Found matches for slavery in 92 collections.

The Middleton "Spike" Harris slavery and abolition collection consists of individual documents pertaining to slavery and abolition in the United States. Included are legal documents, indentures, manumission papers, bills of sale, agreements to hire slaves, other business records, deeds, letters, and indentures referencing specific slaves and their masters and detailing the situations for which the documents were produced. The states in which these documents were issued are Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. There are also letters from the following abolitionists: Granville Sharp, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner, and Francis Jackson. less

The Slavery collection, compiled by staff of the Schomburg Center, consists primarily of photomechanical reproductions of illustrations, paintings, photographs, documents, artifacts and printed texts, relating to the enslavement of persons of African descent in the United States from the early 1800s to the mid-1860s. less

This ledger, most likely from the 19th century because of the dates listed, is possibly a city or county government's ledger used to assign personal, land, and property taxes to the members of the surrounding towns and/or communities. Among the "items" listed are enslaved people, who are denoted as property and assigned arbitrary values. Two dates can be found in the ledger, 1853 and 1865. The ledger mentions the areas of Polk Mill, Seaford Road, and Concord, and the name "Morgan". Items are listed mostly in alphabetical order by last name of free/white adult citizens. In some cases, a citizen is listed, but the only value listed is for "person" which could mean that the individual did not own property but was still taxed. less

Théodore Étienne de Saint-Léger was provost of the Special Court Provostale investigating the slave uprising in Martinique in February of 1831. This collection consists of sixty-five manuscripts relating to the 1831 slave rebellion including correspondence from the Governor of Martinique, French settlers, and police precincts on the island; register of official correspondence of Saint-Léger, the "Prévôt" (Magistrate), 1831; police reports; warrants issued by Saint-Léger for fugitive slaves suspected of arson and poisoning; court records related to the burning of the Ducasse, Lamentin, and Grande Case plantations; and biographical notes of Saint-Léger dated 1913. less

Daybook kept by H. Davis in Richmond, Virginia containing records of sales, purchases, receipts, and disbursements, including many items related to slaves and their boarding costs. One entry, dated 21 April 1861, is for the purchase of a secession flag less

Rushmore G. Horton (1826-1867) was editor of The Weekly Day Book (later the New-York Weekly Caucasian and the New-York Weekly Day-Book Caucasian), a New York City pro-slavery newspaper, as well the author of several publications, including The Life and Public Services of James Buchanan, The History of the Tammany Society, and A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in the United States, from 1861-1865. He was secretary of the Anti-Abolition States Rights Society and an active participant in the anti-abolitionist movement in New York State. The Rushmore G. Horton papers include correspondence, autographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous personal and financial papers. The collection includes letters to Horton, John H. Van Evrie, and Nathaniel R. Stimson as editors of the New York Weekly Day-Book Caucasian, as well as personal letters to Horton and his wife from George Pope Morris, Samuel F.B. Morse, William G. Brownlow, George Ripley, James Kirke Paulding, William Winter, Thomas H. Seymour, Thomas F. Bayard, and William H. Peck, and autographs by such notable figures as James Buchanan, James A. Bayard, Jr., John Cochrane, and Brigham Young. Miscellaneous papers include invitations, receipts, small notebooks, a certificate of membership to the Anti-Abolition State Rights Society, and a Confederate States of America bond with attached coupons. Most of the material has been pasted into a published blankbook intended for use as an index rerum. Loose material has been removed to separate enclosures. Additional items were added posthumously. less

James Pliny Wilson, Jr., (1808-1891) was the owner of a plantation known as Levensworth (also spelled Leavensworth), located in Darlington, South Carolina. The Bible (published in New York by Daniel B. Smith, 1825) contains eight pages of birth and death records of enslaved persons living on the Levensworth plantation, plus one page listing all overseers who worked at the plantation between 1826 and 1850. less

Notes of 1861 United States peace conference proceedings, likely compiled by and for Lucius E. Chittenden. The notes date from February 4 to part of February 20, 1861. The remainder of the notes to February 28, 1861, when the conference adjourned, are missing less

The ancestors of the Polk Family, Jim and Amey, their daughter, Judah, and her husband, Kit, along with their children, upon reaching the age of twenty-one), were emancipated in 1840. This occurred one and one-half years after the death of their master, plantation owner Thomas Smelly, in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The newly-freed Smelly family left Virginia that same year, according to the law prohibiting freed slaves to remain in the state more than one year, and migrated to New Jersey. At some point the family changed their name from Smelly to Smiley. In New Jersey, the Smiley family met another freed family from Maryland, the Polks, and the two families intermarried. By 1993, Amey and Jim Smiley had over one hundred descendants. The Smiley-Polk family documents consist of nine holograph 19th-century documents relating to the emancipation of the ancestors of the Smiley-Polk family of New Jersey, and other items concerning the genealogy of this family. less

Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) was an American politician, jurist, and abolitionist. The Salmon P. Chase papers consist mainly of correspondence, beginning with letters and circulars relating to the 1845 Southern and Western Liberty Convention. Most date from his term as Secretary of the Treasury and relate political matters, including his ongoing support of the abolition of slavery less

