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Plats book-Map10.jpg
3 images from plat book of Greater Miami, Florida, and suburbs.
This 1925 Plat book of Greater Miami, Florida and suburbs details the sections of Miami and suburbs which were clearly delineated as racially restricted to the “colored” races. The…

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The photograph shows runaway slaves living as refugees at Camp Nelson during the Civil War. Several men in the photograph are in uniform. Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky, was a Union supply base and training center during the Civil War.…

ASERL UNCG DLAS Item 1 small.tif
Petition to the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina dating to 1830, in which 87 slave-holding residents of Sampson, Bladen, New Hanover, and Duplin County appeal to the courts for greater enforcement against runaways, noting among other…

General G. F. Shepley Order, 1863.pdf
Order of General George F. Shepley, military governor of Louisiana, that William Furniss (possibly the prominent abolitionist Willian Henry Furness) is to visit all plantations in the state and is to be allowed free access to all colored persons on…

FSU_MSS_0261_B517_F001_I001.pdf
A small notebook with Geo. Whitfield printed on the first page followed by manuscript entries. The notebook documents the financial transactions of Geo. Whitfield around Tallahassee, Florida, including his business transactions regarding slaves he…

FSU_MSS_0261_B517_F001_I001edit.pdf
A small notebook with Geo. Whitfield printed on the first page followed by manuscript entries. The notebook documents the financial transactions of Geo. Whitfield around Tallahassee, Florida, including his business transactions regarding slaves he…

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George Moses Horton was born into slavery on William Horton’s North Carolina tobacco plantation circa 1797. As a young man, he taught himself to read and developed a life-long interest in poetry. Around 1815 he began composing poems in his head,…

ASERL Slavery Exhibit-1.tif
Acrostic poems to Mary McClean and Sophia Alexander (ca. 1854) by George Moses Horton, slave-poet of Chatham County, N.C. These were commissioned by Torrance while a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

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Handwritten bill of sale from Hartnell Wynne to William Crenshaw for an enslaved African American woman, Ginny, and four children. As articulated on the web site US Slave (http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/12/slave-bill-of-sales.html), “A slave bill…

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Account by Henry Cooke, enslaved by Robert C. Nicholas, of Gospel Meetings in Louisiana, led by William Ellis, another enslaved person of Virginia. The account was given as testimony in New Haven, Connecticut on January 30, 1844. Cooke explains how…
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