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Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants. A History of the Negro in Texas Politics from Reconstruction to Disenfranchisement

Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants. A History of the Negro in Texas Politics from Reconstruction to Disenfranchisement by Brewer, J. Mason

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Seller: McBride Rare Books
Title
Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants. A History of the Negro in Texas Politics from Reconstruction to Disenfranchisement
Author
Brewer, J. Mason
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Good plus.
Description
Dallas: Mathis Publishing Co, 1935. Good plus.. x,134pp., plus five pages of photographic plates. Original crimson cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Original green dust jacket ruled in white with black titles on front cover and spine and a color reproduction of the Texas state flag on the front panel. Modest wear to extremities and dust-soiling to cloth, rear hinge partially separated. Minor surface wear and edge wear to jacket, spine head chipped but not affecting spine text. A notable work of Texas African-American history by the state's trailblazing African-American historian. J. Mason Brewer was the first African-American member of the Texas Folklore Society and the first Black author elected to the Texas Institute of Letters. The present work is his second book of history, in which Brewer details the background of political participation by African American Texans from Reconstruction through the "Disenfranchisement of the Negro in Texas," tracing the rise and fall of African American voting rights in the process. The individual biographies of the legislators provide invaluable background information on a generation of Black men attempting to participate in the government in Jim Crow Texas. The photographic plates picture several of the legislators, some of their descendants, Rev. R.T. Andrews (identified as the grandson of Richard Allen), and a group portrait of the Ladies Reading Circle of Dallas, Texas (to whom the work is dedicated). The present copy is notable for retaining the original dust jacket, which we had never seen before.
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Collection of Adultery Trials by ENGLISH LAW

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
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Collection of Adultery Trials
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ENGLISH LAW
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1780. (ADULTERY). Collection of Adultery Trials. London: various, circa 1780-1808. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf gilt, raised bands, marbled endpaper and edges. $3500.A collection of reports of 11 adultery trials from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, combined with 30 engravings of scandalous encounters.Published accounts of adultery trials were very popular in late-18th/early 19th-century England, a way to indulge a taste for the erotic and the scandalous under the (thin) veil of condemnation. Included here are the trials of Robert Gordon for adultery with the wife of Joseph Seymour Biscoe, Rev. Mr. Cooper with the wife of Lord Cadogan, Sir John Bennett Piers with the wife of Lord Cloncurry, ""Thomas Theaker, Coachman, for Adultery with Mrs. Gregson,"" Thomas Sheridan with the wife of Peter Cambell, Captain Elwin with the wife of Sir George Brograve, J. Hacket with Mrs. Mansergh, R. J. Fergusson with the Countess of Elgin, Lord Borringdon and Sir A. Paget ""for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife,"" Colonel T.R. Powlett and Lord Sackville with another plaintiff's wife, and Ralph Benson with the wife of Thomas Parr, The collection of 30 engravings bound at the back of this book are taken from Trials for Adultery: or, a History of Divorces, a multivolume work published beginning in 1779. First two trials without title pages; ink marks to a few early pages; expert repair to contemporary binding.

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