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First edition of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, signed by Phillis Wheatley.

Broadside with black print advertising lectures by George Thompson.

Handwritten documents recording a case against Micagor Crews for possessing stolen slaves.

Handwritten petition to the Tennessee Legislature requesting to abolish slavery with over 70 signatures from county residents.

This issue of the National Intelligencer re-printed letters from the Navy that described the American attack on the Negro Fort at Prospect Bluff on July 27, 1816.

Deed of gift for an enslaved woman named Lucy by Maynadier Mason. In
the deed, Mason - a resident of Fairfax County, Virginia - gives Lucy to
his maternal aunt through marriage, Mary Ann Clark, who lived in
Georgetown, Washington, D. C.

Written request for a passport