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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Letter by future Chief Justice, about to help give birth to the new Republican Party View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(African American - Anti-Slavery)AuthorChase, Salmon P.HeadlineLetter by future Chief Justice who helped found GOPDate PublishedOct. 19, 1853 Lot #2 Letters showing the groundbreaking realignment of the American political system around the slavery issue View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(African American - Anti-Slavery)HeadlinePolitical collaboration of Whigs and Free Soil DemocratsDate Published1847-1849 Lot #3 Letter about feud with Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and search for fugitive slave View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1817)AuthorElliott, Jesse DuncanHeadlineUS Naval hero tracks his fugitive slaveDate PublishedAugust 17, 1817 Lot #4 Letter from Canadian American witnessing slave auction View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(African American, 1836)AuthorBaxter, JamesHeadlineCanadian American sees Charleston Slave auctionDate PublishedDec. 14, 1836 Lot #5 Letter from Maine newly-weds who moved to northern Tennessee to open a school, writing home describing their culture shock at life in the slave South View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1838)AuthorWhitman, Angelia Smith and Edwin WhitmanHeadlineNew Englanders experience culture shock in TennesseeDate PublishedOct. 28, 1838 Lot #6 Letter from ship captain about the disastrous fire at his Puerto Rico leather warehouse View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1850)AuthorHatch, DavisHeadlineYankee ship captain doubts Black slave arson in Puerto RicoDate PublishedAug. 20, 1850 Lot #7 Michigan timber merchant’s letter to his brother in New England about Black Walnut logging by ex-slaves in Canada View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1851)AuthorHadley, ClarkHeadlineEscaped slaves, Indians and the ‘real’ Uncle Tom in CanadaDate PublishedJune 8-15, 1851 Lot #8 Report of the Board of Managers of the Maryland State Colonization Society View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1852)AuthorLatrobe, John H.B. (President, Maryland Colonization Society)HeadlineRare report of Colonization Society despised by AbolitionistsDate Published[1852] Lot #9 Letter to a pioneering young Mulatto inventor from a doomed Cuban revolutionary hero View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1866)AuthorGoicouria, General Domingo deHeadlineLetter to antebellum African American inventorDate PublishedMarch 27, 1866 Lot #10 Inventory listing 161 slaves from the Coffee farm Boa Esperanca in the municipality of Paty do Alferes in Rio de Janeiro. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(African American, 1882 - Slavery, Brazil)HeadlineList of slaves at Brazilian coffee farm 1882Date Published1882 Lot #11 As We See It View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1910)AuthorWaring, Robert LewisHeadlineBlack lawyer’s novel of a African American vigilantePublisherPress of C. F. SudwarthDate Published1910 Lot #12 Essays on African American and Creole music View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1917-1928)AuthorCuney Hare, MaudHeadlineGroundbreaking essays by Maud Cuney HareDate PublishedFebruary and December 1917 and January 1928 Lot #13 The Negro and his Music [Bronze Booklet No. 2] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(African American, 1936)AuthorLocke, AlainHeadlineDean of the Harlem Renaissance on African American MusicPublisherAssociates in Negro Folk EducationDate Published1936 Lot #14 Service Men’s Map of Washington / Full Information on Service Clubs, Entertainment and Sightseeing... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1943)HeadlineSegregated WW II Washington, DCPublisherWar Hospitality Committee, Civilian War ServiceDate Published1943 Lot #15 "The Passing of Alain Leroy Locke" View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1954)AuthorDu Bois, W.E.B.; Ralph Bunche; William Stanley Braithwaite; et alHeadlineDu Bois, Bunche, Braithwaite eulogize Alain LockeDate Published1954 Lot #17 Five items relating to African American culture and politics in the 1970s View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1971-1973)HeadlineBlack power movements in early 1970sDate Published1971-1973 Lot #18 Black Images: A Critical Quarterly on Black Culture View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1972)AuthorBrown, Lennox, et al., editorsHeadlineBlack culture in Canada, 1972PublisherBlack ImagesDate Published1972 Lot #19 It's Fun to be Black View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(African American, 1973)AuthorBrowning, Alice C.Headline"It's Fun to be Black" despite heartbreak & painPublisherBrowning PublicationsDate Published1973 Lot #20 Four works by Derrick A. Bell, Jr. relating to what is now "Critical Race Theory" View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(African American, 1975-1998 - Critical Race Theory)AuthorBell, DerrickHeadlineDerrick Bell on Critical Race Theory, signedDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #118 Manuscript listing Asian and African rebel slaves in Cuba (Cimarrones), and descriptions of three who were caught View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineManuscript list of rebel slaves in Cuba 1857Date Published1857 Lot #242 Eleven studies for Eleven Players: 1959-1960 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorRorem, NedHeadlineMusic score inscribed by Ned RoremPublisherBoosey and HawkesDate Published1962 Lot #359 Dark Companion View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorRobinson, BradleyHeadlineInscribed by Robinson, signed by Matthew HensonPublisherRobert M. 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