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(House bill.) . . . A bill to be entitled An act to increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities.

stamp of record division

GLC06745.076

Circular. Office of....Freedmen re: information for Freedmen in Natchez, La.

With manuscript note on obtaining permits, etc. Printed by Freedmen Press, Vicksburg, MS with MS corrections, for use in Dept. of Tenn. & Ark. One black and white bust engraving of General Eaton included.

GLC06807

Massachusetts Congress "House No. 41" [slave case]

Account of slave case of George Lattimer. First and only edition. Original wrappers. Lattimer, a free black Boston resident, had been arrested on application of James Gray of Norfolk, Va., as his escaped slave. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story...

GLC06838

Sarah Lydia Gilpin Diary 1864-1865

Pages numbered 383 - 664
In this volume, the author describes efforts to help freed slaves. 21 January 1865: "…brought an appeal for aid for the poor Negroes liberated by Sherman who are suffering in great need of everything. It is a gigantic...

GLC06846.04

Address to the free colored people of the United States

Published by Merrihew and Gun. Stab Stitched.

GLC06893

to Robert Weir

Gives details of his movements over the past few days. Brunt has been ordered to "take charge of the Contraband Barracks," where he found and fed freed slaves. He describes the process of enlisting them as soldiers, "how theire eys brighten when...

GLC07006.04

[Petition for the emancipation for Fanny and Patsy Woodson]

Official document reporting that since Cuffy Woodson was emancipated, he purchased his wife Fanny Woodson, "a mulatto woman," and her child Patsy from his former master Micajob Moorman. Cuffy "further represents to your worship that the sd. Fanny &...

GLC06592

to Willis A. Hodges

Discusses arrangements at North Elba, and upcoming plans for this African American farming settlement. Says money is being raised to help the "infant colony," urges residents not to lay out plots yet, but instead cut wood. Also discusses the...

GLC06615

to Bradford R. Wood

Bryant, editor of the New York Evening Post, replies to a letter from Wood, former Representative from New York. Discusses Black suffrage: "I utterly detest the narrow principles of that party which denied equal rights to any of our fellow men on...

GLC06631.01

to F. A. Angell

General Butler writes to Angell in Brooklyn, New York. "A mans right to self government is inherent and inalienable. It does not depend on the degree of his intelligence or on other accident. It is the correlative of self defence. Is the negro a...

GLC06660

to James Mercer Garnett

Written by Marshall as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court to Garnett, the well-known Virginia politician and agricultural enthusiast and pamphleteer. Recipient inferred from Marshall's reference to "your" pamphlet "Reply to the Enquiries of a...

GLC06682

to Mr. Bayley re: plan to liberate his slaves, colonization, personal matters

Written to Mr. Bayley in England. Discusses his plans for colonizing his freed slaves in Haiti or Liberia. Lafayette also mentions the Catholic emancipation bill, etc.

GLC06721

Archive relating to the Freedman's Bureau, in Beaufort, SC [decimalized. 01-.11]

GLC06727

G.O. no. 3 re: taking advantage of freed slaves

GLC06727.01

Circular re: freed slaves and the evils of idleness

Signed by George Merrill.

GLC06727.02

G.O. no. 6 re: freedman's claims on plantation property owned by former master

Claims made by freed slaves on the plantation property owned by their former masters. Signed by George Merrill.

GLC06727.03

Circular re: no rations to freed slaves who refused to work

Signed by E.W. Hooper

GLC06727.04

G.O. no. 1 re: court martial of Union captain who attacked a freed woman

Countersignature is illegible.

GLC06727.05

Circular no. 6 re: law concerning captured plantations operated by former slaves

GLC06727.06

Circular to freed slaves, thanksgiving for victory at the Battle of Gettysburg

GLC06727.07

Blank form for plantation purchases

Regarding Negro wages etc.

GLC06727.08

Circular no. 7 re: shelter for colored refugees

GLC06727.09

Circular no. 3 re: distribution of property of newly freed slaves

GLC06727.10

Circular no. 4 re: regulations dealing with the labor of former slaves

GLC06727.11

to E. Levassor

Dickson, who served as a Union Major during the Civil War, discusses recent personal events and reconstruction with his grandfather (possibly Eugene Levassor). Reports that he will soon begin working at the Office of the Treasury in Savannah....

GLC05732.01