February 12, 1857

Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

"I believe that there were never so many thinking upon the subject, never were thoughts more nearly right on the great question of Liberty. I do not disesteem the political & Commercial aspects of Slavery. Its evils in these regards are greater than any of us imagine. But it is the Moral Condition of the slave & the effect of the system upon the Conscience of the Nation, that I chiefly feel & deprecate. One thing is certain. Let the friends of freedom, those who have no honors to seek, no offices to crave, no ambition to mislead them, let such become if possible more…

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January 21, 1847

Bryan, Matt, fl. 1847

Autograph letter signed

Title: to W. Williamson

Bryan writes, "I brought the subject of the decree in Washburn v. Washburn before the Court - The Ch: Just: [Chief Justice] says that the Jeffs[?] have a right to sell the Negroes under the decree in as much as they are to be delivered to them & they can do as they please with them." Written to Williamson in North Carolina.

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January 10,1777

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Has just received her letter and assures her "my heart is yours although my Country demands my poor pittance to endevor to rescue her from barbarity." Feels this barbarity, exemplified by Indians slaughtering innocents, enslaved people killing their masters, and the general desolation caused by the Hessian mercenaries is all a result of British tyranny. Chastises the "boasted humanity of these people who calls themselves the mother Country!" Repeatedly expresses his love and longing for her. Warns her to "take care of your heart" with Colonel Stewart who will deliver this letter. States…

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July 4, 1863

Gorsuch, Joseph B., ?-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Beckett

Gorsuch, Captain and Provost Marshal of the 13th Army Corps, writes to his friend the day the Union won the Battle of Vicksburg. He declares "Today is an era in our career as an army, and as individuals, for today Vicksburg has fallen. Long and patiently have we marched, and toiled and fought for this, and it is very fit that on Freedom's Day, Freedom's flag should wave from the parapets of Slavery's boasted redoubt." He mentions his pride of the soldiers he led from Butler County, Ohio as Captain of the 83rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He discusses the hardships soldiers had to endure…

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17 November 1862

Turner, Joseph Addison, 1826-1868

Newspaper

Title: The Countryman. [Vol. 3, no. 8 (November 17, 1862)]

Article regarding the law against educating Negroes.

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29 March 1864

Gilbert, Thomas, fl. 1861-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily sun. [Vol. 9, no. 196 (March 29, 1864)]

Northern News, printing of Lincoln's promotion of Grant to lieutenant general and Grant's reply. An editorial remarks on European support for the Southerners without removing their aversion to slavery. This issue contains at least four ads for fugitive slaves. An ad for rewards for the arrest of deserters includes names and physical descriptions of soldiers thought to be in the area. An inquiry about the chemical affinities of tobacco is discussed. A report details how confederate prisoners are being treated at Point Lookout, Maryland, including work, food, and inducement to leave the…

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1 December 1862

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel. [Vol. 25, no. 277 (December 1, 1862)]

List of Generals in Regular Confederate Army. An editorial discusses the idea that Lincoln will abandon the Emancipation Proclamation, which was designed as a military move, and another guest editorial works to define independence in terms of government. Two articles describe the violent deaths of Georgia soldiers at the hands of Yankees, one of them as a prisoner of war and the other in battle. The paper includes Senate and House reports from the Georgia Legislature in Milledgeville. Lists of Ladies Volunteer Societies have names and contributions. This issue also lists members of Georgia…

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September 22, 1863

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel. [Vol. 27, no. 226 (September 22, 1863)]

One issue of the Daily chronicle & sentinel dated September 22, 1863. Includes articles of a letter from the newly-elected governor of Alabama who dispels rumors of his supposedly reconstructive agenda, reports from Virginia, north Georgia, trans-Mississippi, north Alabama, and Tennessee that give indications of the war and its impact on the surrounding areas. Also printed is a special notice of a grievance that the George Railroad Company supplies Black employees with meat and money because they believe these men will be tempted to steal. Contains articles listing the names of enslaved…

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6 December 1863

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel. [Vol. 27, no. 355 (December 6, 1863)]

Yankee Estimates of Battle of Chattanooga, Siege of Knoxville. A detailed letter from Atlanta describes the recent mayoral election. An editorial implores the Confederate Congress to improve the currency situation through taxation. An article details the ways confederate prisoners are treated in Western prisons. Another article describes effective ways to pack cotton in wooden boxes to avoid moisture damage. A notice outlines the acts of plundering vandals from the North and encourages readers to treat them with contempt. There are slave ads and runaway slave ads in this issue. The newspaper…

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May 6, 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern Confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 69, (May 6, 1862)]

Subjects include: Recruits Wanted for a Band of Partisan Rangers, Freed enslaved individuals, General Beauregard's Intercepted Dispatch from the Battle of Corinth, General Lovell of New Orleans. Signed in pencil on top. Miscellaneous advertisements throughout. Second and third pages are printed backwards. Tears throughout issue.

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3 June 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern Confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 92 (June 3, 1862)]

Subjects include military Movements Near Pensacola, and Movements in Tennessee. There is a notice on the second page advising: "citizens owning plantations on the Stono, Wadmalaw, and Pon Pon Rivers, and all other points in this Military District, accessible to the enemy, will immediately remove their Negroes, and as far as practiceable, other property, into some safe place in the inferior." Advertisements for food, wool, dry goods, and other miscellaneous items.

