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Author: Adams, John Quincy:
Title: JUBILEE OF THE CONSTITUTION, A Discourse Delivered ..in ..New York, ..the 30th of April, 1839; ..the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States....
Imprint: N.Y.,
Date: 1839.
Description: Disbound, lacks orig. wrps., 136, frontis. pl., little foxed.
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMERICANA.
Price: $20.


Author: [Adams, Nehemiah]:
Title: THE SABLE CLOUD: A Southern Tale, with Northern Comments.
Imprint: Boston: Ticknor & Fields,
Date: 1861,
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 275, (2), signatures slightly pulled.
Reference: +AFRO-AMERICANA 70. Wright: AMERICAN FICTION 24. Anti-slavery commentary in the guise of fiction.
Price: $75.


Author: AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY,
Title: MEMORIAL OF THE PRESIDENT AND MANAGERS OF THE ____. Feb. 3, 1820. Referred to Committee on so much of the President's Message as relates to the Slave Trade.
Imprint: Wash.: Gales & Seaton,
Date: 1820.
Description: H.R. #63, 7pp., unopened, uncut, light foxing, v.g.
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMER., but see #395, the earliest item on this Society (1817). A.I. 3897 (DLC; G; MBAt). States aims, reviews successful work in Africa and the slave trade in the few years since founding, and asks Congress for incorporation.
Price: $30.


Author: ANTI-SLAVERY
Title: REPORTER.
Imprint: New=York,
Date: October, 1833.
Description: A periodical, containing the ADDRESS OF THE NEW YORK CITY ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, &c. Vol.1, No.5, title + pp. (67)-80, orig. stitched self-wrps., printed in double columns, slight soil and dampstains, very good.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 624 notes only Vol.1, #4. AMER. IMPRINTS 17422.
Price: $40.


Author: Armstrong, Mrs. M.F. & Helen W. Ludlow:
Title: HAMPTON AND ITS STUDENTS by Two of Its Teachers. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arr. by Thomas P. Fenner.
Imprint: NY.,
Date: 1874.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, 255, (1), fldg. panoramic frontis. of Hampton, illus.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 660.
Price: $75.


Author: Ashmore, Harry S.:
Title: AN EPITAPH FOR DIXIE.
Imprint: NY.,
Date: (1958).
Description: Ed.1, 189, dj.
Reference: +Concludes social segregation will continue without legal sanction for some years to come, but that the South must change to allow individual Negroes to advance according to individual ability.
Price: $20.


Author: Bancroft, Frederic:
Title: SLAVE-TRADING IN THE OLD SOUTH.
Imprint: Baltimore, MD.,
Date: 1931.
Description: Large 8vo, (vi), 415, frontis., many illus., v.g.
Price: $50.


Author: Bledsoe, Albert Taylor:
Title: AN ESSAY ON LIBERTY AND SLAVERY.
Imprint: Phila.,
Date: 1856.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 383, spine extremities worn.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 1281. The author, U. of Va. Prof. of Mathematics, here describes 17 abolitionist fallacies.
Price: $50.


Author: Branch, Lawrence O'B.:
Title: CONGRESSIONAL INTERVENTION IN REGARD TO SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES. LETTER OF LAWRENCE O'B. BRANCH TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. May 15, 1860.
Imprint: Wash.: Congressional Globe Office,
Date: 1860.
Description: Disbound, self-wrappers, 21.7 cm., 16pp., in double columns, foxed, last page some soiled.
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMER., but see #1485, another speech by Branch, July 24, 1856. Branch was a member of the Ho. of Reps., became senior Brig.-Gen., C.S.A., 1861, in A.P. Hill's Division, Stonewall Jackson's Corps; killed in the Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, MD., while in command of the Fourth Brigade, N.C. Troops, Sept. 17, 1862.
Price: $35.


Author: Bunn, Alfred:
Title: OLD ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLAND, in a Series of Views Taken on the Spot.
Imprint: London & Phila.,
Date: 1853.
Description: Orig. cl. gilt, 1st American Ed., xv, (13)-315, 28 (advts.).
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMER. Has a chapter on H.B.Stowe and slavery; also, much on the theater, New England, N.Y., Phila., and impressions of America.
Price: $75.


