Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents

Civil War period pro-abolition songsheet, "The Contraband's Adventures," printed by Charles Magnus. Judged pre-Emancipation Proclamati...

Civil War period songsheet intended for the Northerner craving peace but not necessarily abolition. "Young Eph's Lament," combination ...

Unusual pair of Union patriotics, postally unused, with same multi-color artwork and fine text - but different titles and subtitles. One entitled &q...

Satirical Union patriotic, with full-height pseudo-ambrotype of a plump black soldier, with epaulettes, sword dragging on the ground, "C.S.A.&q...

Union patriotic cover, postally unused, with blistering cameo-like anti-slavery woodcut of kneeling slave, in chains, being whipped by his master in t

Manuscript bill of sale for $550 for "Negro Girl Edny, aged about Sixteen Years, the sight and title of Said girl I warrant and defend against ...

Advance copy of Survival, by Herbert Simmons, twentieth-century black poet and one of the earliest black genre crime writers. Self-published by his Wa

Printed "Biographical Sketch" of Rosa Parks, boldly signed in blue at top. 8 1/2 x 11, on cream linen. Possibly prepared by Rosa and Raymo...

Printed Circular No. 4, Headquarters, Beaufort, N.C., Apr. 1, 1864, issued by Brig. Gen. and Military Gov. R(ufus) Saxton. The personal copy of his ai

Printed playbill for small-town screening of D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," Gardner (probably Mass.) Theatre, Apr. 3-5, 1916...

Satirical Black humor set in Civil War, Fred Douglas and his Mule; A Story of the War, by Bricktop, published by M.J. Ivers & Co., N.Y., 1888, 5...

"Soldiers & Sailors Almanac for 1869, and History of the Late Rebellion from 1860 to 1865," Soldiers' & Sailors' Publishin...

Manuscript document dated midpoint between the Emancipation Proclamation and fall of the South. Alabama, Feb. 13, 1864, 6 x 7 1/4, on Confederate-grey

Scarce, somewhat crudely printed Special Orders, Head-Quarters, District West Tenn., Memphis, Aug. 1, 1865, 7 x 8 3/4. Listing men relieved from duty

Highly unusual manuscript document, Cahaba (Ala.), May 17, 1854, 7 x 8. Bill for keeping "Bobb a slave...244 Days in Jail at 30C/ pr. Day...Con...

Manuscript "Account of the hire of the negroes for the year 1837, belonging to Jas. C. Irving'?], dec(ease)d...," listing ten slaves a...

A.L.S. of Asst. Surg(eon) W.H. Miles, 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry, Freedmens Hospital, Home Farm, La., Mar. 1, 1865, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4. To Lt. Col. A.L. Mi

Pulp book of popular literature of the Gilded Age, including black, German-, and Irish-American parodies - and Shakespearean excerpts! Dick's Re...

Scarce group of 11 different color candy cards, "Notre Congo / Onze Kongo," issued c. 1948 by Jacques Superchocolat, text on verso in Fren...

Two interesting pamphlets: "Slave-Conversion in South Carolina, 1830-1860," by Susan Markey Fickling, issued as a "Bulletin of the Un...