Home > Library Company of Philadelphia > Exhibition Catalogs >   African American Miscellany: Selections from a Quarter Century of Collecting, 1870-1995: An Exhibition, February 5 through September 27, 1996
	Our Price: $15.00 By Phillip Lapsansky (fr) Year: 1996 Pages: 46 Binding Paperback ISBN 0914076914 Product Code: 0914076914

Description   The Afro-Americana Collection has become one of the most heavily used collections at the Library Co. of Phila. The library’s primary collecting  priority is the early printed productions of African Americans. Contents of this exhibition catalogue: Visions of Africa; Africa to the Americas; From St. Domingue to Haiti; Slavery & Antislavery -- Early Years; Antebellum Antislavery; Blackness & Whiteness; African American Lives -- In Their Own Words; African American Histories & Historians; African American Thought & Action; & Afro-Phila.: Community & Culture. Phila. through most of the 19th century was home to the largest Northern free black community, known for its active middle class & high level of social, religious, & cultural org. Illustrations.

Related Products... Noteworthy Philadelphia: A City’s Musical Heritage Our Price: $10.00 Add Mathew Carey: Publisher and Patriot Our Price: $15.00 Add The Hook and the Book Our Price: $15.00 Add Risky Business: Winning and Losing in the Early Am Our Price: $15.00 Add Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere: His American Museum 20 Our Price: $15.00 Add

Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review

Browse for more products in the same category as this item: Library Company of Philadelphia > Exhibition Catalogs Library Company of Philadelphia

	Alhacen on Image-Formation and Distortion in Mirrors: Volume 2, English Translation (Transactions 98, Part 1, Volume 2) $29.00
	Eilhard Mitscherlich: Prince of Prussian Chemistry $59.95
	Negro History, 1553-1903: An Exhibition of Books, Prints, and Manuscripts $15.00
	Planetary, Lunar and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1, at Five-Day and Ten Day Intervals (Memoir 56) $30.00
	Providential Anti-Semitism: Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Romania (Memoir 193) $20.00
	Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 (Memoir 231) $30.00
	Lost in Pennsylvania?: Try the Published “Pennsylvania Archives” $10.00
	Made in America: Printmaking, 1760-1860 $15.00
	Christ Church Burial Ground: Bird’s Eye Map $7.00