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19th century Catalan AUCA titled Vida y Aventuras de un Negrito. the subject is captured in Africa, sold in America, becomes a household servant, becomes wealthy when his master dies, becomes a general, ends up shipwrecked in Africa, captured by monkeys and hung. Repaired on reverse. Extremely rare. B
Price: $700.00
BRA 202German press photo of Alexander Priestly Camphor.
Price: $40.00
Note from Wikipedia: Alexander Priestly Camphor (1865–1919) was born to slave parents on a Louisiana sugar plantation. When he was a young child, he was adopted by a white Methodist preacher, Stephen Priestly. Priestly sent Alexander to Methodist Freedman's Aid schools during Reconstruction. He graduated from New Orleans University in 1887 and later taught mathematics there for four years while also organizing the Friends of Africa Society. After graduating from Gammon Theological Seminary in 1895, he completed postgraduate work at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York." "Alexander married Mamie Anna Rebecca Camphor (née Wheathers or Weathers) in 1893. Mamie Camphor was born November 27, 1869, in Woodville, Mississippi. By all accounts, she was an educated woman and well-versed in terms of her vocabulary. She was Alexander's active partner in missionary work, raising interest and support for their joint work.
In 1896, the Camphors were assigned to the Methodist Monrovia Seminary in Liberia. Within a year, they had reorganized the seminary, increased enrollment, and proposed an expanded organization and facility. Its charter included providing high school education. a degree-granting courses in ministry, and dormitory facilities for male and female students. The name was also changed to the College of West Africa Monrovia. Camphor served as its President from 1897 – 1907.
In May 1916, he was made Bishop of Africa by the General Methodist Episcopal Conference and served in this capacity until 1919 at which time the Camphors returned to the U.S. They intended to return to Liberia. However, Alexander became ill from pneumonia in October 1919 and died at his home in South Orange, New Jersey the following December. After the death of her husband, Mamie Camphor spent two months with relatives in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Jackson, Mississippi, before returning to her home in Orange, New Jersey. In March 1920, she began visiting cities in the American south to recruit students for the ministry as a member of a team under the auspices of the Interchurch World Movement. Her 1927 voter registration card indicates that she was living in Orange, New Jersey; however, the souvenir program of the Sixty-second Session of the Louisiana Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held in 1929 noted that she was living in Philadelphia. Articles that appeared in The Baltimore Afro-American in the early 1940s described her active public and social life in Philadelphia and she was mentioned in a 1942 column in the same newspaper as having attended an Urban League dinner in Newark. Although she lived for another ten years, there is little information on that period. An obituary in the New York Times indicated that she had been living in Orange, New Jersey, and was actively involved at St. John's Methodist Church and several other local institutions. She was survived by a sister, Ruth Spellman, who lived in New Orleans, and two foster daughters. The place of her interment is unknown.
Bishop Camphor had several achievements during his lifetime. In addition to being the namesake of the church in Minnesota, there are three other United Methodist churches named in his honor, located in Baton Rouge, Philadelphia, and Monrovia, Liberia.
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December 15, 1964 issue of Europe Magazine featuring a lynched negro in America. The title reads: Negroes do not do the detail.
Price: $70.00
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Two 1993 Fact card produced by Atlas Editions on patriotic Southern blacks and black Confederate soldiers. Though the Confederacy never put a unit of black soldiers in the field, there were an unknown number of free black men in the South who took up arms to defend their Southern homes and way of life. In 1860 about 2,000 free blacks in the South, some of them plantation owners, owned more than 10,000 black slaves. When the remains of 1,616 Rebels at Indianapolis’s Camp Morton Prison were dug up and relocated, 24 of the skeletons were found to have been black men. As slaves of Rebel soldiers were generally freed, not imprisoned, it appears that these black men gave their lives in Confederate service. B
Price: $60.00
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1993 Fact card produced by Atlas Editions on the Christiana Riot. Also known as Christiana Resistance, Christiana Tragedy, or Christiana incident, it was the successful armed resistance by free Blacks and escaped slaves to a raid led by a federal marshal to recover four escaped slaves owned by Edward Gorsuch of Maryland. The raid took place in the early morning hours of September 11, 1851, at the house in Christiana, Pennsylvania, of William Parker, himself an escaped slave. This took place after the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 increased penalties for assisting escaped slaves and required state government officials, even in free states such as Pennsylvania, to assist in the recapture of slaves.
