Inscribed first printing of this collection of short biographies of prominent Black people, as well as a brief summary of Maryland history with a focus on the state's Black population, written by a formerly enslaved man – inscribed to Black suffragist Addie Hunton.

First edition of the biography of Scott Bond, a formerly enslaved man who became one of the most famous Black businessmen of the era and a model of Booker T. Washington's racial uplift philosophy.

Signed first edition, first printing of this collection of autobiographical essays by the author of THE COLOR PURPLE and IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS.