A bill of sale from Burke County for a "a certain negro woman slave named Sarah about twenty years old" believed to be Sarah Gudger. Handwritten ink on paper in bound deed book.
A Bill of Sale for two female servants (Mary & Charity) sold for $960.00 by Daniel P. Bestor of Sumterville, Alabama, to Col. I. C. Brown on January 9, 1853.
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.
Cover page of a volume of published correspondence between Jean Pierre Boyer, the president of Haiti, and Loring Dewey, the president of the American Colonization Society, discussing emigration of African Americans to Haiti.
Material comes from folder titled "Desegregation, 1966," and contains information and resources for school desegregation. The publication "Guidelines for School Desegregation" was from the Equal Education Opportunities Program of the Office of…