Category: African American History

After Africa: Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries concerning the Slaves, their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies. Introduced and edited by Roger D. Abrahams and John F. Szwed, Assisted by Leslie Baker and Adrian Stackhouse.

By: Abrahams, Roger D.; Szwed, John F.; Editors.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, (1983).

Seller ID: vas815

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 444 pp. Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: This...collection of documents portrays the encounter of Africans and Europeans in the New World, in order to explore what was and is distinctly Afro-American in the cultures of the Americas. Vivid selections from travel books, journals, and missionary accounts give firm evidence that, contrary to widespread opinion, strong pan-African elements of social and cultural life were maintained under plantation conditions -- especial...
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A Cotillion Through the Ages, The Brooklyn Home for Aged People, June 20, 1982.

By: Brooklyn Home for Aged People.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Home for Aged People, 1982.

Seller ID: 4746s

Quarto, stapled wrappers, 88 pp. Documents the Debutante Cotillion for Brooklyn, 1982. Illus. with photos. of participating girls and boys. Ladies in Waiting (pictured): Eveyln Brookins, Rugh Scott, Annette Debnam, Pauline McWilliams, Lillie K. Sims, Brenda Williams, Betty Pottinger. Escorts (Pictured): Elliot Tricoche, Philip De Bourge, Keith Jordon, Roosevelt Watts, Tyrone Carter, William Roberts III, Charles Gregory Dillard, Anthony Plantt. Golden Circle (Pictured): Doris Ward, Adele Doyle, Carol King Walling, Lillian Griffith, Beatrice Archibald, Mae Weston, Rosa Weatherless, Geral...
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Slavery.

By: Channing, William E.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1835. First Edition.

Seller ID: qms1298

Duodecimo, original cloth, [i], 167 pp. Fair; cloth is split along front joint about halfway up.
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Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823.

By: da Costa, Emilia Viotti.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Seller ID: 00237s

Octavo, navy blue cloth & boards (hardcover), xix, 378 pp. Near-Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with very slight edgewear. Ò...Tells the riveting story of a pivotal moment in the history of slavery. Studying the complaints brought by slaves to the office of the Protector of Slaves, she reconstructs the experience of slavery through the eyes of the Demerara slaves themselves. Da Casta also draws on eyewitness accounts, official records, and private journals (most notable the diary of John Smith...), to paint a vivid portrait of a society in transistion, shaken to its foundations by the re...
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Black Writers: White Audience. A Critical Approach to African Literature.

By: Egejuru, Phanuel Akubueze.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, An Exposition-University Book, (1978). First Edition.

Seller ID: 2023gls

Octavo, black leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, 255 pp. Near-Fine, with light rubbing to gilt letters and small former-owner signature; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with light rubbing. From dust jacket: What special problems confront the modern African writer? Who is his audience? his publisher? his judge? How does each of these influence his artistic perceptions? How does he, on one hand, impart his vision of life -- rooted as it is in his African experience -- to his European audience? Conversely, how does the Western-educated African elite influence his subject mat...
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Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938 - 1988.

By: Franklin, John Hope.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, (1992).

Seller ID: 10036gcs

Signed by the author. Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. white wrappers), xi, 450 pp. Fine. From lower cover: In Race and History, John Hope Franklin, one of the nation's foremost historians, collects twenty-seven of his most influential shorter writings. The essays are presented thematically and include pieces on southern history; significant but neglected historical figures; historiography; the connection between historical problems and contemporary issues; and the public role of the historian. Collectively these essays reveal Franklin as a man who has exhibited immense courage an...
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Praying for Sheetrock, A Work of Nonfiction.

By: Greene, Melissa Fay.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., (1991). First Edition, First Printing.

Seller ID: 2037gls

Octavo, white cloth & blue boards (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, x + 337 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing; in a Fine (As New), mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: In the 1970s, along the subtropical coast of Georgia, two old and isolated communities -- one white, one black -- began to eye each other by the light of strange new political realities. Years after the struggle for civil equality between the races transformed much of the rest of the South, news of the outside world filtered into McIntosh County, and the resultant mass meetings, boycotts, and lawsuits altered the o...
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Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.

By: Hamilton, Virginia.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Seller ID: 10034gcs

Black cloth & mauve boards (hardcover), 151 pp. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with sunning to spine. From dust jacket: This groundbreaking work traces the history of slavery in America, from the earliest slave trading through the growth of the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation. Carefully researched and beautifully written, Many Thousand Gone tells this history as it should be told, in the voices and stories of those who lived it. Through individual profiles, Virginia Hamilton presents such well-known figures as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Frederick Doug...
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The People Could Fly. American Black Folktales told by Virginia Hamilton. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.

By: Hamilton, Virginia.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2000).

Seller ID: 10033gcs

Royal octavo, gray & blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 178 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: This major contribution to children's literature brings the fascinating range of American black folktales and humor to all children. In this treasury we hear the voice of Newbery medal winner Virginia Hamilton -- a voice that echoes the slaves and fugitives from her own American black ancestry as she tells the stories that kept their culture alive. Here are the spirited trickster tales where the wily Bruh Rabbit outwits larger and stronger animals; robust tall tales filled wit...
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My Father's Face.

By: Harper, Michael S.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Charleston, W.V.: Parchment Gallery Graphics, Humanities Department, University of Charleston, 1998.

Seller ID: m2331

1st edition. Of an edition of 100 copies, this is No. 96. It is signed by the poet. Broadside, 12 x 9 ins., printed in brown ink. Illustrated with a portrit by Chris Sperry. Fine with explanatory leaf and in original stiff paper portfolio.
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The New York Conspiracy. With an Introduction by Thomas J. Davis.

