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THE LIBERTY BELL
Edition: First thus.
Condition: Very good in the original royal blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine and a gold illustration of the liberty bell on the front cover; corners bumped, some foxing, notably to the illustrated title page and tissue guard, but the binding is tight and sturdy and most of the pages are quite white and supple. Better than average condition for these relatively fragile books. Maria Weston Chapman's signature is quite scarce; this is only the second inscribed copy which we have handled.
Book ID: 68095More details Price: $3,500.00 -
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND STROKES FOR FREEDOM: A Series of Anti-Slavery Tracts of Which Half a Million are Now Issued by Friends of the Negro.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Negro Universities Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - Facsimile reprint of a book originally published in London in 1900 -Consists of reprints of no. 1-82 of the Leeds anti-slavery series, ranging in length from 1 to 20 pages each . Preface. by Wilson Armistead. . ISBN: 0-8371-20144.
Condition: Fine in brown boards with gilt lettering on spine, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 52715More details Price: $35.00 -
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave, under various masters, and was one year in the Navy, with Commodore Barney, during the late war.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fair condition only in original boards, resewn and rebacked with dark brown goatskin, endpapers replaced. Significant rubbing and wear to the edges of the boards, tidemarks and foxing throughout. Loss of approximately half an inch to the bottom edge of the first leaf after the title (the preface).
Book ID: 90973More details Price: $1,200.00 -
SLAVES IN THE FAMILY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very good in printed cream colored wrappers (some creasing to the corners). A very uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 43608More details Price: $30.00 -
SLAVES IN THE FAMILY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36579More details Price: $24.50 -
BUILDING AN ANTISLAVERY WALL: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitonist Movement, 1830-1860
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Cornell University Press, 1989. 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.
Condition: Very good plus in wrappers (some scattered highlighting and marginal notes.)
Book ID: 9625More details Price: $14.50 -
BEATING AGAINST THE BARRIERS: The Lives of Six Nineteenth-Century Afro-Americans.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Cornell University Press, (1989). Studies of six African American abolitionists all of whom persevered in the face of staggering oppresion: the fugitive slave Revered James W.C. Pennington, church leader and anti-slavery orator, recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg; former Georgia slaves William and Ellen Craft who spent 19 years in exile as part of the British abolitionist movement; Jamaican born Robert Campbell, editor, author and businessman; North Carolina slave John Sella Martin, who was sold several times before escaping to the North; and New York born William Howard Day, newpaper publisher, political organizer and educator. Illustrated. Selected bibliography. Index. xviii, 417 pp. ISBN: 0-801496756.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85720More details Price: $25.00 -
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 -
A SLAVE NO MORE: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007.). SIGNED first edition - The stories of Wallace Tunbridge (1846-1916) who was born in South Carolina nd spent his adult life in New York City and Jersey City and of John Washington (1838-1918) born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, who worked as a painter in Washington DC after his escape and retired to Cohasset, Massachusetts - two "ordinary men" with extraordinary stories. Includes diary excerpts from their actual stories of escape and freedom. 16 pages of black and white photographs. SIGNED on the title page. Blight received the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2019. Notes. 299 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)
Book ID: 51899More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION: A Study of Anglo-American Co-operation 1833-1877.
Edition: First printing.
London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Hardcover first edition - An examination of the early history of the British anti-slavery movement, the attitudes of Britons in general to the Jamaica revolt of 1865 and to Reconstruction, but especially a study of how for 5 years, from 1863-68, the anti-slavery movement in England found a new cause and a new lease of life in the needs of the four million Negroes freed by the Civil War. 197 pgs, selected bibliography, index.
Condition: NF/NF (pc.)
Book ID: 8800More details Price: $30.00 -
BLACK THUNDER: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia 1800.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Boston: Beacon, 1968. Novel originally written in 1936, the true story of a slave insurrection which failed. Includes a new and interesting introduction by the author. xv, 224 pp.
Condition: Good in stiff illustrated wrappers (some wear to the covers, contents clean).
Book ID: 41294More details Price: $10.00 -
BOUND FOR CANAAN: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 67056More details Price: $20.00 -
JOHN BROWN: A Cry for Freedom.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography written for young adults of this militant American abolitionist, active in the anti-slavery struggle in "Bleeding Kansas" and whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859 - with an armed band of 16 white and 5 Black abolitionists - was only briefly successful. Brown took this action in the hope that escaped slaves would join his rebellion, forming an army of emancipation but instead his arrest and execution for treason made him a martyr to the antislavery cause. Illustrated with photographs and vintage drawings, includes a list of books for further reading, and an index. xi, 180 pp. ISBN: 0-690040237.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88692More details Price: $24.50 -
LET MY PEOPLE GO: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1941) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The third - and probably best known - book by this novelist, editor and civil rights activist. The first extensive history of the Underground Railroad and still an important book about it. Richard Wright called this "a magnificent picture of the struggle of the Negro for freedom .. . in an hour of national peril she resurrects and holds aloft an era in which the hunger for freedom transcended the laws of the land and the rights of property, in which the desire for human dignity and human right became an active and creative force. "Illustrated with photographs and maps. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. Bibliography, index. 398 pp.
Condition: Very good in purple boards in a poorexample of the scarce dust jacket (some rubbing to the lettering on the spine of the book, the dj is missing approx 1/4 in along the top edge, the front flap is detached and some loss to the fore-edge of the front cover of the dj, price-clipped.) Despite its flaws, the dj did protect the book and all of the information is present.
