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This catalog of original documents relating to Black History features pieces of the highest rarity and merit for collection, research, and exhibition. They illustrate some of the most opressive as well as inspiring facets of American History. You will see Phillis Wheatley’s poetry, records of slave sales and slave uprisings, and documents related to the Underground Railroad, the abolitionist movement, and Civil Rights publications.
You will also find Charles Langston, recently imprisoned after a slave rescue, declaring “Liberty and humanity to me have no particular location, no Color, no Country.” John Brown plans “a mighty conquest.” Frederick Douglass writing that “the right to personal freedoom” is the most basic of all rights. Presidential opinions on slavery, Revolutionary and Civil War documents. Nearly a century later, Jackie Robinson discusses the “Negro vote,” and Alex Haley’s research archive and manuscript drafts for Roots and an as yet unpublished book help to inspire our nation.
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Supplying U.S. Colored Troops in the Field
DEXTER E. CLAPP,
Partially-Printed Document Signed, to William L. Ames. Invoice of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores. “In the field, Va.,” December 1, 1864. 2 pp, recto and verso, 8½ x 11 in.
Item #22960, $125
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Illustrations of African Americans Freeing Themselves by Moving Toward Union Lines
[EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, February 21, 1863. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
General Tom Thumb and his bride grace the front page, but “The Effects of the Proclamation—Freed Negroes Coming Into Our Lines at Newbern, North Carolina” is the most significant illustration, occupying all of the fourth page. Also, “Departure of the Great Southern Expedition from Beaufort, North Carolina”; The Rebel Rams Engaging Our Blockading Fleet Off Charleston, South Carolina”; “Hearts and Hands, St. Valentine’s Day, 1863” is the romantic centerfold; “Ft. Hindman, Arkansas”; “Iron Clad ‘Montauk’ Engaging the Rebel Fort M’Allister in the Ogeechee River.”
Item #H 2-21-1863, $150
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“Emancipation, 1863-1963, Proud Americans”
[CIVIL RIGHTS],
Ephemera. Emancipation Centennial tin litho tab, 1963. 1½ in. With portraits of John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Carter Woodson.
Item #22333, $175
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‘Rally round the Flag, Boys!’ President Lincoln Centerfold
[EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, October 1, 1864. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Item #H 10-1-1864, $225
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A Double Centerfold Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation
[EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, January 14, 1863. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Thomas Nast’s centerfold, “The Emancipation of Negroes, January, 1863—The Past and Future” is featured, but illustrations also include: “Major General William Sherman”; “Brigadier General Alvin Hovey”; “The New Orleans Market, Soldiers Exchanging Rations for Fruit,” all on the front page; “Winter Quarters at Camp” by Winslow Homer; “Soldiers Setting Up Army Telegraph”; “Wreck of the Iron-Clad Monitor”; a map of Galveston harbor; New Orleans slave auction; “Secesh Women Leaving Washington for Richmond”; an eagle granting freedom to a “Black Bird”: and an additional Thomas Nast: “A New Plan to Frighten Fine Old English Gentlemen.”
Item #H 1-24-1863, $250
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The Emancipation Proclamation
[EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, January 17, 1863. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Two black teamsters duel on the front page; the text of the Emancipation Proclamation is printed on page 2; the execution of 38 Indian murderers at Mankato, Minnesota on page 4, Thomas Nast centerfold: “The War in the West, the War in the Border States,”
Item #H 1-17-1863, $250
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“Fort Pillow Massacre”
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Pamphlet. Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of War - Fort Pillow Massacre - Returned Prisoners…. Washington, May, 1864. 128 pp.
Pertaining to the massacre by troops under command of Nathan Bedford Forrest at Fort Pillow and the state of POW’s being returned by the Confederacy, the 128pp book is dedicated to the Ft. Pillow massacre. It includes testimony from officers, surgeons, colored soldiers and others present or nearby during the attack. Also section pert. to returned POW’s with engravings of six emancipated soldiers, with name, parole date, and if they survived or not. “...I know General Forrest rode his horse over me three or four times. I did not know him until I heard his men call his name.”
Item #21630, $280
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The American Colonization Society Petitions Congress to Create a Colony for Free Blacks
[AFRICAN AMERICAN],
Pamphlet. “Memorial of the President and Board of Managers of the American Society for the Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States,” Washington, D.C., January 14, 1817.
Item #22759, $375
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A New York Pastor of the Church of the Puritans in New York City Challenges the 14th Amendment, Insisting It Would Harm Black Rights
[RECONSTRUCTION]. GEORGE B. CHEEVER,
Book. Protest Against the Robbery of the Colored Race by the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution. New York, Robert Johnston, 1866, 44 pp. 4½ x 7¾ in.
George B. Cheever criticizes an amendment that offered citizenship but not the vote, as well as the potential return of rebels to the body politic.
Item #22488, $395
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Black Veteran Loses Property to a Corrupt Claim Agent
[CIVIL RIGHTS],
Three documents related to bounty due to Pvt. Sandy Blanton, Co. G, 4th United States Heavy Artillery.
Item #20959, $450
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A Plea to the Military Governor of Arkansas and Mississippi, to Help a Battered Freeman
P. B. CONNER,
Autograph Letter Signed. Woodruff C[oun]ty [Arkansas], July 23, 1867, to: General E[dward] O[tho] C[resap] Ord, 2 pp.
“Tom Rainey jumped from his horse gathered a piece of fence Rail…and cowardly beat him…”
Item #20534, $450
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“The death of Patience, a Negro woman”
[AFRICAN-AMERICAN],
Legal Document, 1839, Lawrence County, Alabama.
Item #20766, $450
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