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Cultural Workers Front of Our America: History of the The Third World Caucus

"[San Francisco Bay Area]: The Front, [1975]. 5 p., 8.5 x 11 inch sheets stapled at upper left corner. Discusses the effort spearheaded by Chicanos to form a caucus within the Front and the rocky beginning to its work. Attached sheet lists organizations interested in possible collaboration, including CEDOAS (a Dominican organization), the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, Congress of Afrikan People, and others; also included is a summary of a visit to NYC and cultural contacts made there, especially with the Nation of Grafitti Artists, a Dominican and Puerto Rican group of kids that targeted trains, bridges, etc." -Bolerium

Assignment of a Term in a Third Part of a Plantation. Clarendon - Jamaica.

4515 E. Assignment of a Term in a third part of Longville Estate in Clarendon, Jamaica subject to redemption. Samuel Scudamore Fleming and Mary Charlotte Fleming his wife and their trustees to Richard Green and Daniel Richards. 2 leaves of vellum joined at foot with 4 seals. Dated 22 January 1793. #4515 F. (copy of #4515 E)

Jamaica - Mortage of Buckingham Estate. James Trecothick to William Hopkins.

4521 A/B. Transcription in Folder 4 of 5 in Drawer 7. A- Mortgage in Fee of Buckingham Plantation and Estate for Securing £1000 and Interest. B- Lease for a year. James Trecothick Esq. to William Hopkins Esq. Parish of Saint Thomas. Dated 25th March 1800. Four membranes of vellum, joined at foot with 2 seals.

Jamaica - Sweet River Plantation - Release in Respect of Matters under the Will of F. Vassell Esq.

4523 C. In transcrition folder 3 of 5. Release of Sweet River Plantation, Jamaica, the property of the deceased widow of Lord Holland above, involved the children of Lady Holland's previous marriage to Sir Godfrey Webster, her illegitimate son Charles Fox Webster, and her children of her second marriage (including the present Lord Holland, Henry Edward). 1 membrane of vellum, 7 seals. 3 Sept. 1858.

Manuscript letter (Slavery in Grenada): Thomas Lithgow to George Dunlap

"[Grenada, 18 May 1788]- Manuscript signed letter of significant content, dealing with the Belmont Estate, a sugar plantation in Grenada, features the African slave trade, slavery legislation, coffee and cocoa production, and the financial affairs following the death of the estate owner John Aitcheson Sr., written by Thomas Lithgow and addressed to comptroller George Dunlop. 8vo. Double leaf laid watermarked paper by C. Taylor, measuring approximately 18.5 x 22 cm, with integral address, imbedded red wax seal, manuscript annotations and mail markings including a stamp from the Dover Shipyard. The writer, Thomas Lithgow, was a planter in Grenada, and evidently well connected with the island's mercantile and political elite, a highly influential group of Scottish plantation and slave owners in the West Indies, including the future Governor. [Lithgow is listed as such in David Dobson's work, "Scots in the West Indies 1707-1857" which refers to the 1779 records of the National Archive of Scotland.]" - Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts

Appraisement of Cardiff Plantation Negros & Stock

"Two manuscript appraisals of the virtually unknown Cardiff Estate in Saint Mary Parish, Tobago, valuing the land, buildings, slaves, and livestock. The 1810 document features the signatures of three appraisers, and an addendum annotation signed by attorney John Reid who requested the assessment on behalf of Messrs. ... 4 pages on a double-leaf, laid watermarked paper of T.J. Edmonds 1804, featuring the Britannia." -Voyager Press Rare Books

Autograph letter signed, Jericho, Linstead, P.O., Jamaica to Rev. James Hume

"An extensive autobiographical letter written by John Clarke, pioneer of the Baptist Missionary Society in Jamaica, Fernando Po, and the Cameroons, to his fellow missionary Rev. James Hume.

