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Uris, Leon
[This night is different...]
"This night is different because we celebrate the most important moment in the history of our people. On this night we celebrate their going forth in triumph from slavery to freedom."
GLC05508.248
1960
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
The Cooper Union Address given by Abraham Lincoln in the Great Hall of The Cooper Union in New York February 27, 1860
With an introduction written by Leroy H. Buckingham, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, The Cooper Union. Published by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 1960. Buckingham's introduction discusses Lincoln's political...
GLC04471.09
September 1969
Commentary
Commentary [Vol. 48, No.3 (September 1969)]
Volume 48, No. 3 issue of "Commentary" dated September 1969. Features article, "The Fantasy of Black Nationalism" by Theodore Draper. Details the history of black nationalism from slavery to the Black Panther movement.
GLC09640.046
14 February 1972
Morton, Rogers C.B. (1914-1979)
"Dedication Ceremonies of the Frederick Douglass Home"
One program entitled, "Dedication Ceremonies of the Frederick Douglass Home" dated February 14, 1972. Includes a dedication to Frederick Douglass's biography and work towards the anti-slavery movement. Also included is a program of the day events...
GLC09640.060
6 May 1987
Rogers, Joel Augustus (1880-1966)
"Remarks of Thurgood Marshall at the Annual Seminar of the San Fracisco Patent and Trademark Law Association in Maui, Hawaii"
One typewritten document entitled, "Remarks of Thurgood Marshall at the Annual Seminar of the San Fracisco Patent and Trademark Law Association in Maui, Hawaii" dated May 6, 1987. Details that the Constitution was not written with enslaved people in...
GLC09640.247
1951
Jefferson, Isaac (b. 1775)
Memoirs of a Monticello slave as dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840's...
By Issac, one of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves. Modern edition.
GLC07445
1971
Horsmanden, Daniel (1694-1778)
The New York conspiracy... with an introduction by Thomas J. Davis [reprint]
Paperback reprint by Beacon Press of Horsmanden's "A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy formed by some White People in conjunction with Negro and other Slaves, for burning the City of New-York...."
GLC04205.02
31 January 1991
Carson, Richard (fl. 1991)
[Photograph of Lillian Davis]
One black-and-white image taken by Richard Carson dated January 31, 1991 for the Houston Chronicle. Pictured is Lillian Davis for a Black History Month assignment. She holds a portrait of her grandparents who were formerly enslaved people, Mitchell...
GLC09854
1953
Owens, William A. (1905- )
Slave Mutiny: the Revolt on the Schooner Amistad
Published by John Day Company. First edition. Comprises a dramatic retelling of the Amistad narrative, based on factual events of the mutiny and trial.
GLC05835
1963
Howard, Warren S. (fl. 1963)
American Slavers and the Federal Law: 1837-1862
Published by University of California Press. Discusses the illegal slave trade violated "mostly by Americans helping foreigners to carry slaves into Cuba or Brazil... also by Americans smuggling slaves into the states of the deep South."
GLC05879
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