Author: Carnegie, Andrew:
Title: THE NEGRO IN AMERICA. An Address ...before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, 16th October 1907.
Imprint: Inverness: Robt. Carruthers & Sons, Courier Office,
Date: (ca. 1907).
Description: Printed card wrps., 44.
Price: $50.


Author: Carter, Hon. Luther C., of New York:
Title: SPEECH OF ____, ...in the House of Representatives, Jan. 18, 1860.
Imprint: Wash.: Thos. McGill, Printer,
Date: (1860).
Description: Disbound, 22.2 cm., caption title, 16, marginal stabholes.
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMERICANA.
Price: $30.


Author: Child, L. Maria:
Title: THE RIGHT WAY THE SAFE WAY, Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies, and Elsewhere.
Imprint: N.Y.: Pub. & For Sale at 5 Beekman St.,
Date: 1860.
Description: Self wrps., 96.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 2289 cites 95pp. only. B.A.L. 3189. 2d issue of the first ed., extended to 96pp.
Price: $50.


Author: Clark, Rufus W., A.M., Pastor of the North Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
Title: A REVIEW OF THE REV. MOSES STUART'S PAMPHLET ON SLAVERY, ENTITLED CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION.
Imprint: Boston: Pub. by C.C.P. Moody,
Date: 1850.
Description: (Orig. pub. in the Boston Daily Atlas), printed wrps., 103, small ex-liby. stamp on front wrp., pvt. owner's name in ink, v.g.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 2351.
Price: $45.


Author: Clay, Henry:
Title: SPEECH OF ____, ON THE SUBJECT OF ABOLITION PETITIONS. In the Senate of the U.S....Feb. 7th, 1839.
Imprint: (Wash.?
Date: 1839).
Description: Self-wrps. soiled, light stains, 23 cm., 9pp., foxed.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 2431 cites the Gales & Seaton printing of 16 pages. Not in 1839 AMERICAN IMPRINTS.
Price: $45.


Author: Cobb, Howell, Linn Boyd, Beverly L. Clarke, and John H. Lumpkin:
Title: TO OUR CONSTITUTENTS. Wash. City, Feb. 26, 1849.
Imprint: (Wash.: Towers,
Date: ca. 1849).
Description: As issued, 8, uncut, unopened, (folded).
Reference: +Explains why the authors didn't join in issuing a recent "Address to the people of the South on the exciting issue of slavery," by a number of Southern Representatives in Congress. Here is an answer to the arguments of John Calhoun, Texas annexation, the Wilmot Proviso, Northern vs. Southern interests, the admission of California and New Mexico, views of Millard Fillmore, and the abolition question. Not in AFRO-AMERICANA.
Price: $45.


Author: Cochin, Augustin:
Title: THE RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION, Work Crowned by the Institute of France. Transl. by Mary L. Booth.
Imprint: Boston,
Date: 1863.
Description: Half calf little worn, xiv, 412.
Reference: +AFRO-AMERICANA 2483. First Amer. ed. Includes English colonies in America, and colonies of Denmark, France, Sweden, and Holland.
Price: $45.


Author: Cox, Oliver Cromwell:
Title: CASTE, CLASS & RACE: A Study in Social Dynamics.
Imprint: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co.,
Date: 1948.
Description: Ed.1, xxxviii, 624, bibliog., index, fine, d.j. sl. worn.
Reference: +Won the G.W. Carver Award.
Price: $25.


Author: [Dallas, A.J.]:
Title: LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, Transmitting A STATEMENT OF THE VALUATIONS OF LANDS, LOTS, AND DWELLING HOUSES, AND OF SLAVES, in the Several States... January 25th, 1816.
Imprint: Washington: Printed by William A. Davis,
Date: 1816.
Description: Folio, disbound, 5pp., minor marginal tears, v.g.
Reference: +A.I. 39523. Gives total dollar values of slaves in CT., NY., DE., MD., NC., TN., LA.
Price: $75.


Author: Dawes, Hon. Henry L., of Mass.:
Title: THE NEW DOGMA OF THE SOUTH-"Slavery a Blessing." Speech...House of Rep., April 12, 1860. (Republican Executive Congressional Committee, Presidential Campaign of 1860), Caption title,
Imprint: (Wash.,
Date: 1860).
Description: Disbound, backstrip rough, ink-stain tip of margin corner, 7, (1).
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 2969.
Price: $25.


