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BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE: A Legacy of African American Achievement.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Studies of both well-known African Americans like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, etc, and less well-known - Bass Reeves, Peter Salem, Joseph Cinque and Lewis H. Latimer. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. Photographs, bibliography, Index. xxiv, 232 pp. ISBN: 0-688-130976.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but with remainder line).
Book ID: 79078More details Price: $18.50 -
BUILDING AN ANTISLAVERY WALL: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitonist Movement, 1830-1860
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first full-scale study of the role African Americans played in building support for abolition in Great Britain - among those who travelled and spoke frequently were Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, the Crafts, Martin Delany, and others. Many were fugitive slaves lecturing on their experiences; others came to study at British universities, including Jesse Glasgow and McCune Smith. Bibliography, index. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-10825.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26733More details Price: $30.00 -
MANY THOUSAND GONE: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1993). dj. Hardcover - A history of slavery in America, written for children, and focusing on those who escaped slavery and on the Underground Railroad. Includes stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson, and others. Beautifully Illustrated with soft full-page black and white drawings by the Dillons. ISBN: 0-394-828739.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name.)
Book ID: 26519More details Price: $20.00 -
NEGRO THOUGHT IN AMERICA 1880-1915: Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington.
Edition: First printing.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book and an authoritative and important study of African American thought and culture from the close of the Civil War to World War I. In addition to describing the development of Booker T. Washington's philosophy , he looks at the ideas of such leaders as Frederick Douglass, A.H. Grimke, Alexander Crummell, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Bibliographical note, extensive other notes, index. xii, 336 pgs.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Reprinted many times, this is uncommon in the hardcover first edition (previous owner's name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 21274More details Price: $60.00 -
THE TROUBLE THEY SEEN: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1976 dj. Hardcover first edition - Covers black history in America from 1865 to 1877 from the point of view of less prominent blacks of the South in letters, diaries, newspaper accounts and official documents. With mention of Frederick Douglass, Jonathon Gibbs, Martin R. Delany, Robert Smalls, and James Lynch. Index. 490 pgs. ISBN: 0-385-080077.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dj.
Book ID: 19859More details Price: $20.00
