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.

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.

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.