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North Carolina Mutual Insurance Policy for a premium of $2300 in 1849. North Carolina Mutual Insurance based in Raleigh, North Carolina issued various policies for property including enslaved people. Per the donor, this policy may have been one for…

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.

Carte-de-visite of Molly, enslaved woman belonging to Mary Boykin Chesnut of South Carolina. After the war, Molly remained with Chesnut and used her egg

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

Handwritten entries into a ledger documenting work at the McCalley Plantation.

In this letter, Mary Tunstall writes from Danville, Va., to her husband, William P. Tunstall in Richmond, Va., acknowledging receipt of a female enslaved child, who apparently Mr. Tunstall sent his wife as a gift.

manuscript; 6 x 9 in; one of two leaves

Letter written by former enslaved man Lotsey White to Howard Montague inquiring on the whereabouts of various family members that had been sold off separately from herself.

Lithograph of Cheapside, the largest slave market in the state of Kentucky until the slave trade was outlawed in 1864.

This list of persons enslaved by the College of William & Mary, circa 1780, includes the enslaved individuals working at the College as well as those hired out.