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Other African American History Offerings

• Cinque, Leader of the Amistad Revolt Autograph at an Abolitionist Fundraiser in Philadelphia
• New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves – 1794 Land Deed from John Jay’s Brother for First African Free School in New York City
• Abraham Lincoln Introduces Ulysses S. Grant’s Superintendent of Freed Slaves to the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission

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• Announcing Frederick Douglass’ Vermont Fair Speech on the Assassination of Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass Recruiting African American Soldiers
• Former President and Future Confederate Supporter John Tyler Forcefully Defends the Fugitive Slave Act and the “Southern Cause,” Attacks the NY Press, and Plays up His Own Service in the War of 1812
• Benjamin Franklin Calls For Abolition of Slavery, Washington Addresses the Dutch Reformed Church on Religious Freedom, Thanksgiving Thoughts, Hamilton’s Plans, and More
• Discussing Actions of the U.S. Colored Troops, Including the Battle of Milliken’s Bend: “The colored troops bursted out on the rebel horde like a thunderbolt ...”
• Jackie Robinson says a talk radio host “needs to do a lot of soul searching.”
• Powerful Anti-Slavery Argument Likely by John Laurens
• “George Washington” - Keith Carter Photograph
• 1778 Muster List, Including Rejected African American Recruit
• Rare Jim Crow Broadside from Father of American Minstrelsy
• [Thomas Jefferson]. 1807 Acts of Congress, Including Law Abolishing Slave Trade, the Insurrection Act, and Lewis & Clark Content. First Edition.
• First National Abolition Convention Addresses the Citizens of the United States
• His Grandmother-in-Law Can’t Spare a “Stacker” for John Augustine Washington III – Letter Delivered by Freed Washington Family Slave West Ford Includes List of Mount Vernon Slaves
• “Anti-Texas” Opposes Annexation as a Slave State, Signed in type by Leading Abolitionists of Mass.
• Rare New York Senate Print of Proposed State Law to Combat the Dred Scott Decision
• Arthur Ashe’s United Negro College Fund Benefit Silver Bowl Trophy
• “Black bellied Yankees” at The Battle of Fort Blakely
• Saving Free-Born African American from Life of Slavery
• William Monroe Trotter - the first African American to earn a Phi Beta Kappa key at Harvard - pushes a petition calling for mercy for still imprisoned soldiers of the 24th US Colored Infantry
• An Overseer is Guilty of Murdering His Slave
  by “Stocks, Starvation and Lashes.”
• Congressmen Who Signed Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery
• Amistad Slave Revolt Supreme Court Opinion, in Washington, D.C. Newspaper
• Dewey Attacks FDR’s Running Mate Harry Truman for Alleged Ku Klux Klan Ties
• John Brown’s “Fort” as Tourist Attraction
• Prosecuting 1794 Slave Trade Act Violation, Washington’s First U.S. Attorney for New York Seeks Aid from Pennsylvania Counterpart
• Slavery Divides New York Legislature in 1844
• A Copperhead Newspaper Prints, Then Criticizes,
  the Emancipation Proclamation
• Boston Anti-Slavery Broadside “Call for a Convention”—Launching the Republican Party in Massachusetts
• Founding Address of National Republican Party to Combat the “Aggressions and Usurpations of the Slave Power…. Declaration of the Principles and Purposes”
• New Hampshire Ridicules South Carolina’s Attempts
  to Game the System After Rejecting the 14th Amendment
• Oval Salt Print of Famed Abolitionist John Brown
• Quaker Farmer Writes to Congressman Morgan to Condemn Stephen Douglas’ Nebraska Bill Allowing Slavery in New Territories
• Senator Sprague of Rhode Island Writes About Fascinating Debates in Congress Involving Freedom for the Families of African American Recruits and the Limits of Free Speech in the Senate
• Stirring Pamphlet Defense of Abner Kneeland in His Massachusetts Trials for Blasphemy
• “Genealogy of Thos Moseley’s Family & c.” Lists Births of Fourteen Enslaved People in Virginia and Kentucky
• Gerald Ford Defends His Early Commitment to Civil Rights
• Amistad Slave Revolt Supreme Court Decision Announced
• Large Photograph of African American Cart Driver Passing through St. Augustine City Gate
