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Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Unique slave emancipation document signed by an anti-slavery Virginia woman who was declared insane View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(African-American, 1822)AuthorBarbary [Barbara] WilsonHeadline1822 Document Emancipating slaves by a Virginia womanDate Published1822 Lot #5 Letter - Black woman, possible Underground Railroad fugitive from Massachusetts to Vermont View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$412.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1824)AuthorC. LeavittHeadline1824 letter - possible Black woman fugitive on the Underground Railroad Lot #6 Dissertation On Servitude: Embracing An Examination Of The Scripture doctrines on the subject, and An Inquiry Into The Character And Relations Of Slavery - New Haven clergyman’s rare Anti-Slavery book in original boards View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$295.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1837)AuthorSawyer, Leicester A.Headline1837 Rare Connecticut anti-Slavery book in original boardsPublisherDurrie & PeckDate Published1837 Lot #7 Slave prices in Georgia and South Carolina, letter and document View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(African-American, 1844-63)HeadlineSlave prices in Georgia and South Carolina, 1844-1863Date Published1844-1863 Lot #8 New York inter-racial marriage scandal – letter to Ulysses Grant’s future brother-in-law View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$178.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1846)AuthorHollister, Mrs. AmosHeadline1846 letter, NY inter-racial marriage scandalDate Published1846 Lot #9 5 autograph documents about one (West) Virginia family’s slave-holding before and during the Civil War View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African-American, 1849-62)AuthorAndrew Aldridge, et alHeadline5 autograph documents about a Virginia family’s slave-holdingsDate Published1849-1862 Lot #10 Mentally-ill North Carolina woman’s anti-slave “delusions” - letter from her husband to her Doctor View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$324.75StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1851)AuthorJohn W. NorwoodHeadlineMentally-ill N. Carolina woman’s anti-slave “delusions”, 1851 letterDate Published1851 Lot #11 Astonishing legal deposition about an Alabama slave owner who violently assaulted his wife for slighting his slave mistress View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,173StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1853)Headline1853 Testimony about man assaulting wife over slight to slave mistressDate Published1853 Lot #12 New York Quaker denounces Stephen’s Douglas’ “infamous” compromise allowing slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories – letter to a Republican Party founder View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$190.20StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1854)AuthorSearing, JohnHeadlineNY Quaker denounces Douglas’ compromise allowing territorial slaveryDate Published1854 Lot #13 Reactionary Alabama clergyman’s printed prospectus, with handwritten letter, for a pro-slavery magazine View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$471StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1857)AuthorWilliams, Rev. J.V.Headline1857 Alabama clergyman’s proposal for a pro-slavery magazineDate Published1857 Lot #14 President Washington descendant and namesake rents out his slave View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$155.10StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1859)AuthorDrew, F. W.Headline1859 George Washington descendant rents out his slaveDate Published1859 Lot #15 Report of the Committee on Negro Lodges to the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, 5865 - White Masons oppose Masonic lodges for freed slaves View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$471StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1866)AuthorReade, E.G, H.H.Smith and Daniel ColemanHeadline1865 White North Carolina Masons oppose Masonic lodges for freed slavesDate Published1866 Lot #16 Letter as 20 year-old teacher View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$471StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1877)AuthorWashington, Booker T.HeadlineBooker T. Washington letter as 20 year-old teacher, 1877Date Published1877 Lot #17 Rare Black Baptist broadside for a Richmond, Virginia Religious Exhibition with a Jewish Old Testament theme - only known copy View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$471StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1880s)HeadlineRare 1880s Black Baptist broadside for a Richmond, Virginia Religious ExhibitionDate Published1882 ca. Lot #18 Countee Cullen teenaged poetry in 1921 high school yearbook View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$178.