Historic Americana

SLAVE BILL OF SALE. Large 8vo, 1p, 184_. Receipt for the sale of Juliet, "about twenty two years age....sound in mind and body, a slave for li...

BILL OF SALE FOR 15 VIRGINIA SLAVES. Quarto, 1p, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, June, 1825. Bill of sale for 15 slaves sold by George Boyd to Thomas

ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING BROADSIDE. Broadside, 10.50 x 16, n.d., n.p., announcing a fair to be held in conjunction with a local anti-slavery meeting to r

LOT OF 3 ABOLITION PUBLICATIONS. "The Radical Abolitionist." New York, Vol. 1, No. 8. Mar. 1856. A publication of the American Abolition ...

E. LOVEJOY BROTHER'S LETTER, SLAVERY. A 3pp. ALS from Joseph Lovejoy addressed to Mr. Samuel Silsbee(?), Charlestown, Maine, from Old Town, Mai...

ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER OF THE HANGING OF A BLACK MAN. Miami-Union--Extra, Troy, Ohio, Friday September 17, 1880, column one "HANGED!" Ter...

RACIST EARLY CHROMOLITHOGRAPH. Hand-colored lithograph entitled "Flowers or Ugliness No. 9," publ. by G.S. Tregear, London, 1836. This pr...

RACIST STROBRIDGE MINSTREL POSTER. This poster is 30.5 x 39.25" and has been professionally restored and mounted on linen. The poster is entit...

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE PINBACKS AND FOB. Lot of 4. Includes two "Votes for Women" buttons, a 7/8" black on brown, fine, and a 1.25&qu...

CARRIE NATION PROHIBITION CAST IRON HATCHET. Classic cast iron Carrie Nation anti- temperance replica hatchet. The image of Nation is pressed into th