Author: [Fessenden, W.P., Secy. of the Treasury]:
Title: RULES AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE with and in STATES AND PARTS OF STATES DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, the Collection, Receipt, and Disposition of CAPTURED, ABANDONED, AND CONFISCABLE PROPERTY, and the Employment and General Welfare of FREEDMEN. &c.
Imprint: Washington,
Date: July 29, 1864.
Description: Disbound, later marbled wrps., 76; (2, AMENDED REGULATION, Jan. 4, 1865), both approved by the President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the latter by Executive Order.
Price: $75.


Author: Freeman, F.:
Title: YARADEE; A Plea for Africa, in Familiar Conversation on the Subject of SLAVERY AND COLONIZATION.
Imprint: Phila.: Pub. by J.Whetham,
Date: 1836.
Description: 16mo, Ed.1, orig. cl., 360, foot of spine repaired, little foxed, otherwise good.
Reference: +Sabin 25758. AFRO-AMER. 3829. A.I. 37522, loc. 5c. A comprehensive historical treatise.
Price: $75.


Author: Gasparin, Agenor (Etienne), Comte De, et al:
Title: ANTWORT DER HERREN Agenor de Gasparin, Edouard Laboulaye, Henri Martin, Augustin Cochin und anderer Freunde Amerikas in Frankreich an die Loyal National League zu New-York.
Imprint: New=York: Gedruckt bei H. Ludwig,
Date: 1864.
Description: LPS No. 43. Ed.1, orig. ptd. wrps., 11, text in German, back wrp. lists 43 publications.
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMERICANA, but see A.A. 4039-4042.
Price: $35.


Author: Giddings, Joshua R.:
Title: THE EXILES OF FLORIDA: or, the crimes committed by our government against the Maroons, who fled from South Carolina and other slave states, seeking protection under Spanish laws.
Imprint: Columbus,
Date: 1858.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., viii, 338, frontis., 5 pls.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 4092.
Price: $125.


Author: Hall, Robert F.:
Title: JOHN BROWN AT ELIZABETHTOWN.
Imprint: Amsterdam, N.Y.: Private Press of Alvin S. Fick,
Date: (1977).
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 300, 15.9 cm., orig. ptd. wrps., (8), 12, (1), port., illus., stitched, fine.
Price: $25.


Author: Hammond, Charles A.:
Title: GERRIT SMITH. The Story of a Noble Man's Life.
Imprint: Geneva, NY,
Date: 1900.
Description: Ed.1, pvt. ptd., orig. card wrps. sl. soiled, 80, port., signed pres. copy from Elizabeth Smith Miller, dated 1900.
Reference: +Prominent N.Y. abolitionist, elected M.C., 1852.
Price: $35.


Author: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth:
Title: JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
Imprint: NY. & London,
Date: 1902.
Description: Ed.1, (English Men of Letters Series), viii, 196, slight marginal stains on final index leaves, few back cover dampstains, quite good.
Reference: +Poet and abolitionist. Not in AFRO-AMERICANA.
Price: $20.


Author: Hubbard, Elbert:
Title: LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT TEACHERS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
Imprint: East Aurora, N.Y.,
Date: 1908.
Description: Sm. 4to, orig. printed wrps., Vol.23, No.1, (88), 28, (4), fine portrait of Booker T. Washington laid in, as issued, stitched, v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: [Independent Democratic Association of the District of Columbia]
Title: A DOCUMENT FOR THE CANVASS, Containing- The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Resolutions of the Baltimore Democratic Convention, held June 1, 1852. Record of the Votes of Franklin Peirce, while in Congress, on the Slavery Question. &c., &c. (and) ADDRESS OF THE INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO THE INDEPENDENT DEMOCRACY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Imprint: (Wash.: Buell & Blanchard,
Date: July 20, 1852).
Description: Disbound, 22.2 cm., caption title, 32, back cover imprint (soiled), top margin cut close by the binder, shaving a few letters.
Reference: +Not in Blockson or AFRO-AMERICANA.
Price: $75.


