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Humanity's last appeal to the abolitionists of the United States, against the increase of slave territory

Urges Northerners to vote for the Whig ticket, and oppose the Democrats, who favor the annexation of Texas. Argues that annexation is planned only to increase slavery and the power of the slave states. Texas is large and suitable for slavery and...

GLC08997

to Henry Knox

Writes, "My present engagements prevented my going to the westward to direct the business of supplies therefore I could not interest myself in the late proposals for victualing the troops as I wanted the means to [carry?] it on. I shall be much...

GLC02437.03234

Of Sight and Sound, Letters from an American Abroad

One pamphlet entitled, "Of Sight and Sound, Letters from an American Abroad," dated 1959. Consists of letters from Lester B. Granger, executive director of the National Urban League dated 1958-1959. Letters were sent from Rangoon, Burma, Karachi...

GLC09640.194

Negro Digest [November 1940]

One issue of Negro Digest dated November 1940. Contains writings by African American authors relaying the African American experience through travel and history essays.

GLC09640.206

Negro Digest [July 1943]

One issue of Negro Digest dated July 1943. African American authors illustrate the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes writings about Abraham Lincoln, Fiji, Harlem, segregation in Baltimore, a roundtable...

GLC09640.207

Negro Digest [December 1943]

One issue of Negro Digest dated December 1943. Contains writings by African American authors illustrating the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes a roundtable discussion on social equality, African...

GLC09640.208

Negro Digest [July 1944]

One issue of Negro Digest dated July 1944. Contains writings by African American authors illustrating the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes a roundtable discussion on social equality, Jim Crow laws...

GLC09640.209

Negro Digest [October 1944]

One issue of Negro Digest dated October 1944. Contains writings by African American authors illustrating the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes a roundtable discussion topics: Jim Crow laws affecting...

GLC09640.210.01

Negro Digest [October 1944]

One issue of Negro Digest dated October 1944. Contains writings by African American authors illustrating the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes a roundtable discussion topics: Jim Crow laws affecting...

GLC09640.210.02

Negro Digest [February 1945]

One issue of Negro Digest dated February 1945. Contains writings by African American authors illustrating the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes a roundtable discussion regarding equality in government...

GLC09640.211

Negro Digest [July 1948]

One issue of Negro Digest dated July 1948. Contains writing by African American authors illustrating the African American experience through travel and history essays. This issue includes an essay by Gregory Peck pertaining to prejudice, Southern...

GLC09640.212

South Africa: Is Peaceful Change Possible?

One pamphlet entitled, "South Africa: Is Peaceful Change Possible?" written by Bayard Rustin, Charles Bloomstein, Walter Naegle dated 1984. The report delves into apartheid in South Africa, the constitutional referendum, recommendation for nonviolent...

GLC09640.216.01

South Africa: Is Peaceful Change Possible?

One pamphlet entitled, "South Africa: Is Peaceful Change Possible?" written by Bayard Rustin, Charles Bloomstein, Walter Naegle dated 1984. The report delves into apartheid in South Africa: the constitutional referendum, and recommendations for...

GLC09640.216.02

Black Culture Quiz

One pamphlet entitled, "Black Culture Quiz" printed by New York University dated 1973. Prepared by professors at New York University's Institute of Afro-American Affairs. Categories are split by four components pertaining to African American History...

GLC09640.223

The Races of Mankind

One pamphlet entitled, "The Races of Mankind," dated 1943. Distributed by the National CIO War Relief Committee. Includes anthropoligical studies on the history of race classification and the future of racial prejudice.

GLC09640.237.01

The Races of Mankind

One pamphlet entitled, "The Races of Mankind," dated 1943. Distributed by the National CIO War Relief Committee. Includes anthropoligical studies on the history of race classification and the future of racial prejudice.

GLC09640.237.02

Origins and Purpose: A Handbook on the British Commonwealth and Empire

One handbook entitled, "Origins and Purpose: A Handbook on the British Commonwealth and Empire," edited by Vincent Harlow dated 1944. Outlines the extent of the British Empire exemplified through condominiums, mandated territories, states, colonies...

