Category: African American

Devere's Negro Sketches / Recitations and End-Men's Gags

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Charles T. Powner : 1946

Seller ID: 111102

1946 reprint of a book first issued in 1924. 8vo illustrated wrappers. 130 pp. A collection of minstrel gags, jokes, and speeches 'adapted to the use of amateurs and professionals.' Fine copy; no chips or tears - mild age-toning to the news pulp pages.
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Cotton Is King And Pro-Slavery Arguments

By: E. N. Elliott

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Augusta, GA, Pritchard, Abbott, & Loomis : 1860

Seller ID: k200408a

Condition: Fair

Subtitled: "Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this Important Subject, by E. N. Elliott, L.L.D., President of Planters' College Mississippi.With an Essay on Slavery in the Light of International Law". ##### 1st ed., (8vo) 908, [4] ad pp. Engraved portraits. Publisher’s brown calf, black/red spine labels. Includes "Liberty and Slavery: Or, Slavery in the Light of Moral and Political Philosophy" by A.T. Bledsoe; "The Bible Argument: Or, Slavery in the Light of Divine Revelation" by Thornton Stringfellow; "Slavery In the Light ...
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The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with their Songs

By: MARSH, J.B.T.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company : 1880

Seller ID: k210219b

Condition: Fair

Revised edition (Seventy-fifth thousand). 12mo. pp. viii, 265. 8vo, decorated cloth stamped in black and gold. #####Illustrated with an Albertype frontispiece plate (printing a photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard); 2 tinted lithographic portrait plates; and 1 wood-engraved plate (of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University). #####Condition: Fair. Small ownership signature in pencil on the front free endpaper verso, corners lightly rubbed; spine somewhat darkened with ends moderately rubbed; front hinge lightly cracked but fully intact. Internally...
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Fair Angelica / Black Cargoes - Original screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship during the middle passage, circa 1835

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $4,500.00

Publisher: : 1972

Seller ID: s180622m

Original unpublished and unproduced screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship [the Fair Angelica] navigating the middle passage, circa 1835. A very unusual subject for Matthiessen. “Fair Angelica” is a first draft, typed carbon, 123 loose leaves -- an agency copy used to solicit producers and investors -- one of whom was the progressive filmmaker Martin Ritt. “Black Cargoes” is a revised and retitled draft, 112 pp. in black studio 2-post covers. Mostly mimeographed, but with a dozen typed and corrected pages interleaved; numerous holographic additions or changes throughout by Matthi...
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Category: African American

Devere's Negro Sketches / Recitations and End-Men's Gags

Cotton Is King And Pro-Slavery Arguments

The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with their Songs

Fair Angelica / Black Cargoes - Original screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship during the middle passage, circa 1835