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A single oversized page with an excerpt from the 1984 novel Abeng by Michelle Cliff, which discusses the aftermath of enslavement and oppression from the British in Jamaica in the 1950s. The excerpt features a description of Nanny, the leader of the Windward Maroons.

A single poster with the tagline "Fighting for Puerto Rico independence is not a crime," commemorating the August 30, 1985 arrests of the "Puerto Rico 16."

A pamphlet in tabloid newspaper format, discussing Haiti's first democratic elections in 1990 and the socio-political climate in its aftermath.

A single oversized document listing the prices for different tobacco products from La Recreativa, Miguel Pons y Bujosa, Fortaleza 22, San Juan, Puerto Rico, based on the amount ordered.

Four issues of the pro-Communist newspaper, printed in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and an insert titled "Manifiesto ante la crisis nacional y el nuevo gobierno de Balaguer."

"This pamphlet repudiates the secessionist assembly at Saint Marc and declares that real authority resides solely with the King in France. The authors reiterate that Saint Domingue is not a sovereign state but a colony of France and should behave accordingly. The French Revolution fueled unrest in the colony, eventually leading to the overthrow of French rule on the island. This imprint serves to illustrate the remarkable print culture of pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue, by far the richest of French sugar colonies. From imprints handled by this firm we know that there were presses at Saint Marc, Port-au-Prince, and Cap Français, with probably two different printers at each of the latter two." --Description from William Reese Company

A pamphlet issued by the Emergency National Council Against U.S. Intervention in Central America/The Caribbean (ENC).

"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

"...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.

"An archive of 7 letters, one with transmittal envelope, written between October 10 - December 26, 1942, by Frederick Goldman, a Jewish soldier from Brooklyn who is stationed on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. In 1927, those who resided in the U.S. Virgin Islands were given U.S. citizenship. The island of Saint Thomas, containing an area of about 32 square miles, has several bays on the southern coast, two of which, Lindbergh Bay and Gregerie Channel, were developed for U.S. Navy use. In 1940, the main east-west runway at Bourne Field was extended to a length of 4,800 feet, the hangar was expanded by 100 feet, and additional buildings were constructed, all of which in order to make the field suitable to house a permanent squadron of 18 aircrafts. An additional concrete ramp, a hangar, and other structures were also built at Lindbergh Bay to expand the seaplane base. On July 8, 1941, additional contracts were granted to expand the air station and to rebuild a submarine base in the Gregerie Channel. In Oct 1941, three new three new 150-foot steel radio towers and a reinforced-concrete transmitter building were built to replace the obsolete WWI-era station. After the United States entered WWII in Dec 1941, patrol flights were regularly launched from Saint Thomas to detect, in particular, Axis submarines. Between 1944 and 1950, the small Water Island of the U.S. Virgin Islands was used by the U.S. Army to test chemical warfare agents, including Agent Orange which would gain notoriety during the Vietnam War. The U.S. Virgin Islands remain a unincorporated organized territory of the United States to this day. Frederick Goldman was in the Coast Guard and these letters, two of which are in manuscript, and 5 typewritten are written to his parents and sister, all of whom live in Brooklyn. They relate everyday events in a soldier's life, some history of the Jewish community on St. Thomas and interest in what is happening in the family jewelry business back home..." --description from Buckingham Books.

Seventeen issues of the newsletter, featuring numbers 1-19, with only numbers 14 and 17 missing.

"Following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, in which Great Britain provided for the immediate abolition of slavery in all of its West Indian colonies with a £20m restitution to the slaveowners, a few of their colonies passed their own legislative acts. Only two such acts were separately printed however; St. Kitts and the present one on the island of Dominica. Conforming to the 1833 British parliamentary act, the present act details the newly-formed apprenticeship system as well as stipulations concerning punishments, land ownership, the bearing of arms, etc." --description by Librería de Antaño

A commemorative album printed in Havana, Cuba to celebrate the Dominican Republic's centennial since it declared independence from the Republic of Haiti on February 27, 1844.

"Sala & Co., J[uan].: [Copy book from J. Sala & Co., New York, with letters relating to shipping in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Cuba]. [Various places, as described below]. [28]pp. manuscript index, followed by 499 onionskin leaves comprising 402 letters. Five leaves laid in between leaves 195-96. Quarto. Three-quarter leather and cloth boards...A comprehensive look at the operations of a major import/export company in the Caribbean for the first part of 1893.

J. Sala & Co. was a large international firm headquartered in New York that did business of all kinds throughout the Caribbean, in particular Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti, but also Cuba, Jamaica, St. Thomas, St. Croix, and Curacao. In Delmar's...trades directory (1889-90) they are listed in San Juan, Puerto Rico as 'Ship Brokers and Commission Merchants.' In the port of New York... (1893-94), their entry describes them as 'General Commission Merchants,' Juan Sala and Cosme Battle are listed as agents. They also provided banking and finance services, in particular in partnership with Batlle, a Spanish merchant and banker, one of the wealthiest men in the Dominican Republic, and a chief creditor Ulises Heureaux. As this book only covers only January through part of March, 1893, one gets a sense of the extent of the firms activities.

The copy book begins with an alphabetical directory of recipients listed along with their location and the numbers of relevant letters in the copybook. 171 recipients are listed, representing over forty cities in the Caribbean, along with several in England, France, Germany, and Spain. Letters are primarily in Spanish, but also appear in French (for letters to Haiti and France) and English (for letters to England, Germany, Jamaica, and some clients in St. Thomas and St. Croix). Several leaves have a mimeographed memorandum form with the company name and address (144). Almost every letter is annotated in blue pencil with the number(s) of related letters in the copybook, providing a further index; some letters have additional annotations in black pencil.

All letters are signed 'J. Sala & Co.' and deal with a wide variety of business issues, including notices about payments received and credits processed (along with inquiries about late payments) (for example, leaf 112); credit references (leaf 90); consignments of turtle shells (leaves 330 and 464); and shipments of lumber (leaves 127, 355), iron pipes (328, 461), and whisky (463), among other things, although most often the material in question is listed as "sundries." In letters to Enrique Nebot of Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic, a Sala agent discusses the schooner 'Annie R. Kemp' (144-146), which they have chartered on his behalf, and introduce the letter's bearer the ship's captain - who is not named. The letter is in English, which is presumably for the captain's benefit, since other letters to Nebot are in Spanish. The letter goes on to note that Nebot's 'sundries...do not appear on the vessel's manifest, and we have assured him [the captain] in your name that he will have no trouble whatsoever with your Custom House on that or other account...' The Dominican Republic had a notoriously corrupt customs system at this time, and no doubt J. Sala & Co. made sure they took advantage of every available loophole.

A densely-informative and very interesting record of an active business engaged in a variety of endeavors in the Caribbean.

The port of New York: a souvenir of the new York Custom House, and index of the imports and shipping facilities of this port (New York, 1893-94).

Delmar's new, revised, and complete classified trades directly and mercantile manual of Mexico, Central America, and the West India Islands (Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1889-90)" -- Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America