(Documents Relating to) Slavery/Freedmen (Prior to 1866)

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Patterson, Henry 1.

Testimonial to the moral and upright character of Patterson, a free man of color, signed by thirty-one citizens of Raleigh, North Carolina, April 9, 1853, Raleigh, North Carolina. Attested, April 20, 1853. Attached: Certificate of office of one of the subscribers, and his seal.
Peirce, R.A.

Pass, Camp Meigs, Readville. Pass in and out of camp at all hours. Has Peirce’s stamp on it.
Peoples, Robert R.

Report of investments in slaves. Antanga County, Alabama.
President Jefferson on Slavery. Excerpts from President Thomas Jefferson's work entitled "Notes on Virginia".

November, 1863. Introductory paragraph before excerpts signed with initials "L.T." With: John 11. Bryant. Upward! Onward! (poem)
Pumphrey, William P.

$50 Reward: Ranaway, Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges County, Maryland, Thursday, /August 23, 1860/, a Negro man, Isaac. "Marlboro Gazette" office printer. Original in Howard University Museum. Includes physical description of Isaac.
Report of the Committee to Whom Was Referred so much of the Presidents' message as it relates to the introduction of s slaves from Amelia Island.
Rothwell, Ebenezer.

Manumission of Isaac by Ebenezer Rothwell of New Castle and State of Delaware. Endorsed by Thomas Rothwell.
Samford, Watkins.

Deed of emancipation, County of Brunswick, State of Virginia, for Lucy Ann, a mulatto woman and her children by Watkins Samford, Executor of the Will of William Samford.
Satterlee, Edward R.

Deed of Emancipation, Albany, by which Edward R. Satterlee manumits Rosanna Wood.
Selby, Enoch George.

Six months in the South. ca. 1814. A narrative of his experience in the South while remaining health. Gives impressions of slavery.
Simon, Maurice.

Transfer of slaves, Two Negro men named Santakie and Dublin," by Maurice Simon and Theodore Gaillard of South Carolina, to Eleanor Lester for the sum of 1,110 pounds, Charlestown. Purchased from Maggs Brothers, Rare Books, Prints, and Autographs, London, England.
Spackman, Susan.

Manumission of a mulatto woman, Francis Lawrence and her child, Susan Maria Jacquette Lawrence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Susan Spackman.
Sydnor, John.

Certification of a runaway negro slave named Cit owned by Robert Carter Eguin of Westmorland County, Va(?) and brought in on October 25, 1773 by Samuel Dunaway.
Taylor, Abraham.

Bill of sale, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, by which Abraham Taylor sells one forth interest of Negro man, Isaac, to Joseph L. Fowler.
Taylor, John, Slave Marriage Permit.

Slave marriage permit endorsed by slaveowner. Sept. 1802. Character reference of slave Julia and permission for her to marry Charles Johnston. Alabama.
The Anti-Slavery Reporter.

/A monthly journal/ organ of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. London, Clarke, Beeton, and Company, 1853. Verso: List of contents for January-May 1853 issues of the Anti-Slavery Reporter.
The Court of Directors of the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies.

At Edinburgh, the 9th Day of July, 1696. Document received from Maggs Brothers, Rare Books, Prints, and Autographs, London, England.
The Great Work of the Age!

Southern Institutes, or an inquiry into the origin and early prevalence of slavery and the slave trade, by G.S. Sawyer, of the Bar of Louisiana
Tropical Free-Labour Company. London, Ellerton and Henderson.

Names of officers, and policies and objectives of company.
Truth Sojourner, 1800-1883, Letter.

Letter, Freedman's Village, La., to /Rowland Johnson, Orange, N.Y./ In The Anti-Slavery Reporter, March 1865, Vol. 13, No. 3, New Series, P. 59 Reporting, of her visit to President Lincoln.
Tupper, Jam.

Claims for Slaves lost in the public service. Columbia, South Carolina. Regulations and suggestions for the preparation and proof of claims for slaves lost while employed on the fortifications and other military works within the State...
Underground Routes to Canada;/Map/

/Map/ showing the lines of travel of fugitive slaves by W.H. Siebert, 1896. Published by R.D. Servoss, Eng., N.Y.
U.S. 26th Congress. lst Session. Senate.

Memorial of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, praying the adoption of measures for the suppression of the African slave trade.
U.S. 29th Congress. 2nd Session. House of Representatives. Document No. 101.

Extension of slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Now Jersey, relative to the extension of slavery ...
U.S. 29th Congress. 2nd Session. House of Representatives. Document No. 89.

Exclusion of slavery in territory to be annexed to the United States. Joint resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Ohio, relative to excluding slavery from Oregon Territory and any other territory which may hereafter be annexed to the United States.