• Boston Congregational Society Sermons
• Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics
  and the Influence of “the negro vote”
• Summons for Freeholder Judge in South Carolina Court for Slaves and Free Persons of Color
• The Success of Black Troops At Petersburg, Virginia, Under Butler
• “The Slave Sale, or Come Who Bids?” Abolitionist Sheet Music
• Swedish immigrant uses racist “Pickaninny” imagery on a hand-painted envelope
• James Milton Turner – the First African American U.S. Diplomat – Writes from Canary Islands About No Quarantine
• Alex Haley Signs Check to the Cornell University Black Alumni Association
• “Black Republican” Salt River Ticket
• Elmer W. Henderson – Who Defeated Railroad Dining Car Segregation – Congratulates African American Inventor for American Institute of Chemists Award
• Peter Cooper’s Letter to Lincoln Regarding Emancipation
• 1966 Civil Rights Charge of Discrimination Form
• Alex Haley Signed Check
• Union League of Philadelphia Supports Lincoln on Emancipation, African-American Troops in 1864
• “Teens interview Martin Luther King”
• Martin Luther King’s Famous “I Have a Dream” Speech—Advance Text Given to the Press at the 1963 March on Washington

Other Civil War and Reconstruction Offerings

• Confederate Flag Given by Infamous Spy Belle Boyd to a Union Officer
• Abraham Lincoln Introduces Ulysses S. Grant’s Superintendent of Freed Slaves to the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission
• Large Lincoln Deathbed Oil Painting by James Burns, 1866

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• Rare Houston Texas Newspapers: the Juneteenth Order Freeing Slaves, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and Much More
• Announcing Frederick Douglass’ Vermont Fair Speech on the Assassination of Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass Recruiting African American Soldiers
• “Reported Death of Abm. Lincoln,” Extremely Rare Western New York Broadside Extra, April 15, 1865
• Abraham Lincoln Asks Charles Dana for Meeting During Brief Return to the Capital from Grant’s Army of the Potomac
• Grant’s Infamous General Order 11 Expelling Jews—and Lincoln’s Revocation of it
• Period Oil Portrait of William H. Seward Wonderfully Executed
• Great Report on the Hunt for Lincoln’s Assassin and Claim for Reward by Irish War Hero
• Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy Orders the Harriet Lane to Proceed to Charleston – Where It Would Fire the First Naval Shot of the Civil War
• A Union Officer’s Commission, and Field Report from
  the 17th Connecticut Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
• An Eloquent Farewell to His Troops from a Massachusetts General Who Marched to the Sea with Sherman and Fought in the Civil War’s Last Battle
• Discussing Actions of the U.S. Colored Troops, Including the Battle of Milliken’s Bend: “The colored troops bursted out on the rebel horde like a thunderbolt ...”
• The Gettysburg Address – New York Semi-Weekly Tribune First Day of Printing
• Miscegenation, or the Millennium of Abolitionism – Stirring Fear of Interracial Marriage Before 1864 Presidential Election
• 1865 General Orders,
  Including Many Regarding Lincoln’s Assassination
• The Gettysburg Address – November 20, 1863 Rare First Day Printing by “Lincoln’s Dog” John Forney in the Philadelphia Press
• Hand-Made Union Patriotic and Religious Song Book
• Report of Attacks on Forts Walker and Beauregard
• “Separating the Loyal from the Disloyal”
  in Reconstruction North Carolina
• First Federal Occupation of Winchester Broadside
• A Wet-Plate Glass Negative of Confederate Spy Belle Boyd
• Scathingly Anti-British Broadside Heralds Daniel Webster
• Beauregard’s Thanks for Donation for
  “our gallant soldiers now battling manfully for our rights & our Independence…”
• Cartoonist Attacks Lincoln’s Presidential Aspirations
• On the Day He was Promoted to Rear Admiral, Farragut Writes from His Flagship During the Bombardment of Vicksburg, Mississippi
• 1862 Civil War Bulletproof Vest Broadside
• Edwin Stanton ALS Prelude to Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• “Anti-Texas” Opposes Annexation as a Slave State, Signed in type by Leading Abolitionists of Mass.
