[AFRICAN-AMERICAN] THE FREE NEGRO IN NORTH CAROLINA 1790-1860

John Hope Franklin

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1943.

Hard Cover. First Edition. Quarto; in the publisher’s light blue cloth, with titling in gilt and lacking the dustjacket; [x], [3] 4-271 pages including the Index; a clean First Edition copy with no marks of any kind, though the most attractive bookplate of North Carolinian Winston Broadfoot is on the pastedown.~~This is John Hope Franklin’s first book. Dr. Franklin said of himself, “My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.”~He clearly rose to the challenge.

Near Fine binding.
Item #296269

Price: $150.00