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Joseph Goodwin was a plantation manager in Cuba originally from Hudson, N.Y. This diary was presumably kept by Goodwin, although it may have been kept by his brother. After leaving home in Hudson, N.Y., Goodwin worked for Gen. George De Wolf, first...
Sailors' Snug Harbor, Merchant Seamen, Institutional Care, Staten Island, New York City, Photographs
Robert W. Tebbs, architectural photographer known for his photos of New Orleans plantations in the 1920's, shot this photograph of the Sailors' Snug Harbor grounds in Staten Island, New York.
Five-page letter dated August 20, 1866, from A. P. Aldrich in Barnwell, South Carolina, to Lysander Spooner [of Boston, Massachusetts] regarding the economic hardships faced by the South during the reconstruction era.
Letter from Thomas S. Dicken to Colonel John Ambler of Richmond [Virginia] regarding management of his plantation. Includes medical treatment for illness and punishment of infractions.
Two-page letter from James Foster of Louisa [Virginia] to Colonel John Ambler of Richmond, Virginia, regarding the management of his plantation. Includes questions on clothing slaves and the treatment of Gilbert, a runaway from 'the mountains.'
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...