THE TRAGEDY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA by Stanford, Rev. P. Thomas - 1898

Cary, North Carolina: Oxford University Press. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 2002. First Printing. Hard Cover. 203 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.6: KB#006570: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Printing Number Line (1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Dustjacket has small edge cut. "Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the Gospel teachings of brotherhood and charity? Slaves were considered the sexual property of their owners: what was the status within the Church of enslaved women and young male slaves who were their owners' sexual playthings? Is there any reason to believe that Christians shied away from the use of corporal punishments so common among ancient slave owners? Jennifer A. Glancy brings… Read More

New York: Published By the Author. Good+. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean original green cloth has bright gilt title on spine & front cover. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Mended front internal hinge with cover firmly attached. Pages 153-192 have a small bottom margin damp stain which does not interfere with text. African-American Literature ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 335 pages .

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.. Very Good. 1943. Second Printing. Hardcover. Second printing, December 1943. Clean pictorial paper covered boards with lightly scuffed edges. Endpaper has printed War Stamps. A rear pocket where War Stamps can be stored. Black cloth spine. Prior owner's ink Stamp: Alabama Coushatta Indian Library. Red and blue drawing illustrations. African - Americana; Ex-Library; Two tone Color Drawings Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Unpaginated pages .

Wilberforce, Ohio: Payne Theological Seminary. Very Good. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green cloth with slightly faded gilt title. Rubbed edges; Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Inscribed by the author. Afro-American, Religion; 8vo; 272 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001. SIGNED on dedication page: "Thank you! / Brian Broome". This debut memoir is a NYT Editor's Pick and the winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. "In his thoroughly electric debut...Brian Broome will shatter your heart. Then make you laugh, sweat and cringe. And-all while eviscerating stereotypes and expanding notions of Black masculinity and queer identity-he'll shatter your heart again, then carefully, exquisitely, piece it back together."-Shelf Awareness Review. 9780358439103. New in like dust jacket w/ "signed by the author", in protective cover.

New York: Published By the Author. Good+. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean original green cloth has bright gilt title on spine & front cover. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Mended front internal hinge with cover firmly attached. Pages 153-192 have a small bottom margin damp stain which does not interfere with text. African-American Literature ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 335 pages .

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.. Very Good. 1943. Second Printing. Hardcover. Second printing, December 1943. Clean pictorial paper covered boards with lightly scuffed edges. Endpaper has printed War Stamps. A rear pocket where War Stamps can be stored. Black cloth spine. Prior owner's ink Stamp: Alabama Coushatta Indian Library. Red and blue drawing illustrations. African - Americana; Ex-Library; Two tone Color Drawings Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Unpaginated pages .

Wilberforce, Ohio: Payne Theological Seminary. Very Good. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green cloth with slightly faded gilt title. Rubbed edges; Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Inscribed by the author. Afro-American, Religion; 8vo; 272 pages; Signed by Author .

The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. Light bumping on the top edge on the spine of the dust jacket. Very light bumping on the Top and bottom corners (on the inside flap) on the back cover of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 184pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Revealing and disturbing study of the racist ideas and fantasies of southern whites after the Civil War.