TY - GEN AU - Robards,Lewis C. TI - Black history collection, KW - Abolitionists KW - African Americans KW - Apprentices KW - Civil rights KW - Free blacks KW - Freedmen KW - Fugitive slaves KW - Registers of births, etc KW - Ship's papers KW - Slave records KW - Slave trade KW - Slavery KW - Slaves KW - Emancipation KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Medical care KW - Vital statistics KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - United States KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Participation, African American N1 - Open to research; Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material N2 - 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 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009282 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009282.3 ER -