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Behind the Black Door

Behind the Black Door

by Dunn, Barry [pseudonym of Brad Alan Deamer]

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1985
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San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1985. Paperback. 149p., very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Adonis Classics AC341. Biker leathermen holding young men slaves in a torture dungeon.
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The gladiators; translated by Edith Simon, and with a new Postscript by the Author

The gladiators; translated by Edith Simon, and with a new Postscript by the Author

by Koestler, Arthur

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1967
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Hardcover. 319p., a nice reprint designed for the collected works ("Danube Edition"), hardbound in openweave green cloth boards gilt & blind, and enclosed in the glossy dead-white "series" dust jacket lettered black. An excellent copy, perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. The novel of the Sparticus rebellion is Young 2170 The Danube edition. This… Read more about this item
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Los que Volvieron a Africa

Los que Volvieron a Africa

by Sarracino, Rodolfo

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1988
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Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1988. Paperback. x, 269p., illus., wraps worn and lightly soiled, old price sticker on front wrap, small sticker on half-title, spine creased, else very good condition. Text in Spanish. On ex-slaves and their descendants who returned to Africa from Cuba.
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La abolicion de la esclavitud en America Latina

La abolicion de la esclavitud en America Latina

by Clementi, Hebe

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1974
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Buenos Aires: Editorial La Pléyade, 1974. Paperback. 219, [5]p., wraps. 8 x 5.5 in. Edges chipped and rubbed; spine split from foot up about 1.5 in. Good. Text in Spanish. Study of abolition of slavery in newly independent Latin American nation-states.
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African Americans on Stamps - A Celebration of African-American Heritage. Publication 354, January 2003 USPS All rights reserved. Produced by Diversity Development

African Americans on Stamps - A Celebration of African-American Heritage. Publication 354, January 2003 USPS All rights reserved. Produced by Diversity Development

by Potter, John E., postmaster general, introductory

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2003
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Washington DC: USPO, 2003. Pamphlet. Government pamphlet on high-gloss alkaline paperstock, 9x6 inches stapled, an unblemished copy. Features colorphoto exhibit photos, 3 or 4 to a page, 28 p., a surprising number of different people got memorialized. I guess you had to be dead.
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The Union Hole: Unionist Activity and Local Conflict in Western Virginia
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The Union Hole: Unionist Activity and Local Conflict in Western Virginia

by Turk, David Scott

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1994
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Bowie MD: Heritage Books, Inc, 1994. Paperback. xx, 130p., illustrated with a few period portrait photographs, softbound first edition in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps. Nice clean copy, signed by the author on his titlepage. Mixed loyalties, often inviting hostility, violence and murder, in a particular Virginia county. Unionist Virginians tended to be strongly union-friendly, not abolition-friendly.
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Freedom and Organization -1814-1914-

Freedom and Organization -1814-1914-

by Russell, Bertrand

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1964
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1964. Hardcover. 528p., sixth impression of the 1934 first issue, hardbound in sky-blue papered boards gilt and enclosed in its plain printed dust jacket. Besides a slight loss of color to margin of top edge, the book itself is near-fine, with just a hint of age; dust jacket is mildly edgeworn with a… Read more about this item
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The kingdom of this world; translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onis

The kingdom of this world; translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onis

by Carpentier, Alejo

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1957
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Hardcover. 150p., first US edition in illustrated boards, lacking dust jacket; minor shelfwear, else very good condition. The great Afro-Cuban writer's novel of Haiti at the time of Henri-Christophe, and his second novel to appear in English.
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The Loss of El Dorado. A History

The Loss of El Dorado. A History

by Naipaul, V.S.

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1970
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Hardcover. First American edition, 335, vi p., no illustrations beyond the dust jacket author portrait, hardbound in openweave brown cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the glossy dust jacket. Very good condition, sound, clean and unmarked, with just a touch of edgewear to dust jacket's top margin.
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Forbidden fairways; African Americans and the game of golf

Forbidden fairways; African Americans and the game of golf

by Sinnette, Calvin H.