By: Horsmanden, Daniel.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston: Beacon Press, [1971].

Seller ID: 90165sc

Octavo, black cloth & blind-stamped blue boards (hardcover), xxv, 491 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers, and slight edgewear, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. ÒLike the Salem witch trials, but much more murderous, the New York Conspiracy of 1741 was one of the most extraordinarily revealing events in American colonial history. The New York Conspiracy is an account of the trials of 20 whites and more than 150 slaves accused of conspiracy. Compiled by Daniel Horsmanden, one of the judges, it contains his narrative of the events which led to the t...
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The Black West: Pathfinders, Cowpunchers, Homesteaders/Settlers, Oklahoma Land Rush, Buffalo Soldiers, California Gold Rush, Black Pioneer Women. An Exhibition at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, September 16, 1985 - January 4, 1986.

By: Katz, William Loren et al.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: New York Public Library, 1985.

Seller ID: m2180

Octavo, stiff wrappers, stapled, 28 pp. Photos. Very Good.
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Dr. William Edward Burghardt DuBois: February 23, 1868-August 27, 1963. Address Delivered by the Rev. William Howard Melish at the Memorial Service of the Late Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois at the Aggrey Memorial Church, Achimota College, Accra, Ghana, on Sunday 29th September, 1963.

By: Melish, William Howard.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Brooklyn, NY: Rev. William Howard Melish, [1963].

Seller ID: 4676s

Octavo, stapled illus. wrappers, 24 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear. Entitled, ÔOne of the Great Companions.'
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The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood.

By: Morris, Willie.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Random House, [1998]. First Edition, As Stated.

Seller ID: 05063scs

Octavo, black cloth & blue boards, gilt letters, 288 pp. Fine (As New), in a FIne (As New) dust jacket. Ò...[Morris] brings together the harsh realities of race and the magical illusions of Hollywood in an unusual book about the making of the movie Ghosts of Mississippi and its more complicated historical background: the 1963 assassination of the courageous civil rights activist Medgar Evers and the conviction thirty years later of his killer, Byron De La Beckwith, in one of the most striking cases in the annals of American jurispudence....[It] is not only a dramatic account of the making o...
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Even Mississippi. Foreword by Jack Bass.

By: Neilson, Many.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, [1958].

Seller ID: 05062scs

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), xiv, 199 pp. Fine (As New), in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. Ò...A well-crafted and engaging account that is not only good reading but also a penetrating commentary on several social, political, and historical themes. This is the story of Robert Clark's two unsuccessful campaigns for a congressional seat, in 1982 and 1984, and is written by the young woman who served as the only white staff member during the first campaign and one of a few whites during the second...Even Mississippi is the story of a girl, a family, struggling with two powerful worlds, one dyi...
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History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Edited by Rev. C. S. Smith, D.D. With a New Introduction by Dennis Dickerson, Ph.D., L.H.D. Two Parts, In One Volume. Illustrated.

By: Payne, Daniel A., D.D., LL.D.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Nashville, Tennessee: AMEC Sunday School Union / Legacy Publishing, (1998). Second Printing.

Seller ID: 51567bd

Octavo, brown leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, 502 pp. Near-Fine. Contents: Introductory REflections; Preliminary Causes of Organization; Results of Separation from the M. E. Church; Organization of the A. M. E. Church; Baltimore Conferences, 1820-21-22; Early Conference Sessions; Extinction of the Church in South Carolina; The First Decade; Conferences of 1827, 1828, 1829; Early Missionary Work of the A. M. E. Church; Some of the Founders; The Field of African Methodism in 1832-1835; End of the Decade; Growth Westward and in Canada; Closing Years of the First Period; Literature and V...
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African-American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America. Illustrated by Alison Munoz.

By: Potter, Joan with Constance Claytor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Elizabeth Town, NY: Pinto Press, [1994].

Seller ID: 05172scs

Octavo, softbound, xiv, 336 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner inscription. Read the fascinating stories of more than 400 breakthrough achievements by men and women who dared to succeed...from America's beginnings to today...over 75 pages of photographs.
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Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice, 1941-1946.

By: Reed, Merl E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, (1991). First Edition, First Printing.

Seller ID: 1863mls

Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, x + 384 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket jacket. From dust jacket: During World War II, influential black leaders, tired of discrimination in the defense industries and segregation in the armed forces, called for a massive demonstration of protest in the nation's capital. Concerned that the proposal 1941 March on Washington Movement would spark a racial violence, embarrass the government, or possibly even fracture the Democratic party, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, creating the President's Commi...
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Black America Series: Tarpon Springs, Florida.

By: Rooks, Sandra W. and Carol Mountain.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, (2003).

Seller ID: 335525qms

Octavo, softbound (photo. illus. wrappers), 128 pp. Fine. From lower cover: African Americans originally came to Tarpon Springs in the mid-1880s to work in the lumber mills. In the 1890s, a number of sponge divers arrived from the Bahamas and Key West to harvest and prepare the wealth of sponges found in the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the Anclote River. Devoutly religious, these pioneers founded the African American Episcopal Church in 1887 and the Baptist Church in 1892. Union Academy School, the first African-American school in Tarpon Springs, was established in the early 1900s. T...
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The Kennedy Years and the Negro: A Photographic Record. Edited by Doris E. Saunders. Introduction by Andrew T. Hatcher. Designed by Herbert Temple.

By: Saunders, Doris E., ed.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1964.

Seller ID: m1476

Quarto, color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, xiii, 143 pp. Photos. Near-Fine.
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Category: African American History