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Slavery -- United States.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Abijah Beckwith papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918901]
Identifier: 2513

Albert Rogers Crandall papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2628
Dates: 1861-1912,-1861-1863 (bulk)

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.

Ledyard (N.Y.) political party rolls

 Collection — Manuscript box 77 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065254199]
Identifier: 296m

Legal documents - Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia

 Collection
Identifier: 4780
Abstract

Legal documents include wills, estate inventories, indentures and other land documents, summonses and other court documents, and accounts. Many relate to the ownership of slaves.

Dates: 1750-1879.

Legal documents - Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania

 Collection
Identifier: 4779
Abstract Last will and testament of Colonel Pierre Benjamin Faneuil, Boston, Massachusetts, 1877; signed manuscript Revolutionary War pension request for Tyler Porter, with list of battles, Massachusetts, 1818; New York State Militia Return of Officers ... under Command of Brigadier-General Lyman Curtiss, 1834; Beebee & Co. Bullion Exchange Bankers, New York financial statement, 1851; will of Christian Gingery of Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, includes mention of "mulato Girl," 1778;...
Dates: 1773-1851.

May Anti-Slavery manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4601
Abstract

Consists mainly of correspondence among American abolitionists, including many letters to Samuel Joseph May. Also included correspondence among members of May's family and the family of James Miller McKim; and some correspondence with Daniel Willard Fiske and George William Harris concerning the building of the May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell University.

Dates: 1749 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1880

Orris Crosby letter : Belvidere, Illinois, to Elijah Risley

 Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065248720]
Identifier: 1742