• Colonial Merchant’s Copy of the First History of New Jersey Printed on One of Benjamin Franklin’s Presses
• First Published Map Naming Dallas, Texas, from 1846 Travel Guidebook
• Prang & Co. Broadside with Maps of Early Civil War Hotspots
• “Black bellied Yankees” at The Battle of Fort Blakely
• A Day After Grant’s Capture of Fort Henry, Confederate General Lovell Weakens New Orleans in a Futile Attempt to Shore Up Fort Donelson
• “Copperheads Vigorously Prosecuting Peace: Is it the Peace YOU Want?”
• Abraham Lincoln: Large 1861 Inauguration Chromolithograph
• Charles Sumner Discusses the Emerging Duty
  of the United States in Promoting Human Rights &
  World Peace Evoking the Declaration of Independence and Championing Louis Kossuth and his Exploits
• Gideon Welles Announces Lincoln’s Assassination to the Navy
• Saving Free-Born African American from Life of Slavery
• Celebrating a Report of McClellan’s Death
• Lincoln Assassination Extremely Rare Iowa Broadsheet Extra
• A Huge Print of the Great Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
• Illustrator Frank Leslie Publishes Fanciful Grand Reception of Civil War Notables as a Subscription Premium
• President Andrew Johnson’s Copy of “New-York Daily Tribune” Detailing Proposed Regulations for Alaska
• South Carolina Impressment Agent Negotiates With General Beauregard for the Release of Slaves to their Masters
• The Reform Constitution of Virginia Signed by the Man Who Warned South Carolina Governor Pickens about the Reinforcement of Fort Sumter
• Congressmen Who Signed Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery
• On the Day of the First Battle of Bull Run,
  Confederate Ordnance Chief Josiah Gorgas Orders
  Equipment for 100,000 Troops
• A Former Tennessee Congressman Thanks an Editor for Opposing Southern Nullifiers, and Criticizes Andrew Jackson’s Political Vindictiveness
• Order Directing a Captain to Detach
  from Command of the Kearsarge
• The Gettysburg Address
• Unique Sea Mosses Book Sold at the New York Metropolitan Fair to Benefit Sick and Wounded Union Troops
• 161 Young Men of Providence, R.I. Found “Loyal League” Pledged to Support the Union
• Fourth of July Oration from Massachusetts on Eve of the Civil War
• Ohio Governor’s Response to
  South Carolina Nullification Threat
• Opposing the Confederate Draft
• Rogers Group: Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations
• Slavery Divides New York Legislature in 1844
• Admiral Porter Reluctantly Turns Down General Sherman’s Invitation to a “Grand Reunion” in Chicago; and Sherman Reads These Excerpts to the Veterans
• A Copperhead Newspaper Prints, Then Criticizes,
  the Emancipation Proclamation
• A Confederate General Warns His Commanders
  Not to Harass the Locals
• Senator Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana 1859 speech supporting acquisition of Cuba
• Founding Address of National Republican Party to Combat the “Aggressions and Usurpations of the Slave Power…. Declaration of the Principles and Purposes”
• New York Times Carriers’ Address Reviews the Year 1863 in Bad Verse, Including Freeing of Russia’s Serfs, and the Battle of Gettysburg
• “I thought Cump would advise you as to the movements here…”
• A Fighting Vermont Regiment Summary of Actions after Gettysburg, July 5-13, 1863
• A Map of the Baruch College Area of New York City
• Oval Salt Print of Famed Abolitionist John Brown
• Senator Sprague of Rhode Island Writes About Fascinating Debates in Congress Involving Freedom for the Families of African American Recruits and the Limits of Free Speech in the Senate
