Homelands and waterways; the American journey of the Bond family, 1846-1926
New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. Hardcover. x, 694p. + 16p. photos, first printing, very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 75344
Antebellum
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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
British and American abolitionists; an episode in transatlantic understanding
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1974. Hardcover. 341p., cloth boards in dj, a very good copy. "Nearly 500 letters are transcribed and annotated. The subjects covered range from the annexation of Texas to colonial policy in India, from the Irish problem to women's rights and the Young India movement. Many of..... More
Cat.No: 5793
Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Paperback. 283p., very good later printing. More
Cat.No: 343968
United States senatorial question; speeches delivered in the Assembly of the State of New-York by the honorables messrs. C.C. Leigh, C. P. Johnson, J. W. Stebbins [et al.] and others, in exposition of the oaths, obligations and rituals of the Know-Nothings, during the debate on the United States senatorial question, February 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, 1855
Albany NY: Weed, Parsons & Company, Printers, 1855. Pamphlet. 62p. self-wraps (title page is p.1) plus a blank, printed smallpoint in doublecolumns, disbound but holding nicely. First leaf (title & unprinted verso, or pp.1 & 2) and last leaf (the blank, or pp.63 & 64) bear mild, almost faint, small..... More
Cat.No: 170716
Religion and the working class in Antebellum America
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. Hardcover. xxi, 353p., very good condition in like dj. "Providing for the first time a national, regional, and local picture of religion's role in working-class formation, this book challenges the now common notion that the republican ideal constituted the principal ideological impulse behind the development..... More
Cat.No: 48454
Plantation, town, and county; essays on the local history of American slave society
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974. Hardcover. 457p., introduction, footnotes, tables, illustrations, very good first edition hardcover bound in cloth boards and price-clipped, heavily-rubbed dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 5731
Fettered freedom; civil liberties and the slavery controversy, 1830-1860
East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1949. Hardcover. xiii, 273p. + 4p. illus, edgeworn dj. More
Cat.No: 136058
Our fiery trial; Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and the Civil War era
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. Hardcover. ix, 150p., bit rubbed dj, else very good hardcover. More
Cat.No: 84479
Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Trade Paperback. 241p., softcover, new in original plastic shrinkwrap. More
Cat.No: 147215
The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865
Austin: The University of Texas, 1922. Paperback. 213p., covers a bit soiled with wear to edges. wraps. University of Texas Bulletin #2205, Feb. 1, 1922. More
Cat.No: 71328
The kidnapped and the ransomed
New York: Negro Publication Society of America, 1941. Hardcover. 315p., first NPSA edition, very good hardcover in dj. The European American writer's story of the two black brothers was originally published in 1856 Series I, History, #1. More
Cat.No: 18281
Personal reminiscences of the anti-slavery and other reforms and reformers
Plainfield, NJ: Anna Rice Powell, 1899. Hardcover. xx, 279p. including 15 illus., first edition. A very good copy of an important account of the movement in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York. More
Cat.No: 72757
Paternalism and ruling class ideology in the ante-bellum south: a critique of the social function of paternalism as presented in the analysis of Eugene D. Genovese
Irvine: University of California, 1976. Pamphlet. 51p., reproduced from typescript; 8.5x11 inch stapled wraps, light handling wear, touch of rust to staples, wraps toned along edges, else very good condition. Program in comparative culture, occasional papers no.2. More
Cat.No: 46111
Women against slavery
New York: Masses and Mainstream, 1955. Paperback. 102p., slightly shelf worn wraps else very good condition. The author treats of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and thirteen white abolitionists. The author was editor of Masses & Mainstream, a Marxist cultural monthly associated with the CPUSA. More
Cat.No: 109489
Emotion at high tide; abolition as a controversial factor, 1830-1845
Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1960. Hardcover. vi, 243p., cloth boards, no dj as published, very good. More
Cat.No: 74667
Autobiography of James L. Smith, including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. xiii, 150p., hardcover cloth boards; very good condition. Reprint of the 1881 narrative by a former slave from Virginia. More
Cat.No: 65543
Onkel Toms Hütte. Eine Erzählung aus dem Negerleben in den Sklavenstaaten Nordamerikas. Für di deutsche Jungend bearbeitet von Fr. Hoffman. Mit farbendruckbildern nach Uquarellen vonE. Hosang
Berlin: G. Hendersohn, n.d. Hardcover. 137p. + 3 color plates, later German language edition, hinge starting, text block toned, else good. More
Cat.No: 52876
La cabaña del Tio Tom;
Mexico City: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, 1982. Paperback. 297p., later printing, wraps. Spanish language translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Coleccion Literaria Universal. More
Cat.No: 68539
The antislavery appeal; American abolitionism after 1830
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Hardcover. xvii, 196p, 1st printing. very good in a bit soiled and rubbed dj. More
Cat.No: 66967
Slavery agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832; awarded the Mrs. Simon Baruch University Prize for 1929
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. Hardcover. viii, 162p., ex library, embossed stamp on title page, else no library-markings. More
Cat.No: 72782
Slavery agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832; awarded the Mrs. Simon Baruch University Prize for 1929
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. Hardcover. viii, 162p. A bright, very good copy, something inked over agressively on front free endpaper near top, hinge starting. More
Cat.No: 114689
The anti-slavery cause in America and its martyrs
Westport: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. vii, 168p., reprint of 1863 edition, cloth boards, no dj, very good. More
Cat.No: 47398
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Dessa Rose [signed]
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1986. Hardcover. 236p., inscribed by Williams, then signed by her on the title page, very good second printing in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dust jacket. First novel by the African American author. Powerful, haunting evocation of the relationship between two women, a slave and..... More
Cat.No: 46483
The Advocates of Peace in Antebellum America
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. Hardcover. x, 241p., cloth-covered boards, 6.25x9.5 inches, very good first edition in lightly worn unclipped dj. Religion in North America. On The American Peace Society and the New England Non-Resistant Society. More
Cat.No: 265562
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