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1921)HeadlineBlack poet Countee Cullen early verse in 1921 high school yearbookDate Published1921 Lot #19 Proceedings of the First [Second, Fourth, Eleventh, Fourteenth, Fifteenth] Annual Session of the National Negro Insurance Association View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$213.60StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1921-35)HeadlineNational Negro Insurance AssociationDate Published1921-1935 Lot #20 Alain Locke letter, "Father" of the Harlem Renaissance, passion for “Negro artistic and cultural development” View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$190.20StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1927)Headline1927 Alain Locke letter, "Father" of the Harlem RenaissanceDate Published1927 Lot #21 Famed Black woman sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance encounters racism on a Boston bus, 1928 letter View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$295.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1928)AuthorFuller, Meta V.W.HeadlineFamed Black woman sculptress of the Harlem Renaissance, 1928 letterDate Published1928 Lot #22 Original printed wedding invitation, Countee Cullen and W. E. B. DuBois’ daughter – Black “social event of the decade” View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$295.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1928)Headline1928 wedding invitation, Black poet Countee Cullen and W.E.B.DuBois’ daughterDate Published1928 Lot #23 “Father” of Black history Carter Woodson View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1928)AuthorWoodson, C.[arter] G.Headline“Father” of Black history Carter Woodson, 1928 letterDate Published1928 Lot #24 NAACP leader’s history of lynching in the South View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African-American, 1929)AuthorWhite, Walter F.HeadlineNAACP leader’s history of lynching in the South, 1929 letterDate Published1929 Lot #25 First voluminous census of African-Americans in the 20th century View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1935)Headline1935 First voluminous census of African-Americans in the 20th centuryDate Published1935 Lot #26 Four textbooks for segregated Negro schoolchildren View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$266.25StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1938)HeadlineFour 1938 textbooks for segregated Negro schoolchildrenDate Published1938 Lot #27 A Brief History of 75 Years of Negro Progress / Souvenir of the… Negro Progress Exposition, Detroit, May 1940 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1940)AuthorWesley, Charles H. and John C. DancyHeadline1940 "Negro Expositions" memorabilia, Detroit and ChicagoDate Published1940 Lot #28 Negro Buyer’s Guide and Directory / Respectfully Dedicated to the American Negro Soldiers Who Gave Their Lives - Columbus, Ohio Negro Business Directory of World War II, only known copy View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$412.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1944)AuthorFletcher, L. P., ed.HeadlineRare Columbus, Ohio Negro Business Directory of World War IIPublisher(L. P. Fletcher and Associates)Date Published1944 Lot #29 The “Bronz”, Volume IV, Nos. 10 and 11, 1944-45 - only known copies of the last issues of a Los Angeles Black magazine with important Hollywood association View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$295.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1944-1945 – Los Angeles, Hollywood)AuthorGreene, Bene, editorHeadlineVery rare 1944-45 Black Hollywood magazineDate PublishedDec. 1944 and Jan.-Feb. 1945 Lot #70 Blind Boone, His Early Life and His Achievements: Including "Early Life Stories;" Professional Life Incidents; Concert Reminiscences; Brief Life of His First and Only Manager Also His Musical Compositions Arranged in Instrumental Selections of the Waltz, Gallop, Caprice, Serenade, Polka, Together With His Reveries and Songs View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$383.25StatusSold Heading(Boone, John William)AuthorFuell, MelissaHeadlineBlind Boone 1915PublisherBurton Publishing Co.Date Published1915 Lot #259 Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: A Traveler's Observations On Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$354StatusSold AuthorOlmsted, Frederick LawHeadlineOlmsted's Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom w/folding mapPublisherSampson, Low, Son & Co.Date Published1862 Lot #465 Black Missouri fraternal order, once an Underground Railroad secret society View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$108StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1927)AuthorDickson, Rev. MosesHeadlineIllinois Underground Railroad secret society to Black Missouri fraternal orderDate Published1927 Lot #496 Without Consent Or Contract: the Rise and Fall of American Slavery View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$48StatusSold AuthorFogel, Robert WilliamHeadlineFogel's Without Consent Or Contract, inscribed with letterPublisherW. W. Norton & Co.Date Published[1989] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next