Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1967.). A title in the Chicago History of American Civilization series - a lucid and scholarly look at this important era in American history, and one which 'reduces the exaggerations of former views to a more credible picture. ' Chronology, bibliography, index. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-226-260763.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1973.). A title in the Chicago History of American Civilization series - a lucid and scholarly look at this important era in American history, and one which 'reduces the exaggerations of former views to a more credible picture. ' Chronology, bibliography, index. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-226-260763.

New York: Negro Universities Press, (1969). Hardcover - A reprint of the original 1836 edition published by J. Whetham, Philadelphia. A book by this Philadelphia Rector and abolitionist which discusses African history, and colonization in Liberia. Appendix. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-837115051.

New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Comprehensive biography of William Lloyd Garrison, the foremost political agitator and one of the most important American visionaries of the nineteenth century, a tireless fighter for abolition: for 35 years he edited and published 'The Liberator ' a weekly abolitionist newspaper in Boston. A National Book Award finalist. Photographs, Reference Notes, Index. xxi, 707 pp. ISBN: 0-312187408.

New York: Pantheon, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In these essays, Genovese compares the New World experience of slavery with that in Europe and Africa, focusing on the place of slavery in the socioeconomic development of the Atlantic community. The second essay is entitled "The Logical Outcome of the Slaveholders' Philosophy" and it focuses on the social thought of George Fitzhugh of Port Royal, Virginia. Notes, index. xii, 274 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of articles by this noted historian of the antebellum South and one of the best Marxian scholars in any field. Includes many chapters on the Negro slave, who Genovese describes as neither rebellious nor totally dehumanized. He also looks at the work of Tannenbaum, Elkins, Ulrich Phillips, Potter, Woodward, and other historians of Southern and continental slavery. Notes at the end of each chapter, index. xii, 435 pp. ISBN: 0-394467922.

Kent, OH: Kent State University Press 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first scholarly biography of Wright. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. 280 pages. ISBN: 0-87338-3974.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1993). dj. Hardcover first edition - 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. Large format. ISBN: 0-394-828739.

New York: Scholastic, 1997. dj. Hardcover - A fictional diary kept by a young black girl as the Civil War comes to an end and during the years of Reconstruction - based on many actual diaries of the period. Included at the end is a historical note and contemporary photographs and illustrations. Winner of the Coretta Scott King award. ISBN: 0-590-849131.

New York: Scholastic, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fictional diary kept by a young black girl as the Civil War comes to an end and during the years of Reconstruction - based on many actual diaries of the period. Included at the end is a historical note and contemporary photographs and illustrations. Winner of the Coretta Scott King award. ISBN: 0-590-849131.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. SIGNED first edition - An account of "the first grassroots human rights campaign, in England, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world" - a movement which started with 12 men meeting in 1787 and spread from there. Among those involved were John Newton, the former slave ship captain who wrote 'Amazing Grace;' ex-slave Olaudah Equiano, Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson who devoted his life to the cause. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, extensive source notes, bibliography, index. 467 pp.

New York: Pantheon, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief but powerful account of the history of the African American slave from Africa into enslavement, from Virginia to Mississippi, and to emancipation. ISBN: 0-394-416414.

New York: Pantheon, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief but powerful account of the history of the African American slave from Africa into enslavement, from Virginia to Mississippi, and to emancipation. ISBN: 0-394-416414.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Produced in conjunction with the PBS series on slavery in America from the viewpoint of the Africans who were brought here as slaves. Illustrated with many photographs. Includes 12 short stories by Charles Johnson. SIGNED on the title page by BOTH Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith and uncommon thus. Howard Zinn described this as 'a magnificent achieverment, history at its suberb best , brilliantly researched, poetically written...' notes, index, 494 pp. ISBN: 0-151003394.

Savannah GA: The Beehive Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which contains complete interviews with eighteen former slaves, plus selections from the reminiscences of fifty further slaves. "During the 1930s the last former slaves were disappearing from the American scene. These men and women were the last living witnesses to slavery in the United States, and this was the final opportunity to learn from them what slavery was really, intimately like. Field workers of the Federal Writers' Project were dispatched to ask them about plantation life, work, punishment, religion, runaways and more." Illustrated with vintage black and white photographs. References, index. Square format. xviii, 167 pp.

New York: Sentinel / Penguin, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The history of how Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas steered the United States through the moral crisis posed by slavery in the Land of the Free on the eve of the Civil War" - a story of two unlikely heroes, one born in slavery, the other in poverty and how their commitment to their country forged a strong friendship. Illustrated with vintage photographs, notes, suggestions for further reading, index. xii, 293 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 97-0525540571.

Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks / Ivan R. Dee, (1989.). In each section - Conquest, Colonization and the Establishment of Imperial Control; The Legal Structure; Anglicanism, Catholicism and the Negro Slave; Slavery and the Economy; the Freedman as an Indicator of Assimilation - the experiences of slaves in Virgina and Cuba are compared and the uniqueness of chattel slavery as it existed in the US is highlighter. Index. xi, 270 pp. ISBN: 0-929587049.

New York: Dutton, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - A combination of well-researched popular history and biographies of some of the New England abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, John Quincy Adams, The Reverend Theodore Parker, Abby Kelley Foster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who was violently beaten on the floor of the senate for speaking out against slavery, and more. Illustrated. Bibliography, index. 318 pp.

New York: Dutton, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - A combination of well-researched popular history and biographies of some of the New England abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, John Quincy Adams, The Reverend Theodore Parker, Abby Kelley Foster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who was violently beaten on the floor of the senate for speaking out against slavery, and more. Illustrated. Bibliography, index. 318 pp.

Boston & New York: Phillips, Sampson and Company / J. C. Derby, 1855 (c. 1854). Hardcover - Author's first book, a sentimental anti-slavery novel, set mostly in South Carolina, of a young white girl who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. In her brief preface the author states that she hopes this book will "arouse a more intense love of freedom" and inspire a "more firm protest against the extension of that system which alike for master and servant, poisons the springs of life." Upon publication, this book drew comparisons to 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', was championed by Frederick Douglass and sold 60,000 copies in its first two years.

New York: Dial Press, (1968). Hardcover first edition - Newbery honor book on what slavery is like, told in their own words by men and women who had been slaves. Illustrated by Tom Feelings. Bibliography. Charcoal gray endpapers. 160 pp.

New York: Dial Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover - Newbery honor book on what slavery is like, told in their own words by men and women who had been slaves. Illustrated by Tom Feelings. Bibliography. 160 pp.

New York: United States Publishers, 1970 dj. Hardcover - A title in the Yale Chronicles of America series, originally published in 1919. Index, 245 pp. ISBN: 0-911548-270.

New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A stimulating new analysis and reassessment of the last two years of Andrew Johnson's presidency. . . and a reinterpretation of the role of Ulysses Grant." Notes, bibliography, index.vii, 209 pp. ISBN: 0-231035071.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first appearance in translation of this passionate denunciation of slavery and the evils it spawned, written by Nabuco in 1883 and sent to his countrymen from exile. This work triggered a renewal of interest in abolition, and just a few years later, in 1888, slavery was ended. Introduction and extensive footnotes by Robert Conrad, the translator and editor. Map. Illustrated with photographs. Annotated suggestions for further reading. A title in the Blacks in the New World Series, edited by August Meier. xxv, 186 pp. ISBN: 0-252006011.