Front Page Headline reads "The Bill Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia Passed the House." Newspaper "The Detroit Free Press", April 12, 1862. 19" x 26", 2 pages. Has a blow by blow account of the debate among the members of the House and the various amendments associated with.....
[Abolition] [African Americana] SUMNER, Charles. Defence of Massachusetts. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Boston Memorial for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, and in Reply To Messrs. Jones of Tennessee, Butler of South Carolina, And Mason of Virginia in the Senate of the United States, June 26.....
Manuscript debt bonds created in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina during the early 1820s document the use of enslaved people as collateral within the financial system of the antebellum South. These legal instruments record obligations owed between creditors and debtors while identifying enslaved individuals as property subject to seizure in the.....
[Slavery & Abolition] CHILD, Lydia Marie. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. New York: Published by John S. Taylor, 1836. Second edition. Illustrated with 2 plates. Coleridge quote on title page. In original blue cloth boards with embossing and gilt to spine. 8vo, 216 pages.....
[Slavery] [North Carolina] Letter signed offering a "negro man" to settle debts. Letter signed by "H.M. Moffett" of Huntersville, Virginia (now West Virginia). Dated November 8th 1842. Measures 9.5" by 7.75". The letter reads in full: "Dear Sir, I have a negro man for hire and find some difficulty in.....
This pamphlet is a return to an Address of the House of Commons from March 25, 1836, whereby the Agent of Jamaica, William Burge, protests against the unilateral abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Ordered to be printed by the House of Commons in London, April 1836. 13 pages.....
Albumen photographs of slavery-related sites, circa 1890s, document physical locations tied to the sale and habitation of enslaved people in the United States and the persistence of those sites in post-Emancipation visual culture. The images include a pavilion in St. Augustine, Florida identified in contemporary sources as a site where.....
[Civil War] [Black Military] [Slavery] [Virginia] Confederate government imprint documenting one of the clearest bureaucratic efforts to formalize the use of enslaved labor in direct support of the Confederate war effort at the very moment of institutional collapse. Issued in Richmond, Virginia in January 1865 and printed by the Confederate.....
[Slavery] [Cuba] Spanish colonial slave sale manuscript recording the transfer of four enslaved individuals in Cuba in 1870. Produced within the official bureaucratic framework of Spanish colonial governance, the document reflects the legal normalization of slavery in Cuba even as abolitionist pressures mounted across the Atlantic world.. The document records.....
[Slavery] [Cuba] Spanish colonial manuscript documenting the late persistence of slavery in Cuba, recording the sale of five enslaved Creole individuals, including women and children, 1870. Produced within the official bureaucratic framework of Spanish colonial governance, the document reflects the legal normalization of slavery in Cuba even as abolitionist pressures.....
[Slavery] [Cuba] Spanish colonial slave sale manuscript recording the transfer of thirty-eight enslaved individuals in Cuba in 1875, materializing the sheer scale and organization of enslaved labor within the island’s plantation economy during the final decade before abolition. The document enumerates a large group of enslaved people, including multiple family.....
[Slavery] [Black Labor] [Puerto Rico] This official Puerto Rican slave registry document, issued in Arecibo in 1871 under Spanish colonial administration, represents the bureaucratic infrastructure of slavery in the Caribbean at the precise moment preceding abolition. Titled within the printed form as part of the “Registro de Esclavos – Isla.....
The National Anti-Slavery Standard, February 29, 1868 issue four days after the House of Representatives voted to impeach Andrew Johnson, covering the Reconstruction government, Black suffrage, and federal enforcement in the South. Articles include “The President Impeached!”, stating that Johnson had become “the chief disturbing force since the surrender of.....
Manuscript fiscal records from antebellum Virginia demonstrate how enslaved people were formally incorporated into legal and economic systems as taxable property. These documents record enslaved individuals not as citizens but as items of assessed value within the personal property systems that structured the slave economy. Such records provide direct evidence.....
