african americans

eceipt for $1235.00 for sale of Albert to S.O. Wood, Receipt for $1,31...

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Population of Albany County & Indians 1689 - 1698.

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Comparative table of populations in the Province of New York, 1703-171...

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An account of the families of Germans settled on Hudson's River in the...

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An account of the number of people in the Province of New York, A.D. 1...

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Le code noir ou Edit du roy - Public domain document scan

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The life and dying speech of Arthur, a negro man who was executed at W...

Positive Photostat.; Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 36, Folder 26.

Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

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Appraisal of Property -- Samuel Turner Estate. [Appraisal of slaves fr...

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Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

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Statistics of the population of the Province of New York, 1647-1774. [...

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Revolutionary War [Request for compensation to be paid to Nathaniel Se...

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Lafayette, James Armistead [Facsimile of the Marquis de Lafayette's or...

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An address to the public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting ...

An address to the public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting ...

An address to the public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting ...

Title.; Imprint 2.; Franklin, B.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14... More

Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief th...

Reproduction number: A54 (color slide); LC-MSS-27748-21 (B&W negative) While serving as secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), one of Virginia's largest planters and slaveholders, wrote this 30 Augus... More

The progress of freedom. On the 6th of April St. Louis elected a mayor...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 71, Folder 23.

Life in Philadelphia. At home drawn on stone by H. Harrison

Title inscribed in ink. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Harrison. Exchange; (DLC/PP-1973:254).

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Maps show percentages of African Americans in the United States between 1800 and 1890. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of ... More

Henry Clay's bulbous panteloons sic or where the coffee went to

Drawing shows an Anglo-African (or African American) cabin boy named "Henry Clay" on board a ship; he has been caught by another sailor with a stash of stolen coffee that he has hidden in pantaloons. Inscribed... More

Home incidents, accidents, &c. The colored voter ; Pursuit of a breakf...

Illustrations that accompany twelve stories of mishaps and curiosities including an African American Union soldier wrongly denied the right to vote, a Romani woman earning money telling fortunes, an explosion a... More

Begins "I certify that negro named Jenny is at liberty to hire herself...

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[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves]

Illus. in: The penitential tyrant / Thomas Branagan. New-York: Printed by Samuel Wood, no. 362, Pearl-street, 1807. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3.

Begins "I John Gassaway register of wills..."

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Letter begins, "We William Bryan Anderson Rice and Matthew Rice being ...

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A Thanksgiving sermon: preached January 1, 1808 in St. Thomas's, or th...

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This plate is respectfully dedicated to all the butchers in the United...

A procession of butchers led by two Negro fiddlers, and featuring a large bull. On the ground before the bull are a cleaver, saw, and other butcher tools. The print is dedicated to Pennsylvania's recently elec... More

An oration commemorative of the abolition of the slave trade in the Un...

Freedom paper for Noah Powers. - Public domain document scan

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An address delivered in the African Episcopal church, on the 25th Marc...

"Cyrus Tiffany in the Battle of Lake Erie, September 13, 1813," mural ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Certificate from County of NY of manumission for John Moore, dated Apr...

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Letter stating that $500 was paid for the purchase of Joseph Boswell, ...

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Manuscript of an officer of the highest class moving to Portugal

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Certificate by City and County of New York for Peter Seaman, dated Apr...

Receipt for African American slave

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Aprais [Appraisal]; Bill of the Estate of John Epperson.

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Aprais [Appraisal]; Bill of the Estate of John Epperson.

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State's conveyance of $500 to Edmund Bacon for slave, Maria.

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Reply to bobalition of slavery - Public domain book illustration, Libr...

One of several racist parodies of black American illiteracy, dialect, and manners issued in Boston at various times between 1819 and 1832. Others in the series are "Grand Bobalition or Great Annibersary Fussibl... More

James Monroe Papers: Oversized, 1802-1819, Series 4, Addenda, 1778-183...

[Manumission certificate for William Steward, mariner granted citizens...

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Grand bobalition, or "Great anniversary fussible"

Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides parodying the manners, illiteracy, and dialect of Boston blacks. (See no. 1819-2.) The illustration shows a black militia troop marching from left to right. The ... More

[Town plan for Mesurado, Liberia]

American Colonization Society Papers. Published in: The African-American mosaic, a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture / Debra Newman Ham, ed. Washington, D.C. : Librar... More

Grand celebrashun ob de bobalition ob African slaver!!!

Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides parodying the manners, illiteracy, and dialect of Boston blacks. (See no. 1819-2.) This one is facetiously dated "Uly 14, 1825, 6 month and little more beside," ... More

[Will and testament of Daniel Juzan.]

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[Will and testament of Daniel Juzan.]

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Title page of a pamphlet: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery ...