Clarke, an Englishman, sailed for Jamaica in 1829, where he worked until 1840. In response to the desire of many newly emancipated slaves to send the gospel to their native continent, he and G. K. Prince were sent by the BMS to West Africa in 1840 to explore the possibilities of a mission to the Niger. They landed on the island of Fernando Po in January 1841 and began work among the freed slave population. Rather than proceeding to the Niger, Clarke and Prince recommended that the BMS establish a mission on the island on the neighboring Cameroonian mainland. In the course of 1842 and 1843, Clarke visited Jamaica twice and England once to recruit volunteers for the new mission. In February 1844, he returned to Fernando Po with a party of forty-two Jamaican teachers and settlers. This experiment was not a success, as it was dogged by problems of ill health and quarreling. In 1847, Clarke led many of the migrants home to Jamaica. Nonetheless, the Cameroons mission survived and later became the springboard for the BMS Congo mission. Clarke spent the rest of his life as a Baptist minister in Jamaica." –Michael Brown Rare Books

Typed transcript of letter included in folder.

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Newspaper: The St. Croix Gazette - Fourth Quarter, no. 79

"Saint Croix (Christiansted): Peter Lake Clarke, Friday, Oct. 2, 1812...Single issue of this rare Caribbean newspaper, containing sale and rental advertisements, as well as official announcements. Several of the listings are printed in both Danish and English. Of the eight announcements for auctions of estates and property, six detail the sale of slaves. The climate of the region has resulted in few of these publications surviving. Newspaper printing on St. Croix began in the early 19th century..." –Description from William Reese Company

Assignment of the Skerrett plantation in the island of Antigua

"This indenture of 1814-15 records the assignment to the wealthy slave owner and politician Christopher Bethell Cordington by the trustees and grandson of Sir Peter Parker the rights to a sugar planation on Antigua called Skerretts. The document recites details concerning the history of ownership of the estate. Numbering 500 acres in the parish of St. John, it was named after owner Robert Skerrett and later became known as Clare Hall estate." –Description from Samuel Gedge, bookseller

Pamphlet: Tierra y Libertad

This pamphlet features two interviews with Corky Gonzales and Cha Cha Jimenez. It originally appeared in the Tricontinental magazine based in Havana, Cuba and was later published by the Radical Education Project in Detroit in 1970.

Autograph signed letter from the Colonial Governor of Trinidad, who established public education for children of all races on the island

"A 20-page autograph letter signed by George Francis Robert Harris, 3rd Baron, a liberal politician and colonial administrator, and the Governor of Trinidad and Tobago from 1846 to 1853. A very long letter designated 'Private,' signed by 'Harris' as Colonial Governor, and addressed to "My dear Sir" [almost certainly to Sir Benjamin Hawes, M. P. for Kinsale], discussing affairs of the colony and specifically recent pamphlets on colonial affairs. Five octavo bifolium gatherings...A lengthy letter to Hawes discussing the pamphlet 'Observations in Answer to Sir William Molesworth's Speech [Tuesday, July 25, 1848] on Colonial Expenditure and Government' by J. T. Danson, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, examining the issues raised about Colonial Government, the prevailing bias for the colored and black races against the planters, the subject of racial differences, the provision of education for the Negroes, landlords, the expenditure of colonial government, the high cost of living in the colonies, English influence, and much else.

A wide-ranging letter, presumably written to Hawes who was made Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in Lord John Russell's government. It was Harris who brought a system of local government to Trinidad, 'which was dispensable to the efficient operation of an education system,' but 'Economic conditions precluded political and social reform, and such ambitious plans for education and local government had to be temporarily shelved. The closing months of 1847 saw Trinidad sinking into its worst economic depression of the century...' (Ameer H. Ali, Development of higher education in Trinidad and Tobago 1498-1968, pp. 30-40, doctoral dissertation, Ottawa, 1975).

It was during those exact conditions that Lord Harris penned this letter. 'Lord Harris was appalled at the low educational standard in Trinidad...Harris also started the first public library in Port-of-Spain...a steamer that shuttled between south Trinidad and Port-of-Spain was named after him. Today, Lord Harris Square in Port-of-Spain is reminiscent of the man who brought mass education to Trinidad.' (Gerard A. Beeson, 'Lord Harris: Live and Learn!' in The Caribbean History Archive, 2011).

