Slavery -- United States.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Portfolio of antislavery letters
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065340147]
Identifier: 6416
Scope and content
Manuscript and printed letters written by and to British and American abolitionists, including clippings of printed letters from Harriet Martineau to the National Anti-slavery standard and other newspapers. Subjects include the controversy between Martineau and the Standard, and Martineau's attitude to the approach of the Civil War. Correspondents include Harriet Martineau, Sarah Pugh, Auguste Langet, Maria Weston Chapman, and Maria's daughter Anne Chapman. Also included is a letter from...
Dates:
1859-1946,-1859-1861 (bulk)
Sizer family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 511
Scope and content
Including a letter from Sandusky, Ohio on the ravages of frontier diseases, and on Kit Carson; Sizer family (including Samuel Sizer) scrapbook of political editorials and correspondence (1839-1863) by Thomas J. Sizer, with slavery as a particular subject.
Dates:
1811-1871.
Slave manacles
Collection — Mu 902: [Barcode: 31924130349628]
Identifier: 1543
Scope and content
Leg shackles from the city jail in Richmond, Virginia, with metal tag dated May, 1865.
Dates:
circa 1865.
Social issues pamphlet collection
Collection
Identifier: 1220
Abstract
Pamphlets on social issues at the local, state, and national levels in the United States, with local and state pamphlets focused mainly but not exclusively on New York State or its localities. Topics include education, religion and moral issues, politics (especially surrounding the issue of slavery and the Civil War), temperance, agriculture, and railroads. Also included are pamphlets relating to libraries, historical societies, and history, as well as literary pamphlets (literary essays,...
Dates:
1806-1960-(bulk 1840-1880).