African American History
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Abraham Lincoln in Slavery, 1864 Campaign Pamphlet
An Almost Impossible to Find Pamphlet!
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Abraham Lincoln, Folk Art Mourning Watercolor, framed
Mourning Lincoln Watercolor
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Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth, 1st ed., with Signed Bookplate
Vitally Revises Conventional Renderings
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Barack Obama, Reclaiming the American Dream, Booksellers Promo, Signed
Barack Obama Signature on pamphlet titled, Reclaiming the American Dream, an excerpt from The Audacity of Hope. written by “The rising Democratic star…and bestselling author of Dreams from My Father….” Accompanied by a card noting, “Signed In Person 9/26/2006 Hart (Senate) Bldg.” Such marketing pamphlets have become rare in the book trade today; this is … Continue reading Barack Obama, Reclaiming the American Dream, Booksellers Promo, Signed
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Booker T. Washington, Signature on Half Letter Sheet
Booker T. Washington signature on a half-letter sheet from Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Washington is listed as “Principal” while “George Foster Peabody,” after whom Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee was named, is listed on the Investment of Endowment Fund Committee. Minimal toning; else near fine. With a strong signature in older age. Washington, Booker … Continue reading Booker T. Washington, Signature on Half Letter Sheet
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Burris Carnahan Act of Justice, 1st ed.
A Cogent Argument that Lincoln was
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Christian Samito, Abraham Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment, 1st ed.
Christian Samito’s Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment relates how Lincoln made the amendment an issue in his 1864 reelection campaign. For most of his political career, Samito shows, Lincoln opposed changing the Constitution, even to overturn Supreme Court rulings with which he disagreed. Well into his presidency, he argued that emancipation should take place only … Continue reading Christian Samito, Abraham Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment, 1st ed.
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David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David Blight’s Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, is a powerful portrait of an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become … Continue reading David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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Edna Greene Medford, Lincoln and Emancipation, 1st ed.
Edna Greene Medford, discusses Lincoln and Emancipation. Medford examines the ideas and events that shaped President Lincoln’s responses to slavery, following the arc of his ideological development from the beginning of the Civil War, when he aimed to pursue a course of noninterference, to his championing of slavery’s destruction before the conflict ended. Throughout, Medford … Continue reading Edna Greene Medford, Lincoln and Emancipation, 1st ed.
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Edward Cotham, Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration, 1st ed, Signed on Bookplate
Helps Separate Myth from Reality
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Eugene Pieter Romayn Feldman, Black Power in Old Alabama
The Life and Times of James T. Rapier
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Jeffrey R. Brackett, The Negro in Maryland
A Very Early Work on Slavery in Maryland
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John Bigelow, The Principles of Strategy, 1st edition
The First to Carefully Utilize the Official Records of the Civil War
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John David Smith, Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops, 1st ed.
John David Smith turns the spotlight on Lincoln’s relationship with the African-American servicemen in Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops. After tracing Lincoln’s evolution from opposing to supporting emancipation as a necessary war measure and to championing the recruitment of black troops for the Union Army, Smith details the creation, mobilization, and diverse military service … Continue reading John David Smith, Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops, 1st ed.
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John E. Washington, They Knew Lincoln, 2nd ed.
Captures Impressions of Lincoln by African Americans
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Joseph T. Wilson, The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars
Written by a Member of Shaw’s 54th Massachusetts Infantry
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