Black history collection, 1623-2008

Container	Contents

BOX 1	Account book of slave traders P. Morris and T. H. Anderson, 1856-1857
BOX 1	Austin County, Tex., land appraisal, 1841
BOX 1	Birth records, 1802-1815
BOX 1	Brown, F. W., "My Service in the U.S. Colored Cavalry," autobiography, undated
BOX 1	Claims for recompense on death of slaves, 1863
BOX 1	Court records, 1793-1863, undated
BOX 1		(2 folders)
BOX 1	Drayton, Daniel, Chester English, and Edward Sayres regarding charges of assisting slaves, 1836-1864, undated
BOX 1		(5 folders)
BOX 1	Duplex, Prince, regarding his service in the Eighth Connecticut Regiment, Continental Army, 1780
BOX 1	Earp family, slave records, 1839-1856
BOX 1	Education of blacks, 1825-1865
BOX 1	Ellis, Charles, slave records, 1815-1865
BOX 1	Emory, Charles T., bounty claim, 1866
BOX 1	Financial records 1745-1865
BOX 1	Florida
BOX 1		Legalization of black marriages by state legislature, 1866
BOX 1		Terrorism, letter of W. J. Purman, 1869
BOX 1	Fox, Samuel, certificate of free African-American seaman, 1854
BOX 1	Freedmen
BOX 1		Employment, 1864-1865
BOX 1		Financial accounts, 1864-1865
BOX 1	Freedmen's Bureau, 1867
BOX 1	Fugitive slave petition, Philadelphia, Pa., circa 1860
BOX 1	Garnet, Henry Highland, letter, 1844
BOX 1	Gilbert family, Athens, Tenn., 1843-1852
BOX 1		(2 folders)
BOX 1	Harrison, Ohio, notice of departure (blacks ordered to vacate), 1865
BOX 1	Hayes, Isaac, manumission papers, 1814-1818
BOX 1	Heard, Joseph and Martha, marriage license and certificate, 1867
BOX 1	Henson (Hensone), Adaline, bill of sale and biographical note, 1861-1937, undated
BOX 1	Inventories and manifests, 1807-1842, undated See also Container 3, Wills and Estates, and Oversize
BOX 1		(2 folders)
BOX 2	Jay Cooke and Co., deposits by soldiers, 1865
BOX 2	Keitt, Ellison S., slave records, 1847-1860, undated
BOX 2	Legislation regarding free blacks, 1866-1867
BOX 2	Letters
BOX 2		Former slaves to former owners, 1848-1869, undated
BOX 2		Miscellaneous, 1738-1873, undated
BOX 2			(3 folders)
BOX 2	Manumissions and documents certifying free status, 1801-1847, undated
BOX 2	McGee, J. B., sheriff, Anderson, S.C., 1862-1863
BOX 2	Memoranda, oaths, and statements, 1816-1849
BOX 2	Military records, 1791, 1863-1866
BOX 2	Moins, Edward, bond, 1807
BOX 2	Nixon, Simeon, speech and military papers, 1861-1864, 1944
BOX 2	Pittman, John W., letters regarding sale of slaves, 1836-1837
BOX 2	Powers of attorney, 1841-1852
BOX 2	Richmond, Peres, advertisement for return of escaped slave, 1756
BOX 2	Robards, Lewis C., receipt book, 1851-1853
BOX 2	Sale of land to free mulattoes, 1788
BOX 2	Sherrod, Plesant and Irena, marriage license and certificate, 1866
BOX 2	Slave bond, 1861
BOX 2	Slave deeds
BOX 2		District of Columbia, 1796-1853, undated See also Oversize
BOX 2			A-F
BOX 2				(2 folders)
BOX 3			G-W
BOX 3				(4 folders)
BOX 3		General, 1719-1857 See also Oversize
BOX 3			(2 folders)
BOX 3		Purchases for emancipation, 1803-1850
BOX 3	Slave trade
BOX 3		Good Hope (ship), 1802-1803
BOX 3		Hope (brig), 1795
BOX 3		Orange (brig), undated
BOX 3		Regal Societat African (Royal African Co.), 1700, 1709
BOX 3		Renarde (brig), 1762
BOX 3		Sierre Leone Co., London, England, 1793-1795
BOX 3		Wanderer (yacht) 1858-1860, 1905, undated
BOX 3	Stokes, Henry, passport, 1783
BOX 3	Summons, 1795
BOX 3	Sumner, Charles, remarks regarding blacks on streetcars in Washington, D.C., 1865
BOX 3	Taylor, William, slave records, 1796-1804
	Wheatley, Phillis, poems (photocopies), undated
BOX 3	Wills and estates, 1744-1865, undated
