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Entrance for African Americans at the Roxy Theatre, one of Atlanta’s movie palaces, in 1954.

Entrance for African Americans at the Roxy Theatre, one of Atlanta’s movie palaces, in 1954.

manuscript; 4.875 x 7.125 in; one of two leaves

A receipt for the sale of a slave by the name of Hinson, purchased by W.H. Mein from Jas E. Allen for the sum of 2,750 dollars.

Receipt for payment received by James T. Magbee for services rendered by a Negro woman named Nancy.

Handwritten, 1-page account of the sale of an “infant negro”, mounted into a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and handwritten entries dealing primarily with the issue of slavery, dated to approximately 1817-1848.

A satirical cartoon regarding the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This group scene playing out in front of the Temple of Liberty pits Northern abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison against Secretary of State Daniel Webster, who supported the act. Other…

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

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