Despite his many laudable accomplishments in Trinidad, Governor Harris was, in the end, still a 19th Century British politician. He writes 'There has generally been too great a leaning towards the coloured & black race & against the planters manifested...I think the unwillingness of the white proprietors or planters to provide for the education of the negroes is a good deal overstated...The blacks show little disposition to acquire more than small properties. In a few years when they have got rid of the bothering of the white, for they look upon his ideas of industry in that light, they will be happy contended indolent race...Not only did the white proprietors send their children to Europe for their education, but many of the coloured people did the same & any blacks getting into good circumstances have followed their example. By this they have acquired better habits, higher notions of civilisation & more extended ideas-their poverty now prevents this-and they will consequently become more prejudiced less easy to manage. In fact there can be no doubt that unintentionally we have been forming a number of embryo republics...but of this I am certain-that it is only by our own race & chiefly by Englishmen-that we keep our influence & power, & thus the interests of our merchants, and hope that the ideas & opinions of a person on the spot however unworthy of much regard, may be of some little assistance to you with respect to the subjects referred to.'" –Description by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

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Report: Construction history of all work in connection with San Juan central area

"A thorough narrative documentation of the builders' (apparently a conglomeration of construction companies from Baltimore and Texas) work on many different defense installations in Puerto Rico leading up to and in the first years of World War II. While rich in detail of each project, Driver manages to preserve some chatty commentary of the circumstances of each project. He covers 20 different defense projects, all but three in Puerto Rico (the others in the Virgin Islands and St. Lucia and Antigua in the British West Indies). The projects are pretty much exclusively military, or in support of military bases, and include the U.S. Naval Air Station near San Juan, a submarine detector finder station at Morro Castle, a radio station, 10th Naval District Headquarters Facilities, a U.S. Navy dry dock, a U.S. Army Engineering Range, fixed obstructions, a machine gun range, fuel oil and ordinance storage facilities, and much more. The reports provide a narrative of the construction, circumstances affecting construction, details of various aspects of each project, a breakdown of the laborers on each project by nationality, costs, labor conditions, etc. Possibly the only surviving copy of this extensive report." –Description from Between the Covers Rare Books

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Correspondence to Anna Melissa Graves from Julio H. Velàzquez and Julia M. Velàzquez

"Contains a collection of fourteen letters on 31 leaves, both autograph and typescript, by Puerto Rican Nationalist Julio H. Velàzquez and his mother Julia, all addressed to benefactor and friend Anna Melissa Graves (1875-1964).

Julio Hector Velàzquez was still a minor in high school in 1937 when he, his father Luis F. Velàzquez, Pedro Albizu Campos, President of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, and five others, were convicted and imprisoned for conspiracy to overthrow the United States government. Julio would spend several years in prison (we have been unable to ascertain how long, though a newspaper article from 1941 indicates he was in prison in that year), and the present collection, though dating from more than twenty years after his trial, indicate the enduringly crippling effect his youthful imprisonment had on his life, his family, and his career.

The recipient of all correspondence, Anna Melissa Graves, was a prominent American internationalist, civil rights advocate, peace activist, and author who held a long-time leadership position in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Much of the present correspondence relates to Julio's attempts to become, like his grandfather before him, an independently operating printer in the Bronx, with Graves his primary patron (indeed, a search for anything printed by Velàzquez in OCLC only shows two pamphlets, both by Graves: 'The Necessity for a Struggle to Abolish Colonialism' (ca. 1953) and 'Please Listen, Mr. President: A Letter to President Eisenhower' (ca. 1960). The letters from Julio's mother Julia portray a family struggling for decades with family calamity, the last few letters from her explicitly describing terrible bouts of depression and anxiety for the well-being of her son. The final letter, written by Julio in January 1963, about eighteen months before Graves' death at the age of 89, shows desperation on his part for Graves' patronage, his having just received a letter from her (not seen) in which she appears to have canceled a print job he was working on due to the poor quality of the proofs. To this Julio begs her, 'Please, please, Miss Graves I am about finished in setting the whole copy in type which is actually the heavy part of the work in printing the book and I won't feel well if after so much work I will not complete the actual printing job of the booklet. I promise you that you will like the finished printing job of the booklet.' Whether the pamphlet was ever finished is unclear. A valuable portrait of a struggling Puerto Rican Nationalist family and the adverse effects of juvenile imprisonment." –Description from Lorne Bair Rare Books, Inc.

