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The items in the Ravage Collection were donated by Professor Emeritus Jack Ravage. Dr. Ravage worked in the Department of Journalism and Communication at the University of Wyoming from 1973-2000. This donation consists of books that he used as part of his research. The items primarily relate to the African American history and experience of the West. This collection complements Dr. Ravage's papers, which are located at the American Heritage Center.
The Black West by Looks at the history of Blacks in the American Western frontier.
Ebony Pictorial History of Black America by Three volumes of prose and illustrations trace Afro-American history from the origins of the race in Africa to contemporary times.
The First Ladies cook book : favorite recipes of all the Presidents of the United States by 
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by As Linda Brent, the book's heroine and narrator, Harriet Jacobs recounts the history of her family and recalls the degradation of slavery, especially the sexual oppression she experienced as a slave woman.
Sons of the profits: or, There's no business like grow business: the Seattle story, 1851-1901 by 
Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War by Although documentation shows that the American Civil War was conducted in large part by amateurs, the activities of spies gained some unprecedented sophistication thanks to new technology - photography, telegraphs and even hot-air balloons. Donald E. Markle details the rapid advances in methods of covert communication via newspaper and telegraph, and their efforts on the war front. Enemy newspapers, for instance, became a coveted asset for the spy.
There once was a slave...: the heroic story of Frederick Douglass by 
This Life by The Academy Award-winning Black actor tells of his childhood in the Bahamas, his introduction to New York, his two marriages and tumultuous eight-year relationship with Diahann Carroll, and his numerous films.
Photographs from the 1900 Paris Exposition "Exhibit of American Negroes," 61. African-American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly left.
Photographs from the 1900 Paris Exposition "Exhibit of American Negroes," 85. African-American woman, half-length portrait, facing right.
Photographs from the 1900 Paris Exposition: Exhibit of American Negroes," 122. African-American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.
Photographs from the 1900 Paris Exposition "Exhibit of American Negroes," 85. African-American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.
Frederick Remington sketched this dismounted Tenth Cavalryman.
Before daybreak, the horn of the slave foreman or 'driver' summoned the slaves from their cabins.
Frederick Douglass, a runaway slave, was a leader in the antislavery movement
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