![[Autograph Letter, Signed, from a New Englander Who Settled in Missouri, Discussing the Clothing of Slaves, Western Emigration, His Next Move West, and More]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/947/958/1721958947.0.l.jpg)
[Autograph Letter, Signed, from a New Englander Who Settled in Missouri, Discussing the Clothing of Slaves, Western Emigration, His Next Move West, and More]
by [Slavery]: [California Gold Rush]: Cram, Charles H.
[Missouri: April 1, 1860. Very good.. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Original mailing folds, minor toning. An informative letter written by Charles H. Cram in Missouri to a friend in New England, dated "April Fools Day 1860" in red pencil at the top of the first page. Cram mentions hoop skirts, Pike's Peak, and slavery while trying to decide whether to continue westward during the latter years of the California Gold Rush. Cram's letter reads, in part:... Read More
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![[Manuscript Indenture Between Two Citizens of the "City of Washington," Discussing the Transmission of Various Property, Including Two Slaves]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/850/958/1721958850.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Indenture Between Two Citizens of the "City of Washington," Discussing the Transmission of Various Property, Including Two Slaves]
by [Slavery]: [Washington, D.C.]
Washington, D.C., 1839. Fair.. [3]pp. Large folio. Separated into six pieces, with a very small section of the final attestation lacking altogether. Still highly readable. A wounded, but important document. A rare and historically-important document relating to slavery in the District of Columbia, which was outlawed on April 16, 1862, nearly nine months before the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. The present document is an indenture made between William G. Howison and Alexander Hunter, Esquire, both citizens of... Read More
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![[Manuscript Document Acknowledging Payment for Medical Care for "Negro Boy Jack" in Antebellum Arkansas]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/006/019/1741019006.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Document Acknowledging Payment for Medical Care for "Negro Boy Jack" in Antebellum Arkansas]
by [Slavery]: [Arkansas]: [Chipman, D.J.]
Batesville, AR: January 11, 1840. [1]p., 4 x 5.5 inches, docketed on verso. Old horizontal fold, toning. Very good. An interesting manuscript record of slave care in Arkansas in the 1830s. The short but impactful document reads in full: "Recd of William McNight Admin. Of Hiram West Decd three dollars for medical attention upon negro boy Jack in 1836. Batesville, Ark. Jan 11 1840 DJ Chipman." Such documents are increasingly rare in the market, and more uncommon than slave sale... Read More
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![[Partially-Printed Document, Completed in Manuscript, Regarding the Sale of Five Named Slaves from an Antebellum South Carolina Estate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/851/016/1741016851.0.l.jpg)
[Partially-Printed Document, Completed in Manuscript, Regarding the Sale of Five Named Slaves from an Antebellum South Carolina Estate]
by [Slavery]: [South Carolina]: [Geddes, Gilbert C.]
Charleston, SC: Printed by Walker & Burke, February 7, 1850. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, 13 x 8 inches. Old folds, minor toning and offsetting. Very good. A very rare pre-printed form from antebellum South Carolina, designed specifically for documenting the sale of slaves in Charleston in the mid-19th century. The document emanates from the Court of Equity, and directs the estate of Gilbert C. Geddes to sell five named slaves to James Hopkinson for $2,075. The names of... Read More
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![[Letter from a Cotton Planter in North Carolina, Discussing the Use of Slaves As Collateral]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/821/958/1721958821.0.l.jpg)
[Letter from a Cotton Planter in North Carolina, Discussing the Use of Slaves As Collateral]
by [Slavery]: [North Carolina]: Barnett, J.C.
