1885 FIRST BLACK HISTORY BY BLACK AUTHOR. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Rare. Bible

1885 FIRST BLACK HISTORY BY BLACK AUTHOR. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Rare. BibleGeorge Washington Williams History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880 has been called "a monumental act of intellectual reclamation," as the first comprehensive, scholarly history of African Americans authored by a Black person. More than just a chronicle, this "millennial scope" work shattered the era's dominant pro slavery myths by replacing biased folklore with a rigorous, objective narrative built on years of primary research.

and Abraham Lincoln himself owned a copy

I stand upon safe ground when I exhort my hearers to press after holiness in this life

New Sermons

at times theologizing those challenges in light of the curse of Noah

apparently by Wallace

probably prior to Reaney's ownership

Webster himself has made the inscription with the autograph unquestionably in his own hand

Kincardineshire

The Glory of Their Times

Ye small rain and ye great rain of his Strength fall upon ye Earth at his Command

Roscoe Deane

handcolored