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Enslaved people working in a field, possibly Edisto Island, S.C. instead of Tybee Island. Taken during the Union occupation of the South Carolina Sea Islands.

June 14, 1827 letter from Colonel Philip Hickey to Joseph Watson regarding his personal doubts of the kidnapping, the distrust of southern planters for northerners, and his distaste for emancipation efforts. Hickey states that he did acquire a boy…

This collection contains an 1883 letter written by Jack Foster, a formerly enslaved person who served as a body servant in the 36th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Foster writes to former Confederate General John McCausland, one-time…

Chromolithograph print showing six African-American men who made up The Jackson Wagon Sun Flower Band, dressed in striped shirts and bib-pants which are decorated with sunflowers and wagon wheels. At upper left is a color portrait of E. A. Webster,…

Doctor’s account for vaccination of slaves attached to court deposition dated 29 October 1836. Account is holographic on white paper and deposition is printed on
white paper with black print and holographic additions.

Appraisal of property belonging to the Adam Gordon estate dated January 29, 1845. Appraisal is holographic on blue lined paper.

Obverse: Diamond-shaped tin slave badge, designed to be worn suspended by a leather thong tied around the neck; 2 mm hole in top corner.
Legend:CHARLESTON/9/SERVANT/1827
Reverse: Blank. Legend (bottom corner): LAFAR

Handwritten receipt from John Pullen to William Crenshaw documenting the sale of an enslaved African-American girl named Lucy for $394.43. As articulated on the web site US Slave (http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/12/slave-bill-of-sales.html), “A…

Three manuscript pages of two sharecropping contracts signed by the Winthrops and the contracted individuals with an X over their names. These contracts contain the terms of the annual rent for land such as acreage to be farmed, payment, and type of…

Three manuscript pages of two sharecropping contracts signed by the Winthrops and the contracted individuals with an X over their names. These contracts contain the terms of the annual rent for land such as acreage to be farmed, payment, and type of…