J.E. Eggleston correspondence dated 24 November 1848 documents the commercial shipment and sale of enslaved boys from Virginia to Mississippi within the interstate slave trade that expanded across the American South during the nineteenth century. The letter records logistical arrangements for transporting enslaved individuals through New Orleans before forwarding them.....

Albumen photographs of slavery-related sites, circa 1890s, document physical locations tied to the sale and habitation of enslaved people in the United States and the persistence of those sites in post-Emancipation visual culture. The images include a pavilion in St. Augustine, Florida identified in contemporary sources as a site where.....

Two original photographs documenting African American sharecropping labor in the rural South during the Jim Crow era, when cotton agriculture remained central to the racial and economic order of the post-Reconstruction United States. The images capture Black agricultural workers engaged in cotton harvesting under the tenant farming and sharecropping systems.....

[Early African American PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [RELIGION]. silver gelatin photograph of a river baptism featuring a large group of African American subjects. [Mississippi], ca early 1900s. Photograph size is 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. Original silver gelatin photograph on cardstock mount ).A young African American man wearing a hat and.....

[Women's History] [Cookbook] Warren, Mildred Evans. The Art of Southern Cooking: A Collection of New, Traditional, and Old Family Recipes. Garden City, New York: Double Day and Company, 1969. First edition. Illustrated with drawings by Rocco Negri. Bound in publisher’s mustard-yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in original pictorial.....

[African American][Literature] Wright, Richard. The Long Dream. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1958. First edition. 384 pages. Original black cloth binding with white lettering on spine, in publisher’s dust jacket. 8vo. Published during Richard Wright’s later years in exile, The Long Dream is a searing examination of race, power.....