Documents of Afro-Dutch immigrant from Suriname to Harlem, William Nille (1/5)

"[African American] [Immigration] Archive of William Nille, an Afro-Dutch immigrant from Suriname to Harlem, New York. Approximately 100 items, including letters from home and friends, documents containing immigration paperwork and home contracts, and family photographs. Location of pieces are Dutch Guiana, New York, and Georgia, circa 1924-1973. William Jullius Nille (1899-1971) was born in the colony of Dutch Guiana, now Suriname, and then lived on the Dutch island of Curaçao. Like many people of African descent, Nille arrived as an immigrant to Harlem, New York in 1921, seeking new opportunity. Suriname's diverse populace stems from the Dutch importing enslaved people form Africa and South Asia. Though slavery was abolished in Suriname by the Netherlands in 1863, many of their descendants stayed as plantation workers decades later. The Suriname population remains relatively small, approximately 10,000-15,000, in the United States with larger migrations in the 1970s. Nille worked as a fireman in his homeland and as an elevator operator in the United States. In the late 1920s, he married a Georgia-born woman named Sarah Williams of which they had no children. At some point in the 1940s, they moved to Savannah, GA., where he was laborer at a car dealership. Included in this lot are his 1924 naturalization intention certificate in which he describes his occupation as a fireman and his physical characteristics as being 'black' with 'light complexion...black hair...brown eyes' and three letters from his family in Paramaribo, the capital of Dutch Guiana, 1925-1932, all written in Dutch. One letter is from his brother Eugene Nille and discusses family matters back home. A few letters are addressed to Sarah Nille. One from New York friends dated 26 July 1973 describes life in Harlem: 'It is very bad here now, not safe day or night. People are crazy now, do anything to anybody.' A newspaper clipping from Georgia, 7 August 1922, has an article on the Klu Klux Klan in local politics. The approximately 70 photographs are mainly from the 1920s to early 1940s with most taken in New York. Some are inscribed en verso. The largest photograph dates to the 1930s and shows a group portrait of the multi-racial Netherland Guiana League, posed in front of the American and Dutch flags and Nille posed third from the left in the back row. Numerous snapshots show Nille with his wife and friends in the city and countryside. One photographs shows the African Dough Boys in uniform partaking in a demonstration, one holds the American flag while others have illegible picket signs. Nille's naturalization records required a 2"x2" portrait of him which is included as he fashions a mustache and wears a dress shirt, tie, and leather workman's jacket. Many photographs include children, and a recurring woman appears, possibly Sarah Nille, with photographs of her graduation, to a photo booth picture, and a professional studio portrait stamped en verso 'Harlem Studio, Savannah GA.' Two membership receipts addressed to Sarah are from Eureka Temple No. 22, in New York City. The Eureka lodges claim to have been one of, if not the, first Black Masonic lodges in the United States and Lodge No. 22 still functions today. The receipts indicate that she was initiated 28 June 1935. A letter written to Sarah is from some friends who mention their involvement with Masonry. These charitable organizations gave way for Black American to be involved in their community and all Black lodges were especially necessary during the time of Jim Crow laws. Many other photographs show other African-American men, women, and children, these were possibly family members of Sarah or friends of the couple..." –description from Max Rambod

Negro Digest: A Magazine of Negro Comment, voI. II, no. 8

"A single but important issue from this influential and important digest, which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpt articles by and about African-Americans from other publications, there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue includes Langston Hughes, George S. Schuyler, Horace R. Cayton, and others, but perhaps most importantly, includes an article written for the Digest by Zora Neale Hurston, 'My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience.'" --description from Between the Covers Rare Books

Imprint from Saint-Domingue: La commune des Cayes constituante, a l'Assemblée Coloniale de la Partie Française de St. Domingue. En Assemblée réguliere, le 6 Mai 1792.

