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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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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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Karen Cox, No Common Ground, 1st ed, with Signed Bookplate
Timely, Accessible, and Essential
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Kevin Levin, Remembering the Battle of the Crater
The battle of the Crater is known as one of the Civil War’s bloodiest struggles—a Union loss with combined casualties of 5,000, many of whom were members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) under Union Brigadier General Edward Ferrero. The battle was a violent clash of forces as Confederate soldiers fought for the first time … Continue reading Kevin Levin, Remembering the Battle of the Crater
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Mark A. Lause, Race and Radicalism in the Union Army. 1st ed, Signed
A compelling portrait of interracial activism, Mark Lause documents the efforts of radical followers of John Brown to construct a triracial portion of the Federal Army of the Frontier. Mobilized and inspired by the idea of a Union that would benefit all, black, Indian, and white soldiers fought side by side, achieving remarkable successes in … Continue reading Mark A. Lause, Race and Radicalism in the Union Army. 1st ed, Signed
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Slave Songs of the United States, 1st ed.
The Music of the Enslaved
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William H. Holtzclaw, The Black Man’s Burden, 1st ed.
William Holtzclaw’s The Black Man’s Burden, in 1st ed. Holtzclaw, a graduate of Tuskegee Institute and protegé of Booker T. Washington, founded Mississippi’s Utica Normal and Industrial Institute (now Utica campus of Hinds County Community Colleges). Part autobiography, part Utica history; an uncommon look at education in the Jim Crow-era. Light sun damage; very light … Continue reading William H. Holtzclaw, The Black Man’s Burden, 1st ed.
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