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The History of Events Resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi. [from Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1906]

By: Abel, Annie Heloise

Price: $125.00

Publisher: [American Historical Association]: 1908

Seller ID: 2187980

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Base of boards faintly stained, free endpapers removed. 1908 Hard Cover. 233-450 pp. 8vo. A separately bound edition of the Justin Winsor Prize winning essay originally published by the American Historical Association in 1906. The author, a Ph.D., was a Bulkley Fellow in History at Yale University, Associate Professor in History at Wells College, and Instructor in History at The Woman's College of Baltimore. She discusses the origins of the plan for Indian removal, unsuccessful attempts during the Jefferson administration, the War of 1812, and removal efforts afterwards, with a chapter focusin...
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65

By: Branch, Taylor

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1998

Seller ID: 2273424

ISBN: 0965715248

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1998 Trade Paperback. xiv, 746 pp. In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In this masterly continuation of the narrative, Branch recounts the climactic struggles as they commanded the national and international stage. Pillar of Fire covers the far-flu...
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Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance

By: Braxton, Joanne M.; Mclaughlin, Andree Nicola

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Rutgers University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 1891527

ISBN: 0813514428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Faint stain on page ridge. 1990 Trade Paperback. 470 pp. Pays an impressive tribute to the new renaissance in African-American literature. --New York Times Book Review The cultural and literary achievements of black American women are examined and celebrated in some 20 enjoyable, erudite essays by prominent scholars, critics, and activists. --Publishers Weekly This book is the first comprehensive collection of critical and theoretical essays to explore the literary and multi-cultural traditions of Black American women in many genres over a broad span of time. The essays explore c...
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Reconstruction [1865-1877]

By: Current, Richard N.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc.: 1965

Seller ID: 2295281

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Light general wear. 1965 Trade Paperback. viii, 183 pp. Reconstruction touched the very nerve of nineteenth-century America; the issues it raised still trouble us today. This volume recaptures the hopes and fears of the American people as the recalcitrant Southern states rejoined a hostile North, as millions of newly-freed slaves threatened to disturb the balance of American society. In personal accounts, a crippled Negro preacher tells of his beating at the hands of a the Ku Klux Klan; an Alabama farmer expresses the white Southerner's contempt for Samo; J. D. B. De Bow speaks grudgingly of t...
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The City of Frederick Douglass: Rochester's African-American People and Places

By: Du Bois, Eugene E.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Landmark Society of Western New York: 1995

Seller ID: 2305258

ISBN: 0964170604

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed, faint stain. 1995 Soft Cover. 50 pp. This publication documents the distinguished record of accomplishment by local African-Americans. ...truly a landmark account of the many historical contributions blacks have made to the growth and prosperity of the City of Rochester and the County of Monroe.
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Eneas Africanus

By: Edwards, Harry Stillwell

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The J.W. Burke Company: 1920

Seller ID: 2290418

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal loss of gilt from front board, brief pencil note on rear endpaper. 1920 Hard Cover. 47, [1] pp. Eneas Africanus is perhaps the most popular pro-slavery text in United States' history. Published by Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938) in 1919, this tract's claimed astronomical sales in the millions may have been exaggerated but are nonetheless indicative of the story's enormous popularity. At least 45 editions were published between 1920-2007; they include one Spanish translation (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920) and a Canadian edition (Toronto: McClellan & Stewart, 1937). An illustrate...
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Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality

By: Goodman, Paul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of California Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2288712

ISBN: 0520207947

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine faintly toned. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxi, 303 pp. The abolition movement is perhaps the most salient example of the struggle the United States has faced in its long and complex confrontation with the issue of race. In his final book, historian Paul Goodman, who died in 1995, presents a new and important interpretation of abolitionism. Goodman pays particular attention to the role that blacks played in the movement. In the half-century following the American Revolution, a sizable free black popula...
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Apartheid's Second Front: South Africa's War against Its Neighbours (Penguin Special)

By: Hanlon, Joseph

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1987

Seller ID: 2269480

ISBN: 0140523707

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Wrapper edges very lightly rubbed, pages faintly toned. 1987 Trade Paperback. 130 pp. Describes the economic, political, and military forces used by South Africa to enforce Apartheid.
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Wild Southern Scenes. A Tale of Disunion! and Border War!

By: Jones, J.B. [John Beauchamp]

Price: $250.00

Publisher: T.B. Peterson & Brothers: 1859

Seller ID: 2289771

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards soiled, base of last section of pages lightly stained, frontispiece foxed with bottom portion of tissue guard lost, rear free endpaper removed. 1859 Hard Cover. x, [11]-502, [10] pp. 8vo. A novel published immediately preceding the American Civil War, in which the dangers of disunion are explored. Sabin 36534: The terrible results that will follow... sectional madness... are made the subject of the story. The author takes a South-side view of the quarrel.
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Images Afro-Rochester, 1910-1935: From the Albert Stone Negative Collection Rochester Museum & Science Center

By: Kemp, Leatrice M.; Schmitt, Victoria Sandwick; Anderson-Sankofa, David A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Rochester Museum & Science Center: 1996

