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The James Basker and Angela Vallot Family Archive [Decimalized .01-.35]

A collection of material related to abolition in the United States as well as in England. Contains engravings, and newspapers.

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The Freeman's Journal [No. 8 (June 13, 1781)]

One issue of The Freeman's Journal dated June 13, 1781. Features an article concerning the passage of a bill connected to the gradual abolition of slavery that would re enslave people that were already freed in Westmorland County. There are also...

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The Massachusetts Centinel [Vol. 7 No. 39. (August 1, 1787)]

One issue of The Massachusetts Centinel dated August 1, 1787. Features the opinion of Hector St. John, a farmer, on slavery. There are also advertisements and articles including a poem entitled "Ode on the Anniversary of American Independence."

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Wouski

One engraving entitled "Wouski" dated January 23, 1788. Features a man and a woman on a hammock in what looks like a ships hold. Below them is a coil of rope, a small barrel labeled Jamaica Rum, and a monogramed trunk. The woman is black and the man...

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Greenleaf's New-York Journal, Extra [Vol. 1 No. 15 (February 23, 1796)]

One issue of Greenleaf's New-York Journal, Extra dated February 23, 1796. Features an account of the minutes of the legislature of New York for January 19, 1796 to January 28, 1796. Of particular note is a mention of a bill on the gradual abolition...

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Lady Godina's Rout; Or Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan

One colored engraving titled "Lady Godina's Rout; Or Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan" dated March 12, 1796. Features a room full of men and women playing cards. One woman in the front of the image wears a low cut gown. A man leans over her shoulder...

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The Man of Feeling in search of Indispensibles

One colored engraving entitled "The Man of Feeling in search of Indispensibles" dated February 12, 1800. Features a room full of women. One woman is entering the room via a door on the right of the image. A man kneels in the center inspecting dresses...

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Negroes just landed from a Slave Ship

One engraving entitled "Negroes just landed from a Slave Ship" dated circa 1810. Features a group of enslaved people on a beach with a ship in the background. The group is bracketed by two white men.

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Charleston Courier [Vol. 5 No. 1,243 (January 20, 1807)]

One issue of Charleston Courier dated January 20, 1807. Consist mainly of shipping and public notices and lists of items for sale. Of particular interest is nine entries of ships selling enslaved people from the Congo, Mandingo, Angola, Windward...

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Columbian Centinel [No. 2440 (August 19, 1807)]

One issue of the Columbian Centinel dated August 19, 1807. Contains public and shipping notices, as well as an article debating the political and economic results of a war at the present time.

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The North American and Mercantile Daily Advertiser [Vol. 1 No. 103 (May 9, 1808)]

One issue of The North American and Mercantile Daily Advertiser dated May 9, 1808. Contains many advertisements and notices of sale. Of particular note is a runaway slave ad for an enslaved person by the name of Joe Key. He is described as five feet...

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New York Weekly Museum [Vol. 20 No. 20 (June 25, 1808)]

One page from the New York Weekly Museum dated June 25, 1808. Features an article entitled "The Fate Of Fitz Charles" concerning a man named Henry Fitz Charles who was accused of killing his estranged father in self defense.There are also articles...

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Portsmouth Oracle [Vol. 20 No. 11 (December 17, 1808)]

One issue of the Portsmouth Oracle dated December 17, 1808. Contains an article concerning an embargo on American goods being exported to other countries in order to protect American merchants. The newspaper also contains advertisements and public...

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Engraving of Granville Sharp

One engraving of Granville Sharp dated December 15, 1809. The engraving was published by William Daniell originally drawn by G. Dance. The portrait is a profile of Sharp.

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Engraving of William Wilberforce

One portrait engraving of William Wilberforce based on the painting by Russell R.A. dated 1814.

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City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser [Vol. 35 No. 11,381(August 31, 1815)]

One issue of the City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser dated August 31, 1815. Contains many advertisements and public notices, of particular note are four runaway slave ads. The first ad is for an enslaved man named Tom who escaped from the...

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New-Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette [Vol. 2, no. 24 (June 13, 1820)]

One issue of the New-Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette dated June 13, 1820. Newspaper contains advertisements, proclamations by President James Monroe, and auctions. The proclamations concern the selling of government land in the district of Detroit...

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A Mandingo

One colored engraving by R.A. Ackermann entitled, "A Mandingo" dated 1821. Features an image of a Mandingo tribesman in traditional clothing.