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4 June 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern Confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 93 (June 4, 1862)]

Army Correspondence from the Battle of Corinth, dated May 26, 1862. Advertisements for land, food, and miscellaneous goods throughout the issue. Large tears on document. Runaway slave notice on second page.

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June 29, 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 115 (June 29, 1862)]

Subjects include the Flag of Truce between Beauregard & Halleck, and The Effort to Abolitionize Kentucky. Includes "A Patriotic Letter from Senator Hill," which discusses his views of the Conscript Act. Advertisements land, food, nurses, and other miscellaneous goods and services throughout the issue. Runaway slave notice on first page.

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7 August 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 147 (August 7, 1862)]

Article titled "The Emancipation Scheme Recommended by Lincoln", described as an "interview between President Lincoln and the border state Congressmen -- Mr. Lincoln makes a speech and appeals to them to pass the measure -- reply of the congressmen -- a majority and minority report." Majority Report written July 1, 1862, authored by the Representatives from the border states with C.A. Wickliffe as chairman. Minority report written July 15, 1862. Also includes a response by Horace Maynard written July 16, 1862. Also prints "Complete Correspondence between Lincoln and the Border State Men."…

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19 August 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 157 (August 19, 1862)]

Prints various articles including "Morgan's Escape from Kentucky" and "Voluntary Emancipation in Louisiana" by S.H. Stafford. Also prints "A Trip to Yankeedom and Back", an amusing story about Dr. F.H. Orme's travels to New York. Includes new conscription orders, troop movements and battle reports via telegraph, advertisements and local news.

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1864

Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883

Photograph

Title: Carte-de-visite of SojournerTruth

Caption on mount reads :"I sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth." Copyright stamp on verso

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July 1835

American Anti-Slavery Society

Pamphlet

Title: The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 1, no. 7.

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, printed by S. W. Benedict & Co. With images of a schoolhouse and slave children being whipped, asks, "Which of these systems of education shall we hand down to posterity."

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May 1836

American Anti-Slavery Society

Pamphlet

Title: The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 2, no. 17.

Includes an article on Phillis Wheatley.

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: Passage through Baltimore

Comments on Abraham Lincoln's stealthy trip through pro-South Baltimore on his way to Washington to be inaugurated. Lincoln's plans were changed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 22 February 1861 to avoid trouble in Baltimore. He boarded a special train on 23 February 1861 and travelled through Baltimore behind the curtains of a berth in a sleeping car. Volck depicts Lincoln being frightened by a hissing cat as he attempts to peek out of a freight car. The letters "P.W. & B.R.R. Co" (Philadelphia Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad) are on the freight car as well as the words "fright Bones…

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: Worship of the North

Depicts Lincoln in front of an altar with a black idol sitting on a platform with the words "Chicago Platform" on it. A sheet hanging from the platform says "The end justifies the means." Shows a white person being sacrificed in front of it. Henry Ward Beecher is shown having just used the sacrificial knife, Charles Sumner bearing a torch, Horace Greeley swinging a censer that emits snakes, and General Benjamin Butler (Volck had a special enmity for Butler after he occupied Baltimore, Volck's hometown, in early 1861) kneeling in worship with a knapsack full of stolen money. Also shows General…

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circa 1861-1863

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: Slaves Concealing Their Master From a Search Party

One etching entitled, "Slaves Concealing Their Master From a Search Party," by Adalbert John Volck, political cartoonist and sympathist with the Confederacy. Depicts an enslaved woman, directing mounted Federal soldiers as the enslaver hides in the shadows behind the door. The actual size of the etching is 20.1 x 26.7 cm. Title in pencil on verso.

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circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Print

Title: Offering of bells to be cast into cannon

Depicts a pastor and members of his congregation presenting church bells to be used to create weapons of war. The officer who accepts the bells removes his hat in recognition of the reverence of the occasion. Enslaved people are depicted lifting bells and other materials. An enslaved man to the left of the center of the sketch, wears a long apron and has removed his hat. Among the other items that have been donated appear to be candlesticks and andirons. This is one of the few sketches to which Volck put his own initials "AJV" in the lower left corner. The intials "EBM" also appear above…

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2 October 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 194 (October 2, 1862)]

Features a printing of President Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, dated September 22, 1862 and signed by Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward. Title reads: "By the President of the United States -- A Proclamation." Also features a poem by Reverend K.P. Birch of La Grange, Georgia titled "The Raid of Death." Includes accounts of troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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3 October 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 195 (October 3, 1862)]

An article titled "What the Northern Press is Saying About President Lincoln's Abolition Proclamation" features excerpts from various Northern newspapers, including the New York Herald, the New York Tribune, and the New York World. Other articles include "Capture of Harper's Ferry" and "Charleston in War Times." Includes accounts of troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.

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8 October 1862

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 199 (October 8, 1862)]

"Bull Nelson Shot by General Davis -- The Cause of the Tragedy" details the circumstances surrounding the death of General Bull Nelson, reprinted from the Lynchburg Republican. Concludes with a "special dispatch" stating that General Jefferson C. Davis shot and killed Nelson. "Missouri & Western Kentucky" a dispatch on military advances reprinted from the Charleston Mercury. Two other articles report on the public response to the Emancipation Proclamation: "The Chicago Times on Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation," and "The President's Proclamation - Its Reception." Includes other…

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