Fugitive slaves -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Allen collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937372]
Identifier: 672
Scope and content
16 items including two pages of an issue of the American Mercury newspaper (Hartford, Connecticut, June 24, 1823); indenture conveying a plot of land in Levanna, Onondaga County, New York from Henry Kerr to John Richardson, 1798; three manuscript poems in various hands, including "Song of the Fugitive Slave," undated; a legal opinion in a case involving a disputed trust fund, 1861; and letters, including a short note from Theodore Roosevelt, on State of New York Executive Chamber letterhead,...
Dates:
1798-1904.
Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4681
Abstract
The Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection consists of newspaper engravings, estate appraisals, wills, legal documents, manumissions, reward for capture of runaway slave advertisements, slave dealer and slave trade manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, slave taxation records, stereoviews and other records documenting the sale, hire, purchase and debt payment of slaves in 18th and 19th century America.
Dates:
1728-1973.