Author: Jay, John, of Bedford, N.Y.:
Title: THE PROGRESS AND RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION IN THE ENGLISH WEST INDIES. A Lecture...before the Philomanthian Society of the City of New-York.
Imprint: New-York: Wiley and Putnam, (Printed by William Osborn),
Date: 1842.
Description: Disbound, 21.2 cm., 39, marginal stabholes, v.g.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 5246. AMER. IMPRINTS 42-2653.
Price: $50.


Author: Johnson, President Lyndon B.:
Title: THREE MAJOR STATEMENTS ON CIVIL RIGHTS. The American Promise. March 15, 1965. To Fulfill These Rights. June 4, 1965. The Doors Open. August 6, 1965.
Imprint: N.p. (Wash.: GPO?,
Date: 1965).
Description: Orig. gilt-ptd. wrps., 55, many illus., some in colors.
Reference: +Photo-illus. of Martin L. King, Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, and Pres. Johnson, et al.
Price: $20.


Author: Kennedy, Jos. C.G., Supt.:
Title: PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE EIGHTH CENSUS. 1860.
Imprint: Wash.: GPO,
Date: 1862.
Description: 37th C., 2d S., Senate, XVI, 294, Index, orig. blind-stamped cl., spine faded, endpapers foxed, very small worn spot on spine, or v.g.
Reference: +With census of slaves & free colored, future projections of increases, comments on slavery in different nations, tabulations of slaves & free colored by states & their counties, important for a study of north-south comparisons.
Price: $75.


Author: Kettell, Thos. Prentice:
Title: SOUTHERN WEALTH AND NORTHERN PROFITS, as exhibited in Statistical Facts and Official Figures: showing the Necessity of Union to the Future Prosperity and Welfare of the Republic.
Imprint: N.Y.: Geo. W. & John A. Wood,
Date: 1860.
Description: Ed.1, 173, disbound, LACKS orig. covers.
Reference: +Considerable commentary on blacks, their status, slavery. AFRO-AMER. 5548.
Price: $45.


Author: Kirkwood, Gov. Samuel J.:
Title: SPECIAL MESSAGE OF____, in Reply to a Resolution of Inquiry, Passed by the House of Representatives, March 2d, 1860, in Relation to the Requisition of the Gov. of Virginia, for One Barclay Coppic.
Imprint: Des Moines,Iowa: John Teesdale, State Printer,
Date: 1860.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 15, v.g.
Reference: +Coppoc was accused of aiding and abetting John Brown at Harper's Ferry and in his plan to get slaves in Virginia to rebel against their masters. Gov. Kirkwood refused to return him to VA.
Price: $75.


Author: Lasker, Bruno:
Title: RACE ATTITUDES IN CHILDREN.
Imprint: NY.,
Date: c.1929.
Description: 8vo, orig. cl., xvi, 394, pvt. bkpl., index, v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: Lovejoy, Hon. Owen, of Illinois:
Title: THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY. SPEECH OF ____ Delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives, April 5, 1860. (Caption title.)
Imprint: (Wash.: Buell & Blanchard, Printers,
Date: (1860).
Description: Disbound, 22.3 cm., 8pp., in double columns,
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 6080.
Price: $25.


Author: MacNaul,Willard C.:
Title: THE JEFFERSON-LEMEN COMPACT.
Imprint: Chicago: U. of Chicago Press,
Date: 1915.
Description: Ed.1, 58 (1), ptd. wrps., bibliog. notes, fine.
Reference: +Relations of Jefferson and Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and the Northwest Territory with Related Documents, 1781-1818.
Price: $25.


Author: Marsh, J.B.T.:
Title: THE STORY OF THE JUBILEE SINGERS; with Their Songs.
Imprint: London,
Date: 1886.
Description: New Ed., ...110th Thous., orig. gilt-dec. cl. little worn, frontis. port., 124, plus 126 songs with music, v.g.
Reference: +"..the story is brought down to the return of the Jubilee Singers from Germany. The personal histories have been more fully written out, and a large number of new songs ...added..." With account of Fisk Univ., TN., its growth during reconstruction days, &c. See AFRO-AMER. 6355.
Price: $45.


