Riverdale Children's Association; Colored Orphan Asylum (New York, N.Y.); Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans (New York, N.Y.); Charities--New York (State)--New York; Children, Black--New York (State)--New York; African American...
The records of the Colored Orphan Asylum document the activities of the institution from 1836 to 1972, with the bulk of the records falling between 1850 and 1936. The records include minutes of general meetings, the Executive Committee, the...
Account record for the sale of 90 slaves from the cargo of the Royall [Royal] Charlotte, sold by Cornelius Durant [of St. Croix Virgin Islands] on behalf of Samuel and William Vernon [of Newport, Rhode Island]. Includes names of purchasers, price...
Account record for the sale of 95 slaves from the cargo of the Royall [Royal] Charlotte, sold by Cornelius Durant of St. Croix [Virgin Islands] on behalf of Samuel and William Vernon [of Newport, Rhode Island]. Includes names of purchasers, price...
Austin, Texas. April 27. /99
My Dear Brother,
Many thanks for the copies of that inspired poem. I distributed them to the best minds of my church last Sunday as they were eagerly taken by the people. Whatever you print, especially on the idea of...
Declaration of Independence; Lewis Morris; Morrisania; Events; Landmarks
Background on signer Lewis Morris, Lord of the Manor of Morrisania, buried in the Morris Family vault at St. Ann's Church. In-- Bronxboro, Vol. IV, Nos. 5-6, pp. 19-21.
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
Four-page deposition of Robert Tailor, Junior, of Westmoreland County [Pennsylvania] describing the transfer of ownership of slave Brice Herring from the late Robert Tailor [Senior] to Isaac Barr of Fayette County, Kentucke [Kentucky]. Transcribed...
May 26th, 1917.
Edwin Markham,
West New Brighton, L.I.
New York.
Dear Comrade:
Was much disappointed to miss you at Mrs. Stockwell’s when I ran over at breakfast time Thursday morning, as I had a bee in my bonnet which I wished to put in your...
Six-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner dated December 27, 1860, dicussing an extradition case in Toronto, Canada [involving slave John Anderson].
One-page letter and envelope dated September 23, 1866, from Hez L. [Hezekiah Lord] Hosmer in Virginia City to Lysander Spooner [probably in Boston, Massachusetts] written on the back of a circular titled "Chief Justice H. L. Hosmer's Charge to the...