GLC09640.322

Nixon Arrives in Accra

One wirephoto released by Associated Press dated March 3, 1957. Shows then Vice President Richard Nixon in front of two microphones. The press release attached to the photo reports that Nixon is acknowledging the greetings of Komla Agbeli Gbedemah...

GLC09677.21

Raising the Abukir

One wirephoto released by Associated Press dated April 2, 1957. Shows a ship being raised from the Suez Canal. The attached press release reports that the sunken frigate Abukir is being raised as the last obstacle to traffic on the Suez Canal. Once...

GLC09677.27

Work on Last Suez Obstacle

One wirephoto released by Associated Press dated April 2, 1957. Shows a ship being raised from the Suez Canal. The attached press release reports that the sunken frigate Abukir is being raised as the last obstacle to traffic on the Suez Canal. The...

GLC09677.28

Where Missile Delivered Simulated Hydrogen Warhead

One wirephoto released by Associated Press dated November 15, 1957. Shows a map of the lower half of the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Panama Canal, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Trinidad, Guyana, Portugal, Spain...

GLC09677.44

to Sylvia Weiner

Alvin just learned that Moe is in Salem, Oregon. He also learned that Algerian Jews had their citizenship revoked. He says this bothers him greatly for if he fought alongside a Frenchman, he would have no regard for him.

GLC09414.1541

to Moe Weiner

James Doyle writes from North Africa, saying that the treatment is very good there. They have excellent rations and the champagne is very good. He brags throughout the whole letter.

GLC09414.1543

to William Smith Shaw

Former President Adams discusses Native American and African religion with Shaw, his nephew and former private secretary. States "Dr. Jarvis has assigned some good causes of the too general inattention to the religion of the indians. But those...

GLC07533

Printed fundraising document for the Amistad captives

"Here are thirty men taken out of the midst of a heathen nation in the interior of Africa, and in the providence of God thrown on the shores of New England. If they should be delivered from the fangs of wicked oppressors, (for which many prayers...

GLC07606

5000 American Seamen detained on board British vessels!

Alerts citizens to British impressment, American prisoners in France, "Algerine Piracy and Barbarity," and the relocation of American families to Canada, and blames it all on the Embargo Act of 1807. Urges "a hearty vote for the ANTI-EMBARGO and...

GLC07703

Blowing Up the Fire Ship Intrepid commanded by Capt. Sommers...

[Title continued] "by the American Squadron under Commodore Edward Preble." Hand-colored copper-plate engraving by John Guerrazzi, London.

GLC07729

The attack made on Tripoli on the 3d. August 1804...

GLC07730

to Walter S. Field

asks that he appear for him in any suits that may be instituted against him as trustee for a Kickapoo indian named Wah-nah-ka.

GLC07733.02.1

[Collection of wire photographs, 1952-1963] [Decimalized .01 - .88]

76 wire photos with 8 larger wire photos, many with International News Photos handstamps and/or typed dated descriptions affixed on verso. Most dated 1952-1963.

GLC09677

The First to be Freed

One pamphlet issued by the Ministry of Information dated 1944, entitled, "The First to be Freed." This is a record of the British military presence in Eritrea and Somalia from 1941-1943.

GLC09640.015

Liberia, Africa

One supplement printed by the Bureau of Information from the Department of State of Monrovia, Liberia dated 1952. Includes photographs and essays pertaining to economy, health, military, commerce, political conditions and the government of Liberia...

GLC09640.059

Geneve-Afrique [Volume IV, No. 2. (1965)]

One pamphlet entitled "Geneve-Africa, Volume IV, No.2," dated 1965. Published by the Geneve African Institute. Front cover contains note ascribed to James W. Ivy that the pamphlet was recovered from the League of Nations archives. Includes a forward...

GLC09640.075

New Directions: The Howard University Magazine [Vol. 4, No.1]

One issue of the January 1977 copy of New Directions. Contains editorials; a feature on Mordecai Wyatt Johnson; and Somalia's transition from revolutionary state into functioning government. Includes photo essays and poetry.