Illus. in: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, without Danger or Loss to the Citizens of the South (Baltimore: Benj. Lundy, 1825), title page. Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring... More

Dreadful Riot on Negro Hill! - Public domain broadside, Library of Con...

Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides, parodying black manners, illiteracy, and dialect. (See no. 1819-2.) The text describes, in the words of a "letter from Phillis to her sister in the country," a ... More

Land, negroes, stock, &c. for sale ... W. H. Barksdale, Haw-Branch, Am...

Auction.; Imprint 2.; On verso: 135.47 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 186, Folder 6.

A monday morning view of Friends meeting house and academy, Philada. f...

Print shows many Quakers and others walking along the sidewalk in front of the Friends' Meeting House and Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; also shows two African American children with a large pig on the ... More

Report of the Committee on Colonization, March 1829

This report, written by Amos A. Phelps, discusses the practicability of colonization, the argument for colonization, and why colonization is an inadequate remedy for the problem. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Monthly concert reports by Amos Augustus Phelps, Nov 2nd [1829?]

This manuscript, written by Amos A. Phelps, contains notes from a meeting in New York about the activities of the American Colonization Society, and notes from another meeting in Philadelphia about a vessel sen... More

Facts relative to Africa slave trade - colonization

This item contains notes by Amos A. Phelps on the American Colonization Society, and on the arguments often made in support of colonization. Phelps’s note also contains a list of books on the subject. A clippin... More

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 13 / Clay fecit 1829.

Print shows an African American couple walking on the street; the woman asks the man whether he likes the waltz. Exchange; (DLC/PP-1973:253). Caption: "How you like de waltz, Mr. Lorenzo?" "'Pon de honour of... More

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 11 C

Print shows an African American woman, wearing a very large hat, in a shop trying to purchase a pair of stockings. Plate XI. Caption: "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man?" "Oui Madame! her... More

Gendarmerie des Coloniel

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Like master like man / E.W. Clay del.

Print shows two African American men, with their seconds, about to fight a duel with pistols at close range.

Caricature, A black ball, public domain cartoon image

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Life in Philadelphia. How you like de new fashiom shirt, Miss Florinda...

Print shows a garishly dressed African American man talking with a garishly dressed African American woman in a parlor. Caption continues: I tink dey mighty elegum I see you on new year day when you carry de ... More

The crow quadrilles--Arranged for the pianoforte by Robt. Ashley, Esq....

Music cover with seven vignettes of caricatures of African-Americans. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boston minstrels. The celebrated Ethiopian melodies ...

Music cover illustrated with caricatures of six minstrels in two scenes.

The aristocracy of color - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signed in stone: J. Cn. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

Soloque. Emperor of Hayti, creating a grand duke

Published & for sale by J.L. Magee, no. 34 Mott St, NY. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

United States slave trade, 1830 - Public domain engraving

An abolitionist print possibly engraved in 1830, but undocumented aside from the letterpress text which appears on an accompanying sheet. The text reads: "United States' slave trade, 1830. The Copper Plate from... More

Letter from Simeon Smith Jocelyn, New Haven, [Connecticut], to William...

Simeon S. Jocelyn writes to William Lloyd Garrison mentioning the "disgraceful doings of our city" and the need to educate the public about "the necessity of improvement of the free colored people". He tells Ga... More

Letter from Simeon Smith Jocelyn, New Haven, [Connecticut], to William...

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Simeon S. Jocelyn declares that "Sweet Reliance now on God - holy fortitude and .. patient zeal must characterize our step in this majestic and glorious cause." He then... More

Letter from James Forten, Philad[elphi]a, [Pennsylvania], to William L...

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, James Forten sends him "two numbers of the Pennsylvania Inquirer, containing some strictures on the repeal of the Marriage Law in Massachusetts." He criticizes the auth... More

Letter from James Forten, Philad[elphi]a, [Pennsylvania], to William L...

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, James Forten sends him "two numbers of the Pennsylvania Inquirer, containing some strictures on the repeal of the Marriage Law in Massachusetts." He criticizes the auth... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Henry Egbert B...

Letter from Arthur Tappan, New York, [New York], to William Lloyd Garr...

In this typed copy of a letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Arthur Tappan acknowledges the receipt of Garrison's last letter and says that Garrison's explanation about copies of the Liberator appearing in Charles... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Henry Egbert B...

Letter from James Forten, Philad[elphi]a, [Pennsylvania], to William L...

James Forten writes to William Lloyd Garrison regretting that "Mrs. Stansbury of Trenton, N[ew] Jersey has presented 1,000 dollars to the Colonization Society" when the funds could be better used to encourage "... More

Letter from Samuel Joseph, Brooklyn, [Connecticut], to William Lloyd G...