Author: Marshall, Humphrey and Hallett, B. F.:
Title: Breckinridge and Lane Campaign Document No. 1. SPEECHES OF HON. HUMPHREY MARSHALL & HON. B. F. HALLETT, in the City of Washington, On the NOMINATION OF BRECKINRIDGE AND LANE.
Imprint: (Washington City: Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee,
Date: 1860).
Description: Disbound, 22.2 cm., 8pp., marginal stabholes.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 6361.
Price: $35.


Author: Merchant of Philadelphia, A:
Title: THE END OF THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT, By ____.
Imprint: Phila., King & Baird, Printed for the Author,
Date: 1860.
Description: 8vo, disbound, Ed.1, ptd. wrps. dust soiled, 47.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 3490.
Price: $30.


Author: Moody, Loring:
Title: THE DESTRUCTION OF REPUBLICANISM THE OBJECT OF THE REBELLION. The Testimony of Southern Witnesses.
Imprint: Boston: Pub. by Emancipation League,
Date: 1863,
Description: Second Ed., orig. ptd. wrps. soiled, 20, corners turned, good.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 6761, "Third Ed."
Price: $25.


Author: Morton, Gov. Oliver P.:
Title: SPEECH OF _____ AT THE UNION STATE CONVENTION Held at Indianapolis, Indiana, February 23, 1864. (Caption title.)
Imprint: N.p. (Indianapolis?,
Date: 1864).
Description: Self-wrps., 20, foxed, some soiled, few stains, stitched.
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMER. On Copperheads, the Emancipation Proclamation, Peace Men and Slavery, and State Troops. Also, "Resolutions of the Soldiers," pp.17-18, and "To the Democracy of Indiana, by their companions-in-arms in Arkansas," pp. 19-20.
Price: $50.


Author: National Democratic Campaign Committee:
Title: THE RENDITION OF FUGITIVE SLAVES- THE ACTS OF 1793 AND 1850, AND THE DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT SUSTAINING THEM. THE DRED SCOTT CASE-WHAT THE COURT DECIDED.
Imprint: (Wash.),
Date: 1860.
Description: Disbound, 22.2 cm., 15 (1, listing National Democratic Campaign Committee, C. L. Vallandigham, of Ohio, Chairman), marginal stabholes.
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMERICANA. An 1860 Democratic Campaign Document.
Price: $50.


Author: [National Democratic Club]
Title: CONSPIRACY TO BREAK UP THE UNION. THE PLOT AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. BRECKINRIDGE AND LANE THE CANDIDATES OF A DISUNION PARTY. LET THE MASSES READ AND PONDER. (Caption title.)
Imprint: Wash.: Lemuel Towers,
Date: (1860).
Description: Disbound, 22.2 cm., 16pp., double columns, marginal stabholes, back page has "National Democratic Club Rooms, Wash., August, 1860, ...Committee will furnish the friends of Douglas and Johnson the following CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS..." (long list).
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 2657.
Price: $35.


Author: Odum, Howard W., Ph.D. and Guy B. Johnson, A.M.:
Title: THE NEGRO AND HIS SONGS. A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South.
Imprint: Chapel Hill: UNC,
Date: 1925.
Description: Ed.1, vii, (v), 306, Bibliog., Index, v.g.
Price: $100.


Author: Parsons, Theophilus:
Title: SLAVERY. ITS ORIGIN, INFLUENCE, AND DESTINY.
Imprint: Boston: William Carter and Brother,
Date: 1863.
Description: Ed.2, orig. ptd. wrps., 36, v.g.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 7458. With considerable reference to the Civil War and incidents at that time.
Price: $35.


Author: Peabody, Andrew P.:
Title: POSITION AND DUTIES OF THE NORTH WITH REGARD TO SLAVERY. Reprinted from the Christian Examiner for July, 1843.
Imprint: Newburyport: Charles Whippple, Abel Whitton, Printer,
Date: 1848.
Description: Disbound, printed front wrapper, lacks back wrp., 22, (2, blank), spine rough, SIGNED, "Rev. Mr. Clark from his friend, A. P. Peabody" on cover.
Reference: +AFRO-AMERICANA 7510.
Price: $65.


Author: Perry, Hon. John J., of Maine:
Title: "Posting the Books between the North and the South." SPEECH OF _____, ...in the Ho. Reps., March 7, 1860.
Imprint: (Wash., D.C.: Buell & Blanchard,
Date: 1860).
Description: Disbound, 16, in double cols.
Reference: +Mostly on slavery; not in AFRO-AMER.
Price: $25.


