New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography in which "Nelson explodes the conventional dismissal of the subject as a fanatic, and presents him as America's greatest revolutionary, the organizer of a brilliant coup which eventually succeeded in beginning to overthrow and dismember proslavery control of the U.S. government." Illustrated with maps, reproductions of vintage woodcuts and photographs. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0010519.

Auburn, Buffalo and London: Miller, Orton & Mulligan / Sampson Low, 1854. Hardcover - An unusual example of slave narratives because Northup was a free, educated man in New York who was abducted and spent 12 years in slavery in Louisiana before being rescued in 1853. Editor's preface. A book which was very popular at the time, as evidenced by several printings in 1853 and 1854 and one which has retained its relevance as the basis for the award-winning film of the same name. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 6 internal engravings. Appendices, xvi, 336 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, 1955. A title in the Library of American Biography, edited by Oscar Handlin.

New York: Harper & Row, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thorough and well-researched biography of one of the most influential and controversial figures in American history, the first full-scale biography and the first based on original research to appear in 60 years. Brown was profoundly religious man dedicated to the overthrow of slavery and Negro rights, a failure at many things but one who. in his doomed attempt to seize the armory at Harper's Ferry, became a martyr to the abolitionist cause. a man who shaped the course of history. Photographs, extensive notes, index. xii, 434 pp.

Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishing, 1972. dj. Facsimile reissue of a book originally published in 1860. The third of Olmsted's books on his tours of the South in the years before the Civil War - this time focusing on May to August 1852, in the hill country of Northern Mississippi, western Virginia and Tennessee - a study of the cotton industry and of slavery. 492 pages, including index.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Readers' Union, 1968.
dj. Hardcover - IAn account of the Atlantic slave trade based primarily on the journals and letters of slave traders and slaves themselves, from its origins in the 15th century to its gradual dissolution in the early 1800s. Includes a selective bibliography, index. 296 pages.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hardcover first edition - Study of the armed resistance of free blacks in rural Pennsylvania to the Fugitive Slave Law. Illustrations, extensive notes, index.

New York: Vintage Books, ( c. 1956). A book which iGood only (prev owner's name, underlining to many pages in the beginning of the book but a sturdy copy.)s now a classic on this topic, one which cut through the myths of slavery as a kindly paternalistic system and views it as a practical system of controlling and exploiting labor, one in which the slaves both felt the indignity of the bondage and which they resisted. Notes, index. ix, 436, xiii pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book drawn from original research into previously untapped sources - including letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a ship's log and official documents - by Northern African Americans from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, including Benjamin Banneker, Richard Allen, Sarah M. Douglas, Martin Delany, William Still and many others. Illustrated throughout. Biographical directory, index. xii, 396 pp. ISBN: 0-38024746.

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.

New York: Random House, 1967. dj. Hardcover - Controversial novel based on the 1831 uprising - the most sustained revolt in the history of US slavery . Styron grew up in Virginia not far from Tidewater County where the revolt took place. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

New York: Random House, 1967. dj. Hardcover - Controversial novel based on the 1831 uprising - the most sustained revolt in the history of US slavery . Styron grew up in Virginia not far from Tidewater County where the revolt took place. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

New York: Random House, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Controversial novel based on the 1831 uprising - the most sustained revolt in the history of US slavery . Styron grew up in Virginia not far from Tidewater County where the revolt took place. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 428 pp.

Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, (1987, c 1965). History originally written as a research report for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Footnotes, bibliography, index. x, 141 pp. ISBN: 0-910412294.

New York: Crown, (1997). Hardcover first edition - A book which documents the plight of the estimated 100 million Africans brought against their will to the United States for the purposes of slavery, from the slave trade to the Day of Jubilee. A three-dimensional interactive book with historical papers, memoirs, documents, personal effects, & photos tucked in pockets and behind flaps or revealed by pull tabs. Based on materials from the Black Holocaust Exhibit (which the author curates.) Large square format, illustrated throughout. Transcriptions, notes, 32 pp. ISBN: 0-609600303.

New York: Doubleday, (1999). Hardcover - A book which offers evidence that "slaves were involved in a sophisticated network that melded African textile traditions with American quilt practices and created a potent result: African American quilts with patterns that conveyed messages that were, in fact, essential tools for escape along the Underground Railroad." Patterns like the wagon wheel, log cabin, and shoofly signaled slaves how and when to prepare for their journey. Stitching and knots created maps, showing slaves the way to safety. Forewords by Floyd Coleman, Cuesta Benberry, and Maude Southwell Wahlman. Illustrated with black and whit drawings and color photographs of quilts. Timeline, list of underground railroad quilt patterns, glossary, bibliography. x, 208 pp. ISBN: 0-385491379.

New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Facsimile reprint of a work originally published in 1861. An indictment of the mission for its refusal to condemn slavery - 'this last unequivocal and emphatic uplifting of the voice of the Board on behalf of slavery will help many Christians to realize how far different is its teaching from the Gospel of Christ.' 45 pp.