View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-26 of 26. Previous|1|Next Image Lot Item Title Time Left Your Bids 1 Letter by a brutal slave owner in a legal dispute involving slave ownership Heading(African American, 1832)AuthorBellinger Jr., [‘Landgrave’] EdmundHeadlineSlave owner avoids "risk" of slave stealingDate PublishedOctober 26, 1832 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,250StatusSold View details 2 Five pamphlets of African American history and literature Heading(African American, 1839-1938)Headline5 pamphlets of African American history & lit. Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold View details 3 Autograph Letter Signed by Underground Railroad conductor about meeting with Isaac T. Hopper Heading(African American, 1842)AuthorPennypacker, Elijah F.HeadlineLetter from Underground Railroad conductorDate PublishedAug. 31, 1842 Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,500StatusSold View details 4 Letter from a New England Minister about his two years preaching in St. Augustine, Florida to Black slaves and Mexican American War soldiers Heading(African American, 1846)AuthorMcClure, Alexander WilsonHeadlineNew Englander preaches to Florida slavesDate PublishedJuly 25, 1846 Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold View details 5 Letter from New England woman visiting Southern relatives Heading(African American, 1850)AuthorCossitt, Emily RuthHeadlineSlaves more privileged than poor whites?Date PublishedDecember 29, 1850 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold View details 6 Slave purchase document from New Orleans, 1852 Heading(African American, 1852)HeadlineFuture Confederate gen. buys 7 slaves in 1852Date Published1852 Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,250StatusSold View details 7 Letter from one Republican to another during the 1860 presidential campaign Heading(African American, 1860)AuthorCurtis, N.HeadlineNY farmer hopes Lincoln will destroy slaveryDate PublishedJune 8, 1860 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold View details 8 Autograph Letter Signed (with initials) from racist New York soldier Heading(African American, 1861)AuthorMilmine, William S. [Private, 32nd New York Infantry]HeadlineSoldier praises Lincoln's inaction on slaveryDate PublishedDec. 23, 1861 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold View details 9 National Anti-Slavery Standard Heading(African American, 1861)Author[Oliver Johnson, ed.]HeadlineWorried abolitionists on the eve of Civil WarPublisherAmerican Anti-Slavery SocietyDate PublishedMarch 23, 1861 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold View details 10 Letter from Union solider in Tennessee disgusted with slavery Heading(African American, 1862)Headline"I have seene enough of slavery..."Date PublishedMay 18, 1862 Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,125StatusSold View details 12 Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising. Heading(African American, 1887)AuthorSimmons, William J.HeadlineBiographies of prominent African American menPublisherGeo. M. RewellDate Published1887 Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold View details 13 A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890, with a short introduction as to the Origin of the Race; also a Short Sketch of Liberia Heading(African American, 1897)AuthorJohnson, Edward A.HeadlineSchool History of the Negro Race in AmericaPublisherW.B. Conkey CompanyDate Published1897 Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold View details 14 Collection of ephemera by three African-American artists of the early 20th century Heading(African American, 1905-1944)AuthorCampbell, E. Simms; Lorenzo Harris; Robert BlackburnHeadline3 early 20th c. Black artistsDate Published1905-1944 Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold View details 15 As We See It Heading(African American, 1910)AuthorWaring, Robert LewisHeadlineBlack lawyer’s novel of African American vigilantePublisherPress of C. F. SudwarthDate Published1910 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold View details 16 The Mental Capacity of the American Negro Heading(African American, 1913)AuthorMayo, Marion J.Headline1st study of African-American IntelligenceDate PublishedNovember 1913 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold View details 18 4 imprints on Negro Housing, racial housing segregation and discrimination Heading(African American, 1927-1951)AuthorWever, Robert C.; Charles S. Johnson, et al.HeadlineEarly work by 1st Black appointed the CabinetDate Published1927-1951 Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold View details 19 Two volumes of Who's Who in Colored America Heading(African American, 1928-1932)Headline2 vols. Who's Who in Colored AmericaPublisherWho's Who in Colored America Corp.Date Published1928-1932 Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold View details 20 The Biology of the Negro Heading(African American, 1942)AuthorLewis, Julian HermanHeadline1st book by a Black Doctor on African-American diseasesPublisherUniversity of Chicago PressDate Published1942 Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold View details 21 Freedom (newspaper), Vol. II, No. 4 Heading(African American, 1952)AuthorRobeson, Paul; Lorraine Hansberry, et alHeadlineFamed Black women Lorraine Hansberry and Charlotta BassPublisherFreedom AssociatesDate PublishedApril 1952 Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold View details 22 Twelve Black Panther and related radical booklets and newspapers Heading(African American, 1959-1972)Headline12 radical pubs: Black Panthers, Cuba, VietnamDate Published1959-1970 Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold View details 63 Two papers relating to race in San Francisco Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineStudies of race in San Francisco 1960-62Date Published[c.1960-1962] Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold View details 100 Bound volume of documents relating to an auction of slaves in Cuba Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineDocuments for Cuba slave auction 1860sDate Publishedc.1860s Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold View details 101 Labor contract for an emancipated African slave Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineContract with liberated slave in Cuba 1871Date PublishedMay 25, 1871 Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold View details 102 Manumission document (expediante) verifying the status of two freed Cuban slaves Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineManumission document for Cuban slaves 1882Date Published1882 Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,125StatusSold View details 241 Reward document for runaway slave from Newport, East Tennessee Heading(Slavery)AuthorJenkins, AugustineHeadlineRunaway Slave reward document, TennesseeProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionDate PublishedEarly 19th century Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold View details 266 Two publications urging the freedom of Billy Dean Smith Heading(Vietnam War)HeadlineTwo pamphlets Urging Billy Smith's freedomProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionDate Publishedc.1972 Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next