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5 |
Letters by a Tennessee Slave Trader to his Virginia partner |
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Meek, Joseph |
(African American - Slave Trading) |
1835 Four Letters by a Tennessee Slave Trader |
1835 |
$1,500 - $2,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,000 |
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6 |
North Carolina slave permitted to carry a gun - 1 day before the Nat Turner slave revolt began in Virginia - Document Signed |
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Gay, William and Samuel Reeve |
(African American - Slavery) |
1831 No.Carolina slave permitted to carry a gun, Document Signed |
1831 |
$500 - $800 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $450 |
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7 |
Legal battle over a Virginia slave mother and her children - Document Signed |
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John M. Perkins. |
(African American - Slavery) |
1843 Legal battle over a Virginia slave and her children |
Oct. 17, 1843 |
$200 - $300 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $120 |
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8 |
Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House |
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Keckley, Elizabeth |
(African American - Slavery) |
Elizabeth Keckley Behind the Scenes 1868 |
1868 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $540 |
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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 |
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Northup, Solomon |
(African American - Slavery) |
Twelve Years a Slave, with excellent associations |
1854 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,140 |
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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 |
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Smith, William A. |
(African American - Slavery) |
A Southern defense of slavery on eve of war |
1856 |
$200 - $300 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $132 |
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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 |
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Torrey, Jesse |
(African American - Slavery) |
A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, 1st Ed. |
1817 |
$400 - $600 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $330 |
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14 |
Virginia slave auction proceeds |
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Trabue, Macon |
(African American - Slavery) |
Antebellum Virginia slave auction proceeds, Document Signed |
Nov. 17, 1855 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
|
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15 |
Manumission [Emancipation] of slave Peter Harris, Document Signed. |
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Turpin, Philip O. |
(African American - Slavery) |
1850 Slave emancipation document, Kentucky |
Feb. 11, 1850 |
$200 - $300 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $270 |
|
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16 |
Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race: The Latter Its Normal Condition |
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Van Evrie, J.H. |
(African American - Slavery) |
Negroes and Negro Slavery 1861 |
1861 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $228 |
|
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17 |
Fugitive slave as New York soldier in the War of 1812 - Autograph Letter Signed |
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Parker, Daniel, Chief Clerk, US War Department |
(African American - War of 1812) |
Fugitive slave as New York soldier in the War of 1812 |
July 19, 1813 |
$200 - $300 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $240 |
|
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18 |
Hampton and Its Students, By Two of Its Teachers. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. |
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Armstrong, Mrs. M.F. & Helen Ludlow. |
(African American) |
Hampton and Its Students, 1st Ed. |
1874 |
$200 - $300 |
Unsold |
|
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19 |
"The Negro A Beast," or "In the Image of God." |
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Carroll, Charles |
(African American) |
"The Negro A Beast," or "In the Image of God", 1st Ed. |
1900 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
|
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20 |
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans |
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Child, Mrs.[Lydia Maria] |
(African American) |
Child, An Appeal in Favor of...Americans Called Africans, 1836 |
1836 |
$500 - $800 |
Unsold |
|
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21 |
My Bondage and My Freedom |
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Douglass, Frederick |
(African American) |
My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass, 1855 |
1855 |
$800 - $1,200 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,080 |
|
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22 |
The Philadelphia Negro: Social Study. |
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DuBois, W.E. Burghardt. |
(African American) |
First case study of a black community in the US, 1899. |
1899 |
$600 - $900 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,140 |
|
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23 |
Free Colored Seamen - Majority and Minority Reports, January 20, 1843 |
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(African American) |
Free Colored Seamen - Majority and Minority Reports |
1843 |
$200 - $300 |
Unsold |
|
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24 |
The Loyalty and Devotion of Colored Americans in the Revolution and War of 1812 |
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(African American) |
In support of enlisting Black soldiers for the Union Army, 1861 |
1861 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $450 |
|
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25 |
Nine pieces of sheet music relating to African Americans |
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(African American) |
African American-related sheet music |
1844-1918 |
$300 - $500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180 |
|
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26 |
Recaptured Africans |
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(African American) |
Recaptured Africans |
1828 |
$200 - $300 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $120 |
|
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27 |
White Supremacy and Negro Subordination or, Negroes A Subordinate Race, and (so-called) Slavery Its Normal Condition |
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Van Evrie, John H. |
(African American) |
Pseudo-scientific support of slavery, 1868 |
1868 |
$200 - $300 |
Unsold |
|
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255 |
Personal accounting ledger, 1843-1844, of merchant captain and California pioneer William A. Leidesdorff |
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Leidesdorff, William Alexander |
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Accounting ledger of W.A. Leidesdorff 1843-44 |
1843-1844 |
$30,000 - $50,000 |
Unsold |
|
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350 |
Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising. |
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Simmons, William J. |
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Men of Mark, biographies of prominent African American men |
1887 |
$800 - $1,200 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $540 |
|
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419 |
The Poetical Works [bound with] Essays, Philanthropic and Moral...principally relating to the Abolition of Slavery in America |
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Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret |
(Abolition) |
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler abolitionist poet 1836 |
1836 |
$10 - $100 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $72 |
|
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420 |
$100 Bond Certificate |
|
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(African-American, 1923) |
1923 Bond Certificate, Chicago Black Masonic Temple |
1923 |
$10 - $100 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $36 |
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