• The Defense in Ex parte Milligan Argues That Even During War the Federal Government Can’t Use Military Trials Where Civilian Courts Are Operative
• “The Christian Banner” – Pro-Confederate Paper From Union-Occupied Fredericksburg
• The Drafter of the 14th Amendment Quotes
  Abolitionist Congressman Thaddeus Stevens
• Union Volunteers Refreshment Saloon
• Accounting for “Contraband” Sailors in the Civil War Navy Bureaucracy
• Returning the Western World to Blockade Duty to Squeeze the Confederacy
• Winfield Scott Criticizes Zachary Taylor’s
  Illegal Order to Flog a Soldier
• Civil War Hero David Dixon Porter
  Expresses Support for the Chinese in a Time of Hostility
• Lincoln Calls for the public to supports the U.S. Sanitary Commission
• Prior to 1864 presidential election, McClellan’s former groomsman tries to even the field
• Requesting Another Battery of Artillery During the Siege of Yorktown
• Clothing the 1st Vermont Cavalry in the Civil War
• General Schofield’s Personal Gettysburg Official Records
• The Nation Mourns
• The Success of Black Troops At Petersburg, Virginia, Under Butler
• Union League of Philadelphia Supports Re-Election of Lincoln as “the man for the time”
• “The Excursion of the Bought Nominations”
  Showing Balloon “Union League”
• “The Slave Sale, or Come Who Bids?” Abolitionist Sheet Music
• Lincoln’s Vice President Talks Local Politics
• Ledger Report by Colored Sergeant, U.S.C.T.,
  “Selling Government horse & bridle...” &c.
• Ohio Reformers Use Rhode Island’s Dorr Rebellion
  to Justify Their Own Behavior
• “Black Republican” Salt River Ticket
• Responding to Grant’s Postwar Request for a Report of Guns Captured at Fort Donelson, His First Success
• 1864 Campaign Blames McClellan’s Failures on Lincoln, Comparing the President’s Treatment of McClellan and Grant
• Creating Two New Civil War Military Departments
• Naval Commander Who Prevented Filibustering Expedition against Mexico, and Then Captured Slave Ships and Freed over 1,350 Slaves
• Future Hero of Little Round Top Advises a Friend on Getting a Leave of Absence
• Civil War Veteran in Maryland Predicts the War Will End Soon
• Patriotic Poem by Gov. John A. Andrew
• A Georgia Man Writes from Frederic City, Maryland, Hoping to Liberate Some ‘greenies’ from the “Hamites or the ‘freedmen’” Celebrating Passage of the “dirty 15th Amendment”
• A New York Soldier’s Affidavit Allowing
  a Proxy to Vote in the 1864 Election
• Civil War Song Sheet: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
• Illinois Governor Richard Yates’ Fourth of July Address at the End of Civil War – Unhappy that the Nation Would not Execute Jefferson Davis
• Rebel Deserters Coming within the Union Lines
• Advertisement for Temperance Restaurant in New York City
• Evacuating Elizabeth City and Leaving Nothing for the Rebels, to the Dismay of Freedpeople and Unionists
• Seesaw - Gloucester, MA - Drawn by Winslow Homer
• Edwin M. Stanton Portrait, Based on a Photograph by Matthew Brady
• The Army of the Potomac Arriving at Yorktown from Williamsburg
• The Massacre at Fort Pillow
• Union League of Philadelphia Supports Lincoln on Emancipation, African-American Troops in 1864
• Unusual Caricatures of Southern Aristocrats by Union Soldier on Letter to Parents
• Board of Engineers to Review Sea Coast Fortifications, Including New York
• Three Special Orders Signed
  by Gen. Townsend Re. Capt. Abbott
• Lincoln, the War, and Emancipation
• Lincoln Reviews the Army of the Potomac