A powerful visual record & concise narrative of the slave trade that describes life in Africa & horrifying details of slave ships. This is an important book about the slave trade. Sixty-four narrative paintings chronicle the journey of a slave ship & a historical introduction traces four centuries of slave trade. Map of the slave routes.
Description:
BEIN 2010 Folio 7: Dust jacket. Dial Books bookplate signed by the author. and Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher:
Dial Books,
Subject (Name):
Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998, Dial Books for Young Readers Bookplate, Feelings, Tom, and Feelings, Tom--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Africans in art, Slave ships--Pictorial works, and Slavery in art
Bibliography: p. 421-446. and Dust jacket. Editor's presentation inscription to Carl Van Vechten. Auographs from contributors throughout: James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Aaron Douglas, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Miguel Covarrubias and Walter White. Bookplate of Carl Van Vechten.
Publisher:
Albert and Charles Boni,
Subject (Name):
Albert & Charles Boni publisher, Covarrubias, Miguel,--1904-1957--Autograph, Cullen, Countee,--1903-1946--Autograph, Douglas, Aaron--Autograph, Fisher, Rudolph,--1897-1934--Autograph, Hughes, Langston,--1902-1967--Autograph, Johnson, James Weldon,--1871-1938--Autograph, Locke, Alain LeRoy,--1886-1954--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten, Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from A.L. Locke, and White, Walter Francis,--1893-1955--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
African American art, African Americans--Folklore, American literature--African American authors, Art, Black, Blacks--Folklore, and Literature--Black authors
"The greater part of this poem was delivered before the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in June, 1911"--Verso of 2d. prelim. leaf. and Bookseller's label: The Old Corner Book Store, Inc, Boston, Mass.
"Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York"--T.p. verso., Dust jacket. Autograph of Lillian S. Tarlow., and In verse.
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf,
Subject (Name):
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher., Damon, S. Foster (Samuel Foster), 1893-1971., H. Wolff, Inc., binder., Tarlow, Lillian S.--Autograph., and Vaill-Ballou Press, printer.
"All the stories in this book were done by Mrs. Lang, out of the old romances"--Preface by Andrew Lang, p. viii., "The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass."--T.p. verso., Leaves of plates accompanied by protective sheets., and Publisher's advertisment for the Fairy book series: p. [ii].
Publisher:
Longmans, Green and Co.,
Subject (Name):
Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill., Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, ed., Lang, Mrs., Longmans, Green, and Co., publisher, and Plimpton Press, printer