02784cpcaa2200565 a 4500 mm 82057687 DLC 20260227111715.0 cr ||||||||||| 820618|||||||||||| eng mm 82057687 DLC DLC DLC dacs eng fre spa B lcmd Black history collection, 1700-2008 (bulk 1800-1865). 1,165 items. 5 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.9 linear feet. Arranged alphabetically by topic, name of person or organization, or type of material and chronologically thereunder. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. 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. Abolitionists. African Americans. Apprentices. Civil rights. Free blacks. Freedmen. Fugitive slaves. Registers of births, etc. Ship's papers. Slave records. Slave trade. Slavery. Slaves. Slaves Emancipation. Slaves Legal status, laws, etc. Slaves Medical care. Vital statistics. World War, 1914-1918 African Americans. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Participation, African American. Robards, Lewis C. Lewis C. Robards receipt book. 1851-1853. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009282 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009282.3 43670 43670