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
Antebellum
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
Society and culture in the slave South
London: Routledge, 1992. Hardcover. ix, 245p., preface, introduction, notes, references, further reading, very good first edition in black cloth boards with silver titles. Rewriting Histories, series editor: Jack R. Censer. More
Cat.No: 209377
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. 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 old..... More
Cat.No: 170716
The Antelope; the ordeal of the recaptured Africans in the administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Hardcover. vii, 198p., very good hardcover in lightly shelfworn dj with a somewhat faded spine. More
Cat.No: 2814
Fettered freedom; civil liberties and the slavery controversy, 1830-1860
East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1949. Hardcover. xiii, 273p. + 4p. illus. no dj, else very good. More
Cat.No: 48435
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
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American slavery and after [with] Notes to American slavery and after [pair]
San Francisco: Olema Press, 1983 and 1984. Hardcover. Two volumes. [American slavery ..., vii, 345p; Notes ..., v, 862,], original cloth binding, vol. 1 is slightly edge worn with a long razor-like scratch on the front cover, vol. 2 is slightly edge worn with the spine lettering partly eroded. Olshausen..... More
Cat.No: 134327
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 freshness of fanaticism: Abby Kelley Foster: an essay in reform. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy; supervised by Herbert Gutman.
Rochester / Ann Arbor: The University of Rochester / University Microfilms, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. Unpublished thesis; vii, 276p., photocopied rectos only and cased into utilitarian buckram boards spine-titled. Mild rippling to a few leafs due to binding process. One instance of neat underlining on p.137, an otherwise very good copy..... More
Cat.No: 175015
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
" Doers of the word"; African-American women speakers and writers in the north (1830-1880)
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Hardcover. ix, 284p., first printing, dj. Very good. More
Cat.No: 84767
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
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
Ballots for freedom; antislavery politics in the United States, 1837-1860.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Hardcover. xvi, 379p., first edition, dj. Very good. More
Cat.No: 2854
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
The tragedy of the Negro in America; a condensed history of the enslavement, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the Negro race in the United States of America, prepared at the special request of the philanthropic and Christian public of both England and America.
Boston: the author, 1897. Hardcover. xvii, 253p. including photographs, previous owner's slightly smeared signature, hinge weakening, boards spotted with a worn spot on spine. Stanford, a black minister, left England for the United States in order to write a brief sketch of African American life, but "was soon convinced that..... More
Cat.No: 73377
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