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Heading(African-American, 1819)AuthorShelton, ArmisteadHeadline1819 Letter concerning slave disputeDate Published1819 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold View details 3 Letter from Pennsylvania trader visiting New Orleans, sees Sunday Congo Dances with its pre-Jazz Negro music Heading(African-American, 1820)AuthorLukens, JosephHeadlineAfrican slave Congo Dance in antebellum New OrleansDate PublishedJuly 19, 1820 Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$750StatusSold View details 4 Original manuscript statement of legal argument on the issue of Negro slave identity Heading(African-American, 1824)AuthorGrundy, Felix and James RucksHeadlineManuscript document on early court case of slave lawDate Publishedca. 1824-1825 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold View details 5 Ornate Engraved Presbyterian Missionary Document Heading(African-American, 1837)AuthorGreen, Rev. AshbelHeadlineOrnate Engraved Presbyterian Missions AppointmentPublisherBoard of Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian ChurchDate PublishedAugust 1837 Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold View details 6 Capture of Black Seminole insurgents, near the end of the War in Florida; Autograph Letter Signed Heading(African-American, 1841 - Seminole War)AuthorAxtell, Rev. HenryHeadlineBlack Seminole defeat in the Florida Seminole WarDate PublishedAug. 23, 1841 Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,250StatusSold View details 7 Letter to George Washington descendant from his Mt. Vernon overseer Heading(African-American, 1845)AuthorMcFarland, JosephHeadlineSlave overseer of Washington's Mt. VernonDate PublishedNovember 18, 1845 Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold View details 8 Autograph Document Signed Announcing Auction of an eight-year-old slave girl Heading(African-American, 1846)AuthorHeadrick, JacobHeadlineSlave child auctioned in Missouri in 1846Date PublishedMay 20, 1846 Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold View details 10 Letter mentioning a benefit Fair held by “the colored people” Heading(African-American, 1856)Author[Wall, Eliza?]HeadlineLetter on stationery engraved with Fremont vignetteDate PublishedNovember 20, 1856 Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold View details 11 Letter regarding care of enslaved children in Virginia, 1857. Heading(African-American, 1857)AuthorPass, Thomas Y.Headline1857 Letter on care of enslaved childrenDate Published1857 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold View details 12 Promissory note regarding temporary service of enslaved woman in Virginia, 1861. Heading(African-American, 1861)AuthorLynn, Robert F. and Robert V.Headline1861 Promissory note for enslaved womanDate Published1861 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold View details 13 Sharecropping agreement, Pittsylvania County Heading(African-American, 1871)AuthorWomack, Chas A.Headline1871 Sharecropping agreement, VirginiaDate Published1871 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold View details 14 South Carolina farmer’s semi-literate letter, complaining of “negro government”, “social equality” in courts and schools, and gun-wielding, lackadaisical ex-slaves Heading(African-American, 1873)AuthorGrubbs, R.W. (Richard Williamson), Jr.HeadlineWhite South Carolina farmer criticizes Black gains under ReconstructionDate PublishedMarch 24, 1873 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold View details 15 Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs letter about progress in civilizing the American Indians Heading(African-American, 1884)AuthorStevens, Ezra L.HeadlineUnderground Railroad Conductor later helps civilize American IndiansDate PublishedAugust 6, 1884 Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold View details 16 Year Book of the Northern California Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Heading(African-American, 1917)HeadlineNAACP pamphlet celebrating Buchanan v. WarleyPublisherNAACP, Northern California BranchDate Published[1917] Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold View details 17 Gladiola Garden Heading(African-American, 1944)AuthorNewsome, Effie LeeHeadlineGladiola Garden - Children's Poems from the Harlem RenaissancePublisherThe Associated PublishersDate Published1944 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold View details 18 In the Supreme Court of the United States October Term, 1952. No. 8. Brief on Behalf of American Civil Liberties Union...as Amici Curiae. Oliver Brown...vs. Board of Education of Topeka... Heading(African-American, 1952)AuthorLeskes, Theodore and Sol Rabkin, counselHeadlineBrown vs Board of Education Amicus BriefPublisherBar Press Inc.Date Published1952 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,000StatusSold View details 19 NOTICE! STOP Help Save the Youth of America: DON'T BUY NEGRO RECORDS Heading(African-American, 1965)Headline1965 handbill against black musicPublisherCitizen's Council Of Greater New OrleansDate Published1965 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold View details 20 Photograph of the cast of Mo' Better Blues Heading(African-American, 1990)HeadlinePhotograph of Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, et al.Date Published1990 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold View details 21 Freedom, a Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times. Heading(African-American, 1997)AuthorWalker, Kara ElizabethHeadlineVision of emancipation with pop-upsPublisherPeter Norton Family FoundationDate Published1997 Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold View details 28 New England lawyer chides his sister for her anti-slavery bias against Southerners Heading(Anri-Slavery)AuthorGoodridge, SewallHeadlineYankee lawyer in Virginia about anti-slavery prejudiceDate PublishedJan. 13, 1838 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold View details 29 Letter relating to Massachusetts Congressman's views on Abolitionism Heading(Anti-Slavery)AuthorGrenell, Jr., GeorgeHeadlineMassachusetts Congressman’s views on ending slaveryDate PublishedFeb. 1, 1837 Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold View details 30 Autograph Letter Signed by Future Gun Company Magnate foreseeing the end of Abolitionism Heading(Anti-Slavery)AuthorRickard, L. H.HeadlineConnecticut Democrat condemns Abolitionist scoundrelsDate PublishedAugust 8, 1856 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold View details 31 Ohio Congressman proposes diplomatic resolution of Ohio-Virginia border dispute triggered by arrest of Underground Railroad agents aiding slaves to escape to freedom across the Ohio River Heading(Anti-Slavery)AuthorVinton, Samuel F., Member of CongressHeadlineOhio Congressman proposes solution to slave controversyDate PublishedDec. 31, 1846 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold View details 57 William Fox Productions parade float, Los Angeles Heading(California - Los Angeles)Headline20th Century Fox 1927 Parade FloatDate Published[1927] Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold View details 121 I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land Sheet Music Heading(Civil War)AuthorEmmett, Dan. D.HeadlineEarly northern printing of “Dixie”, Confederate anthemPublisherFirth, Pond & Co.Date Published1860 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold View details 297 The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina - inscribed presentation copy AuthorSchoolcraft, Mary HowardHeadlinePlantation Life in South CarolinaPublisherJ.B. Lippincott & Co.Date Published1860 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$168.75StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next