GLC09640.087

Journal of Negro History [Vol. XXXII, No.1 (January 1947)]

One edition of "The Journal of Negro History" edited by Carter G. Woodson dated January 1947. Includes articles pertaining to the annual meeting of the "Association for the Study of Negro Life and History," African American deaths in the Civil War...

GLC09640.105

to Sylvia Weiner

Moe is excited about tomorrow when he will take the train to New York. He also finally heard from Jim who is in North Africa. He thanks Sylvia for sending the rambler rose from their bush at home.

GLC09414.0730

to Sylvia Weiner

Moe dropped his watch the other day and does not know how he will get it fixed. He received a letter from Jim the other day from Africa.

GLC09414.0810

7 engraved maps of Africa [Decimalized .01-.07]

A collection of six maps depicting Africa, and one engraving of a city scene.

GLC09862

[Journal of the U.S.S. Portsmouth of the African Squadron, U.S. Navy]

Journal of the U.S.S. Portsmouth of the African Squadron, U.S. Navy, organized to protect legitimate American trading activity in western Africa, as well as to suppress "the Slave trade, so far as the Citizens of Flag of the U.S. may be found engaged...

GLC09362

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

This letter has three main focuses, the first is a letter of thanks for a note that Senator Bruce sent to a tenant of Thomas which he said was much appreciated and according to the tenant James H Osborne will be kept for the next generation. The...

GLC09400.050

Thompson in Africa: Or, an Account of the Missionary Labors, Sufferings, Travels, and Observations of George Thompson in Western Africa, at the Mendi Mission.

Thompson in Africa: Or, an Account of the Missionary Labors, Sufferings, Travels, and Observations of George Thompson in Western Africa, at the Mendi Mission. Abolitionist's diary of his African trip. Includes several eye witness accounts of the...

GLC09408

[Insurance for Spanish slave ship]

Insurance for Spanish slave ship Schooner Victoria. "Insured at New York against all Risks for a voyage round from the Havana, to, at, and from, the coast of Angola, to Havana, with Slaves..."

GLC09412

to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia went out with a collection can for the Spanish Loyalists who have been released from concentration camps in North Africa and are being transported to Mexico for asylum by the Mexican government. Has to be "Rosie the Riveter" and has stage...

GLC09414.0034

to Henry Knox

Informs Knox that the regiment of Royal Welch Fusiliers has embarked from New York to Boston, and that he has recommended them to Knox's shop. Having heard that Hyson tea was scarce in Boston, Rivington indicates that he has sent four chests of it...

GLC02437.00171

to Henry Knox

Thanks him for his recent correspondence and for the "western" contract Samuel Shaw sent him. Will be glad to know when a new contract is ready. Thanks him for attending to his accounts of rations that he furnished Captain [likely David] Zeigler...

GLC02437.03221

to Clement Biddle

Writes in response to Biddle's letter of 29 November (see GLC02437.03221). Comments that he feels Congress has done everything in its power to handle the Algerine [pirate] situation, so he does not think it necessary for them to obtain any frigates...

GLC02437.03223

to Henry Knox

Discusses payment of a bill owed by Knox's brother William. Paid the bill and encloses the receipt. Reports that he has heard that Mr. [Samuel] Shaw had recently passed the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa on a ship en route to Europe. Guesses...

GLC02437.05258

to Henry Knox

Written by Knox's former aide-de-camp Lillie. Written on the ship "Eliza" bound for Savannah, Georgia. Says he previously wrote Knox a letter before he left Gibraltar in which he gave a sketch of the character of the Emperor of Morocco. The day...

GLC02437.05116

[Letters from Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, and Benjamin Franklin]

Copies of three letters to Thomas Barclay. First one from Thomas Jefferson, written in Paris, dated 3 August. Presents Barclay with a tribute for his work as "Consul General for that Country [France] and Minister to the Court of Morocco, also as...

GLC02437.03633

to Henry Knox

Says he wouldn't normally bother Knox, but needs to update him on the situation because of the "cruel war" in Europe. Sends the latest news on 13 sailors captured by the "Algereen pirates." Swan expresses anger that the pirates are allowed to harass...

GLC02437.06002