Author: Peters, William:
Title: THE SOUTHERN TEMPER.
Imprint: Garden City, N.Y.,
Date: 1959.
Description: Ed.1, 283, v.g., dj. worn.
Reference: +Foreword by Harry Golden to this report on progress of desegregation in the Deep South.
Price: $20.


Author: Priestly, Joseph, LL.D., F.R.S.:
Title: A SERMON ON THE SUBJECT OF THE SLAVE TRADE; Delivered to a Society of Protestant Dissenters, at the New Meeting, in Birmingham; and Published at Their Request.
Imprint: Birmingham, Printed for the Author, by Pearson and Rollason,
Date: 1788.
Description: Ed.1, contempory plain wrappers worn, xii, 40, contents very good.
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMER.; mentions slavery in Jamaica and the West Indies, as well as America. Sabin 65513.
Price: $175.


Author: [Reid, Sam C., Jr.]:
Title: A REPLY TO LORD BROUGHAM. (From the CHARLESTON MERCURY, Jan. 18, 1860).
Imprint: N.p.,
Date: n.d. (1860?).
Description: Disbound, 22.7 cm., 7pp., in double columns, edges slightly scorched, some foxed, marginal stabholes.
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMER. "We publish, today, an able and interesting communication in answer to Lord Brougham's speech of July, 1859, on the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Colonies. Its author is a gentleman of New Orleans, the son of the gallant Capt. Reid, who, in the command of the brig GENERAL ARMSTRONG, defended his vessel agains the overwhelming force of a British fleet at Fayal in 1814. He was a student of Gen. Quitman, and ...afterwards associated with that distinguished jurist, Hon. John R. Grymes.." (Reid writes): "If we would preserve our liberties, promote our happiness, and secure our prosperity, we must put an end to this meddlesome interference by foreign states, and they, as well as our Northern brethren, must be taught the doctrine of non-interference... and if we must take up arms, let it be against our common foe..." Not in AFRO-AMERICAN. Printed on paper stock similar to that used by the C.S.A. Not in Parrish. NUC: NR 0142120; MH, NcD.
Price: $150.


Author: Seward, William H.:
Title: THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY. SPEECH OF ____, in the United States Senate, February 29, 1860. (Caption title).
Imprint: (Wash.,
Date: 1860).
Description: Disbound, 22.2 cm., 8pp., in double columns.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 9326. Lincoln's Secy. of State.
Price: $30.


Author: Smith, Goldwin:
Title: A LETTER TO A WHIG MEMBER OF THE SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION.
Imprint: Boston: Ticknor & Fields,
Date: 1864.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 64, (advts. on wrps.), fine.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 9517.
Price: $35.


Author: Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge:
Title: No. 6. Papers from the Society for the Diffusion of Politial Knowledge. EMANCIPATION AND ITS RESULTS. "By their Fruits shall ye Know them."
Imprint: (N.Y.),
Date: (1862?).
Description: Disbound, 32, very small hole in last leaf affects two letters of one word only.
Reference: +AFRO.-AMER. 3477.
Price: $45.


Author: [SOCIETY OF FRIENDS FOR NEW ENGLAND]
Title: AN APPEAL TO THE PROFESSORS OF CHRISTIANITY, IN THE SOUTHERN STATES AND ELSEWHERE, ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY: By the Representatives of the Yearly Meeting of Friends for New England.
Imprint: Providence: Printed by Knowles and Vose,
Date: 1842.
Description: Orig. plain wrps., 24.
Reference: +Signed in print by Samuel Boyd Tobey, Clerk. AFRO-AMER. 3864. Quotes Gurley, Ashmun, Wilberforce, et al.
Price: $35.


Author: Steiner, Bernard C., Ph.D.:
Title: HIISTORY OF SLAVERY IN CONNECTICUT.
Imprint: Baltimore,
Date: Sept.-Oct., 1893.
Description: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical & Pol. Sci., Eleventh Ser., IX-X, later buckram gilt, 84 + advts., lacks orig. wrps., 1/2 title edges chipped, or v.g.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 9788.
Price: $45.