Roxboro, N.C.: January 15, 1860. Good.. [2]pp. Wrinkled, previously folded. A few minor losses at folds, not affecting text. Two half-inch closed tears from edges. Light toning and foxing. After arriving in Roxboro, North Carolina, in mid-January 1860, planter J.C. Barnett writes to his friend and business partner, a Colonel Henry, to complain about the tight money situation in the state, which has forced him essentially to pawn a slave in order to raise cash: "I found monetary... Read More
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![[Manuscript Document Confirming Montgomery County Resident Robert Lyles Not "Trafficking in Slaves," Just Simply a Slave Owner Himself]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/256/997/1740997256.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Document Confirming Montgomery County Resident Robert Lyles Not "Trafficking in Slaves," Just Simply a Slave Owner Himself]
by [Slavery]: [Maryland]: [Lyles, Robert]
Frederick, MD: October 2, 1818. [1]p., docketed on verso. Roughly torn along bottom edge, minor foxing and spotting. Good condition. An uncommon document in Maryland slave history, in which George Baer, the future mayor of Frederick, and a few other men attest that another local citizen named Robert Lyles is not a slave trader. The document reads, in part: "[Lyles] is on his way to your house to purchase a family of negroes. We have known Mr. Lyles many... Read More
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Second Annual Report of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society (Educational Commission). Presented to the Society, April 24, 1864
by [African Americana]: New England Freedmen's Aid Society
Boston: Published at the Office of the Society, 1864. 86pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine titles. Light chipping and soiling to wrappers. Contemporary notation to header of title, else internally clean. Very good plus. An account of the second year of the activities of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society (NEFAS), an activist group formed to assist emancipated Black Americans in may aspects of life, especially with gaining academic and practical... Read More
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Massachusetts Abolitionist. Vol. II, No. 53. Whole No. 105
by [Abolition]: [Massachusetts Abolition Society]
Boston: February 18, 1841. Very good.. [4]pp., numbered [209]-212, on a single large folio sheet of newsprint, removed from a binding, with some fraying along spine edge. Center horizontal fold, minor foxing. A rare issue of the Massachusetts Abolitionist, "Published Every Thursday, by J.C. Beman, for the Massachusetts Abolition Society" and edited by Amos A. Phelps. This notable abolitionist periodical was published weekly in Boston by the Massachusetts Abolition Society (MAS) between 1839 and 1841. The Massachusetts Abolition... Read More
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Supreme Lodge National Ideal Benefit Society Incorporated. Minutes of the Following Annual Conventions September 2-4, 1913...September 6-7, 1921
by [African Americana]: National Ideal Benefit Society
Richmond, Va: H.H. Price, 1921. Near fine.. [8],151pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and minor even toning. An early publication by an important Virginia African-American insurance cooperative. The present work is a compendium of reports for the annual conventions from 1913 to 1921 for the National Ideal Benefit Society, an African American co-ed fraternal organization created by A.W. Holmes in 1912. The text records the minutes of each annual meeting from the organization's inception, providing a detailed record... Read More
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1919 1970 Souvenir Program 51st Anniversary of the National United Church Ushers Association of America Inc
by [African Americana]: [Washington State]
Seattle, Wa, 1970. Good plus.. 100pp. Quarto. Original pictorial green wrappers printed in black, stapled. Moderate staining, soiling, and edge wear, corners a bit chewed, a few stray ink notations on wrappers. Some staining to margins of text, occasional foxing. An unrecorded souvenir program for the national convention of the National United Church Ushers Association of America (NUCUAA), held in Seattle between July 26 and 31, 1970. The NUCUAA was formed in 1910 by uniting several usher groups... Read More
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![National Galaxy. Or, Portraits and Biographies of All the Presidents of the United States, Engraved on Steel, In the Highest Style of the Art [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/132/784/1740784132.0.l.jpg)
National Galaxy. Or, Portraits and Biographies of All the Presidents of the United States, Engraved on Steel, In the Highest Style of the Art [caption title]
by [Presidents of the United States]
Boston: Printed by J. Howe, No. 39, Merchants Row...Engraved by N. Dearborn...Entered according to Act of Congress by J. Greenleaf, 1840. Broadside, 21.25 x 29 inches, printed in eight columns, with eight mounted intaglio portraits, each 3.5 x 3 inches, all text and portraits within an elaborate ornamental border. Moderate foxing, edge wear, and scuffing. A few closed edge tears, a couple just touching text, minor scuffing to left edge of one portrait, long vertical crease affecting one portrait.... Read More
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Webster's Ever Ready Dictionary of the English Language Self-Promoting Based upon the original foundation laid by Noah Webster, LL.D. and Other Eminent Lexicographers
by Stevens, C.M.
