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(REFERENCE.) HEARTMAN,
CHARLES.
Americana Printed and in
Manuscript. An Interesting Collec-
tion.
225 pages, listing over 2200 items.
Original wrappers bound in red buckram.
Biloxi, Mississippi, The Book Farm,
[1947]
[350/500]
A rare catalogue of African Americana assem-
bled by a one of the preeminent Americana
dealers of the 1940’s and ‘50’s. Charles
Heartman (1883-1953) had a large personal
collection of African Americana, which included
a number of unique items, of which he printed
limited number of facsimiles. This catalogue has
a selection of material unmatched in any cata-
logue the present writer has ever seen. An
indispensible reference. Heartman notes “While
there is an Emphasis on the Negro and Slavery,
most of such items are of interest Otherwise.”
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(RECONSTRUCTION.) AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
Two
Thousand Freedmen are Pleading for the Means of Emigrating to the Land
from which their Ancestors were brought by Violence and Fraud to be Slaves of
Strangers.
Brochure. Oblong folio sheet, folded to form four 4to pages; creases where
folded; short, closed tears at one of the folds.
Washington, D.C.: Colonization Rooms, 1868
[700/1,000]
PRINTS LETTERS OF APPROVAL FROM AFRICAN AMERICANS
,
INCLUDING MARTIN R
.
DELANY
.
The American Colonization Society’s scheme to “return” African Americans to Africa, was at one
time reviled by abolitionists, both white and black. But the plan took hold once again following the
emancipation of nearly four million people. While the Freedmen’s Bureau helped, there were still vast
numbers of displaced persons. Martin R. Delany was prominent among African Americans who sup-
ported emigration to Africa as a solution, having once traveled to the Niger Valley for a similar plan.
Prefaced with a note reading “This appeal is made by order of the board of directors of the American
Colonization Society. We earnestly solicit you to prepare an editorial commendation of it, or to give
the enclosed slip an early insertion in your paper.”
RARE
,
OCLC LOCATES ONLY TWO COPIES OF A
SIMILAR
,
BUT NOT IDENTICAL PIECE AT LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA AND THE AMER
-
ICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
.
Lot 164