Author: COX, Earnest Sevier
Title: Lincoln's Negro Policy
Description: Richmond, The William Byrd Press, Inc, 1938. Hardcover. 12mo. Stiff green printed wrappers. 36pp. Good only. Quite homely, in other words -- heavily age toned throughout, more so along the gutter, as well as mottled and discolored -- but in its defense it's fairly tight, easily readable and fully handleable, with no edge chips. First edition of this bizarre pamphlet in which the Methodist minister better known as an unabashed white supremacist and unreformed Southerner (1880-1966) regrets that the pre-Civil War notion of repatriation of African-Americans to Africa never took place. By way of completeness, this is accompanied by a fine, pristine second edition (Los Angeles: The Noontide Press, 1968), which Cox was working on when he died in Richmond, so this actually represents a revised, expanded edition and the book's first appearance in hardbound form: Small 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering, 64pp, illustrations. The first edition is surprisingly scarce and even the second edition seldom seen. .

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln Black History


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