Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4681

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.

Creator

Rudin, Stephen (Collector, Person)
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. (Person)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. (Person)
Clark, Lewis George. (Person)
Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796. (Person)
Rudin, Gail (Collector, Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

15.7 cubic feet. (15.7 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Bound Items

A Collection of All Such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, slave codes, 1803. Rudin # S - 464
Slave Broker James Eppinger's Letterbook. 1818-1830. Rudin # S - 427 (now 4681 Bd. Ms. 2++)
Slave Ledger Owned by Major John H. Drake. 1830-1850's. Rudin # S - 244 (now 4681 Bd. Ms. 1++)
Acts of a General Nature, Enacted, Revised and Ordered to be Reprinted, at the First Session of the Twenty-Ninth General Assembly of the State of Ohio, 1831. Rudin # S - 467
The Code of Virginia,1849. Slave laws. Rudin # S -528
Report of Naval Committee to the House of Representatives on Mail Steamships to Africa to Promote the Emigration of Free People of Color From the US to Liberia , 1850. Copy presented to William Seward and signed. Rudin # S - 396
The John Brown Raid - Robert E. Lee's Report Book , 1860. Rudin # S - 268
School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890, Edward A. Johnson, 1894. Rudin # S - 333
New York at the Cotton States and International Exposition,1895. Rudin # S - 529
Monarchs of Minstrelsy: From 'Daddy' Rice to Date, Edw. Le Roy Rice, 1911. Signed by Larry McMurtry. Rudin # S - 516
From Slavery to Wealth, The Life of Scott Bond , signed by Scott Bond and Dan Rudd, 1917. Rudin # S - 543
Hampton and Its Students, MF Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. Containing one of the earliest compilations of slave songs. 1875. Rudin # S - 748
First Report to the Cotton Planters' Convention of Georgia, on the Agricultural Resources of Georgia, Joseph Jones, MD. 1860. Rudin # S - 852
The New Book of Nonsense. In Aid of the Sanitary Commission. 1864. Rudin # S - 672
Book of Bubbles. In Aid of the Sanitary Commission. 1864. Rudin # S - 672
The Eighth Census, Preliminary Report, 37th Congress, 1860. Rudin # S - 874
A Collection of All Such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a Public and Permanent Nature, as are Now in Force, with a New and Complete Index, 1803. Rudin # S - 870
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass. His fourth autobiography. 1893. Rudin # S - 982
Ledger belonging to George Chapman, containing copies of wills, deeds and transactions, including slaves. Late 1600s-early 1800s. Rudin # S - 619
The Normal Song Book or Music Reader for Grammar and District Schools, Johnson and Osgood. 1851. Rudin # S - 1009
A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies, Marshal W. Taylor. Rudin # S - 1010
Beadle's Dime Song Book. Numbers 1-6 bound together. 1860. Rudin # S - 1013
The Singer's Own Book. 1841. Rudin # S - 1014
The New Man, Henry Clay Bruce, 1895. Rudin # S - 1032
Folk Song of the American Negro, John Wesley Work, 1915. Rudin # S - 1034
Plantation Sermons, or Plain and Familiar Discourses for the Instruction of the Unlearned, Rev. AF Dickson. Religious instruction intended for slaves. 1856. Rudin # S - 1036
The Draft Riots in New York, July 1863. The Metropolitan Police: Their Services During Riot Week. Their Honorable Record, David M. Barnes, 1863. Rudin # S - 1038

Physical Description

Newspaper engravings, estate appraisals, wills, legal documents, manumissions, correspondence, sheet music, slave taxation records, stereoviews, newspapers

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Petrina Jackson
Date completed:: March 2004
EAD encoding:: Peter Martinez, March 2004
Date modified:: Ben Wrubel, January 2019