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GLC07638.02
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to "My Darling Wife" re: doubting reported plan to rescue Brown

1859/11/24

Taliaferro, William Booth, 1822-1898

Written while guarding John Brown in prison.

GLC07638.02
GLC07639
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to David G. Burnet re: politics in Texas

1835/02/06

Travis, William B., fl. 1835

"Austin has been admitted to Bail. Letters from him & Almonte say he will leave Mexico, intirely liberated, in a short time. The new election for governor, Lt. governor, and members of Congress, will take place here next Monday." Also mentions...

GLC07639
GLC07645
Collection Item
Document signed

re: authorizing justices in Charlotte Co. to execute slaves for capital offenses

1770/05/02

Botetourt, Norborne B., fl. 1770

Authorizes justices in Charlotte County to execute slaves who commit capital offenses. With collateral newspaper article.

GLC07645
GLC07591
Collection Item
Pamphlet

Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass re: West India emancipation; Dred Scott

1857

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Full title: "Two speeches by Frederick Douglass; One on West India Emancipation, delivered at Canandaigua, August 4th and the other on the Dred Scott Decision, delivered in New York... May 1857."

GLC07591
GLC07600
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Edwin M. Stanton re: urging recruitment of black troops in Kentucky

1864/03/28

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Asking for recruitment to be in a manner "Free from collateral embarassments" for Kentucky's Governor: "I think these requests of the Governor are reasonable; and I shall be obliged, if you will give him a full hearing, and do the best you can to...

GLC07600
GLC07584
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Mr. Hurst re: ex-slave writes to former master

1860/08/13

Blamire, George W., fl. 1860

"Who would have thought...that I would be leading a band at one of the most fashenable [sic] watering holes in the state and I thank you for it and... do not think I ever shal[l] be able to pay you for the many favors you have sho[w]ne. I can never...

GLC07584
GLC07588
Collection Item
Sketch

With Massa Sherman [pen and ink drawing]

1864-1889 ca.

Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895

Pen and ink drawing of liberated slaves following Sherman's Army through Georgia.

GLC07588
GLC07590
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to John Brown

1859/11/20

Doyle, Mahala, fl. 1859

By the widow and mother of three men killed by Brown in the Pottawatomie massacre: "My son John whose life I begged of [you] is grown up and is very desirous to be at Charlestown on the day of your execution, would certainly be there if his means...

GLC07590
GLC07592
Collection Item
Broadside

Open Letter to Frederick Douglass re: treatment of black cadets at West Point

1874/06/27

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

GLC07592
GLC07593
Collection Item
Photograph

Eighth Illinois Regiment Now in France [half tone printed reproduction]

1918 ca.

Black troops active in Europe during WWI. Two slightly different printed versions of the same photograph, one trimmed, and the other printed with a slightly grainer half-tone screen.

GLC07593

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