United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Civil War songs and cartoons
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113563666]
Identifier: 8582
Scope and content
Civil War songs printed as broadsides (words only), together with a small number of printed color cartoons with captions in verse. Songs include several about the recruitment of African American soldiers for the Union Army, published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments. Individual titles include "The black regiment," "Old Shady," "Song of the Negro boatman," "Battle hymn of the Republic" (by Julia Ward Howe), "Song of the First of Arkansas," "Just before the battle,...
Dates:
circa 1861-1865.
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.