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel Joseph May praises Garrison's "fearless, self-devoted spirit" in the antislavery cause and confesses that Garrison's "arguments and facts fully convinced my unde... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Henry Egbert B...

Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Brooklyn, [Connecticut], to William Llo...

Samuel Joseph May writes to William Lloyd Garrison sending him "eight pages more of my sermon." He explains that he has enlarged it since it was delivered in Boston and has preached this newer sermon to his con... More

Letter from James Forten, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to William Llo...

James Forten writes to William Lloyd Garrison pleased that Garrison "is still urging onward unintimidated by the many threats of personal violence from the South." He discusses the Southern hatred for the Liber... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Ebenezer Dole,...

Letter from Arnold Buffum, Andover, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd ...

Arnold Buffum writes to William Lloyd Garrison describing his lecture delivered in "the large town Hall in Lowell" to what was "said to be the largest audience ever assembled there." Buffum reports that "we hav... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Henry Egbert B...

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Henry Egbert B...

Letter from Henry Egbert Benson, Providence, [Rhode Island], to Willia...

Henry Egbert Benson writes to William Lloyd Garrison describing his efforts "to impress upon the free People of color the importance of Sending one or two delegates to represent them in the Philad[elphi]a Conve... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Ebenezer Dole,...

Letter from James Forten, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to William Llo...

James Forten writes to William Lloyd Garrison discussing a work Garrison is about to publish (likely his "Thoughts on African Colonization"), sharing his hope that it "may be the means of opposing, in full, the... More

Letter from Henry Egbert Benson, Providence, [Rhode Island], to Willia...

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Egbert Benson reports to Garrison that some new subscribers have not yet received their first copies of the Liberator and sends him money for another new subscrib... More

Letter from Harriet Lupton, Headingley, [England], to Mary Anne Estlin

Harriet Lupton writes to Mary Anne Estlin in regards to obtaining a copy of her report on the extract of "Mr. Estlin's interesting letter." Lupton could tell that from F. Douglass's report the American & Foreig... More

Letter from Arnold Buffum, Fall River, [Massachusetts], to William Llo...

Arnold Buffum writes to William Lloyd Garrison describing an address he heard from "friend [Joshua Noble] Danforth". Buffum quotes from the address, including a theoretical story about the result of immediate e... More

Letter from Arnold Buffum, Fall River, [Massachusetts], to William Llo...

Arnold Buffum writes to William Lloyd Garrison describing an address he heard from "friend [Joshua Noble] Danforth". Buffum quotes from the address, including a theoretical story about the result of immediate e... More

Letter from Arthur Tappan, New York, [New York], to William Lloyd Garr...

In this handwritten copy of a letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Arthur Tappan thanks Garrison for sending him $100 and says he is "gratified with the appearance of your paper since its enlargement." He then com... More

Letter from Arnold Buffum, Brattleborough, [Vermont], to William Lloyd...

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Arnold Buffum discusses two lectures he delivered in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He tells Garrison about one man who asked about his connection to Garrison and another, ... More

Letter from James F. Otis, Portland, [Maine], to William Lloyd Garriso...

James Frederick Otis writes to William Lloyd Garrison wishing him "success in the cause" and remarking that Garrison's zeal "deserves so much praise and encouragement." He then says that while he agrees with Ga... More

Letter from Henry Egbert Benson, Providence, [Rhode Island], to Willia...

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Egbert Benson reports to Garrison that some new subscribers have not yet received their first copies of the Liberator and sends him money for another new subscrib... More

Letter to Maria Weston Chapman - Public domain correspondence manuscri...

Unknown writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to thanking her for her kindness to William Channing. The writer has sent her notes to "them" about what she thinks of their opportunities of education in here.... More

Letter from Arnold Buffum, Fall River, [Massachusetts], to William Llo...

Arnold Buffum writes to William Lloyd Garrison describing an address he heard from "friend [Joshua Noble] Danforth". Buffum quotes from the address, including a theoretical story about the result of immediate e... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Henry Egbert B...

Letter from Oliver Johnson, Craftsbury, V[ermon]t, to William Lloyd Ga...

Oliver Johnson writes to William Lloyd Garrison notifying him of his "movements in relation to the subjects of slavery and colonization." He says that his work has assured him that "the principles of the New En... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Henry Egbert B...

Letter from James Forten, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to William Llo...

James Forten writes to William Lloyd Garrison discussing a work Garrison is about to publish (likely his "Thoughts on African Colonization"), sharing his hope that it "may be the means of opposing, in full, the... More

Much ado about nothing or a militia court-martial!!

A satire on the pretensions and general decadence of the American local militia during the Jacksonian era. A man on a witness stand (far left) is questioned by a court-martial. Several officers sit around a tab... More