St. Louis: F.L. Rand Company, 1926. Very good.. [2],246pp. Original red cloth stamped in black. Minor scuffing and edge wear to boards. Hinges a bit over-opened, but very clean internally. A handsome pocket dictionary from the early-20th century produced as a promotional item for a shoe store in rural Texas. The front cover reads, "Webster's Poll-Parrot Dictionary Made Expressly for Freitag & Kamas Kenney, Texas 'Star Brand Shoes and Better.'" Kenney is a tiny, unincorporated town located about... Read More
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La Clef de la Case de L'Oncle Tom Contenant Les Faits et les Documents Originaux sur Lesquels le Roman est Fonde...
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Paris: Aux Bureaux du Magasin Pittoresque, 1853. viii,399pp. Contemporary maroon pebbled cloth, leather backstrip, gilt spine titles. Minor wear and bumping to boards, minor soiling. Light toning to text. Very good. An early French edition of A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in order to provide "facts and documents" to support the truth of her depiction of slavery in the novel.
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Plus d'Esclavage. Uncle Tom's Galop. Op. 7. Compose et Dedie a Ms. Harriet Beecher Stowe
by [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]: [Sheet Music]: Revius, L.F.
La Haye [The Hague]: Correspondence Musicale, 1855. Very good.. [3]pp., on a single folded folio sheet, lithographic illustration on front cover. Minor toning, foxing, and edge wear. Stated second edition of rare Dutch sheet music for a piano piece inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The central illustration on the front cover depicts a scene from the novel, with Uncle Tom under threat of the whip by his master, likely representing the villain of the novel,... Read More
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Little Eva; Uncle Tom's Guardian Angel. Composed and Most Respectfully Dedicated to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Poetry by John G. Whittier
by [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]: Whittier, John Greenleaf
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. Very good.. 4pp. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers with vignette of "Little Eva and Uncle Tom in the Arbor" on front cover, sewn, but removed from a bound volume with some paper remnants along spine. Minor soiling to outer wrappers, mild edge wear, light thumb-soiling to outer margins of text. The scarce musical score for an early and once-popular song taken from Harriet Beecher Stowe's immortal classic, Uncle Tom's Cabin, with "poetry"... Read More
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![Pikin Spelle-Boekoe [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/167/959/1721959167.0.l.jpg)
Pikin Spelle-Boekoe [wrapper title]
by [Suriname]
Paramaribo, Suriname: C. Kersten & Co, 1895. Good.. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit chipped and soiled, both detached. First text leaf detached, text toned. An apparently unrecorded children's primer translated into Sranan Tongo, the Creole lingua franca of Suriname. Structurally based on English with significant Dutch vocabulary and some West African influence, Sranan Tongo (Suriname Tongue) is still spoken by at least 80% of Suriname's population as either a first or second language. Dutch civil officials... Read More
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![The Presidio Army Museum Presents Go for Broke: An Exhibit Honoring the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team - The "Most Decorated Unit of World War II..." [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/053/959/1721959053.0.l.jpg)
The Presidio Army Museum Presents Go for Broke: An Exhibit Honoring the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team - The "Most Decorated Unit of World War II..." [caption title]
by [Japanese American Internment]: [442nd Regimental Combat Team]
San Francisco: The Presidio Army Museum, 1981. Very good plus.. Photographically-illustrated poster, 16 x 21 inches, printed in red and light blue. Very minor wear. A rare poster issued to promote "the first major exhibit on the history of the Japanese American soldier in World War II." The members of the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team fought with distinction in Europe, eventually receiving more than 18,000 service decorations, including over 9,000 Purple Hearts. These... Read More
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Report. Mexican Telephone Co. March 1st, 1887
by [Mexico]: [Technology]
Boston: Stanley & Usher, Printers, 1887. Very good.. 12pp. Original printed self wrappers, sewn. Minor dust-soiling and edge wear. Soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. Very good. [with:] Annual Report of the Mexican Telephone Company. 1890-1891. Boston: E.W.S. Jones, Stationer and Printer, [1891]. 11pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers somewhat toned, small chip at each corner, short vertical closed tear and some discoloration to front wrapper. Soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. An informative pair of rare and... Read More
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Us Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 1