Author: Stephens, Hon. Alexander H., of Georgia:
Title: SPEECH OF -----, ON THE BILL TO ADMIT KANSAS AS A STATE UNDER THE TOPEKA CONSTITUTION. Delivered in the House of Reps., June 28, 1856.
Imprint: Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office,
Date: 1856.
Description: Disbound, 16pp., printed in double cols., fine.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 9806.
Price: $35.


Author: [Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862]
Title: BRECKENRIDGE (sic) AND LANE CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS, No. 15. ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRACY AND THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, BY THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Imprint: N.p.,
Date: (1860).
Description: Disbound, 22.2 cm., 8pp., double columns, one leaf trimmed closely with loss of a letter or two in each line, marginal stabholes.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 9822 lists an 1860 Washington, McGill printing of 16pp., but not the above.
Price: $25.


Author: Stoddard, Henry Luther:
Title: HORACE GREELEY. Printer, Editor, Crusader.
Imprint: NY.,
Date: 1946.
Description: Orig. cl., xiv, 338, illus., index, bibliog., v.g. in worn dj.
Reference: +Much on Civil War, slavery, emancipation.
Price: $15.


Author: Stroyer, Jacob:
Title: MY LIFE IN THE SOUTH. New and Enlarged Ed. (in italics).
Imprint: Salem, Mass.,
Date: 1885.
Description: "Third Ed.", orig. ptd. wrps. little worn, spinewear, 83, good.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 9951. By an emancipated slave born in 1849 on a So. Carolina plantation.
Price: $75.


Author: Styron, Wm.:
Title: THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER.
Imprint: NY.,
Date: 1967.
Description: 1st ptg., xvi, 428, dj.
Price: $35.


Author: Sumner, Charles:
Title: WAR POWERS OF CONGRESS. SPEECH OF HON. _____, of Massachusetts, on the House Bills for the Confiscation of Property and the Liberation of Slaves Belonging to Rebels...In Senate of the U.S., June 27, 1862.
Imprint: (Wash.: Scammel & Co.,
Date: 1862).
Description: 8vo, disbound, self-wrps., 7, double columns, CLIPPED SIGNATURE OF SUMNER pasted to first page, v.g.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 10057.
Price: $75.


Author: Sumner, Charles:
Title: THE SCHOLAR, THE JURIST, THE ARTIST, THE PHILANTHROPIST. An Address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, at Their Anniversary, August 27, 1846.
Imprint: Boston: Wm.D. Ticknor and Co.,
Date: 1846.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 72, "Revd. Mr. Francis, with the regards of the Author," written in ink on front wrp., v.g.
Reference: +Not in AFRO-AMER. Tells of Wm. E. Channing's work for human rights and against slavery, mentioning views of Chief Justice Marshall, and Chief Justice Shaw, of the Mass. Supreme Ct., and John Milton.
Price: $45.


Author: Sumner, Hon. Charles:
Title: THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY. Mr. Madison Thought It WRONG to Admit in the Constitution the Idea of Property in Men. -"Debates in the Federal Convention, 25th August, 1787."
Imprint: (Wash.: Buell & Blanchard,
Date: 1860).
Description: Disbound, 22.2 cm., 32pp., double columns, with Appendix on p.32.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 9988.
Price: $25.


Author: [Thomas, Benjamin F.]
Title: A FEW SUGGESTIONS UPON THE PERSONAL LIBERTY LAW AND "SECESSION" (so-called). IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND.
Imprint: Boston: Printed by John Wilson & Son,
Date: 1861.
Description: Disbound, orig. wrps., 22, pres. inscription in ink on front wrp., SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 10195.
Price: $50.


Author: Thomas, William Hannibal:
Title: THE AMERICAN NEGRO. What He Was, What He Is, AND What He May Become. A Critical and Practical Discussion.
Imprint: New York & London,
Date: 1901.
Description: Ed.1, xxvi, (ii), 440, (ii, index), v.g.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 10205.
Price: $65.


Author: TRUMBULL, HON. LYMAN, Of Illinois:
Title: SPEECH OF _____, ON THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU-VETO MESSAGE; ...in the Senate of the U.S., Feb. 20, 1866.
Imprint: Wash.: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office,
Date: 1866.
Description: Disbound, 16, v.g.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 10454.
Price: $25.