"...An unrecorded pamphlet, printed by a government press in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, documenting the emotional and political reactions to the beginnings of the Haitian Revolution, a critical moment in Caribbean colonial history.

On 14 August 1791, under the charge of enslaved leader Dutty Boukman, and the Vodou prophetess Cécile Fatiman, about two hundred enslaved people in the northern regions of the isle of Saint-Domingue took the Oath of Bois Caïman, committing to an orchestrated revolt against their white enslavers. The conflict was the only successful revolt of enslaved people in modern history and resulted in the establishment of the autonomous nation of Haiti in 1804, after 13 years of open conflict.

The document was printed during the initial shockwave generated by the rebellion, which began in the north of the island and developed after mass killings of white landowners and their families into a military conflict between revolutionary factions. Our document, written by one Goujon representative of the people of the commune of Cayes and addressed to the Colonial Assembly of Saint Domingue urges three central points: 1) A strengthening of the role of communes and municipalities in order to consolidate republican ideals on the island; 2) maintenance of freedom of the press, which had been restricted in other parts of the colony, and 3) delegation of the restoration of order to the executive branch of the government in the face of the accelerating violence of the rebellion..."--Description from W. S. Cotter Rare Books.

Collection of 13 illustrated pages from English and French periodicals of mid-19th century life on Martinique

Included are "an 1861 view of St. Pierre, early view of Fort Royal, inauguration of the statue to Empress Josephine in 1859, Martinique exhibition at the Paris 1900 exposition, different types, volunteer Creoles disembarking to support Emperor Maximillian in Mexico, Mathieu Louisi, Governor disembarking in 1867, soldiers clearing debris after a storm in 1865, laying the first stone of the redoubt at Fort-de-France in 1862, local market." –Description by Kevin Jackson, bookseller.

New Orleans ALS.: Lopez, Narcisso, 1797-1851. Cuban Filibuster

1 page document. This folder also includes newspaper clippings describing the experiences of one of Lopez's survivors during Lopez's second expedition to Cuba. Lopez, Narciso. Venezuelan-born filibuster in Cuba; to Cuba (1841) and identified himself with revolutionists; fled to U.S. (1849) and thereafter organized three filibustering expeditions to Cuba; captured and shot, at Havana.

Thoré, Loius and B.: Letter to Paul Thoré

"A letter from the Thoré brothers, Louis and B. Thoré to their father Paul Thoré, Paul Thoré was originally from Gers, left in the middle of the eighteenth century for Martinique and settled in St. Pierre, where he made a fortune as a trader. His children were born there. He returned to Gers in 1792, where he bought property newly confiscated by the State - the Abbaye de Flaran and the Chateau de Cassaigne. The Thoré brothers write about the seizure of their vessel by the English and discuss the use of Danish ships as neutral vessels." -The New Antiquarian

Steward, T.G.: The American Negro Academy

"Steward, T.G.: How the Black St. Domingo Legion Saved the Patriot Army in the Siege of Savannah, 1779. Washington. 1899. 15pp.
First edition. History of the involvement of the St. Domingo Legion, the French colony which later became Haiti, in the Siege of Savannah. The battle was notable for the significant presence of foreign trooper, including hundreds of African American soldiers.

This copy owned by American newspaper magnate, William Randolph magnate, William Randlph Hearst. It is inscribed to Hearst from James Theodore Holly, the first African American bishop for the Protestant Episcopal Church. Holly spent most of his career as a missionary of bishop in Haiti and is mentioned as a contributing scholar in the article's after word.

Number five of a series of papers published by the American Negro Academy." -Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America

London.: Mr. Newman, ALS to George Hooper

2 page document. The author of this letter, Mr. Newman, was the Executor and Joint Trustee to Justinian Casamayor. In this letter, Mr. Newman references the death of Justinian Casamayor, and requests for George Hooper to attend the Countinghouse at 33 Great St. Helen's Bishopsgate Street.

