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to Nellie Taft re: girls who have applied to be his nurse, cook, laundress, etc.

Accompanied by a description of one young woman.

GLC05585.05

The Record. [Vol. 1, no. 23 (November 19, 1863)]

Official Correspondence between the Union and Confederate Exchange Commissioners for the exchange of POW's, especially the Gettysburg POW's Abraham Lincoln and the Czar, Labor Strikes in New York and Boston.

GLC05959.58.09

Daily Richmond whig. [Vol. 67, no. 56 (March 7, 1862)]

Page 1 and 2 have an image of the Viriginia state seal. Piece of 19th century paper adhered to the front page has the name "W. H. DeWitt." List of the acts passed by the Confederate Congress on front page. Page 2 has several columns of news from the...

GLC05959.78

The daily richmond enquirer. [Vol. 36, no. 201 (November 29, 1862)]

From the "Chicago Times," a report of the Congressional returns from the North. Report from the "Galveston News" on the Bombardment of Port Lavacca. Update on "The Siutation in Tennessee." Report that the Army of the Potomac under General George...

GLC05959.80.05

Daily true delta.

Amongst the typical foreign and local news and advertisements, the front page of this paper contains two very interesting secession-related items. A women in Charleston Owned the table used for signing the Declaration of Independence of the United...

GLC05960.01

To the planters and slave-owners of Louisiana.

Allen, Governor of Louisiana, implores slave owners to loan their slaves to construct fortifications on the Red River. Promises, "Your negroes will be well treated and well fed. They will be required to labor but sixty days, at the expiration of...

GLC05987.14

The Opelousas courier. [Vol. 12, no. 20 (October 15, 1864)]

Proclaims importance of states' rights. Discusses use of taxes, freed slaves, labor. French translation on right side. Printed on brown-sepia paper. Green and white floral pattern.

GLC05988.21

The interest in slavery of the Southern non-slaveholder. The right of peaceful secession. The character and influence of abolitionism.

Printed by Evans & Cogswell. Stab-stitched. Debow, a publisher and statistician, issues a pro-slavery and pro-secession polemic. Tries to convince non-slaveholders to uphold the institution of their "section," the South. Uses several arguments to...

GLC06158.12

The right way the safe way, proved by emancipation in the British West Indies, and elsewhere.

Regarding emancipation, Child writes, "Leaving the obvious considerations of justice and humanity entirely out of the question, I ask whether experience has not proved it to be a measure of plain, practical good sense, and sound policy... Free labor...

GLC06219

"Woman's right to labor," or, Low wages and hard work : in three lectures, delivered in Boston, November, 1859.

First edition. Published by Walker, Wise and Company.

GLC06220