Recent Acquisitions in African Americana

21 August 2024

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Dear Friends & Colleagues,

We forward today our latest list of African Americana, consisting of seventy items covering slavery and the slave trade, the abolitionist cause, the false promise of African colonization, the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction and its collapse, the uplift era, African American cultural and political contributions, and the long fight for civil rights and full citizenship. Among the items you’ll find here are an extensive run of The Liberator with significant Frederick Douglass content, a rare carte-de-visite photograph of Black abolitionist John J. Smith of Boston, a scarce lithograph of “The First Colored Senator and Representatives,” and an unrecorded broadside advertising a “reconciliation trip” to Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.

Orders are welcome by email, telephone or the website checkout. Institutions will be billed according to their needs. All items are subject to prior sale. 

Thanks, as always, for having a look! 

Best regards,

James Arsenault & Co.

Jim, Lisa, Dom, Sorrel, Henry & Pico

(207) 443-1510

Jim’s cell (207) 751-1404

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

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO DINE AT THE WHITE HOUSE

BROADSIDE IN SUPPORT OF TWO BLACK PRISONERS, CA. 1971

MEMORIAL FAN FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ADVERTISING A WOMAN-OWNED FUNERAL HOME IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA

FATHER DIVINE DEIFIED BY A FOLLOWER

BLACK STUDENTS PROTEST THE VIETNAM WAR AND OPPRESSION AT HOME, 1969

THE BLACK WORKERS CONGRESS RECRUITS

“THE MOST BRUTAL RACIAL ATROCITY OF THE WAR,” LITHOGRAPHED

REMARKABLE SOJOURNER TRUTH DISPLAY PIECE

JULES BLEDSOE PERFORMS FOR AN INTEGRATED AUDIENCE AT CENTRAL COLORED HIGH SCHOOL IN SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA

AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN THE KOREAN WAR

CAPTURED RUNAWAYS WITHHELD FROM THE OWNER IN VIRGINIA, 1821

RARE BROADSIDE PRINTING OF SEGREGATION LAWS FOR TEXAS RAILWAYS

PROPOSAL FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE BRITISH SLAVE TRADE COMPANY, TO EXPAND THE NUMBER OF SLAVES BROUGHT TO AMERICAN PLANTATIONS, 1709

“IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE” ON THE REGION THAT WOULD BECOME LIBERIA

PROGRAM FOR AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL AT CARNEGIE HALL, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY LANGSTON HUGHES

HOWARD UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AS ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MADONNAS

THE HORRORS OF THE SLAVE TRADE ILLUSTRATED, CIRCA 1805

LEGAL DOCUMENTS CONCERNING THEFTS COMMITTED BY TWO ENSLAVED MEN IN KENTUCKY, 1815

THE SCULPTURE OF RICHMOND BARTHÉ

BLACK SOLIDARITY DURING THE VIETNAM WAR

FANTASTIC POSTER OF MALCOLM X PUBLISHED IN WASHINGTON, D.C. BY AN IMPORTANT ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM

1759 ABOLITIONIST TRACT IN CHRISTOPHER SOWER SAMMELBAND

THE BLACK PANTHERS RAISE MONEY FOR A LEGAL DEFENSE FUND AFTER ITS DETROIT MEMBERS ARE ARRESTED

A BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALL TO ARMS IN PHILADELPHIA

THE BOUTWELL REPORT ON 1875 RACE RIOT AND MASSACRE IN MISSISSIPPI

THE SONGS OF THE ELITE GOSPEL GROUP CLARA WARD AND THE WARD SINGERS

UNRECORDED ANTI-SLAVERY POETRY BROADSIDE

ARGUMENTS FOR LIBERIAN COLONIZATION AFTER NAT TURNER’S REBELLION

ELIZA’S FLIGHT: EARLY UNCLE TOM’S CABIN SHEET-MUSIC

THE BLACK MAN IS NO DRAFT-DODGER: WWI RECRUITING POSTER

WWI RECRUITING POSTER SHOWING A BLACK SOLDIER AS THE FAMILY HERO

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN ALMANACK, WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, SLAVE NARRATIVES, ETC.

SCARCE LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST BLACK CONGRESSMEN, 1872

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANGELA DAVIS, INSCRIBED, 1974

AN AFRICAN AMERICAN OWNED AND OPERATED INSURANCE COMPANY IN CHICAGO

GOSPEL SONGBOOK FROM A MAJOR BLACK BAPTIST PUBLISHER IN NASHVILLE

A VIRGINIA SLAVE OWNER ON MANAGING SLAVES AND A SLAVE ESCAPE

THE OMAHA RACE RIOT OF 1919

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

THE GLORIOUS NEWS OF EMANCIPATION

RACIAL TENSION AND RECONCILIATION DURING THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

THE CRISIS REPORTS ON DESEGREGATION AND MORE DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA

REVEREND J. J. JACKSON’S HISTORY OF THE BLACK MAN

TWO FACES OF RECONSTRUCTION IN TWO VIRGINIA DOCUMENTS, 1865 AND 1866

UPHOLDING THE SELECTION OF MIXED RACE JURIES IN RECONSTRUCTION-ERA GEORGIA

SCARCE PROGRAM FOR A PERFORMANCE BY RAGTIME PIONEER “BLIND BOONE,” INCLUDING BIOGRAPHY

BLIND BOONE’S TWENTY-SIXTH SEASON ON THE ROAD

POSTER FOR ALL BLACK FILM THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER

SCARCE BOSTON ANTI-SLAVERY LITHOGRAPH PROCLAIMS RACIAL EQUALITY

BLACK ABOLITIONIST AND POLITICIAN JOHN J. SMITH OF BOSTON

1875 REPORT ON AN ALABAMA FREEDMAN’S HOSPITAL

“I WOULD RATHER HE NOT KNOW THAT I INTEND SELLING HIM”

FUTURE COMMISSIONER OF EMIGRATION UNDER LINCOLN SOLICITS POLITICAL SUPPORT FOR COLONIZATION

BUILDING MOMENTUM IN ILLINOIS FOR AFRICAN COLONIZATION, 1853

BLACK PANTHER FILM SCREENINGS IN DETROIT AND INKSTER, MICHIGAN

DELIGHTFUL PHOTO ALBUM OF A PITTSBURGH R&B TRUMPETER IN THE 1940s

NEWSPAPER EXTRA DEVOTED TO THE HAITIAN COLONIZATION MOVEMENT, 1862

UNION SOLDIER ON THE TRAVAILS OF CONTRABANDS AND ACTIONS AROUND NEW ORLEANS, 1863

DISTINGUISHED JUBILEE QUARTET FROM VIRGINIA TOURS THE WORLD

“WOBBLY” AUTHOR CONDEMNS THE CHURCH, THE KKK, AND CAPITALISM AS BEDFELLOWS IN BLACK OPPRESSION

RENOWNED PERFORMER SAM LUCAS WITH THE SLAYTON IDEAL COLORED COMPANY

A MOMENT IN THE LIFE OF A NEW ORLEANS NANNY

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN FOR YOUNG GERMAN READERS

THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA PUSHES FOR IMMEDIATE ABOLITION

THE RASCALS REV IT UP IN LA

THE LIFE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH PUBLISHED SHORTLY AFTER HER DEATH

SONG, DANCE AND COMEDY TEAM GUS SMITH AND ESTELLE FLOYD, CIRCA 1930

BLIND TOM IN BOSTON

SALESMAN’S DUMMY FOR A BOOK ON AFRICAN AMERICAN PROGRESS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

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