Search Results: Catalog 67 - Black History from Joseph Valles - Books

Madison ; Milwaukee ; London : University of Wisconsin Press, 1969., 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xix, 338 pp. ;maps. 22 cm ; ISBN: 0299054004 9780299054007 0299054047 9780299054045 ; LCCN: 69-17325 ; OCLC: 46413 ; blue cloth with silver lettering, in blue, green and white dustjacket ; "Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade. Its basic evidence suggests revision of currently held opinions concerning the place of the slave trade in the economies of the Old World nations and their American colonies" ; Contents: The Hispanic Trade -- The Colonies of the North Europeans -- The Fifteenth Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- The English Slave Trade of the Eighteenth Century -- The French Slave Trade of the Eighteenth Century -- Main Currents of the EighteenthCentury Slave Trade -- The Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century -- Major Trends -- A… Read More

London : Andrew Dakers Limited, 1950., 1950. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 220 pp. : illustrated, maps ; 25 cm. ; OCLC: 11111346 ; Maps on lining papers ; green cloth with gold lettering, in photographic dustjacket with green spine and green and white lettering ; over 60 fantastic, superb photographs of tribal dances, witch-doctors, leaders, animals, masks, etc ; dustjacket frayed at edges ; boards somewhat bowed ; FAIR/FAIR.

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2000., 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; xiii, 147 pp. : illustrated with black & white photographs ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0826212603 (alk. paper) LCCN: 99-47290 ; OCLC: 42435037 ; LC: F234.H65; Dewey: 975.5/792 ; green boards in photographic dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation card laid in from author, dated 2000 ; "In 1842 Charles Lewis Cocke arrived in Roanoke, Virginia, with sixteen slaves; there, he founded Hollis College, an elite women's school. Many of the early students also brought their slaves to the college with them. Upon Emancipation some of the African Americans of the community--mostly women--stayed on as servants, forming what is now called the Hollins Community. Although the servants played an integral part in the college's success, students were strongly discouraged from acknowledging them as people. Rules forbidding any 'familiarity' with the servants… Read More

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; New York : Van Rees Press, 1941., 1941. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). xv, 359 p. illus. 24 cm. ; Green cloth with gold lettering in pictorial dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation copy from the author and bookman Whitman Bennett to Bert Buckley, most probably Bert B. Buckley, Ohio State Treasurer from 1927-29 and delegate from Dayton, Ohio to the 19 16 Republican National Convention in Chicago, remembered for having broken the color barrier in Ohio in 1918 while acting as State Fire Marshal by hiring blacks to the state Fire Marshal's office ; facsimile of Whittier letter tipped in ; fold-out reproduction of the abolitionist broadside with Whittier's poem, "Our countrymen in chains" (has a small tear) ; ep gutters foxed ; small nicks to dustjacket ; a little dusty, else VG/G.