BOX 3		(2 folders)
BOX 3	Writings on slavery, 1847-1848, 1913, undated
BOX 4	Addition I
BOX 4		Account pages, Portsmouth, Va., 1769-1773
BOX 4		Apprenticeship papers, Fulton County, Ga., 1866-1868
BOX 4		Contrabands, general orders concerning provisions, New Orleans, La., 1862
BOX 4		Cooks, John F., invitation to Peter Force, mayor of Washington, D.C., to attend examination at school for blacks, 1837
BOX 4		Court records
BOX 4			Trials
BOX 4				Group of African Americans charged with larceny, Adams County, Pa., 1839
BOX 4				Slave accused of murdering another slave, Baldwin County, Ga., 1862
BOX 4					(2 folders)
BOX 4				Slave accused of murdering his master, Amite County, Miss., 1823
BOX 4			Warrant for the arrest of Thomas Stephenson, alias Thomas McCracken, Washington County, Tenn., 1846
BOX 4		Letters
BOX 4			Former slave to her former owner, Alexis, Tunica County, Miss., 1872
BOX 4			Lake, Jed, lieutenant colonel, Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry Regiment, Camp Reed, Jackson, Tenn., to his mother regarding slavery, 1863
BOX 4			Watson, Don “Monk,” to Marion, re jazz club in Germany, 1919
BOX 4		Ligon, William, estate papers, Laurens District, S.C., 1847-1863
BOX 4		Manumission document, Henrico County, Va., 1803
BOX 4		Muster roll, Company A, Twenty-seventh Colored Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, Petersburg, Va., 1864 See Oversize
BOX 4		Receipts for obstetrical services provided by slave, 1847-1849
BOX 4		Report on survey of land bequeathed to African Americans by their deceased owner, Fayette County, 1820
BOX 4		Slave bonds, Virginia, 1845-1860
		Walker, T. A., captain, Sixty-third Colored Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, and superintendent of freedmen, district of West Tennessee, vouchers for school for freedmen, 1864-1865
BOX 5	Addition II
BOX 5		Civil rights
BOX 5			Mississippi, 1954-1966
BOX 5			Segregation signs from the Jim Crow era, 1929
BOX 5		Collins, George Green, letter of recommendation by John B. Reeve cosigned by William Still and William Whipper, 1870
BOX 5		Commonplace book, Nashville, Tenn., 1832-1835, 1859-1873
BOX 5		Curtis, James Logan, program for his farewell reception to Liberia, New York, N.Y., 1915
BOX 5		Free blacks, list, Bedford County, Va., 1851
BOX 5		Illustrated broadside with lyrics to "Darkey Conscript" about the enlistment of African-American soldiers, circa 1863
BOX 5		Johnson Free Missionary Society and Ladies Working Society or Association, draft of constitution, undated
BOX 5		Postcards, 1906
BOX 5		Shober, Gottlieb, letter making arrangements for the safe passage of a "Negroe family" to Ohio, 1803
BOX 5		Slaves
BOX 5			Genealogical material
BOX 5				Butler, Charity, family of, 1880, 1900, 1973, 1991, 2000-2004
BOX 5				Johnson, Carter J., 1850, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 2007-2008
BOX 5			Legal documents, 1808, 1840-1841
BOX 5			Letters
BOX 5				Bayne, John H., 1853-1854
BOX 5				Miscellaneous, 1810, 1846, 1854
BOX 5		Writings by
BOX 5			Schley, Jessie A., "Solution of the Negro Question," 1901
BOX 5			Thomas, Joe T., "A Plan to Lift the White Man's Burden," circa 1900
BOX 6	Addition III
BOX 6		Aldridge, Andrew, family
BOX 6			"Cristopher," bill of sale of slave, 1849
BOX 6			Medical receipt, 1854
BOX 6			Slave contracts
BOX 6				“Charles,” hired from Susannah Bunn, 1852
BOX 6				“Jinny,” hired from John J. Watkins, 1862
BOX 6			Thomas, Jacob, receipt concerning the apprehension of slave, 1859
BOX 6		Braxton, George W.
