Pamphlet published by a Howard University professor arguing for the value of higher education for African Americans and the need to make it an aim of philanthropy.
Booker T. Washington autograph note: “I ask only an equal
chance in the world for the Negro.” / Booker T. Washington /
Tuskegee, Alabama / April 9, 1902.
Petition to the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina dating to 1830, in which 87 slave-holding residents of Sampson, Bladen, New Hanover, and Duplin County appeal to the courts for greater enforcement against runaways, noting among other…
Acrostic poems to Mary McClean and Sophia Alexander (ca. 1854) by George Moses Horton, slave-poet of Chatham County, N.C. These were commissioned by Torrance while a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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.
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.
Handwritten advertisement for a fugitive enslaved woman named Dolly, 10 April 1863. The advertisement sent to the Charleston Police Station by Louis Manigault (1828-1899), describes Dolly as "thirty years of age, of small size, light complexion,…
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