- unitid
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{"value"=>"25672", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 896", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b20633060", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1974-1983", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1974/1983"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Jesse J. Jackson Slavery and Civil War documents collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.21 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Jackson, Jesse", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"col"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Jesse J. Jackson (1908-1983), the collector of these documents, acquired them over ten years while serving as a writer-in-residence at Appalachian State University. Jackson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University. He wrote 8 books for children, and often wrote for magazines, journals, and local newspapers.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>Jesse J. Jackson Slavery and Civil War documents collection consists of approximately 90 individual documents relating to Southern slavery and the Civil War. The majority of the documents are manuscript bills of sale and deeds of gift for enslaved persons, issued in North Carolina, 1800-1858. Each document generally gives the enslaved person's name, sex, approximate age, and occasionally other information such as occupation, prices, and names of seller and buyer. Other information provided includes mention that the enslaved person being sold is \"at large\" and an affidavit accusing a dealer of selling a man's runaway despite the fact that the owner had asked the dealer to hold the runaway until he could be retrieved.</p> <p>Other documents in the collection include two petitions to courts in Wilcox County, Alabama, asking permission to sell the enslaved persons belonging to estates, dated 1859 and 1862, and four documents issued in Fredericks County, Maryland, attesting to the freedom of the individuals.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Ann and Judith Ann Jackson, December 1988.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the General Research and Reference Division: books</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Diana Lachatanere, February 2015.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Also housed in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture:</p> <p>John Payne Civil War collection, Sc MG 199</p> <p>Middleton \"Spike\" Harris slavery and abolition collection, Sc MG 34</p> <p>Miscellaneous American letters and papers (MALP), Sc MG 76</p> <p>Slavery and the Abolition of the Slave Trade collection, Sc MG 22</p> <p>U.S. Colored Troops, Infantry, 100th Regiment, Company I collection, Sc MG 554</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 January 7"}
- date_start
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1974
- keydate
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1974
- date_end
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1983
- date_inclusive_start
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1974
- date_inclusive_end
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1983
- extent_statement
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0.21 linear feet (1 box)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Jesse J. Jackson Slavery and Civil War documents collection, Sc MG 896, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Jesse J. Jackson (1908-1983), the collector of these documents, acquired them over ten years while serving as a writer-in-residence at Appalachian State University. Jackson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University. He wrote 8 books for children, and often wrote for magazines, journals, and local newspapers. Jesse J. Jackson Slavery and Civil War documents collection consists of approximately 90 individual documents relating to Southern slavery and the Civil War. The majority of the documents are manuscript bills of sale and deeds of gift for enslaved persons, issued in North Carolina, 1800-1858. Each document generally gives the enslaved person's name, sex, approximate age, and occasionally other information such as occupation, prices, and names of seller and buyer. Other information provided includes mention that the enslaved person being sold is \"at large\" and an affidavit accusing a dealer of selling a man's runaway despite the fact that the owner had asked the dealer to hold the runaway until he could be retrieved.", "generated"=>true}