E.T. Bunn, ALS to George Hooper

Includes transcript, 2 page document. In this letter, Mr. Bunn thanks Mr. Hooper for a notice in regards to his daughters. He also mentions that Mr. Newman is in correspondence with the Shands in hopes of obtaining a remittance.

Puerto Rico: Marxist-Leninists for an Independent Puerto Rico

Minutes of MLIP meeting MLC summary of and proposals for work in MLIP first and second draft political statement of marxist-leninists for an independent Puerto Rico recommendation for withdrawal from the Puerto Rican solidarity committee statement of criticisms of the political views of the Puerto Rican solidarity committee

Haiti: Jean-Pierre Boyer and His Presidency - Original Manuscripts

"Group of 7 documents relating to Jean-Pierre Boyer and his Presidency. Vp, 1808-25.

Jean-Pierre Boyer was the longest-tenured Haitian Leader of his era, serving as president from 1818 to 1843. Under his rule, the competing northern and southern parts of Haiti were united, and Spanish Haiti (now the Dominican Republic) was annexed.

This lot includes: Receipt for the sale of a horse to General Bazelais, possibly signed by Boyer as a lieutenant colonel, 4 July 1808, and then signed over on verso by Bazelais to General Delva, 1809 Receipt signed by General Boyer to Madame Daran for a horse, 24 October 1811 Pair of documents regarding a requisition submitted by C. Babeuf, one endorsed with General Boyer's signature and the other by President Petion, 15 April 1815 Pair of documents signed by Joseph Latortue in the northern part of Haiti, the first as a baron while the north was still an independent kingdom, the second as administrator under Boyer's united Haiti, 26 April 1817 and 11 February 1823 Receipt on official letterhead signed by President Boyer, issued to General Benjamin Noel for a house purchased from the state, 16 July 1825." -Libreria de Antano, Buenos Ayres

"Documents of Caribbean Struggles -Jamaica Today: A World View"

Collection of newspaper articles about house squatting in Jamaica Article Headlines: "Jamaica: Democratic Socialism versus The Struggle for Change" "Problem of Captured Property" "PM newers warning against land capture" "Captured: Houses and Land" "Rema: the politics of terror" "Capturing Capitalist Houses" "Brother versus Brother" "Squatters Must Go" "Property or Anarchy" "Spaulding: Committed to End 'Capture' of Govt. Property" "Getting to the heart of the Rema affair" "Big owners won't release unused land" "1,300 norwood squatters step forward" "Democratic socialism" "Week-end reflections" "1,200 acre property seized by squatters" "Morant Bay: The Diary of a Rebellion" "Jamaica: Workers" "Law and Order Jamaican Style" " 'Justice' demo for a 17-year old boy" "Police vigilante squad taken out of operation" "Houses only occupied, not captured" "No evidence of JLP, PNP aid to gangs" "How workers participate in Iran" "Middle class houses" "Police tear gas disperses marchers" "New police violence launched against the people, crime only an excuse" "Citizens protest killings by police" "Where are our radicals?" "Court opens hearing into appeal by J.O.S. workers" "Soares Regime unable to bring stability to portugal" "Portugal: Turning Defeat Into Victory" "Police Up Attacks on Trench Town Youth" "The Struggle for Worker's Control in Tanzania" "Spain: Revolution on Land and in Industry" "The Adventure of Westmoreland: Workers council in Rural Jamaica - 1969-1971"

Collection of 26 illustrated pages of European periodicals reflecting 19th and 20th century life in Jamaica

The periodicals show "the results of the fire in Kingston in 1883, including a map of the damaged areas, Port Royal, the horticultural show at York Castle, the British seizure of Jamaica in 1655, banana and sugar culture and industry, coaling a steamer at Kingston, the revival of trade, an overseer on a sugar plantation, horse racing, 'coloured' life, view of Kingston, markets, Job's Hill copper mine, Confederate raider Alabama at Port Royal, caricatures of local life, and an essay on the West Indies, Free Labour, and Cotton." –Description by Kevin Jackson, bookseller.

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