Birth certificates--New York (State)--New York; Slavery--New York (State)--New York
Birth certificate of Eliza, born April 14, 1810, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Jane' belonging to farmer Andrew McGowan [McGown] of Harlem, New York City.
Birth certificates--New York (State)--New York; Slavery--New York (State)--New York
Birth certificate of Mary Ann, born April 6, 1810, to a 'Negro Woman Servant named Anna' belonging to New York City physician Joseph Bloodgood. In document, the word 'Slave' has been crossed out and replaced with 'Servant.'
Birth certificates--New York (State)--New York; Slavery--New York (State)--New York
Birth certificate of George, born January 22, 1809, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Margaret' belonging to Deborah Prendergast, wife of Captain Richard Prendergast of New York.
Birth certificates--New York (State)--New York; Slavery--New York (State)--New York; Fugitive slaves--New York (State)--New York
Birth certificate of Horace, born in April 1808, and Bet, born in January 1810, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Tamer' belonging to New York City merchant James Forrest. Includes note stating that 'the said Tamer absented herself from my Service in...
Birth certificates--New York (State)--New York; Slavery--New York (State)--New York
Birth certificate of Harriet, born February 10, 1810, to a 'black girl a boun [bound?] servant the property of Thomas Stag,' at that time in the service of New York City shipwright Jacob Weaver.
Birth certificates--New York (State)--New York; Slavery--New York (State)--New York
Birth certificate of Eleanor, born April 9, 1807, to a 'Negro woman Margaret' and her husband Pompey. Includes note that Eleanor was baptised by Reverend Mr. Harris [probably Rev. William Harris] at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery and sponsored by...
Birth certificates--New York (State)--New York; Slavery--New York (State)--New York
Birth certificate of Fanny, born April 18, 1806, to 'Jane a slave', and Charles, born March 1, 1810, to 'Mary a slave,' both belonging to New York City gentleman Gabriel Furman.
Birth certificates--New York (State)--New York; Slavery--New York (State)--New York
Birth certificate of Susan, born December 1, 1809, to Clause and Sarah, slaves belonging to Maria Duffie, widow of New York merchant John Duffie. Signed in the presence of Gabriel Furman.
Constitutional law--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Manuscript draft of a four-page letter dated January 19, 1846, from Lysander Spooner Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston [Massachusetts], asking Bardburn to solicit prominent names to sign a petition and then have the petition...
Letter from Edmund Quincy to J. [] Williams, a librarian for the Public Library in Dedham [Massachusetts], in response to his request for volumes of literature produced by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
Four-page letter dated January 25, 1850, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Lynn [Massachusetts] to Lysander Spooner in Worcester, Massachusetts, in which Bradburn discusses his regrets for becoming to editor of the Pioneer and other abolitionist...
