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(DIRECTORIES.) JACKSON,
ANDREW WEBSTER.
A Sure
Foundation and a Sketch of Negro
Life in Texas.
Copious illustrations of
portraits. 644 pages. Tall, thick 8vo, original
pebble-grained green cloth stamped in gilt
on the upper cover;all edges sprinkled red.
Houston: The Author, [1939?]
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION OF THIS ENORMOUS
DIRECTORY AND BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIO
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NARY OF TEXAS NEGROES
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The author as not
only assembled a valuable guide to African
American businessmen and women, but has
interwoven stories, essays, aphorisms, and a gen-
eral race history as well. Jackson is also quite
clear on racial pride: “Stay with your race, oh
Negro Man, and help it to succeed. Stay with
it, it’s a part of you, its progress don’t impede.
Stay with the women of your race, they are
good enough for you. Don’t worship at another
shrine, but to your own be true. Don’t leave
your race for others.”
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(EDUCATION.) LOCKWOOD, REV. LEWIS C.
Mary S. Peake, the Colored
Teacher at Fortress Monroe.
Engraved frontispiece of Ms. Peake. 64 pages, tall 12mo.
Original blind-stamped green cloth, with the title in gilt on the spine; binding slightly
skewed with light wear to base of the spine.
Boston: American Tract Society, circa 1870’s
[600/900]
Scarce narrative of the life and teaching of Mary Smith Peake, born Mary Smith Kelsey (1823-
1862), an African American teacher and humanitarian. Peake founded a school for the children of
ex-slaves in the fall of 1861 at Hampton, Virginia. Classes began under what came to be called the
Emancipation Oak in Hampton Virginia, near Fort Monroe. Peake was the first “Creole” teacher
hired by the American Missionary Association. She is credited for helping found what became
Hampton University in 1868.