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1998
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Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 1998. Hardcover. x, 216p., photoillustration, first printing, dust jacket. The African American physician/author is an avid golfer.
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Browne Candidate

Browne Candidate

by Kurtz, Nicole Givens

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2001
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Dover, TN: Crystal Dreams Publishing, 2001. Pamphlet. ix, 248p., pictorial wraps, in very good condition. Science fiction novel with romantic elements about enslaved servants who work and breed for wealthy masters. African American author.
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Review: Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 1978

Review: Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 1978

by Wallerstein, Immanuel, editor

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1978
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Binghamton, NY: Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economics, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, 1978. Magazine. 124p., wraps lightly worn, else very good condition. Haupt: why the history of the working-class movement?; Mintz: Was the plantation slave a proletarian?; and essays on the early theories of development by Henri Stahl and Daniel Chirot.
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Carry me Back to Old Virginny. Sung with Great Success by Alma Gluck

Carry me Back to Old Virginny. Sung with Great Success by Alma Gluck

by Bland, James A., words and music

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1920
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Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1920. Sheet_music. 5p. (of which 3 imprinted with music notation and lyrics (provided with chorus), sheet music in 12x9 inch color pictorial wraps, several inked tics, rear wrap detached but held on by two pieces of ancient yellowed tape. Cover illustration a placid scene, exclusively African American, with children and banjo. As is, serviceable condition.… Read more about this item
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Set my people free; a Negro's life of Lincoln

Set my people free; a Negro's life of Lincoln

by Lilly, William E.

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1932
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1932. Hardcover. viii, 269p., black cloth boards with titling in gilt; ownership signature on page 3, half-removed bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, board edges and spine somewhat toned, text block edges are slightly toned, else very good.
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Sexual Slavery: male & female bondage past & present

Sexual Slavery: male & female bondage past & present

by Wade, Carlson

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1965
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New York: L. S. Pub, 1965. Paperback. 192p., good first printing PBO in pictorial wraps. Faux case studies. Imperial Book IMP 711. Gay, lesbian, eunuchs, Arabian slave markets. Erotic fiction masquerading as sexology.
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The sources of antislavery constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848

The sources of antislavery constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848

by Wiecek, William M.

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1977
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9780801410895
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Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. Hardcover. 306p., very good condition in like dust jacket.
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Phylon: The Atlanta University review of race and culture; vol. 36, #2: June 1975

Phylon: The Atlanta University review of race and culture; vol. 36, #2: June 1975

by Reid, John D., editor

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1975
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Atlanta: Atlanta University, 1975. Magazine. iv, pp 97-219, wraps lightly worn, spine sunned, else very good condition. Articles include "The History and Social Topography of an Ethnic Island in Alabama," "Thoughts on the Study of Slavery in the Americas and the Writing of Black History," and "Tragic Aspects of the Blues.
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Escravidão Africana no Brasil. (Das origens à extinção do tráfico)

Escravidão Africana no Brasil. (Das origens à extinção do tráfico)

by Goulart, Mauricio

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1950
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São Paulo: Livraria Martins Editôra S/A, 1950. Paperback. 300, [4]pp., wraps. 9.5 x 6.5 in. 2nd edition. Covers foxed and toned, edges with mild shelf wear, but pages clean and binding sturdy. Pages unopened. Former owner's name in ink on front cover; bookseller's ink stamp on half title page. Text in Portuguese. One of the first scholarly histories of… Read more about this item
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Songs of the Free and Hymns of Christian Freedom

Songs of the Free and Hymns of Christian Freedom

by Chapman, Maria (Weston), compiler

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1971
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9780836988833
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Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. Hardcover. viii, 227p., cloth-covered boards, small splash stain on front board, previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, else good facsimile reprint. First published in 1836. The Black Heritage Library Collection.
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Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis: A Digest of the Book by the South's Best-Hated Man

Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis: A Digest of the Book by the South's Best-Hated Man

by Helper, Hinton Rowan; condensed, with a foreword by Miriam Allen deFord

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1945
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Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1945. Pamphlet. 27p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, pages evenly toned, else very good condition. Digest 26. Helper's "The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It," first published in 1857, argued that slavery hurt the economy of the South.
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