United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Emily Howland papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2681
Abstract
Collection consists primarily of correspondence; letters discuss attempts to establish schools for escaped slaves and freedmen in the South, abolition, Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney's opinion of John Brown and other abolitionists, the women's suffrage movement (especially in New York State), women's higher education, temperance, the Universal Peace movement, the National Arbitration League of Washington, aspects of Quaker life, the Society of Friends, the Freedmen's...
Dates:
1797-1938.
Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4681
Abstract
The Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection consists of newspaper engravings, estate appraisals, wills, legal documents, manumissions, reward for capture of runaway slave advertisements, slave dealer and slave trade manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, slave taxation records, stereoviews and other records documenting the sale, hire, purchase and debt payment of slaves in 18th and 19th century America.
Dates:
1728-1973.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Abolitionists -- United States. 1
- Abolitionists. 1
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 18th century 1
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th century. 1
- African Americans -- Education. 1
- African Americans -- History -- To 1863. 1
- Antislavery movements. 1
- Appraisals. 1
- Bills of sale. 1
- Engravings. 1
- Free papers. 1
- Freedmen. 1
- Fugitive slaves -- United States. 1
- Harper\'s weekly. 1
- Impressment -- United States. 1
- Insurance policies. 1
- Legal documents. 1
- Paper money -- Confederate States of America. 1
- Philanthropists. 1
- Sheet music. 1
- Slave bills of sale. 1
- Slave narratives -- United States. 1
- Slave trade -- United States. 1
- Slave traders. 1
- Slaveholders -- Taxation -- United States. 1
- Slaveholders. 1
- Slavery -- United States -- History. 1
- Slavery -- United States. 1
- Social reformers. 1
- Southern States 1
- Stereoscopic photographs. 1
- Temperance. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American. 1
- Wills. 1
- Women -- Education. 1
- Women -- Suffrage. 1
- Women educators. 1
- Women social reformers. 1 + ∧ less
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