Seller ID: 2206026

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Vicki, David A. Anderson-Sankofa, Leatrice M. Kemp, and Helen (____?). Sticker to rear wrapper. Near fine. 1996 Soft Cover. 114 pp. Based on the exhibition of the same title held at the Rochester Museum & Science Center Oct. 15, 1988-Feb. 26, 1989.
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How to Be an Antiracist

By: Kendi, Ibram K.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, One World: 2019

Seller ID: 2304415

ISBN: 0525509283

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2019 Hard Cover. Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography an...
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The Rise and Fall of a Proper Negro: An Autobiography

By: Lacy, Leslie Alexander

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Macmillan: 1970

Seller ID: 2266780

ISBN: 0025672002

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket edges lightly rubbed. Spine slightly cocked. 1970 Hard Cover. 255 pp. The odyssey of Leslie Alexander Lacy, product of a respectable Louisiana childhood, whose gradual involvement in West Coast militant movements and travel to Africa brings him to some sweetly reasonable and sourly realistic conclusions regarding black revolution.
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America

By: Lemann, Nicholas

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991

Seller ID: 2203525

ISBN: 0394560043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

2nd printing. A very nice copy. Near Fine. 1991 Hard Cover. 410 pp. ...concerns the people and lives that were transformed by the black migration. First, he tells the stories of several families who left the cotton plantations and small towns of the Mississippi Delta, heading north to the single most important destination of the great black migration, the South Side of Chicago. Following these men, women, and children over a fifty-year period, he recounts their moments of triumph and of despair, their economic successes and privation, their religion, their music, and their family lives, creat...
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Blackface

By: Levinthal, David; Diawara, Manthia

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Arena Editions: 1999

Seller ID: 2277187

ISBN: 1892041065

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by Levinthal without inscription on front flyleaf. 1999 Large Hardcover. 153, [3] pp. Of all of David Levinthal's series of photographs, none is more challenging and provocative than his Blackface series, created over the previous three years. In his blow-up images of miniature toys he has recreated scenes of racism, genocide, and sexual fantasies. This series explores the Blackface myth embodied in black memorabilia, household objects infused with African-American stereotypes. These images make the Blackface myth speak to us directly, without an intermediary, and demand ...
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Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

By: Liebow, Elliot

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 1967

Seller ID: 2299294

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Lightly rubbed. 1967 Trade Paperback. xvii, 260 pp. A sociological classic, the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis--that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior--and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families. The debate has raged up to the present day. Yet Liebow's shadow theory of values—especially the values of poor, urban, black men-—remains the single most parsimonious account of the reasons why the behavior of the poor appears to be at o...
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Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States

By: Mandel, Bernard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Associated Authors: 1955

Seller ID: 2294704

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned and lightly creased, boards lightly soiled, faint stain along page ridge. 1955 Hard Cover. 256 pp. Blue boards. Bernard Mandel's classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abolitionism and the fledgling labor movement in the period before the Civil War. Mandel argues that slavery reinforced the powerlessness of white workers north and south, and the racial divisions that it upheld rendered effective labor solidarity impossible. Deep distrust between abolitionists and the working classes, however, compelled north...
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A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia

By: McDonald, Laughlin

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2287362

ISBN: 0521011795

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Corners and top edge of wrappers lightly bumped. 2003 Trade Paperback. viii, 254 pp. A Voting Rights Odyssey is the story of the efforts of the white leadership in Georgia to maintain white supremacy by denying blacks the right to vote and hold elected office. Narrated chronologically, most of the story is told by those who participated; from Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, to Carl Sanders, Governor of Georgia, to Emma Gresham, Mayor of Keysville in rural Burke County.
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Frederick Douglass

By: McFeely, William S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1991

Seller ID: 2288999

ISBN: 039331376X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Spine creased, front wrapper faintly creased, top page ridge faintly foxed. 1991 Trade Paperback. xiii, 465 pp. Probes beneath the public image of this important national leader to reveal a complex portrait of the man who exposed the brutal injustice of slavery and spoke loudly and clearly for the cause of freedom.
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Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

By: McInnis, Maurie Dee

Price: $18.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 2011

Seller ID: 2201088

ISBN: 022605506X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Pencil underlining and marginalia in first two chapters only. 2011 Trade Paperback. viii, 268 pp. In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia. This innovative book uses Crowe’s paintings to explore the texture of the slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans, the evolving iconography of abolitionist art, and the role...
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Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts

By: McKissack, Patricia; McKissack, Fredrick

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Scholastic: 1999

Seller ID: 2280329

ISBN: 0590662597

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Light edge wear. 1999 Trade Paperback. Presents a tribute to unsung antislavery heroes, including Cinque, an African captive who was defended before the Supreme Court by John Quincy Adams, rebel Nat Turner, and Harriet Tubman.
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Expression Volume 1, Number 3

