The following wholesale discounts are available to resellers only and are calculated from the regular retail price. Please note that our primary responsibility is to our retail customers. Wholesale orders occasionally may take a few weeks to fill, so it is always a good idea to plan ahead. We cannot accept large wholesale orders during the month of December.

1 to 5 copies of the same title: no discount (see exception below)
6 to 11 copies of the same title: 30% off regular retail price
12 to 17 copies of the same title: 40% off regular retail price
18 copies of the same title: 50% off regular retail price

The above discounts are firm and non-negotiable. However, if the retail total of your order comes to at least 250.00, you will receive 40% off all books regardless of quantity per title (18 or more will still receive the 50% discount). Pre-payment is now required for all new accounts.

Unsold books may be returned for credit only, minus a 5% restocking fee. All returns must be in sellable condition and still in shrink wrap. Shipping costs will not be credited.

Yes, there were. According to the 1860 census, there were 250,000 free Blacks in the South, many of whom owned slaves of their own. For example, in 1860, the number of Black slaveholders in the State of South Carolina alone was 171, holding property in 766 slaves. Nearly one-half of those classified as "colored taxpayers" in Charleston owned between them a total of 390 slaves, and at the end of the war, 241 slaves in that city were released from service to their Black masters. It is true that some of the slaves purchased and held by these Negro masters were "their own kindred, bought and held merely because the laws forbade manumission without exile." Nevertheless, others had an economic, not merely a personal, interest in the institution. According to Larry Koger, "...[M]any black masters did not intend to manumit their slaves and viewed the institution of slavery as a source of labor to be exploited for their own benefit. Indeed, free blacks not only used the labor of slaves to till the soil of their farms and plantations but also purchased slaves to work in their businesses as skilled and unskilled laborers.... [T]he system of American slavery was a universal institution in which even Afro-Americans became slaveowners and occasionally ascended to the ranks of large slaveowning planters" (Black Slaveowners in South Carolina, 1790-1860 [Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., 1985], page 2).