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Previous|1|Next Lot #5 Letters by a Tennessee Slave Trader to his Virginia partner Heading(African American - Slave Trading)AuthorMeek, JosephHeadline1835 Four Letters by a Tennessee Slave TraderDate Published1835 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,893StatusSold Lot #6 North Carolina slave permitted to carry a gun - 1 day before the Nat Turner slave revolt began in Virginia - Document Signed Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorGay, William and Samuel ReeveHeadline1831 No.Carolina slave permitted to carry a gun, Document SignedDate Published1831 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$441.75StatusSold Lot #7 Legal battle over a Virginia slave mother and her children - Document Signed Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorJohn M. Perkins.Headline1843 Legal battle over a Virginia slave and her childrenDate PublishedOct. 17, 1843 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Lot #8 Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorKeckley, ElizabethHeadlineElizabeth Keckley Behind the Scenes 1868PublisherG.W. CarletonDate Published1868 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$529.50StatusSold Lot #10 Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, In Louisiana Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorNorthup, SolomonHeadlineTwelve Years a Slave, with excellent associationsPublisherDerby and MillerDate Published1854 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,114.50StatusSold Lot #11 Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorSmith, William A.HeadlineA Southern defense of slavery on eve of warPublisherStevenson and EvansDate Published1856 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$131.70StatusSold Lot #13 A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor; and a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of color Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorTorrey, JesseHeadlineA Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, 1st Ed.PublisherPublished by the AuthorDate Published1817 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$324.75StatusSold Lot #14 Virginia slave auction proceeds Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorTrabue, MaconHeadlineAntebellum Virginia slave auction proceeds, Document SignedDate PublishedNov. 17, 1855 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$178.50StatusSold Lot #15 Manumission [Emancipation] of slave Peter Harris, Document Signed. Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorTurpin, Philip O.Headline1850 Slave emancipation document, KentuckyDate PublishedFeb. 11, 1850 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$266.25StatusSold Lot #16 Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race: The Latter Its Normal Condition Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorVan Evrie, J.H.HeadlineNegroes and Negro Slavery 1861PublisherVan Evrie, Horton, & Co.Date Published1861 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225.30StatusSold Lot #17 Fugitive slave as New York soldier in the War of 1812 - Autograph Letter Signed Heading(African American - War of 1812)AuthorParker, Daniel, Chief Clerk, US War DepartmentHeadlineFugitive slave as New York soldier in the War of 1812Date PublishedJuly 19, 1813 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237StatusSold Lot #18 Hampton and Its Students, By Two of Its Teachers. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Heading(African American)AuthorArmstrong, Mrs. M.F. & Helen Ludlow.HeadlineHampton and Its Students, 1st Ed.PublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1874 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #19 "The Negro A Beast," or "In the Image of God." Heading(African American)AuthorCarroll, CharlesHeadline"The Negro A Beast," or "In the Image of God", 1st Ed.PublisherAmerican Book and Bible HouseDate Published1900 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$178.50StatusSold Lot #20 An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Heading(African American)AuthorChild, Mrs.[Lydia Maria]HeadlineChild, An Appeal in Favor of...Americans Called Africans, 1836PublisherJohn S. TaylorDate Published1836 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #21 My Bondage and My Freedom Heading(African American)AuthorDouglass, FrederickHeadlineMy Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass, 1855PublisherMiller, Orton, & MulliganDate Published1855 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,056StatusSold Lot #22 The Philadelphia Negro: Social Study. Heading(African American)AuthorDuBois, W.E. Burghardt.HeadlineFirst case study of a black community in the US, 1899.PublisherUniversity of PennsylvaniaDate Published1899 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,114.50StatusSold Lot #23 Free Colored Seamen - Majority and Minority Reports, January 20, 1843 Heading(African American)HeadlineFree Colored Seamen - Majority and Minority ReportsDate Published1843 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #24 The Loyalty and Devotion of Colored Americans in the Revolution and War of 1812 Heading(African American)HeadlineIn support of enlisting Black soldiers for the Union Army, 1861PublisherR.F. WallcutDate Published1861 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$441.75StatusSold Lot #25 Nine pieces of sheet music relating to African Americans Heading(African American)HeadlineAfrican American-related sheet musicDate Published1844-1918 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$178.50StatusSold Lot #26 Recaptured Africans Heading(African American)HeadlineRecaptured AfricansPublisherGales & SeatonDate Published1828 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Lot #27 White Supremacy and Negro Subordination or, Negroes A Subordinate Race, and (so-called) Slavery Its Normal Condition Heading(African American)AuthorVan Evrie, John H.HeadlinePseudo-scientific support of slavery, 1868PublisherVan Evrie, Horton & Co.Date Published1868 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #193 WITHDRAWN - Epiphone Electrics sample trade catalog Heading(Epiphone Acoustics)HeadlineWITHDRAWN - Epiphone Electrics sample trade catalog 1979PublisherGibson Guitar/ Epiphone, United Music Co., LtdDate Published1979 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #255 Personal accounting ledger, 1843-1844, of merchant captain and California pioneer William A. Leidesdorff AuthorLeidesdorff, William AlexanderHeadlineAccounting ledger of W.A. Leidesdorff 1843-44Date Published1843-1844 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #350 Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising. AuthorSimmons, William J.HeadlineMen of Mark, biographies of prominent African American menPublisherGeo. M. RewellDate Published1887 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$529.50StatusSold Lot #419 The Poetical Works [bound with] Essays, Philanthropic and Moral...principally relating to the Abolition of Slavery in America Heading(Abolition)AuthorChandler, Elizabeth MargaretHeadlineElizabeth Margaret Chandler abolitionist poet 1836PublisherLemuel HowellDate Published1836 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$72StatusSold Lot #420 $100 Bond Certificate Heading(African-American, 1923)Headline1923 Bond Certificate, Chicago Black Masonic TemplePublisherPrince Hall Masonic Temple AssociationDate Published1923 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$36StatusSold Lot #440 The Lone Fish-Ball in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July, 1855 AuthorLane, George MartinHeadlineGeorge Martin Lane Lone Fish-Ball 1855PublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1855 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next