Homelands and waterways; the American journey of the Bond family, 1846-1926
New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. Hardcover. x, 694p. + 16p. photos, first printing, dj, very good. More
Cat.No: 75344
Antebellum
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
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
Concepts of free labor in Antebellum America
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Hardcover. 514p., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 48332
Selected writings of Henry Hughes; Antebellum Southerner, Slavocrat, sociologist
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985. xxii, 235p., preface, appendix, notes, remainder mark on bottom edge otherwise very good first edition in brown cloth and unclipped dj with mild wear at head of spine. Hughes advocated resumption of the African Slave trade; he fell ill and died in service of..... More
Cat.No: 159881
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
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
William Lloyd Garrison and the humanitarian reformers
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Hardcover. 215p., first edition, ex library with usual stamps and card pocket, no dj. Library of American biography. More
Cat.No: 44463
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
Antislavery reconsidered; new perspectives on the abolitionists
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. Hardcover. xvi, 348p., first edition. shelfworn dj including sticker shadow/glue residue to top right corner of front panel, else very good. More
Cat.No: 21288
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
Ambivalent conspirators; John Brown, the secret six, and a theory of slave violence
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Hardcover. xii, 298p., first printing. slightly worn dj. More
Cat.No: 8764
The abolitionists; a collection of their writings
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. Hardcover. 259p., first edition, review copy with presentation card, errata slip and Kirkus' Service review included, dj. Ruchames provides an introduction to the book and short introductory notes to the writings of the principal figures in the abolitionist movement. White abolitionists are identified by..... More
Cat.No: 1813
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. Reprint of the 1881 narrative by a former slave from Virginia. More
Cat.No: 65543
A political history of slavery; being an account of the slavery controversy from the earliest agitations in the eighteenth century to the close of the reconstruction period in America, introduction by Louis Filler
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1966. Hardcover. x, 350p. dj. Reprint of volume one of the 1903 edition. American Classics Series. More
Cat.No: 75335
Professors & Public Ethics: Studies of Northern Moral Philosophers before the Civil War
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1956. Hardcover. 244p., dark blue boards, title silver-gilt, 6.25x9.25 inches. Spine lightly rubbed, else very good. More
Cat.No: 280771
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work
Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853. iv, 262p. + 2p. ads, front wrap lacking, original rear wrap laid in (printed with more Jewett ads), withdrawn ex-library in a makeshift cover of brown paper and clear tape, sturdier than it sounds. *BAK 19359, printing 1, binding B. More
Cat.No: 64204
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