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Richmond: The Virginia Press, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 400 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in quarter dark red cloth and brown paper boards with black lettering on spine. Three binding types noted, priority unknown. Minor shelf wear. Rubbing to boards and scuffing to cloth on spine. Age-toning to interior pages. Features photographs throughout. Shelved in Case 1. Giles Beecher Jackson was an attorney, entrepreneur, real estate developer, newspaper publisher, and civil rights activist. Daniel Webster Davis was an American educator, minister, and poet. In March 1902, Virginia governor Andrew Jackson Montague commissioned the Negro Building, a venue for exhibitions by and about African Americans, as well as to celebrate the tricentennial of the founding of Jamestown. In 1908, Jackson and Davis wrote The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States detailing the history of the exhibition. (Encyclopedia Virginia). 1377648. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Richmond, Va: The Presses of The Virginia Presses, 1908. First edition. Illustrated with photos. 400pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine sunned, else fine. First edition. Illustrated with photos. 400pp. 8vo. Both authors were born slave's children. Daniel Webster Davis (1862-1913) was a teacher, poet, pastor. Jackson (1853-1924) was a Richmond attorney, civil rights activist and newspaper publisher. Work p. 490, Notes 1 & 2

Richmond, Va: Presses of the Virginia Press, 1908. Very good plus.. 400pp., including scores of photographic plates and illustrations within the text. Publisher's light blue cloth stamped in black. Minor wear and rubbing to boards. A profusely-illustrated historical treatment of African American industrial history intended as a textbook for teaching Black youth. The authors, Giles B. Jackson and D. Webster Davis (who are featured in the photographic frontispiece), write in their Preface that "Every rave has its history written by its own members. This, to our mind, is a special reason why the Negro should have a history of himself, written by members of his own race, and that history should be taught in the schools of the youth of the race." They argue that the history of African Americans "can be best gleaned from his industrial progress...showing the strides made by the race along industrial lines." The work is comprised of chapters on the early history of African Americans, the introduction and… Read More