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. Hardcover. xxxv, 253p., review sheet laid in, first printing, very good condition. Documents and an introduction. Grass roots perspectives on American history 3. More
Cat.No: 89212
Maggie L. Walker and the I. O. of Saint Luke; the woman and her work
Cincinnati: The Dabney Publishing Company, 1927. 137p. + front., 19 plates, first edition, navy blue cloth boards with titling in bright gilt; minor scuffing on rear board, overall in very good condition. Biography of the African American banker by her fellow Virginian. Walker became the mainstay of the Independent Order..... More
Cat.No: 113958
![Cat.No: 168636 Cesta svobody [prelozila, Stasa Jílovská]. Howard Fast](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/168636.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1484028893)
Cesta svobody [prelozila, Stasa Jílovská]
Praha: Mladá Fronta, 1954. Hardcover. 271p., color frontispiece, a few in text illustrations, very good condition in a bright illustrated dj. Text in Czech, translation of Howard Fast's Freedom Road. More
Cat.No: 168636
Reconstruction; America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1988. xxvii, 690p., paperback; light edgewear, else in very good condition. The New American Nation Series. More
Cat.No: 15145
Teacher of the freedmen: a diary and letters
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990. xix, 242p., first edition, very good condition. No dj. Appended are poems and short fiction. More
Cat.No: 20117
Freedom's unfinished revolution, an inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction
New York: The New Press, 1996. Paperback. 302p., wraps, very good condition, 8x10 inches. (The American Social History Project). More
Cat.No: 343994
The Negro problem in the United States; its rise, development and solution. Presented to the University of Leipzig, for the degree of doctor of philosophy
Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. 116p. reprint of the 1892 doctoral dissertation, small stain on rear board, else very good condition. No dj. About half on slavery, the rest on the post-Civil War eras; originally published in Leipzig 1892. Gage matriculated there in 1889. More
Cat.No: 85095
![Cat.No: 329091 Seventy years of life and labor: an autobiography. Volume I [only]....](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/329091.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733954983)
Seventy years of life and labor: an autobiography. Volume I [only].
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, 1967. Hardcover. xxxiv, 557p., a few scattered illustrations (mostly photoportraits of author), hardbound in 9x5.5 inch gray cloth boards titled brown. A fine copy of this first half of the autobiography: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Caveat emptor, v.I only of a two-vol set..... More
Cat.No: 329091
Clinching the Victory
Seattle: Wilberlilla Publishers, 1943. Paperback. 365p., 5.5x7 inches; illus., wraps slightly toned and soiled, bookplate slightly torn away from inside cover, pencil notation on publisher's blank, ex-library with title page perforation and pocket on inside of rear wraps, else in very good condition. Includes some minor remarks on Japanese internment..... More
Cat.No: 279799
The Negro in American history
Washington: Service Center for Teachers of History, 1965. Pamphlet. 29p., first printing, softbound, a stapled pamphlet in 9x6 inch skyblue wraps, mildest signs of handling to cover (a corner-tip slightly turned) and none to interior, a sound, clean, unmarked copy. Publication #61. More
Cat.No: 302072
Black reconstruction in South Carolina
Austin, TX: American Atheist Press, 1987. Pamphlet. 64p., 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound pamphlet; slight toning oncovers, small dampstain on bottom left corner, otherwise very good. African American historian/freethinker/trade unionist. More
Cat.No: 151296