BOX 6			Claim and entitlement to mounted pay, Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, United States Volunteers, 1899
BOX 6			National Bulletin, Naval and Military Order, Spanish-American War, 1925
BOX 6			Photograph of soldiers during the Spanish-American War, circa 1898
BOX 6		Certificate of completion, Professor William Emanuel’s School of Chiropody, Chicago, Ill., circa 1890
BOX 6		Holcomb, Rosa D., poll tax receipt, DeKalb County, Ala., 1948
BOX 6		Legal documents
BOX 6			Bond, assault and battery, Frederick County, Md., 1820
BOX 6			Brooks, Henry, indictment, Frederick County, Md., 1842
BOX 6			Civil War military passes, First South Carolina Volunteers
BOX 6				Riggs and Calhoun plus twelve other men, circa 1861-1865
BOX 6				Starr, 1862
BOX 6			Deed of sale, “Deborah,” New London, Conn., 1739
BOX 6			Deed of sale for land, “Scrippio,” Bridgewater, Mass., 1745
BOX 6			Frazier, Mary Ellen, slave petition, Marion County, Tex., 1863
BOX 6			Freedom papers, Md.
BOX 6				Darby, Francescina, 1839
BOX 6				Mason, Mary Ann, 1833
BOX 6			Griffin, Dennis, will, Amite County, Miss., 1843
BOX 6			Jackson, Samuel and Eunice, indenture for the sale of land, Sussex County, Del., 1858
BOX 6			List of court cases detailing court actions, Middlesex County, N.J., circa 1762-1765
BOX 6			Morrill, Benjamin, writ of attachment, Newmarket, Mass., 1808
BOX 6			"Newton and Will," arson and slave resistance, Rowan County, N.C., 1832
BOX 6			Sharp, Geraldine, warrant for arrest, Baltimore, Md., 1907
BOX 6			Slave stealing, King v. James Wishart, Anson County, N.C., 1774
BOX 6			Slave trial, Alcalde Ordinarion v. Gasper (freedman) and Sebastian (slave), Puebla, Mexico, 1623
BOX 6		Letters
BOX 6			Alexander, William M., to William F. Stone, campaigning for voter rights, 1909
BOX 6			Ashley, Albert B., to his sister, Ella, torture of black soldiers, 1865
BOX 6			Butler, William H., to Frederick C. Stevens, voting and politics, 1907
BOX 6			Carlyle, Charles, to Eben Taylor, purchase of a slave, 1820
BOX 6			Harrison, Jeptha, to Abram Handel, black congregation, 1843
BOX 6			Hill, Pinkney L., to Walston H. Brown, donation to Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, Manassas, Va., 1910
BOX 6		Printed matter
BOX 6			Afro-American Council, Philadelphia branch, announcement leaflet, 1900
BOX 6			Broadside, May Day Celebration, Cullman County, Ala., 1920s
BOX 6			Donation pledge form, National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee, circa 1918
BOX 6			New Nation, newspaper, Richmond, Va., 1866
BOX 6			Postcard, Springfield Race War, undated
BOX 6			Program, Hayes, Roland, Carnegie Hall recital, New York, N.Y., 1935
BOX 6			Program, Ninth Annual Lincoln-Douglas Celebration, Westchester Negro League, Yonkers, N.Y., 1918
BOX 6		Stock certificate, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Providence, R.I., circa 1890
BOX 6		Tomlinson, Joseph, ledger of accounts, 1839-1842 See Oversize
BOX OV 1	Oversize
BOX OV 1		Inventories and manifests, 1829-1830, 1838 (Container 1)
BOX OV 1		Slave deeds
BOX OV 1			District of Columbia, 1810 (Container 3)
BOX OV 1			General, 1810, 1840 (Container 3)
BOX OV 1		Addition I
BOX OV 1			Muster roll, Company A, Twenty-seventh Colored Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, Petersburg, Va., 1864 (Container 4)
BOX OV 2		Addition III
BOX OV 2			Tomlinson, Joseph, ledger of accounts, 1839-1842 (Container 6)