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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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Slaves in the Family

By: Ball, Edward

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1999

Seller ID: 2305537

ISBN: 0345431057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Pages lightly toned. 1999 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 505 pp. Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors owned 25 plantations, worked by nea...
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The Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England, 1675-1678

By: Bourne, Russell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1990

Seller ID: 2306042

ISBN: 0689120001

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. 1990 Hard Cover. Discusses the causes and results of King Philip's War, in which the Algonquins nearly drove the white settlers out of New England.
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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: New Brunswick, 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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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

By: Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, One World: 2017

Seller ID: 2304948

ISBN: 0399590560

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

3rd printing. 2017 Hard Cover. xvii, 367 pp. We were eight years in power was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is Americas first white president. But the story of these present-day eight years is not just a...
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Slavery as a Cause of the Civil War (Problems in American Civilization)

By: Department of American Studies, Amherst College; Rozwenc, Edwin C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Boston, D. C. Heath and Company: 1949

Seller ID: 2184292

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Ink underlining, ink name on cover, multiple creases on cover, ink name on front endpaper. 1949 Trade Paperback. viii, 104 pp. An analysis of slavery and the Civil War.
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Eneas Africanus

By: Edwards, Harry Stillwell

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Macon, 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: Berkeley, 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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Roots: The Saga of an American Family

By: Haley, Alex

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1976

Seller ID: 2307726

ISBN: 0385037872

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Trade edition ($12.50 jacket price). Edges and endpapers foxed, jacket rubbed and toned with a few creases and tears along edges. 1976 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, [2], 688 pp. 8vo. This 'bold, extraordinary, blockbuster' (Newsweek magazine) begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. When Alex Haley was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmo...
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Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s

By: Hampton, Henry; Fayer, Steve; Flynn, Sarah

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1991

Seller ID: 2306681

ISBN: 0553352326

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Highlighting and pencil marks in text, top corner of front wrapper lightly chewed, bottom corner of rear wrapper lightly stained. 1991 Trade Paperback. xxviii, 692 pp. A monumental volume drawing upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and others, weaving a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement told by the people who lived it. Join brave and terrified youngsters walking through a jeering mob and up the steps of Central High School in Little Rock. Listen to the vivid voices of the ordinary people who man...
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Apartheid's Second Front: South Africa's War against Its Neighbours (Penguin Special)

By: Hanlon, Joseph

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, 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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Image for Race Manners for the 21st Century: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans in an Age of Fear (Revised and Updated Edition)

Race Manners for the 21st Century: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans in an Age of Fear (Revised and Updated Edition)

By: Jacobs, Bruce A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Arcade Publishing: 2006

Seller ID: 2309687

ISBN: 1559708042

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Revised and updated edition. Ink name on blurb page. 2006 Trade Paperback. 267 pp. Completely revised and updated, a collection of recognizable scenarios contains racial components that suggest how we act toward one another on a day-to-day basis reveals the racial situations we all inevitably encounter, how to make sense of them, and how black and white Americans can confront the prejudices that are present between them.
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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 racismand, 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 and e...
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The Rise and Fall of a Proper Negro: An Autobiography

By: Lacy, Leslie Alexander

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, 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: New York, 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, creatin...
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Blackface

By: Levinthal, David; Diawara, Manthia

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Santa Fe, 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: $5.00

Publisher: ., Little, Brown and Company: 1967

Seller ID: 2194723

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

First printing. Cover and pages toned, text highlighted. 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 valuesespecially the values of poor, urban, black men-remains the single most parsimonious account of the reasons why the beha...
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Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

By: Liebow, Elliot

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, 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 valuesespecially 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 odds wi...
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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: New York, 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: UK, 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: New York, 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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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: Middletown, Connecticut, 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: New York, 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: New York, 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: Mineola, 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: New York, 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, starringChiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, andLupita Nyongo, and directed by Steve McQueen. ANew York Timesbestseller. I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne FranksDiary,only published nearly a hundred years befor...
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Twelve Years a Slave [12]

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

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, 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, starringChiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, andLupita Nyongo, and directed by Steve McQueen. ANew York Timesbestseller. I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne FranksDiary,only published nearly a hundre...
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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: New York, 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 3630' parallel, excluding Missouri. The 16th United States Congress passed the legislation on March 3, 1820, and Preside...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Skloot, Rebecca

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Broadway Paperback: 2011

Seller ID: 2309393

ISBN: 1400052181

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Single light spine crease. 2011 Trade Paperback. xiv, 381 pp. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cellstaken without her knowledgebecame one of the most important tools in medicine. The first 'immortal' human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tonsas much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa ce...
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