Erie Canal; New York (State); New York; New York (State) Stock Certificate; Moran Brothers of New York; Loans; Reimbursements; Canal Department;Joseph, Alexander, Comte de Peurtales; Letter
7.5 cm. x 24.5 cm. Notarized manuscript two page letter from Alexander Joseph, Comte de Peurtales in Geneva, Switzerland appointing the Moran Brothers of New York City as his "true and lawful attorneys to receive the reimbursement of four...
Account book, 1856-1858, kept by the prominent slave trading firm of Bolton, Dickens & Co. of Lexington, Kentucky, with branches in Memphis, Charleston, Natchez, and New Orleans. It chiefly records slaves purchased and sold by the firm, with...
At the Grand Concourse & East 166th St. is a home endowed to care for persons who were once wealthy but who lost their money. In--Bronxboro, Vol V., No. 1, pp. 16-17.
Crowley sends Markham a copy of "The International" with a poem by Rooney dedicated to Markham. Crowley also invites Markham to have his portrait painted by Kennedy, who uses the psychochrome style.
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
One-page letter from Lewis Tappan in Brooklyn [New York] to Lysander Spooner dated November 15, 1855, discussing one of Spooner's pamphlets and form of petition.
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...
Bills of Sale; Inventories of decedents' estates; Slaves; Slavery
Four-page bill of sale to multiple persons of the estate of Thomas Jinkins, including tools, books, furniture, arms, livestock, one slave woman, one slave girl, one slave boy, and one slave boy named Peter.
Coffin, John,1756-1838; Campbell, George, 1736-1799; Perkins, Sergeant; Atwood, Isaac, Captain; Livingston, John William, Captain; Chapman, Thomas, Captain; Campbell, Dougall, Lieutenant; Great Britain. Army; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry --...
Drafts of Major John Coffins statements in reply to the defense of Lieutenant-Colonel George Campbell at Campbells court martial. The first draft (eleven pages, numbered as 5, [1] leaves) is addressed to ""Mr. President & Gentlemen of the Board,""...
Four-page letter dated September 17, 1854, from D. McF. [Daniel McFarland] in Sauk City [Wisconsin] to Lysander Spooner [probably in Boston, Massachusetts], describing his circumstances in Wisconsin, and his plans to move further West.
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Maine--Bangor; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated September 8, 1845, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Bangor [Maine] to Lysander Spooner of Boston, Massachusetts, describing several newspaper and circular reviews of Spooner's book [The Unconstitutionality of Slavery],...
Invitation for "the citizens of Boston" to assemble October 14 [no year given] at Faneuil Hall to discuss the "condition of the Fugitive Slaves, and the colored persons of this city, under the new Fugitive Slave Law." Signed by Josiah Quincy, J....
Sinclair continues to try to persuade Markham to join the Helicon Hall Colony. Sinclair encloses a prospectus for the Colony detailing current and future building plans.
Sierra Leone Company; African American loyalists--Nova Scotia; African American loyalists--Sierra Leone; African Americans--Colonization--Nova Scotia; African Americans--Colonization--Sierra Leone; Freetown (Sierra Leone) -- History; Abolitionists;...
John Clarkson (1764-1828) was an English abolitionist, agent for the Sierra Leone Company, and lieutenant in the British Royal Navy. The collection consists of Clarkson's manuscripts, written in journal form, of his involvement with the settlement...
