Black history collection, 1700-2008 (bulk 1800-1865).

Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsLanguage: English, French, Spanish Description: 1,165 items; 5 containers plus 1 oversize; 1.9 linear feetSubject(s): Online resources: Action note:
  • Includes a receipt book (1851 February 6-1853 May 23) of Lewis C. Robards that was formerly cataloged separately.
Summary: Correspondence, speeches, writings, court records, legal documents, slave deeds, family papers, birth records, inventories, wills, military records, financial records, ship's papers, and marriage certificates pertaining to African Americans from the colonial period through the early twenty-first century. Topics include the slave trade, abolition, manumission, emancipation, medical care of slaves, civil rights, slaves, fugitive slaves, freedmen, free blacks, medical care of slaves, and African Americans serving in the Civil War and World War I.
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Correspondence, speeches, writings, court records, legal documents, slave deeds, family papers, birth records, inventories, wills, military records, financial records, ship's papers, and marriage certificates pertaining to African Americans from the colonial period through the early twenty-first century. Topics include the slave trade, abolition, manumission, emancipation, medical care of slaves, civil rights, slaves, fugitive slaves, freedmen, free blacks, medical care of slaves, and African Americans serving in the Civil War and World War I.

Collection material in English, French, and Spanish.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009282

Includes a receipt book (1851 February 6-1853 May 23) of Lewis C. Robards that was formerly cataloged separately.

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