First Edition. A Mexican edition of a history of the Haitian revolution, written from the perspective of the French, who were ousted from the island following a particularly brutal and bloody conflict. The book is predictably critical of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the revolution and the first ruler of.....

First Edition. A four-part defense of the Freedmen's Bureau and its head, Major General Oliver O. Howard, spurred by a proposed amendment to cut the $5,000 budget for the hospital in Washington, D.C. and a speech accusing the agency of "plundering the public treasuring." The Freedmen's Bureau was a Reconstruction-era.....

First Edition. A collection of speeches by a leading bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the editor of the A.M.E. Church Review, and a tireless campaigner for social justice. "Ransom was torn between two concepts of Christianity: Christianity as an instrument of (possibly bloody) revolution, and Christianity as the.....

On November 5, 1872, 440,738 New Yorkers went into the voting booth to express a preference for Ulysses S. Grant over Horace Greeley. Under the American political system they were technically selecting voters in the Electoral College, including Frederick Douglass and thirty-four other men on the Republican party slate. This.....

First Edition. A biography of Frederick Douglass by the longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute (now University). Washington frames Douglass as an inspiring figure from the past, part of an era of "destruction and liberation" focused on slavery and its immediate aftermath. Washington implies that the more difficult task of.....

First Edition. Two short texts by Booker T. Washington advocating for equality in voting between while and black men (women's suffrage is not addressed). The first text is a letter written to the constitutional convention in Louisiana supporting a test for voting so long as "no one clothed with State.....

In this Lange image, a man and woman, both African American, stand in a field holding hoes or other farming implements. Lange took this image while working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is.....

First Edition. A travelog and critique of Franco's Spain by the author of Native Son. Translated into French by R. Giroux. Wright (1902–1960), one of the most important writers of the 20th century, chronicled African American life in novels and essays, but grew disillusioned with racism in the United States.....

First Edition. An acclaimed memoir that "explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen." First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine, tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Gay on the.....

A small chapbook about formerly enslaved Africans in Jamaica converting to Christianity. First published in 1840 by Wright and Albright. The dating of this version is from OCLC, which is speculative based on dates in a bound volume of tracts. 8 pages plus wrappers, with half-page illustrations on the cover.....

First Edition. A survey of the great photographer's career. With 95 color and 195 duotone illustrations. 10-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. 360 pages. First edition (stated). One lower corner bumped, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

First Edition. A considerable portion of this year's session was consumed by the impeachment of the Republican governor, Harrison Reed, led by members of his own party. He was accused of fraud connected to the issuance of railroad bonds. While the Assembly (formerly the House of Representatives, prior to the.....

First Edition. The first journal of the Florida House after the Civil War when the legislature began to grapple with Reconstruction and rewriting laws for the formerly enslaved men, women, and children in their midst. Florida's elected officials were unrepentant racists. David S. Walker, the first post-war elected governor (William Marvin.....