Finish the civil war! A Spartacist pamphlet
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, [1989?]. 32p., 8.25x11 inches, wraps, pages toned else very good condition. Black history and the class struggle 5. More
Cat.No: 125017
Abolitionism
John Brown's raid
Washington: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1990. 69 numbered pages in wraps. illustrated from period photography and newspaper cuts, 2 clear linedrawn maps in colors, 9x6 inch wraps. This a 1990 reprint with glossy illustrated covers. More
Cat.No: 55239
La revolution française et l'abolition de l'esclavage
Paris: EDHIS, 1968. 23.5x19 inch sheet folded into a 16-panel brochure advertising the twelve-volume set, describing the project and listing its contents , bookstore stamp on front with price in ink written beside it. More
Cat.No: 143307
Ontwerp tot vrijlating der Neger-slaven onder vereeniging van aller belangen
Amsterdam: [Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen], [1975]. 8p., wraps, paper toned, closed edge tears. Facsimile reprint of the 1842 S.J. Prins edition. More
Cat.No: 169564
Underground railroad resources in the United States; theme study
Washington: National Historic Landmarks Survey. U.S. Department of the Interior. National Parks Service, 1998. 49p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. More
Cat.No: 99197
A side-light on Anglo-American relations, 1839-1858; furnished by the correspondence of Lewis Tappan and others with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
N. pl. The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1927. Hardcover. vi, 407p., introduction, conclusion, index, very good first edition in green cloth and gilt. More
Cat.No: 156801
The neglected period of anti-slavery in America (1808-1831)
Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. ix, 307p., very good condition in like dj. Reprint of 1908 edition. Radcliffe College monographs #14. More
Cat.No: 13653
Speech of John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, upon the right of the people, men and women, to petition; on the freedom of speech and debate in the House of representatives of the United States; on the resolutions of seven state legislatures, and the petitions of more than one hundred thousand petitioners, relating to the annexation of Texas to this Union. Delivered in the House of representatives of the United States, in fragments of the morning hour, from the 16th of June to the 7th of July 1838, inclusive
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1838. 131p., disbound, sewn, slightly edge worn, foxing. More
Cat.No: 124799
The uprising of a great people The United States in 1861. To which is added a word of peace on the difference between England and the United States, [translated] from the French by Mary L. Booth. New American edition from the author's revised edition
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969. Hardcover. xiv, 298p., cloth boards spine-titled gilt; tail rim is somewhat worn. A photo-reproduction of the 1861 edition. The book's main focus is on slavery and race relations, with fears that England and France may intervene on the side of the Confederacy. Select..... More
Cat.No: 35019
Make Love, Not War: the sexual revolution: an unfettered history
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. Hardcover. xi, 381p., introduction, notes, selected bibliography, index, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Gay Liberation, the Clergy and the Sexual Revolution, Beatniks and Bathing suits etc. More
Cat.No: 102383
Schooner Amistad. June 24, 1846 : Mr. C.J. Ingersoll, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, made the following report : the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the Secretary of State's letter of the 19th of March, 1846, communicating the Spanish minister's (Mr. Calderon de la Barca's) letters to the present and last Secretary of State, concerning the Spanish schooner Amistad, respectfully report ...
[Washington DC]: 1846. 17p., disbound, slight crimping and mild foxing of text, otherwise sound and clean. 28th Congress 1st session. Rep. no. 753, Ho. of Reps. Reprints communications from the Spanish minister Mr. Calderon, discussing the ongoing Amistad case and the irritation it continued to cause in US-Spain relations. More
Cat.No: 211340
Slavery in Europe: a letter to neutral governments from the Anti-Slavery Society
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917. 8p., 4.75x7.25 inches, very good in original stapled wraps. A call to denounce the actions of Germany in Belgium and the north of France during World War One, where the Germans deported large numbers of Belgians and French to slave-labor sites in Germany. More
Cat.No: 95392
Abolitionism; a revolutionary movement
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. Paperback. xviii, 196p., first edition glossy 8.5x5.5 inch wraps. Spine panel slightly sunned, an else quite fresh copy that inscribed to BlackScholar editor Robert [L.] Allen and signed in full by Aptheker. Social movements past and present. More
Cat.No: 180679
The Negro in the abolitionist movement
New York: International Publishers, 1941. Paperback. 48p., lightly shelfworn wraps. More
Cat.No: 3754
The Negro in the abolitionist movement
New York: International Publishers, 1941. Paperback. 48p., lightly shelfworn wraps, staples rusted, title page unevenly toned, else good condition. More
Cat.No: 233072
A documentary history of the Negro people in the United States; preface by W.E.B. Du Bois
New York: The Citadel Press, 1951. Hardcover. xvi, 942p., first edition, corners worn, pages browned, soiled. No dj. Covers the pre-NAACP period. The dust jacket subtitle reads "A history of the Negro people, from colonial times to 1910, told in thier own words. More
Cat.No: 28734
Memoir of John Mason Peck forty years of pioneer life
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965. Hardcover. 360, xciv, hardbound first edition cloth boards in dust jacket; dj is irregularly sunned, clean and sound, a very good copy. Perspectives in Sociology. More
Cat.No: 60641
Shadow on the church; southwestern evangelical religion and the issue of slavery, 1783-1860
Itaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. Hardcover. 293p., very good in a like dj. Focuses on Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky. More
Cat.No: 120324
Modern agitators: or pen portraits of living American reformers
New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. Hardcover. 396p., steel-engraved frontis portrait (tissue-guard torn), second edition. Mild foxing and toning throughout the textblock plus occasional small stains, one signature is started badly and is held by only one thread, ownership legend on endsheet from 1867. The black cloth casebinding with..... More
Cat.No: 213856
The autobiography of Lyman Beecher; edited by Barbara M. Cross, in two volumes
Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 1961. xxxix, 418p. + front., 6p. illus. + vii, 447p. + front., 4p. illus., very good in djs. More
Cat.No: 118543
The West and Reconstruction
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981. Hardcover. xiv, 294p., boards, dj sunned with minor wear, else very good, review slip laid in. More
Cat.No: 155067
A aboliçao do trafico de escravos no Brasil; traduçao de Vera Neves Pedroso
Rio de Janeiro: Editora Expressão e Cultura, 1976. Paperback. 406p., wraps. Portuguese version of Bethell's Abolition of the Brazilian slave trade. More
Cat.No: 122766
The American churches, the bulwarks of American slavery
Concord, N. H. Parker Pillsbury, 1885. 48p., third US edition, string-tied wraps with corner torn from top of final leaf, not affecting text, and two spots on the front. Includes an introduction by Pillsbury. More
Cat.No: 90693
Slavery & abolition in early republican Peru
Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1992. Trade Paperback. xx, 247p., wraps. More
Cat.No: 114804
The anti-slavery movement and reconstruction; a study in Anglo-American cooperation, 1833-77
London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 197p., first printing, slightly worn dj. More
Cat.No: 21873