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Previous|1|Next Lot #5 Letters by a Tennessee Slave Trader to his Virginia partner View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(African American - Slave Trading)AuthorMeek, JosephHeadline1835 Four Letters by a Tennessee Slave TraderDate Published1835 Lot #6 North Carolina slave permitted to carry a gun - 1 day before the Nat Turner slave revolt began in Virginia - Document Signed View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorGay, William and Samuel ReeveHeadline1831 No.Carolina slave permitted to carry a gun, Document SignedDate Published1831 Lot #7 Legal battle over a Virginia slave mother and her children - Document Signed View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorJohn M. Perkins.Headline1843 Legal battle over a Virginia slave and her childrenDate PublishedOct. 17, 1843 Lot #8 Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorKeckley, ElizabethHeadlineElizabeth Keckley Behind the Scenes 1868PublisherG.W. CarletonDate Published1868 Lot #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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorNorthup, SolomonHeadlineTwelve Years a Slave, with excellent associationsPublisherDerby and MillerDate Published1854 Lot #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 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorSmith, William A.HeadlineA Southern defense of slavery on eve of warPublisherStevenson and EvansDate Published1856 Lot #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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorTorrey, JesseHeadlineA Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, 1st Ed.PublisherPublished by the AuthorDate Published1817 Lot #14 Virginia slave auction proceeds View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorTrabue, MaconHeadlineAntebellum Virginia slave auction proceeds, Document SignedDate PublishedNov. 17, 1855 Lot #15 Manumission [Emancipation] of slave Peter Harris, Document Signed. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorTurpin, Philip O.Headline1850 Slave emancipation document, KentuckyDate PublishedFeb. 11, 1850 Lot #16 Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race: The Latter Its Normal Condition View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(African American - Slavery)AuthorVan Evrie, J.H.HeadlineNegroes and Negro Slavery 1861PublisherVan Evrie, Horton, & Co.Date Published1861 Lot #17 Fugitive slave as New York soldier in the War of 1812 - Autograph Letter Signed View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(African American - War of 1812)AuthorParker, Daniel, Chief Clerk, US War DepartmentHeadlineFugitive slave as New York soldier in the War of 1812Date PublishedJuly 19, 1813 Lot #18 Hampton and Its Students, By Two of Its Teachers. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(African American)AuthorArmstrong, Mrs. M.F. & Helen Ludlow.HeadlineHampton and Its Students, 1st Ed.PublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1874 Lot #19 "The Negro A Beast," or "In the Image of God." View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American)AuthorCarroll, CharlesHeadline"The Negro A Beast," or "In the Image of God", 1st Ed.PublisherAmerican Book and Bible HouseDate Published1900 Lot #20 An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(African American)AuthorChild, Mrs.[Lydia Maria]HeadlineChild, An Appeal in Favor of...Americans Called Africans, 1836PublisherJohn S. TaylorDate Published1836 Lot #21 My Bondage and My Freedom View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(African American)AuthorDouglass, FrederickHeadlineMy Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass, 1855PublisherMiller, Orton, & MulliganDate Published1855 Lot #22 The Philadelphia Negro: Social Study. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Heading(African American)AuthorDuBois, W.E. Burghardt.HeadlineFirst case study of a black community in the US, 1899.PublisherUniversity of PennsylvaniaDate Published1899 Lot #23 Free Colored Seamen - Majority and Minority Reports, January 20, 1843 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(African American)HeadlineFree Colored Seamen - Majority and Minority ReportsDate Published1843 Lot #24 The Loyalty and Devotion of Colored Americans in the Revolution and War of 1812 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(African American)HeadlineIn support of enlisting Black soldiers for the Union Army, 1861PublisherR.F. WallcutDate Published1861 Lot #25 Nine pieces of sheet music relating to African Americans View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American)HeadlineAfrican American-related sheet musicDate Published1844-1918 Lot #26 Recaptured Africans View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(African American)HeadlineRecaptured AfricansPublisherGales & SeatonDate Published1828 Lot #27 White Supremacy and Negro Subordination or, Negroes A Subordinate Race, and (so-called) Slavery Its Normal Condition View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(African American)AuthorVan Evrie, John H.HeadlinePseudo-scientific support of slavery, 1868PublisherVan Evrie, Horton & Co.Date Published1868 Lot #255 Personal accounting ledger, 1843-1844, of merchant captain and California pioneer William A. Leidesdorff View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold AuthorLeidesdorff, William AlexanderHeadlineAccounting ledger of W.A. Leidesdorff 1843-44Date Published1843-1844 Lot #350 Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorSimmons, William J.HeadlineMen of Mark, biographies of prominent African American menPublisherGeo. M. RewellDate Published1887 Lot #419 The Poetical Works [bound with] Essays, Philanthropic and Moral...principally relating to the Abolition of Slavery in America View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$75StatusSold Heading(Abolition)AuthorChandler, Elizabeth MargaretHeadlineElizabeth Margaret Chandler abolitionist poet 1836PublisherLemuel HowellDate Published1836 Lot #420 $100 Bond Certificate View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$37.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1923)Headline1923 Bond Certificate, Chicago Black Masonic TemplePublisherPrince Hall Masonic Temple AssociationDate Published1923 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next