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New York:: Negro Universities Press,, (1969). Hardcover -. Near fine in brown cloth boards with gilt title on spine. (discoloration from binder's glue in front gutter). First thus. 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… Read more about this item

Boston & New York: : Phillips, Sampson and Company / J. C. Derby,, 1855 (c. 1854). . Hardcover -. Good overall in the original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine Rubbing to spine lettering, fraying to the cloth at the ends of the spine covering and wear to the corners, spine slant but the hinges are still… Read more about this item

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (2015). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Based in part on a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers of the Underground Railroad in New York City, this is a fresh look at the history of… Read more about this item

New York:: Sentinel / Penguin, , (2021). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. "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… Read more about this item

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (1994). Good overall in illustrated wrappers - some underlining and scattered marginal notations.. 1st trade paperback printing. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, notes, index 330 pp. 

New York:: Pantheon,, (1969.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (short tear to lower edge near spine, other minor edgewear, hint of sunning to spine). First printing. In these essays, Genovese compares the New World experience of slavery with that in Europe and… Read more about this item

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, n.d. (ca 1880). Hardcover -. Good condition in green cloth with black and gilt illustrations and lettering (fraying to the corners and ends of the spine, hinges cracking.). Revised Edition. Seventy-fifth Thousand. Foreword on ' Fisk University's Great Necessity' dated 1880. Author's note stating that this was ".in part an abridgement of the two… Read more about this item

Urbana and Chicago:: University of Illinois Press,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (name blacked out on front endpaper, sunning to spine of dj, but overall a tight and clean copy). First printing. Winner of the 1991 Elliott Rudwick award. A discussion of three phases of slave resistance in the Anglo… Read more about this item

New York:: Dial Press,, (1968). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in charcoal gray cloth with silver lettering on spine, no dust jacket. . First printing. 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… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper & Row,, (1970). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (price of $10 on dj flap). Uncommon in the first edition, and especially so in this condition. First printing. 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… Read more about this item

New York:: Thomas Y. Crowell, , (1980). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. 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… Read more about this item

Savannah GA:: The Beehive Press,, (1973). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in brown cloth in a very good dust jacket (previous owner's name dated 1973, a few penciled brackets in book, some short closed tears to dj) . First edition. A book which contains complete interviews with eighteen former slaves, plus selections from the reminiscences of… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, (1941). SIGNED hardcover -. 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… Read more about this item

Auburn, Buffalo and London: : Miller, Orton & Mulligan / Sampson Low,, 1854.. Hardcover -. Fair condition overall in original embossed tan cloth - lettering on spine rubbed, some foxing, fraying to the cloth on the spine and corners, and several signatures pulled, but still quite readable and sturdy. . Twenty-second thousand. An unusual example of slave… Read more about this item

Salem, Massachusetts: : Marine Research Society,, 1927. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in black cloth with gilt titling to the spine - a large and heavy book, one upper corner slightly bumped. . First printing. A historical narrative of the slave trade as it was conducted between the early 1500s and 1859, a trade which… Read more about this item

New York:: Pantheon,, (1971). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (2 short closed tears to the upper edge of the dj). First printing. 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,… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, (1973). Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library but overall very good with relatively few markings, a tight and clean in a very good dust jacket (spine label) . First printing. A book drawn from original research into previously untapped sources - including letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a ship's log… Read more about this item

New York:: Doubleday,, (1999). Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. 3rd printing. 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… Read more about this item

New York:: Cornell University Press,, (1989). Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. 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… Read more about this item

New York:: Atheneum,, (1990). Hardcover -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a fine unmarked dust jacket.. 3rd printing. A book written for older children which describes the ways in which enslaved Black men and women resisted their slavery "Here the victims of injustice and cruelty speak for themselves: 'So galling was… Read more about this item