The confrontation resulted in an exchange of gunfire, the death of Edward Gorsuch, and the dispersal of the raiders. In the aftermath many of the Blacks involved quickly traveled to the safety of Canada. In total, 41 persons were indicted by the federal government for treason, including both Blacks and Whites. Castner Hanway, a white man from Christiana, was the first to be tried, beginning in November 1851. After only 15 minutes of deliberation by the jury he was acquitted, and charges against the remaining defendants were dropped. The issue became a national lightning rod, and aroused strong sectional sentiment. It was one of many events leading to the American Civil War. B
Price: $30.00
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1993 Fact card produced by Atlas Editions on Scalawags, White Southern Republicans. Any white southern politician who joined the Republican party after the war and advocated the acceptance of Congressional Reconstruction were labeled scalawags. The term has been traced to Scalloway, a town in the Shetland Islands known for its stunted cattle. Col. Franklin J. Moses, Jr., is an example of the worst of the scalawags. He had been an ardent secessionist and had raised the Confederate flag over Fort Sumter in 1861. After the war he joined the Republicans, became governor of South Carolina, and looted the state treasury. B
Price: $30.00
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1993 Fact card by Atlas Editions on the Battle of Olustee. On February 20, 1864, the Battle of Olustee (also known as the Battle of Ocean Pond) was fought in Baker County, Florida. It was the largest battle of the Civil War fought in Florida and involved more than 10,000 soldiers, including three regiments of US Colored Troops. Anxious to avenge the Battery Wagner repulse, the Fifty-fourth was the best black regiment available to General Seymour, the Union commander of the Florida Expedition. However, only 13 officers and 497 enlisted men from companies B, C, D, F, G, H, I and K were present at Olustee, two other companies, A and E, having been detailed for guard duty at Barbers Plantation.
Along with the 35th United States Colored Troops, the Fifty-fourth entered the fighting late in the day at Olustee, and helped save the Union army from complete disaster. The Fifty-fourth marched into battle yelling, "Three cheers for Massachusetts and seven dollars a month." The latter referred to the difference in pay between white and colored Union infantry, long a sore point with colored troops. Congress had just passed a bill correcting this and giving colored troops equal pay. However, word of the bill would not reach these troops until after the battle of Olustee. The regiment lost eighty-six men in the battle, the lowest number of the three black regiments present. The 54th Massachustetts, as well as the 35th United States Colored Troops, served as the rearguard for the Union Army and possibly prevented its destruction. B
Price: $30.00
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1930 KKK medallion for the Grand Sentinel Guard, #22. Realm of the Texas KKK. Extremely rare. B
Price: $1500.00
Note: The Grand Sentinel was appointed by the Grand Cyclops, the head of a Klan Den. He was in charge of the "Grand Guard", which apparently served as the Dens security detail. The owner of this medallion served as the Grand Sentinel of a Klan Den #22.
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Set of 6 early German confectionary cards by Freiburger Fruchtntaffee on Uncle Toms Cabin. Some margin damage, not affecting picture proper. M
Price: $60.00
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Fact card produced in 1993 by Atlas Editions about the Black pariahs of the Northwest. Fascinating insight into how blacks were treated in the Northwest and the resentment to emancipation in those States. “Illinois, Indiana and Iowa wanted nothing to do with black people, slave or free, and enacted laws to bar them from their states”. Interesting to note that “Lincoln did not think that whites could live in harmony and his plan was to resettle blacks to Central America”. Text on reverse.
Price: $30.00