African American History from SRG Antiquarian Books

Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography. By Col S M Bowman and Lt Col R B Irwin. 1865 First Edition. New York: Charles B Richardson. Cincinnati: C F Vent & Col. Springfield: W J Holland. 1865. Condition: NOT a library book. Original dark green cloth with impressed covers and gilt on spine. Fresh end pages. Complete. Engravings with tissue guards.… Read more about this item

The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-Biography of His Childhood and Youth. 1860 First Edition [Thirtieth Thousand]. By James Redpath. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. Condition: NOT a library book. Original brown cloth binding with impressed covers and gilt on spine. Interior complete with frontispiece portrait, tissue guard. Fresh end pages. News article imprint on two pages in… Read more about this item

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". In Two Volumes. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company. 1856. First Edition, 75th Thousand. Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is the second popular novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was first published in two volumes by Phillips, Sampson and Company… Read more about this item

Bricks Without Straw, A Novel. By Albion W Tourgee, Author of "A Fool's Errand" etc. New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert. 1880. Believed to be first edition. 'A classic of American political fiction first published in 1880, a mere three years after Reconstruction officially ended, Bricks Without Straw offers an inside view of the struggle to create a just society… Read more about this item

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. by Hinton Rowan Helper, of North Carolina. Seventeenth Thousand. New York: A B Burdick, 1860. Thorough analysis of opinions on slavery from the North and South, slaveholder and non slaveholder. Opinions of European nations as well. Also good chapter on the comparison between the free and slave states. Condition: NOT a… Read more about this item

Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers, Mrs M F Armstrong and Helen W Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P Fenner. New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1874 First Edition. Contents Include: The School and its Story, the Butler School, Interior Views of the School and the Cabin; the Hampton Students of the… Read more about this item

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, the Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. by Joel Chandler Harris, with Illustrations by Frederick S Church and James H Moser. New York: D Appleton and Company, 1 3 and 5 Bond Street. 1882 Early Edition. This is a very early edition of Harris' first book. The charm and joy of these traditional African American… Read more about this item

The Conquest of Kansas by Missouri and her Allies, A History of the Troubles in Kansas from the Passage of the Organic Act until the Close of July, 1856. William Phillips, Phillips Sampson and Company, 1856. First Edition. Boston: 414 pp plus ads 6pp in back and ads on front and back paste downs and fly pages. Narrative includes some of… Read more about this item

Africa's Redemption, the Salvation of Our Country, by Reverend F Freeman, Author of Yaradee, Plea for Africa, Psalmodia, etc. New York: Printed for the Author by D Fanshaw, No. 108 Nassau-street, 383 pp. 1852 First Edition; Dedicated to the Memory of Henry Clay. Presented in a series of "conversations", this is an in-depth history of the African continent's peoples, the colonization of… Read more about this item

The Annals of the War, Written by Leading Participants, North and South. 1879 First Edition. Philadelphia: The Times Publishing Co. 800 pp, Hardcover. 56 articles written by Civil War notables, Originally published in the Philadelphia Times. Condition: This original first edition published in 1879 was professionally restored as shown Original spine material re-a-plied, complimentary end pages (with original G.A.R. tag… Read more about this item