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Engraving of Hannah More

An engraving of Hannah More based on the painting by H.W. Pickersgill. More is seated holding glasses.

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Der Sclavenhandel [In German]

One page of engravings entitled "Der Sclavenhandel" dated 1833. The engravings are gathered on the page as an illustration of the slave trade. The top image features people being herded away from a village towards a ship. In the foreground is a...

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New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette [Vol. 5 No. 214 (August 5, 1833)]

One issue of the New-Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette dated August 5, 1833. Issue contains a few interesting articles; one on Daniel Webster and the possibility of a presidential candidacy, one on James Madison's life after his time in the White...

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The Liberator [Vol. 3 No. 1 - Vol. 3 No. 52 (January 5, 1833-December 28, 1833)]

One bound volume of The Liberator containing issues from January 5, 1833 - December 28, 1833. Volume contains a years worth of issues. The issues contain poems, current events and abolition news.

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Extra Globe [Vol. 2 No. 5 (June 26, 1835)]

One issue of the Extra Globe dated June 26, 1835. Features an extensive article on Martin Van Buren's opinion on slavery in the territories specifically the Missouri Question. Also contains a small mention of Santa Anna entering the capitol of...

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Engraving of William Wilberforce

One portrait engraving of William Wilberforce dated 1840. Willberforce is seated and holding a watch. In the background is a bookcase and a curtain.

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Negro Race

One engraving entitled "Negro Race" published by Wm S. Orr & Co dated 1851. Engraving features four Africans, two as portraits and two as profiles. In the center of the portraits there is a skull in profile. Each image is labeled with a number...

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National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 19, no.15 (August 28, 1858)]

One issue of the "National Anti-Slavery Standard" dated August 28, 1858. This issue features a poem "Peace in God" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The newspaper also features a section of articles that are pro-slavery. There is also an article concerning a...

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The Liberator. [Vol. 31 no. 7. (February 15, 1861)]

A issue of the liberator from February 15 1861. This issue includes articles titled "An Abolition Meeting Broken Up by a Mob," "No Union with Slave Holder," and "The Anti-Slavery Struggle."

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The Liberator. [Vol. 31 no. 8. (February 22, 1861)]

One issue of The Liberator dated February 22 1861. This issue includes articles titled "Slavery Triumphant," "Beecher on times," and "Protest of Colored Citizens."

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The Liberator. [Vol. 31 no. 14. (April 5, 1861)]

One issue of "The Liberator" dated April 5 1861. This issue includes articles titled, "A Wife's Account of her Husband's Murder" (A Northern man living in the South killed for supposedly aiding a slave) "Southern Ruffianism Toward Northern Citizens,"...

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A Negro Funeral

One engraving entitled "A Negro Funeral" dated September 13, 1862. The engraving features 11 African American men walking beside a horse-drawn funeral coach driven by another man. The engraving has been colored in.

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Harper's Weekly [(February 21, 1863)]

One page of the February 21, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly. This page features the engraving "The Effects of the Proclamation - Freed Negroes Coming Into Our Lines at Newbern, North Carolina." The reverse side of this page features articles...

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Harpers Weekly [(May 30, 1863)]

One page of the May 30, 1863 issue of Harper's weekly. Features various advertiments as well as a political cartoon entitled "The Slave Owner's Spectre."

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National Anti-Slavery Standard [Vol. 25 No. 14 (August 13, 1864)]

One issue of the "National Anti-Slavery Standard" dated August 13, 1864. Features extracts of a sermon by Reverend Charles G. Ames entitled "Dead Flies In Precious Ointment: A Discourse on Morals in America." Also features an article titled "What...

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Harper's Weekly [Vol. 10 No. 486 (April 21, 1866)]

One issue of Harper's Weekly Newspaper dated April 21, 1866. Newspaper features many advertisements and articles of current events. Of particular note on the cover is an image and article concerning the Abraham Lincoln School for Freedmen in New...

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Engraving of William Wilberforce

One engraving of William Wilberforce dated 1881. Wilberforce is framed by other images including; a white person dressed as a warrior protecting a cowering African person from another white person holding chains with a raised hand. The illustrated...

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The New York Herald [No. 23,957 (March 27, 1902)]

One issue of The New York Herald dated March 27, 1902. Issue contains ads and public notices. Some articles of note are; the announcement of the death of Cecil Rhodes, German citizens leaving their homes as a result of harsh taxes, multiple articles...

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