1864/07

Photograph

Title: Soldiers near a tent, Richmond, July 1864

Four officers outside a tent. Two officers in foreground in heavily decorated, ornate uniforms with helmets and plumes. A black man in the background. No identification. Handwritten on back: "At Richmond, July 1884. Dr. Jones in foreground, afterwards medical director on Govt. staff. Murdered in 1888."

GLC05137.265

1862/07/17

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: Act to carry into effect the Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade.

An act of Parliament effecting the 7 April 1862 treaty between Great Britain and the United States .

GLC05112.01

1863/06/29

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: Act to carry into effect an additional article to..[a previous] treaty

An act of Parliament to add additional provisions to the 7 April 1862 treaty between Great Britain and the United States suppressing the African slave trade. Passed on 17 July 1862.

GLC05112.02

1861/01/13

Campbell, Robert C., fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: James Beale.

Written as a pro-secession member of the Texas Secession Convention. Campbell accuses the North of bad faith on the question of slavery. Written at Galveston

GLC05127.02

1850/04/27

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Letter signed

Title: to Thomas Hazard re: suppression of the slave trade & colonization efforts

Accompanied by FF envelope. Clay writes that that the subjects Hazard wrote about will receive little attention until the slave trade question is settled. Clay argues that the best way to stop the slave trade is by creating strong colonies on the African coast: "I believe that they [the colonies] may be instrumental not only to abolish the slave trade, but ultimately, after the lapse of a great length of time, to separate the two races of the United States."

GLC05495.01

February 10, 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Letter signed

Title: to John Eaton

Lincoln instructs Eaton, Colonel of the 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry to "continue your supervision of Freedmen over the same territory & on the same principles as in the past ... " Signed and dated by Lincoln; the remaining text is in Eaton's hand. Embossment in the upper left corner.

GLC05484

1851/06/29

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas R. Hazard

Encloses testimonial (not included) "in behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Jones," who are traveling to Africa and back to America. Remarks that he has been largely away from home the last eighteen months, and so will not be able to visit Newport this summer.

GLC05495.02

1867/02/28

Harvey, John C., fl. 1823-1884

Document signed

Title: [Reconstruction era freedmen labor contract]

Spells out terms of work by former plantation slaves, including rules, regulations, wages, and punishments. Signed by ten freed slaves and by J.W. Eggleston as Justice of the Peace. Dated between 26 December 1866 and 28 February 1867.

GLC05531

1859/12/06

Realf, Richard, fl. 1859

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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 you that, for the reasons which follow, I am desirious of surrendering myself...to the Constitutional authorities of the United States, as being, by my admission in the presense of witnesses, guilty of participation in the Canada Convention of May, 1838, which, it is suppossed, gave rise to the recent Harper's Ferry Insurrection....[My reasons…

GLC07886

1859/11/25

Wise, Henry A., 1806-1876

Letter

Title: 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 to call upon Virginia's entire reserve should the conspirators make any attempts at releasing Brown.

GLC07897

1843/10/14

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Robert C. Wood.

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

GLC07905

1816/02/10

Ellery, William, 1727-1820

Autograph document signed

Title: Affidavit.

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

GLC07910

1836/04/04

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Solomon Lincoln Esq.

Pontificating on the history and intentions of the Pilgrims and the Founding Fathers, and on the important principles to be learned from America's collective history. Also giving his views on freedom of religion and freedom of speech and the limits that should be put upon them;. also frankly discussing his ambiguous feelings about the issue of slavery. In part: "I would not undertake to say that the one hundred and one Germans of the compact on board the Mayflower, had all, or any of them, a conception of the consequences to the human race, of their emigration from Leyden; any more than…

GLC07868

1790/02/19

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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 of honourable policy, it will rank hereafter with the murder of the innocent inhabitants of South America by the Spaniards-with the Slavery of the Africans by our Southern States, and with the ravages committed by Great Britain upon prosperty & life in America during the War....They all have left a stain upon our Country & upon human…

GLC07874

1757/09/30

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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

1862/06

United States. Congress.

Manuscript document

Title: An act to secure freedom to all persons within the Territories

GLC07864

1857/07/20

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [B. Clarke Lundy] re: publication of his speech on Dred Scott and Utah

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. II 1848 - 1858, p. 412

GLC07855

1861/11-1862/06

United States. Navy

Document

Title: 18 Civil War dispatches, extracts, and general orders issued by U.S. Navy

Topics include payment of persons called "contrabands", British ships attempting to run the blockade, Naval intelligence, sanitation during the "hot and sickly" season in the south, and legal requirements with regard to captured vessels. Probably printed aboard U.S.S. Minnesota.

GLC07717

1837/03/18

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Adams Green and Edward Butler Osborne

Abolition of slavery and the right to petition

GLC07693.01

1837/03/20

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: To the Inhabitants of the 12th Congressional District of Massachusetts

GLC07693.02

1865/05/06

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Salmon P. Chase re: argument against accepting the negro as an equal

"I am not yet prepared to receive the Negro on terms of political Equality for the reason that it will arouse passions and predjudices of the North, which...might rekindle the war whose fires are now dying out and by skillful management may be kept down." Written aboard the Steamer "Russia" in Branford Harbor.

GLC07680

1862/04/04

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

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

GLC07751

1882/08/20

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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 not care to learn to read - and was thus measurably that out from the things the interested me. but in all the duties of mother and wife, she deserves all you have said of her. Two people could not well live together forty and four years as we have done, without the death of either being a shock and a calamity."

GLC07752.01

1880 ca.?

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Photograph

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

GLC07752.02

1880 ca.

Powelson, fl. 1880

Photograph

Title: [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