Four illustrations of slavery in the Lake Nyasa region and Eastern Africa, 1876-1889. B
Price: $160.00
Four illustrations of slavery in the Lake Nyasa region and Eastern Africa, 1876-1889. B
Price: $160.00
Three tobacco cards produced by Helmar Turkish Cigarettes in New York in 1910. This is part of the set titled Seals of the United States. Only these three cards featured slaves in Tennessee, Alabama and North Carolina. B
Price: $80.00
Four reprints of the 1892 Kurz & Allison artwork on the Civil War. The focus of this collection is on USCT troops fighting for the North. Shown are the Fort Pillow massacre, the Battle of Nashville, the 54th Mass at Olustee and storming Fort Wagoner. B
Price: $400.00
Fact card produced in 1993 by Atlas Editions about the Freedmen’s Bureau. Headed by Major General Oliver O. Howard (after which Howard University was named), the Bureau became the only guardian of civil rights the former slaves could turn to. However, “the agency became the pawn of the corrupt Radical Republican government and was used to maintain control of the states occupied by federal troops”. Congress discontinued the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1872. Text on reverse. B
Price: $30.00
Fact card produced in 1993 by Atlas Editions about Robert Smalls, the slave who became a politician. In 1862 Smalls, a slave, was piloting the Planter, a steam-powered side-wheeler that had been chartered to the Confederate government. He, along with his wife and two children and 12 other slaves managed to escape aboard the Planter and reached the Union blockade fleet off Charleston. Along with 4 cannon, Smalls brought vital intelligence about the Confederate defenses. Smalls was made civilian captain of the Planter and participated in 17 engagements. After the war he served in the South Carolina House of Representatives and five terms in the US House of Representatives. Text on reverse. B
Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00
Spanish comic book Vidas Ilustres, on Martin Luther King. m
Price: $120.00
Fact card produced in 1993 by Atlas Editions about the origin and performance of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. Worth noting is that black soldiers were paid $7 per month while white soldiers were paid $10. At least 134,111 slaves became Union soldiers during the war. Text on reverse. BBBB
Price: $30.00
Mexican comic book, 1967, Estrellas del Deporte, Ray “Sugar” Robinson. It is about the life of the famed boxer. m
Price: $120.00
Gum card from the set UNCLE SAM by Philadelphia company Gum Inc (now defunct), published in 1941 shortly before Pearl Harbor. The focus of the set was directed to US preparedness for hostilities, and it is devoid of the vivid and horrifying details of the overseas warfare which was already taking place. This card shows marines in aid of a black family during a Mississippi River flooding. A rare card. B
Price: $30.00