Magus, Jim: Magical Heroes, The Lives and Legends of Great African American Magicians ©1995 James Saltarella, Magus Enterprises, GA Hardcover, no dj, 229 pages

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Comments: Note that Jim has written an updated and expanded book on African American conjurers as, "That Old Black Magic - the Lives and Legends of Great African American Magicians."

Contents (from book ToC):

6 Introduction
9 Richard Potter
31 Escape From Slavery - Henry "Box" Brown
58 The Minstrel Magicians
90 Hindu Fakers
107 King of the Colored Conjurors - Professor Armstrong
127 Only Once Every Seven Years - The Great Black Herman
152 The Imagination Man - Fetaqus Sanders
193 Presto
205 Contemporary Conjurors of Color