By: McMullen, Ronald; Jackson, John; Barnes, Andrew E.; Jackson, Gene D.; Satterphwaite, James C. [Satterthwaite]; Cohall, Alwyn; Outlaw, Harmon; Cruz, Israel; Eloise, P.; Ujamaa, Habari Za; Powell, James A.; Bethel, P. Eloise; Haskins, Byron; Cooper, Carol;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Center for Afro-American Studies, Wesleyan University / The Old Press: 1975

Seller ID: 1978532

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition - a paperback original. Edges rubbed, wrappers lightly toned. 1975 Trade Paperback. 80 pp. Printed wrappers. An uncommon literary magazine published by the Center for Afro-American Studies at Wesleyan University, and featuring the poetry and writings of various African American authors, interspersed with photographs and quotations from black leaders (e.g., Malcolm X). Wesleyan ranks among the best schools in the nation for African American students, and studies have shown that minorities in general enjoy a high level of success at Wesleyan.
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The Concept of Race

By: Montagu, Ashley

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Collier Books: 1972

Seller ID: 2289070

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Third printing. Ink stamp on half-title page. 1972 Trade Paperback. xviii, 270 pp. Ten distinguished scientists attack the concept of race as a biologically unsound, socially invalid and prejudicial means to human classification. Contributions by Robert T. Anderson, Nigel Barnicot, C. Loring Brace, Paul R. Ehrlich, Jean Hiernaux, Lancelot Hogben, Richard W. Holm, Frank B. Livingstone, Ashley Montagu, S.L. Washburn.
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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia

By: Morgan, Edmund S.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1975

Seller ID: 2293924

ISBN: 0393091562

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

7th printing. A couple creases on back cover, ink name and address inside. 1975 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. x, 454 pp. This work, through an analysis of colonial Virginia, examines a major American paradox, namely the marriage of slavery and freedom. In this study of the tragic contradiction at the heart of America, Edward Morgan looks for answers in the people and politics of Virginia - a state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.
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Twelve Years a Slave

By: Northup, Solomon; Foner, Philip S.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.: 2000

Seller ID: 2299160

ISBN: 0486411435

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Faint sticker remnant on spine. 2000 Trade Paperback. ix, [1], 336 pp., 14-page terminal publisher ad. Inspiration for the 2013 film. Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. 7 illustrations. Index.
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Twelve Years a Slave [12]

By: Northup, Solomon; McQueen, Steve; Gates, Henry Louis; Berlin, Ira

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 2013

Seller ID: 2201742

ISBN: 0143125419

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Reprint. 2013 Trade Paperback. xxxviii, 240 pp. Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueen. A New York Times bestseller. “I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank’s Diary, only published nearl...
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Twelve Years a Slave [12]

By: Northup, Solomon; McQueen, Steve; Gates, Henry Louis; Berlin, Ira

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 2013

Seller ID: 2281351

ISBN: 0143125419

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Movie tie-in edition. 2013 Trade Paperback. xxxviii, 240 pp. Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueen. A New York Times bestseller. I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank’s Diary, only publi...
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Blues Fell This Morning: The Meaning of the Blues

By: Oliver, Paul; Wright, Richard

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Horizon Press: 1961

Seller ID: 2303782

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket price clipped, jacket lightly rubbed and toned. 1961 Hard Cover. xx, 355 pp. Includes foreword by Richard Wright, author of Native Son and Black Boy. Oliver examines the functions of the blues as black American folk music recorded during the 78 rpm era, from the 1920s to the 1950s. The lyrics are quoted extensively throughout the book, revealing their significance as a means of communication within black society. The author shows how the themes of labour and unemployment, migration and the Depression years, love, sex, and marriage, crime, violence and imprisonment, disasters, sickness, ...
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The Missouri Compromises and Presidential Politics, 1820-1825

By: Plumer, William, Junior; Brown, Everett Somerville

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: 1970

Seller ID: 2288726

ISBN: 0306718693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No jacket. Light water damage along top page ridge and last half of pages. 1970 Hard Cover. xi, 155 pp. 1970 reissue of 1926 original. ABOUT THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE: The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30' parallel, excluding Missouri. The 16th United States Congress passed the legislation on March 3, 1820, and Presi...
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Four Lives in the Bebop Business [Ornette Coleman; Herbie Nichols; Jackie McLean; Cecil Taylor]

By: Spellman, A.B.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books / Random House: 1966

Seller ID: 2303821

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with light creases along base of front panel, one sentence underlined in ink on front jacket flap, pencil notes on front endpaper, jacket price clipped. 1966 Hard Cover. xiv, 241 pp. An account of the lives and careers of four jazz musicians, based on hours of recorded interviews, intended as an essentially human account of what it's like to be a Negro artist in the least remunerative but most lively and exciting field of American art today. Spellman focuses on two saxophonists and two pianists, using their experiences as a lens through which to examine jazz ...
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Stedman's Surinam: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society

By: Stedman, John Gabriel; Price, Richard and Sally

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1992

Seller ID: 2304713

ISBN: 0801842603

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 1992 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. lxxv, 350 pp. An abridged, modernized edition of Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life-and one of the strongest indictm...
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