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Agreement between Thomas Green Clemson and sharecroppers working the land at Fort Hill. Most of the sharecroppers were former enslaved persons.

Agreement between Thomas Green Clemson and sharecroppers working the land at Fort Hill. Most of the sharecroppers were former enslaved persons.

The 1913 diary of formerly enslaved person Jeffrey T. Wilson. Entries were kept in a Wanamaker's Diary (produced by the department store chain) actually designed for 1911. As a result, Wilson has hand-corrected the days of the week throughout to…

manuscript; 4.875 x 7.125 in; one of two leaves

manuscript; 6 x 9 in; one of two leaves

Handwritten bill of sale for an enslaved African-American boy named Jacob who was around eight years old. As articulated on the web site US Slave (http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/12/slave-bill-of-sales.html), “A slave bill of sale was a contract…

Letter, William C.C. Claiborne to Col. Alexander De Clouet, instructing him to be alert to “Agents of the Enemy busily engaged in exciting Negroes to insurrection” as British troops approached New Orleans.

recto, handwritten in ink: No. 10 / No. 10 / Contrabands as they appear / for admission to Federal Lines / Baton Rouge Louisiana 1863 / Contrabands-verso, handwritten in ink: Contrabands as / they appear for / admission to Federal / Lines / Baton…

April 20, 1827 letter from Joseph Watson to Colonel Philip Hickey informing him of the situation of the kidnapped African American children and offering evidence that one of the enslaved children on his plantation, James Dailley, may be one of the…

January 26, 1828 letter from Joseph Watson to Duncan S. Walker and R. J. Walker regarding the case of the kidnapped African American children and noting that one child returned by Philip Hickey, Ephraim Lawrence, died days after his arrival in…