The Dash family included a number of prominent New York merchants including Bowie Dash, notable for becoming one of the earliest importers of coffee into the United States. The file contains papers belonging to members of the Dash family, predominantly John Bowie Dash (Eighteenth century) and Daniel Dash, collected and compiled by J. Bowie Dash (b. 1873). Material includes notes of exchange, a small quantity of correspondence, and a receipt dating from 1784 relating to the sale of a slave less

Henry Dana Ward kept this diary as rector of St. Jude's Protestant Episcopal Free Church in New York City from January 1, 1850 through September 30, 1857. Entries pertain to services for others including William A. Muhlenberg and Thos. Gallaudet; marriages, births, and deaths; church government; elections of bishops; "wine bibbing'" bishops; his family and his school for young ladies; discipline, teachers, and servants; current events; slavery; the weather; a letter from Fillmore, and other matters less

Lawrence Van Wyck kept this diary while assisting in the construction of the Hudson River Railroad near Yonkers, from March 15, 1847 until July 1, 1848; while helping build the Albany & Susquehanna Railroad near Central Bridge, New York from July 16, 1853 until January 11, 1854; and during construction work near Medina and Albion, New York, from July 27, 1856 until September 8, 1857. Van Wyck mentions the names of his fellow workmen and people he met socially, and he also makes occasional references to the trend of public opinion concerning slavery less

Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was an American lawyer and statesman. He served as U.S. Representative from New Hampshire and later Massachusetts, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and U.S. Secretary of State. The collection contains letters written or signed by Webster and a few letters to him, 1823-1851 and undated; Webster’s drafts of political articles for the Washington, D.C. newspaper National Intelligencer, 1823-1850; and financial documents, including signed agreements, a bill of sale for an enslaved man, checks, and notes, 1829-1850. Correspondence concerns political, legal and business matters; many items have been published. Recipients include James A. Hamilton, H.W. Kinsman, Virgil Maxcy, and newspaper publishers Gales & Seaton. Notable content includes an 1850 bill of sale to Webster for William Alexander Johnson, and Webster's 1851 letter to David A. Hall regarding Johnson’s manumission. The collection also contains autograph clippings, as well as facsimiles, transcripts, and other reference material, 1864-1941. less

Account book kept at Richmond, Virginia by H. N. Templeman from 1846 to 1859, giving records of negro slaves bought and sold, names of purchasers, prices, and other information. The volume also includes miscellaneous accounts, recorded from 1849 to 1859 Various persons were associated in the business, including B. C. Flannagan, William C. Lipscomb, S. B. Brown, Robert Richardson, H. Davis, W. H. Goodwin, and D. E. Hickman less

Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur (1799-1867), American politician and capitalist, was postmaster of New York City from 1828 to 1836. His wife, Maria Hester Monroe, was the daughter of U.S. President James Monroe. After 1850, Gouverneur moved to Maryland. Collection consists of letters to Gouverneur from John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, William Henry Harrison, Winfield Scott, and others; drafts or copies of Gouverneur's letters; and his correspondence, 1835, as postmaster of New York, with the Antislavery Society, the postmaster of Charleston, S.C., and the authorities at Washington, D.C., concerning disturbances caused by the transmission of abolitionist matter through the mails. less

The Van Rensselaers and Forts were land-owning families in eastern New York State during the 17th century. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts and land papers of the Van Rensselaer, Fort, Van Veghten, and other New York State families. Correspondence, 1729-1885, concerns business, social, family, and personal matters. Also, land papers for various towns and counties, local histories, and materials pertaining to boundary disputes, sale of slaves, servants bonds, and wills. less

Mildred Stock was a writer and researcher, best known for the work, Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian", which she co-authored with Herbert Marshall. The Mildred Stock research collection consists of research files concerning Stock's studies of African American and European stage actors, slavery, and other subjects. less

Gideon Welles (1802-1878) was an American politician and editor. He served as Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869 under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson after having political positions in Connecticut as a member of the Democratic Party. He left the party over the slavery question and became a Republican supporter. He edited and wrote political commentary for several newspapers in Connecticut. Collection consists of correspondence, official papers and writings of Welles. Bulk of the collection is correspondence mainly related to his public life and duties. Topics include political issues, the Civil War, operations of the Navy Dept., his political and literary endeavors, and family matters. Official papers contain memoranda, charters, contracts, and lists of ships and officers. Writings are drafts of articles, congressional reports, and notes on politics and the Civil War. less

Journals kept by Edward Thornton Tayloe, 1819-1834 and 1850-1858, recording his expenses and income during various periods of his life. Included are records from Tayloe's time as a student at Harvard, as Secretary of the Legation in Mexico under Joel R. Poinsett, as bearer of treaties from Mexico to the United States in 1828, as Secretary of the Legation in Columbia in 1828, and during travel throughout the eastern United States. Also included are accounts of Tayloe's plantation in King George County, Virginia ("Powhatan"), recording taxes, slave prices, wharfage, household expenses, grain accounts, stable expenses, subscriptions to magazines and newspapers, books, entertainment, bonds and notes, and costs of education for his children at the Virginia Military Institute and elsewhere less