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to Mr. Fitssimons

Regarding funding act of 1790 (supported by Mr. Fitssimons, opposed by Rush). Speaking of "future acts of injustice," Rush remarks that: "Your funding System is to be one of them, and however much it may be gilded by the splendid and imposing names...

GLC07874

to Judge Duval

Offering a confession for his participation in the Canada Convention of 1858 and presenting himself for punishment in response to his actions. Also elaborating on the reasons for his participation.

In part: "Sir: I have the honor to announce to...

GLC07886

["The man is not bought!"]

Printed broadside protesting slavery. The text reads, in part: "The Man is Not Bought!....The kidnapper agreed, both publicly and in writing, to sell him for $1200. The sum was raised by eminent Boston citizens and offered him. He then claimed...

GLC07887

to James Buchanan re: conspiracy to free John Brown

Copy of letter sent and signed by Henry A. Wise to President Buchannan regarding the plot to free John Brown from his cell in Charlestown, Virginia. Wise explicitly states that he has amassed over one thousand men at arms (militia) and is prepared...

GLC07897

To: Robert C. Wood.

Criticism of abolitionists and mention of a "fracas" involving Cherokees dissatisfied about the results of their election.

GLC07905

Affidavit.

Benjamin Headwine swears that he believes the Spanish ship Cleopatra "is intended for the slave trade."

GLC07910

Diary of Captain Samuel J. Chaffee, Co. D, 49th Mass. Volunteers.

Seige of Port Hudson, battle descriptions, black soldiers, sketches, etc.

GLC07921

"We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism..."

Quotation in full: "We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful conflict and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation's life and those who struck to save it--those who fought for...

GLC07926.01

To: James M.H. Beale.

Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."

GLC07927

Authority to affix the seal...to treat...on...suppression of African slave trade

GLC07751

to Sarah Pillsbury re: death of his wife Anna Douglass

Douglass writes "Thanks for your kind letter. Mrs Douglass was all you say of her and more. She was the post in the centre of my house. Different we were in many things. She was conservative and I radical, she was for the old I for the new, She did...

GLC07752.01

to Mr. Clapp

One letter from Frederick Douglass to Mr. Clapp Dated July 13, 1889. The letter is regarding Douglass's work in Haiti. "The work before me in hayti is not very inviting. Neither the Diplomatic nor the Sanitary conditions are what I should like; but...

GLC07764

to clerk of Southampton, Va. re: possibility of blacks being sent to Liberia

GLC07773

Half length seated carte de visite portrait of Frederick Douglass, with cane

GLC07752.02

[Carte de visite of Anna Douglass]

Three quarter length seated carte de visite portrait of Anna Douglass. Douglass appears to be holding a parasol.

GLC07752.03

Brief autobiographical sketch: "A slave in 1837. Free man 1838..."

Includes envelope addressed to Charles Peirce, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

GLC07762

Frederick Douglass's paper. [Vol. 13, no. 9 (February 17, 1860)]

GLC07763

Vignette bust portrait of Douglass (Currier and Ives print)

GLC07765

Document re: emancipating his slaves

GLC07774

Cartes de visite (most signed) of officers of 20th Colored Infantry

GLC07778

Page of notes, probably for a speech: "Cast down your bucket where you are..."

GLC07805

The Finding of Moses

Signed by Frederick Douglass.

GLC07821

to John F. Parrott re: papers given in Senate on Colombian Slave trade treaty

GLC07792

[Carte de visite of J.A. Pratt]

Pratt was a sergeant in the 54th Mass. Black Regiment. Three quarter length seated carte de visite portrait, in uniform. Imprint of H.F. Warren, Waltham, Mass., on verso.

GLC07803

to Mary Ball Washington re: his brother's marriage, ordering clothing for slaves

With provenance note stating property of David A. Hayes, and a clipped signature of John Hancock, President.

GLC07858.01