STARK REMINDER OF RESISTANCE
TO AFRICAN AMERICAN SUFFRAGE, NEW JERSEY, 1867

An apparently unrecorded Reconstruction-era campaign broadside urging New Jersey voters to cast their ballots against African American suffrage. Warning that “Every vote for the Republican Ticket is a vote in favor of Negro Suffrage,” that is, “of Congress compelling us to let the Negro Vote,” this broadside announces that “Every.....

SLAVEHOLDER HYSTERIA:
“IT DOES NOT SUIT US TO GIVE UP
OUR SUNNY SOUTH TO THE BLACKS”

An apparently unrecorded broadside printing of a fearmongering letter written from the storied Nitta Yuma plantation just a few months before the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, defending slavery, the Southern spirit, and all Southern states from hostile takeover by a “black avalanche.” Citing economic and population statistics—both Black and.....

LONG-RUNNING KNOXVILLE COLLEGE QUARTET
TOURS WITH STEREOPTICON

An apparently unrecorded illustrated broadside advertising a performance of the globe-trotting Knoxville College Quartet early in the blockbusting “race record” era. The historically-Black Knoxville College was founded a decade after the Civil War by the United Presbyterian Church “to provide the most thorough literary, classical and scientific training, together with.....

A POSTER PROTESTING THE IMPRISONMENT
OF SIX BLACK PANTHER WOMEN,
SIGNED BY ERICKA HUGGINS

A scarce poster, signed by Ericka Huggins, calling for “a massive demonstration” in New Haven to support six female Black Panthers being held at the Connecticut women’s prison in Niantic. The protest was scheduled for November 22nd and would consist of “A march…from Beaver Pond Park, eight blocks to the.....

UNRECORDED BROADSIDE DOCUMENTING
DISCRIMINATORY REAL ESTATE PRACTICES
IN SOUTH CAROLINA

An unrecorded broadside advertising land for sale specifically to African American residents on Smith Street in the city of Mullins, South Carolina in the early-twentieth century. The broadside was printed at a time of seismic industrial changes in the American South. At the turn of the century even the rural.....

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
AND VARIETY SHOW
IN WESTERN NEW YORK

A scarce playbill for a New York Uncle Tom’s Cabin company promoting a performance of the play itself, interspersed with several variety show acts. An early, transitional form of the “Tom Show,” the performance of “this immortal drama” advertised here “introduc[es] Specialties between each act by recognized artists.” Relatively little.....

THE ABOLITION DEBATE IN ROCHESTER, ENGLAND
ONE YEAR BEFORE BRITAIN’S SLAVERY ABOLITION ACT

An unrecorded anti-slavery broadside responding to a local newspaper’s fearmongering by eloquently explaining the real “object and motives of the Anti-Slavery Society.” Abolitionism, as this broadside explains, is motivated by “humanity and justice,” and the aims of the Anti-Slavery Society are not, as the Rochester Gazette article evidently suggested, “to.....

A BLACK PANTHER PARTY
CALL TO ARMS IN PHILADELPHIA

A scathing Black Panther Party condemnation of the police, equating officers with “pigs” and offering Huey Newton’s view on the importance of arming Black Americans. Featuring an illustration of a pig in police attire, this incendiary broadside defines the “People’s No. 1 Enemy”—the police, or “pigs”—asA low natured beast, that.....

MINSTREL SHOW PLAYBILL

A rare, jam-packed minstrel show playbill with blackface performances by Buckleys Serenaders in their Boston theater, brimming with ‘comic’ descriptions of three acts plus general information. Part I of this program includes melodies such as Darky Felicity and Farm Yard; Part II features variety acts such as the song and.....

THREE GENERAL ORDERS
REGARDING THE FORMERLY ENSLAVED IN VIRGINIA, 1865

Three general orders issued by officers of the Department of Virginia, Army of the James addressing “matters relating to Negro Affairs,” particularly employment, in the wake of emancipation. The first two of these orders make substantial revisions and reversals to an extensive landmark order (No. 46) issued by Major General.....

FREDERICK DOUGLASS’S HOME AS MEMORIAL

First and only edition. A scarce pictorial souvenir issued by Frederick Douglass’s Cedar Hill estate in Anacostia, D.C., one year after his death. Its photo-illustrations include a formal portrait of Douglass, a panoramic view of the property, an image showing Douglass in his library, and another of him standing on.....

AN EXTENSIVE RUN OF THE LIBERATOR,
WITH IMPORTANT FREDERICK DOUGLASS
CONTENT & MUCH MORE

An excellent, extensive run of Garrison’s fiery abolitionist newspaper, one of the most radical American periodicals of its time and certainly the most radical of any with a national circulation. Throughout its thirty-five years of publication, The Liberator championed not only the abolition of slavery and equal rights for African.....

THE BOSTON PRO-SLAVERY MOB
THREATENS GEORGE THOMPSON
AND ASSAULTS WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

[with] Garrison, William Lloyd. Autograph letter signed, to William E. Gould, regarding the confrontation with the pro-slavery mob in October, 1835. Boston, 8 December 1877. 2 pp., 7.75” x 5”, with original cover addressed to Gould with 3 cent stamp and Boston postmark. Written in response to Gould’s letter requesting.....