Slavery -- United States.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Abijah Beckwith papers
Albert Rogers Crandall papers
Charles Frederick Briggs letters : to James Russell Lowell
Letters on literary, political, cultural, personal, and family matters. Includes substantial discussion especially of the publication of Lowell's poems in Briggs's journal, but also of the slavery question and other political issues of the day. Also discussed are recently published poems and novels, recent paintings, the activities of portrait painter William Page (a friend of Briggs and Lowell), and the character of Edgar Allan Poe, who contributed to the Broadway Journal.
Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection
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.
Hill, Atkinson, Fleming family papers
Business and personal correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Hill, Atkinson, Fleming, Greene, and Popham families of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Bellows Falls, Vt. Includes letters (1813-1819) to William Hill on the European market for American cotton, flaxseed, potash, etc.; four letters (1851-1852) to Margaret Hill from Anna McNeill Whistler mentioning the poor health of the artist James Whistler and his favorable reactions to life at West Point;
Ledyard (N.Y.) political party rolls
The Whigs of Ledyard declare themselves in favor of the Tariff of 1842 and opposed to slavery and the annexation of Texas; copy of the call for the Fremont and Dayton Club (1856); also, organization of the Ledyard Republican Club.
Legal documents - Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia
Legal documents include wills, estate inventories, indentures and other land documents, summonses and other court documents, and accounts. Many relate to the ownership of slaves.
Legal documents - Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania
May Anti-Slavery manuscript collection
Consists mainly of correspondence among American abolitionists, including many letters to Samuel Joseph May. Also included correspondence among members of May's family and the family of James Miller McKim; and some correspondence with Daniel Willard Fiske and George William Harris concerning the building of the May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell University.
Orris Crosby letter : Belvidere, Illinois, to Elijah Risley
Autograph letter signed, concerning a claim by Crosby against the federal government for injuries received in military action; he also comments on the extension of slavery into the territories.