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Barnett Allen Howard papers, 1885-1949
13 items. 2 containers. 0.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Farmer, preacher, and trader. Memoirs documenting Howard's life as well as genealogical material, legal documents, and printed matter.
Black history collection, 1623-2008
1,215 items. 6 containers plus 2 oversize. 3.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Letters, court records, legal documents, slave deeds, financial records, speeches and writings, family and genealogical papers, military records, birth records, inventories, wills, ships' papers, a commonplace book, poll tax receipts, broadsides, postcards, marriage certificates, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material pertaining to African Americans.
Carl Brent Swisher collection of research material relating to Roger Brooke Taney, 1836-1962
12,250 items. 35 containers plus 1 oversize. 15,2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Historian. Chiefly reproductions of correspondence, reports, records, and newspapers gathered by Swisher for a history of Roger Brooke Taney's tenure as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Frederick Douglass papers, 1841-1967
7,400 items. 53 containers plus 1 oversize. 19.5 linear feet. 34 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Abolitionist, diplomat, journalist, and orator. Correspondence, diary, speeches and writings, financial and legal records, and a subject file pertaining to the career of Frederick Douglass.
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East Florida papers, 1737-1858
65,000 items. 450 containers plus 2 oversize. 131.6 linear feet. 175 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Diplomatic, military, economic, judicial, legal, and administrative records of the Spanish colonial government of East Florida for the period of its second occupation, 1783-1821. Includes royal orders and decrees, census and other vital records, and papers relating to such matters as trade and shipping, surveys, hospitals, Indians, slaves, and Louisiana.
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Ebenezer Jackson papers, 1784-1873
150 items. 1 container. 0.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Plantation manager. Chiefly letters from Jackson to his wife, Charlotte Fenwick Pierce Jackson, and his son, Ebenezer (1796-1874), relating to Jackson's operation of the Fenwick and Tattnall plantations near Savannah, Ga.
James Henry Hammond papers, 1774-1875
8,000 items. 38 containers plus 3 oversize. 10 linear feet. 20 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Senator, governor, and plantation owner. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, plantation manuals, account books, and scrapbooks pertaining chiefly to South Carolina and national politics in the three decades preceding the Civil War. Subjects include nullification, secession, slavery, the Southern Convention at Nashville, Tennessee (1850), state banks, states' rights, and the tariff. Also includes a mercantile letterbook, 1774-1780, of Andrew McLean.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens papers, 1784-1886
27,000 items. 116 containers. 29 linear feet. 57 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, journalist, governor of Georgia, member of both houses of Congress, and vice president of the Confederate States of America. Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, legal documents, clippings, and an autobiography and journal reflecting Stephens’s career in government and politics.
Henry Mason Morfit papers, 1819-1858
4,000 items. 13 containers. 5.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer. Correspondence and financial and business papers relating to Morfit's Washington, D.C., practice as a claims lawyer and as a political figure in the administrations of Andrew Jackson.
Benjamin T. Montgomery family papers, 1872-1987
15 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Papers relating to Benjamin T. Montgomery, his son Isaiah T. Montgomery, other children and grandchildren, and material concerning the African American towns of Davis Bend and Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Benjamin T. Montgomery was born into slavery, enslaved by Joseph Davis (older brother of Jefferson Davis), manager and later owner of Davis Bend, Mississippi, and an inventor. Isaiah Montgomery founded Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Diary, speeches, biographical essays, and printed matter concerning Mound Bayou.