Book ID: 88067More details Price: $60.00 -
ANTHONY BURNS: A History.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. Hardcover first edition - The true history of the extradition of Anthony Burns as a fugitive slave, the court house attack and martial law in Boston. Stevens was an eyewitness to many of the events described in the book. The extradition of fugitive slaves was a rallying point for abolitionists, and violent incidents such as occured in Boston, as described in this book, marked the slide of the nation toward civil war. The historical perspective offered in these pages is compelling, especially considering the role Boston had in the nation's fight for independence. Illustrated by With 3 full page engravings. 295 pp.
Condition: Good in original blindstamped cloth - lettering rubbed on spine, a bit of fraying to ends of the spine and some toning to the pages, but a sturdily bound copy with only very light foxing.
Book ID: 61646More details Price: $225.00 -
BLACK ODYSSEY: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, (c 1971, 1977). The true story of the slave ship which was taken over by its captives in 1839. Bibliography, index, 183 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0046941.
Condition: Fine (as new)
Book ID: 27536More details Price: $9.50 -
SLAVERY.
Edition: Fourth edition (first was in 1835.)
Condition: Good in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover (missing front free endpaper, foxing to the endpapers and lightly scattered in the margins.) Binding is strong, and pages are supple.
Book ID: 46403More details Price: $75.00 -
HARRIET TUBMAN: The Road to Freedom.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, (2004). First edition - The first full scale biography of this important figure in American history. Illiterate but deeply religious, Tubman fled Maryland in her early20s and escaped to Philadelphia, but within a year was drawn back to the South, first to help family members slated for auction and then to rescue others. She became the first and only woman, and one of the few fugitive slaves to work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. When the Civil War broke out, Tubman acted as a scout and a spy while serving with the Union Army in North Carolina. Notes, bibliography. vii, 259 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon ARC.
Book ID: 84630More details Price: $21.50 -
PASSENGER ON THE PEARL: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 62457More details Price: $16.50 -
SINEWS OF EMPIRE: A Short History of British Slavery.
Edition: First printing.
London: Temple Smith, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Extensive notes, index. 413 pages. ISBN: 0-8511-7064x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (one closed tear on back cover.)
Book ID: 19033More details Price: $45.00 -
CROWNS OF GLORY, TEARS OF BLOOD: the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A riveting study of a pivotal moment in the history of slavery - reconstructs the experience of slavery through the eyes of the Demerara slaves themselves. Based on complaints brought by the slaves to the office of the Protector of Slaves, eyewitness accounts, official records and private journals. Index, extensive notes. ISBN: 0-195082982.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77155More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SHADOW OF SLAVERY: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 89359More details Price: $45.00 -
PLANTATION SKETCHES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Ownership name of John Devereux Winslow (the son of the editor), dated Boston 1906.
Book ID: 87949More details Price: $150.00 -
BOND OF IRON:Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusually detailed look at American slavery through extensive records maintained by Buffalo Forge in the Lexingon,Virginia area. Developed by two men from Pennsylvania (William Weaver during the war of 1812, and later Daniel Brady) the forge produced much of the iron used by the Confederacy during the Civil War. The Weaver-Brady records are unique in the details they provide about the day-to-day events of the slave community, including in addition to births and deaths, information about epidemics, crippling industrial accidents, the movement of slave patrols, the history of the Civil War and how the slaves reacted to freedom and more. Photographs, extensive notes, index. xviii, 429 pp. ISBN: 0-393-036162.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25307More details Price: $24.00 -
SLAVE SHIPS AND SLAVING.
Edition: First printing.
Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1927. Hardcover first edition - A historical narrative of the slave trade as it was conducted between the early 1500s and 1859, a trade which continued even after it was prohibited by law. Among the topics covered are The Guinea Coast; Sir John Hawkins, Slave Trader; the Voyage of the Ship Hannibal of London, 1693; The Slaving Voyage of the Albio-Frigate of London; The Liverpool and Bristol Slavers; Mutinies aboard Slave Ships in the early days; Captain Crow, the Last Slaver out of Liverpool; Slaving Voyages by Rhode Island Vessels and more. Publication Number 15 of the Marine Research Society. 50 black and white illustrations and maps, index. xxxv, 349 pp plus a 1 pp. list of their publications.
Condition: Very near fine in black cloth with gilt titling to the spine - a large and heavy book, one upper corner slightly bumped.
Book ID: 87948More details Price: $125.00 -
SLAVERY: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1971). A new critical approach focusing on why was American slavery different from other forms, and why have the results been so long lasting. Index. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-226-204758.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 58116More details Price: $9.50 -
THE GLORIOUS FAILURE: Black Congressman Robert Brown Elliott and the Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1994). Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, notes, index 330 pp. ISBN: 0-393007332.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated wrappers - some underlining and scattered marginal notations.
Book ID: 88934More details Price: $12.50 -
THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY, 1830-1860.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. dj. Hardcover first edition - The abolitionists, in all of their contradictions. Illustrated with many photographs, a detailed bibliography, notes, index.
Condition: NF/G+ (bookplate, some penciled notations, tear on side of spine on dj, fading on spine.)
Book ID: 5263More details Price: $30.00 -
GATEWAY TO FREEDOM: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89010More details Price: $21.50 -
BUT WE HAVE NO COUNTRY: The 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance.
Edition: First printing.
Cherry Hill, NJ: Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Examines from an African American perspective "how William Parker and the Christiana Resisters tested the basic tenets of American democracy and law, especially the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. . . Ultimately the Christiana Resistance was a contest of wills between Parker and his self-defense organization, with natural law on their side, and Edward Grosuch and other white slave owners, armed, literally with civil law." Includes an appendix with William Parker's The Freedman's Story published in the Atlantic Monthly in Feb, 1866. Photographs. Bibliography, index.xiv, 338 pp. ISBN: 0-965330818.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tear on front cover of dj).
Book ID: 67617More details Price: $24.50