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
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
The Storm! A journal for free spirits. #9-10. Special double issue
New York: The Mackay Society, 1980. 28p. 6.25x8.25 inches, illustrations, stapled pictorial wraps. Minor toning and handling, very good. With articles on Jo Labadie and John Henry Mackay, sex radicals and abolitionists, and more. As stated in this issue, “The purpose of The Storm has been from the beginning to..... More
Cat.No: 123261
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
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
The Negro in the abolitionist movement
New York: International Publishers, 1941. Paperback. 48p., lightly shelfworn wraps. More
Cat.No: 3754
Memoir of John Mason Peck forty years of pioneer life
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965. Hardcover. lxxviii, 360p., lxxxi-xciv, hardbound, first issue of this critical edition, cloth boards in dust jacket; dj is irregularly sunned, otherwise everything's 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
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
Slavery & abolition in early republican Peru
Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1992. Trade Paperback. xx, 247p., wraps. More
Cat.No: 114804
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. Hardcover. xx+888p., illus., hardcover, unclipped dj in protective mylar casing, boards slightly splayed, else very good. More
Cat.No: 253352
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
Notes on the progress of the colored people of Maryland since the war; a supplement to The Negro in Maryland: a Study of the Institution of Slavery
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1890. 96p. + ads, front wrap slightly creased, spine beginning to split. Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, eighth series, VII-VIII-IX. More
Cat.No: 109654
A Memorial of George Bradburn. By his wife.
Boston: Cupples, Upham and Company, 1883. Hardcover. 250p., cloth-covered boards, 5x7.5 inches, frontispiece portrait of Bradburn along with one other portrait of Bradburn. ex-library with accession number on spine, previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, pp51/52 and 63/64 torn at top edge due to poorly opened leaves else..... More
Cat.No: 260770
Make free; the story of the Underground Railroad
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1958. Hardcover. 287p., first edition, dj. More
Cat.No: 34532
Freedom from war; nonsectarian pacifism, 1814-1914
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. ix, 436p., illus., dj. More
Cat.No: 41415
Spencer Kellogg Brown; his life in Kansas and his death as a spy, 1842 - 1863, as disclosed in his diary
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1903. x, 380p., illustrated with two speciments of the diarist's cipher writing on inserted coated stock; first edition red cloth boards gilt. Quite edgeworn, with severe loss of fabric at the head and minor loss at heel. Find a previous owner's signature, light sunning..... More
Cat.No: 159616
My southern home: or, the south and its people
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. vii, 253p. Reprint of the 1880 edition. More
Cat.No: 113884