by [African Americana]: [Tennessee]
[Memphis: Us Incorporated], February, 1954. Very good.. 32pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in brown and orange, stapled. Mild wear to wrappers, small marginal stain to top edge of last several leaves. The rare inaugural, and only, issue of this well-illustrated African-American magazine from Memphis. The stated goals of the magazine were to "Portray the achievements of the Southern Negro in pictorial format" and to "Show advancement, created by teamwork and mutual understanding, in the fields of industry,... Read More
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![Revival at Greater Middle Baptist Church...Rev. Ben L. Hooks, Evangelist [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/998/958/1721958998.0.l.jpg)
Revival at Greater Middle Baptist Church...Rev. Ben L. Hooks, Evangelist [caption title]
by [African Americana]: [Tennessee]
Memphis, 1959. Very good plus.. Pictorial broadside on newsprint, 9 x 6 inches. Even tanning, mild wear. A rare handbill advertising a revival at Greater Middle Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, led by famous Civil Rights leader, Ben Hooks, with a portrait of Hooks within the text. Benjamin L. Hooks returned home to Memphis after World War II in order to practice law. In 1956, he became a minister at Greater Middle and began his involvement with both... Read More
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![Concert. Grammar School Department of Union City Colored School...[caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/120/959/1721959120.0.l.jpg)
Concert. Grammar School Department of Union City Colored School...[caption title]
by [African Americana]: [Tennessee]
[Union City, Tn.], 1901. Very good.. Broadside handbill, 8.75 x 5 inches, printed on thin pink paper. Old creases, minor staining and edge wear. A rare, and perhaps unrecorded program printing the order of events at a concert performed by students in the grammar school department of the Union City Colored School, an African-American institution in the remote northwest corner of Tennessee. Among the musical pieces and "recitations" here is a "Talk on Woman Suffrage," a song titled,... Read More
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Presenting the Oval Published by the Seniors of Fisk University Nashville, Tennessee
by [African Americana]: [Tennessee]
Nashville, 1949. Good.. 139,[1]pp. Small folio. Original embossed, pictorial cloth. Boards scuffed and dust soiled, heavier wear to spine. Hinges broken, text block coming detached. Light soiling and toning internally. Contemporary manuscript annotations in a number of hands throughout, including ownership inscription on front free endpaper recto. Scarce, post-war issue of the Fisk University senior yearbook, The Oval, from 1949. The school opened in Nashville, Tennessee, as the Fisk Free Colored School in early 1866, and is one... Read More
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Garrison Harrison & Co.'s Picture Gallery of the Panhandle of Texas
by [Texas]
Canyon City, Tx, 1907. Very good.. [32]pp. Profusely illustrated with monotone photographs. Slim quarto. Original wrappers, stapled. Minor edge wear, some darkening to edges and rear wrapper, light dust-soiling, tiny chip to lower corner of front wrapper. A rare land promotional touting the advantages of Canyon City, Texas (known now simply as Canyon). Established in 1887, Canyon City became a major shipping point for cattle and cotton after the arrival of the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway in... Read More
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![[Small Group of Material Documenting the 1953 Seymour Rodeo & Reunion, Plus an Earlier Baylor County Fair and Rodeo]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/106/959/1721959106.0.l.jpg)
[Small Group of Material Documenting the 1953 Seymour Rodeo & Reunion, Plus an Earlier Baylor County Fair and Rodeo]
by [Texas]
[Seymour, Tx, 1953. Good.. Two souvenir programs, brochure, admission ticket, and participant's number placard. Noticeable foxing, moderate edge wear, some offsetting to cover and in brochure, placard worn and partially torn. An interesting group of four items related to the 1953 Seymour Rodeo & Reunion held in Seymour, Texas from June 18-20, 1953, and one earlier item from a related event in the town. Seymour, Texas is a tiny rural town of about 3,000 residents located in Baylor... Read More
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![[Manuscript Land Patent in Antebellum Texas]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/215/959/1721959215.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Land Patent in Antebellum Texas]
by [Texas]
Grayson County, Tx, 1852. Very good.. [2]pp., on a single folded folio sheet, docketed on verso of integral blank leaf. Original folds, minor wear, light spotting. An 1852 Texas land transfer patent from James Strong to P.T. Andrews in Grayson County. The document reads, in part: "For $250...James Strong does sell, release and convey to P.T. Andrews...land in Grayson County, on the East side of Mill Creek, a tributary of the Red River, known and described as follows... Read More
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