Jumel Terrace Books

Jumel Terrace Books

Revolutionary & Colonial Washington Heights, Harlem, Africa, West Indies, Art, Myth, History & Literature: Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Theology, Military, Labor, Civil Rights, Negritude, Black Power.

"An Oasis for the Unrestrained Pursuit of Knowledge"
*************And a "Nugget" in the Rubbish*************

Uptown's only bookshop specializing in local history, African & American. The shop on 160th Street, open by appointment or serendipity, faces the Morris-Jumel Mansion, the headquarters of George Washington during 1776’s Battle of Harlem Heights, & our stock addresses its significance in 18th & 20th century Revolutionary American history.

As Sugar Hill, the neighborhood has retained its reputation as the intellectual & artistic home of Black America. Jumel Terrace Books follows in the tradition of bookstores serving the community since George Young’s Book Exchange opened in 1920. Before Black Studies entered college curriculums in 1968, shops like Lewis Micheaux’s House of Common Sense & Home of Proper Propaganda & Richard B Moore’s Frederick Douglass Book Center were important sources of education, aspiration & inspiration. As did our predecessors, we buy & sell very good books on our subjects.

Jumel Terrace Books - Blog

Kurt Thometz : Open Mic by Gildas

Recovered from the sands of time. Gildas and I spent the afternoon together yesterday and I was reminded of this interview from just as Jumel Terrace Books closed, 30 September 2015. After spending two years on the main avenues of New York, I decided to try to learn more and more about the small streets. […]

Nothing like some good Herb.

Herb Boyd, second from right, at Wayne State University in 1977, as his daughter reads to Alex Haley. Also in the group is Rosa Parks, second from left. Credit via Harper Collins BLACK DETROIT A People’s History of Self-Determination By Herb Boyd Illustrated. 416 pp. Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers. $27.99. Detroit has found its griot in Herb […]