Author: U.S. Congress- Committee on Naval Affairs.
Title: REPORT OF NAVAL COMMITTEE ON ESTABLISHING A LINE OF MAIL STEAMERS TO THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA, AND THENCE VIA MEDITERRANEAN TO LONDON: With an Appendix Added by the American Colonization Society.
Imprint: Wash.: Gideon & Co.,
Date: (1914).1850.
Description: Original printed wrappers soiled, 22.2 cm., 79, foxed.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 10595.
Price: $75.


Author: UNION CLUB LEAGUE.
Title: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING. Presented October 13th, 1864. (Wrp. title).
Imprint: N.Y.: Club House,
Date: 1864.
Description: Ptd. wrps. sl. soiled, bound in light bds., 55, stitched.
Reference: +Report on the third colored Regiment raised under auspices of the Union League Club, with Roster of Officers appointed to the Twentieth U.S.Colored Troops, the Twenty-Sixth, and the Thirty First U.S.Colored Troops. With addresses by Charles King, Col. Bartram, a history of the recruiting, and REPORT OF MR. VINCENT COLYER, Gen. Supt. of Recruiting with other information.
Price: $85.


Author: Van Dyke, Rev. Henry J.:
Title: THE CHARACTER AND INFLUENCE OF ABOLITIONISM. A SERMON Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, on...Dec. 9th, 1860.
Imprint: NY.: D. Appleton & Co.,
Date: 1860.
Description: Disbound, 38, lacks orig. wrps., pvt. owner's name in ink at top title marg., few minor title-page stains.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 10705.
Price: $25.


Author: Van Wyck, Hon. C.H., of New York:
Title: TRUE DEMOCRACY-HISTORY VINDICATED. SPEECH OF ____, ...in the House of Representatives, March 7, 1860. (Caption title.)
Imprint: (Wash.: Republican Executive Congressional Committee,
Date: 1860).
Description: Disbound, 22.2 cm., 16pp., double columns, marginal stabholes, Republican Presidential Campaign of 1860 document.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 10729.
Price: $25.


Author: Wade, Hon. Benjamin F., of Ohio:
Title: PROPERTY IN THE TERRITORIES. SPEECH OF ____. ...in the Senate of the United States, March 7, 1860.
Imprint: Wash.: Buell & Blanchard,
Date: 1860.
Description: Disbound, ptd. wrps., 14, (2), marginal stabholes, few small spots on back cover, good.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 10865.
Price: $25.


Author: [Walker, Jonathan, 1799-1878]
Title: TRIAL AND IMPRISONMENT OF JONATHAN WALKER, AT PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, FOR AIDING SLAVES TO ESCAPE FROM BONDAGE. With an Appendix Containing a Sketch of His Life.
Imprint: Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office,
Date: 1845.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., 119, 2 pls., pvt. owner's name in ink on endpaper, v.g.
Reference: +AFRO.AMER. 10894.
Price: $100.


Author: Walters, Rev. Wm.:
Title: LIFE AND LABORS OF ROBERT MOFFAT, D.D., Missionary in South Africa, with addtitonal chapters on Christian missions in Africa and...the world.
Imprint: Lond. & Edinburgh,
Date: 1886.
Description: Orig. cl. worn, 336 +advts., frontis. port., pres. inscr. to pvt. owner in ink on front endpaper, a good, solid copy.
Price: $25.


Author: Webster, Daniel:
Title: SPEECH OF, to the Young Men of Albany..May 28, 1851.
Imprint: Wash., Gideon,
Date: 1851.
Description: Printed wrps. soiled, sl. worn, 29, printer's error on List of Subscribers, else good.
Reference: +AFRO-AMER. 11018. Considerable comment on slavery, the Fugitive Slave Law, views of the South, law and the Constitution.
Price: $25.


Author: Zook, Geo. Frederick, Ph.D.:
Title: THE COMPANY OF ROYAL ADVENTURERS TRADING INTO AFRICA. Reprinted from The Journal of Negro History, Vol.IV, No.2, April, 1919.
Imprint: Lancaster, Pa.,
Date: 1919.
Description: Ed.1 in book form, 4to, v, 105, Index, Bibliog., PRES. COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, head of spine bumped, or v.g.
Reference: +With material on slavery.
Price: $45.

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