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Contains 74 Results:

Receipt for the sale of enslaved persons Matilda (age 17), Charles (14), Sam (13) and Lemon (11), to William H. Nelson, Fayette County, Kentucky, 1851 December 30

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The second series comprises fourteen legal documents documenting the slave trade: wills, deeds, bills of sale, and manumission papers. Arrangement within the series is chronological.

Dates: 1851 December 30

Bill of sale of "one Negro woman Uny by name also her child Henry" to Beverly Daniel of Clark County, Kentucky, and a bill of sale of "one gray mare and one sorrel horse" to Jefferson Daniel, 1825 January 15-18

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The second series comprises fourteen legal documents documenting the slave trade: wills, deeds, bills of sale, and manumission papers. Arrangement within the series is chronological.

Dates: 1825 January 15-18

Letter from James Nelson of Pleasant Hill, Clark County, Kentucky, to his son, discussing economic matters and family health, 1858 February 7

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The third series comprises personal letters that refer to enslaved persons, the institution of slavery, or the abolition of slavery. Arrangement within the series is chronological.

Dates: 1858 February 7

Letter from J. B. Mallett, Sheridan, New York, to John D. Gregg, 1860 July 30

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents

In this letter, Mallett mentions gathering "signatures to a Memorial to the Governor asking an investigation of my expulsion." Mallett was a school teacher in Bracken County who held anti-slavery sentiments.

Dates: 1860 July 30

The Anti-Slavery Record, Vol. I, No. 6. New York: Published by R. G. Williams for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835 June

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The first series comprises two folders of eighteenth century printed works on slavery, abolition, emancipation, the assassination of President Lincoln, post-war reconstruction of the Union, civil rights, and African re-settlement of former slaves. Arrangement within the series is chronological.

Dates: Publication: 1835 June

Bill of Sale for a 7-year old girl from William Daniel to William Hamer, North Carolina, 1769

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The second series comprises fourteen legal documents documenting the slave trade: wills, deeds, bills of sale, and manumission papers. Arrangement within the series is chronological.

Dates: 1769

Letter from Rebecca, London, to Mary Freude (?), 3rd day of an antislavery meeting, 1825 April 24

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The third series comprises personal letters that refer to enslaved persons, the institution of slavery, or the abolition of slavery. Arrangement within the series is chronological.

Dates: 1825 April 24

Extracts from Minutes of the Manumission Society of New York, Vol. 1, John Jay, President, 1785-1797, copied by William Goodell, 1857

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The documents in this series include hand-written notes, a bibliography of anti-slavery literature, typed transcripts of articles writen by Matilda Fee, and an annotated, typed document recording the life story of Andrew Hill, a formerly enslaved person from Madison County, kentucky, who was intereviewed at age 103.

Dates: 1857

Appeal to the Christian Women of the South by Angelina Grimke, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, 1:2, 1836 September

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The first series comprises two folders of eighteenth century printed works on slavery, abolition, emancipation, the assassination of President Lincoln, post-war reconstruction of the Union, civil rights, and African re-settlement of former slaves. Arrangement within the series is chronological.

Dates: 1836 September

List of the of books and pamphlets on slavery and anti-slavery in the Oberlin College Library, circa 1882

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The documents in this series include hand-written notes, a bibliography of anti-slavery literature, typed transcripts of articles writen by Matilda Fee, and an annotated, typed document recording the life story of Andrew Hill, a formerly enslaved person from Madison County, kentucky, who was intereviewed at age 103.

Dates: circa 1882