Formerly Enslaved U.S. Senator Blanche K. Bruce Document Signed in his Capacity as Recorder of Deeds, Washington D.C. 1890
[African American] Bruce, Blanche Kelso. Manuscript legal document, dated 1890, signed by prominent African American senator and former slave Blanche Bruce. The document is signed by Bruce in his role as Recorder of Deeds office in Washington, D.C. Bruce, born enslaved in Virginia and later elected U.S. Senator from Mississippi.....