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African Americans -- History -- To 1863.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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.

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.

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