1851/11/22

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

Letter

Title: to President King, Columbia College; discusses Fugitive Slave Law

Printed circulat letter, addressed in Smith's hand.

GLC06852

1862/10/21

Cooper, Peter, 1791-1883

Pamphlet

Title: A letter from Peter Cooper to ....Abraham Lincoln

Addressing opposition to slavery and duty of govt to induce slaves to fight for the Union. Printed with "what they have to do who stay at home" regarding the Sanitary Commission by F.L. Olmstead. Loyal Publication Society, No. 28-Part II. Disbound

GLC06853

1854/10/23

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Letter signed

Title: to Charles T. Beach re: printed circular letter on anti-slavery

"The present is the most auspicious period for the diffusion of antislavery statements." Counter signed by Francis Jackson.

GLC06862

1864/01/04

Newspaper

Title: Spirit of the age. [Vol. 15, no. 20 (January 4, 1864)]

A scene in the life of General Stonewall Jackson, negro troops

GLC06871

1864/04/27

Newspaper

Title: Camden weekly confederate. [Vol. 3, no. 4 (April 27, 1864)]

Reprinting of official Yankee account of storming of Ft. Pillow by Genl. Forrest; Battle of Bull Run; Battle of Derussy

GLC06873

1852 after

Object

Title: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" banner [on cloth]

Red banner with nine scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Textile.

GLC06894

1861/12/06

Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

Letter signed

Title: to John E. Wool re: slave girl who followed the 20th Indiana regiment

Was returned to Charles A. Jessup of Maryland. With John Wool endorsement on p. 3.

GLC06969

1830/10/19

Brown, Henry, Jr., fl. 1830

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Courthouse Postmaster of Beverley Va. re: search for runaway slaves

Includes newspaper advertisement for $100 reward for return of slaves from the estate of John Thompson, named Emmanuel and Bolus.

GLC06972

1807/11/13

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Broadside

Title: Address of the yearly meeting of Friends, to Thomas Jefferson and his reply

Covers topics of international peace, condition of Indians, and the slave trade. Only printing. Printed by Samuel Wood. Dated 13 November. American Imprints 12626.

GLC06984

182[6]

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document

Title: Blank printed bill of sale for slaves from Jefferson's estate, for T.J. Randolph

Apparently an unused bill of sale for the disposal of Jefferson's slaves by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Jefferson's grandson and executor of his will. "Know all men by these presents, that I, Thomas J. Randolph, Executor of Thomas Jefferson... have bargained and sold, and by these presents do bargain and sell to the said [blank] certain [blank] negro slave [blank], named [blank] late the property of Thomas Jefferson, deceased."

GLC06996

1866/02/27

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Chandler re: firing black servant, William Barnes

Discusses the firing of his black servant for drunkeness; also mentions recommending him for employment. Chandler was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury

GLC07023

1864/12/25

Ashley, James Mitchell, 1824-1896

Document signed

Title: Urging support of Thirteenth Amendment

Includes ANS by Ashley: "Don't you know of one 'sinner' among the opposition who is on praying ground?"

GLC07033.01

1863/06/27

Document

Title: Recruitment flyer by Supervisory Committee on Enlistments for Colored Regts.

Printed letter addressed to "Men of Color"

GLC07017

1891/07/31

Wood, Robert, fl. 1891

Broadside

Title: An Appeal to the colored voters of Hart County [with Clabe Garvin]

Issued by 2 black men (Wood and Clabe Garvin) from Bowling Green, Ky., who claimed to be falsely imprisoned because they refused to vote for a klansman. Unevenly inked.

GLC07018

1876/10/16

Stephens, Fannie J., 1854-1920

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Stephens

"I much rather be at home waiting on your company than be here at this hateful school." Written by Fannie, an ex-slave of Stevens while attending the Normal School at Atlanta University, in Georgia.

GLC07019

1865/01/06

Ashley, James Mitchell, 1824-1896

Pamphlet

Title: Speech.. in the House of Representatives supporting Thirteenth Amendment

Printed by William C. Bryant.

GLC07033.02

1865 ca.

Powell, George May, 1835-1905

Photograph

Title: Lawmakers who voted aye for the Thirteenth Amendment [Photographic montage]

Oval photograpic montage. The individuals are identified in accompanying wood engraving, Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment picture. There is slight damage to the central top edge of the photograph. There is also another copy in the Powell collection GLC 687 and separately in GLC 1230; Powell designed the photograph.

GLC07033.03

1832/01/21

Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1875

Pamphlet

Title: Speech...House of Delegates of Virginia, on the abolition of slavery

Second edition. Argues the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 was unconstitiutional in Ohio due to Northwest ordinance.

GLC07035

1836/04/03

Green, Rawleigh B., fl. 1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Green re: Texas land deals

"The public lands...will be such as a capitalist could purchase to advantage...certainly a good investment unless the abolition questions should affect it."

GLC07141.02

1865/09/05

Grifman, William H., fl. 1865

Letter

Title: re: Reconstruction, illustrated letter

Letter illustrated with two stick figures on p. 4 (one, shouldering a gun, and one waving a flag) that talks about the end of the war and mentions "Killing Niggers"; "Oh what a happy time it will be for me when we pack our knapsacks for the last time."

GLC07064.01

1864 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: View of Chimborago Hospital, Richmond, Va.

Distant view showing barracks, with Black man holding crutches sitting in the left foreground, facing away from the camera. Title from pencil note on verso.

GLC07070

1861/02/02

Jackson, Thomas J. "Stonewall", 1824-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Laura Jackson Arnold re: secession and preservation of the Union

"But if after we have done all that we can do for an honorable preservation of the Union, there shall be a determination on our part by the free states to deprive us of our rights which the fair interpretation of the constitution... guarantees to us, I am in favor of secession."

GLC07079

1880 ca.

Hastings, fl. 1880

Photograph signed

Title: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Heavily vignetted profile portrait of Stowe as an older woman. Signed on mount.

GLC07093

1863/04/07

McCauly, Jefferson, fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to master re: slave inquiring about health of wife and other family members

Written on blue paper by a slave (probably traveling with Confederate officer) to his master. Location name is illegible

GLC07049

1815/06/23

Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Monroe [?] re: recovery of his slaves and request for claims from war

War of 1812-related. Butler asks Madison's opinion on recovery of "property in Negroes" in the first article of a treaty. He estimates his loss of slaves "causes a reduction of Income, yearly, of Sixteen Thousand Dollrs." Remants of tape adhesive staining on margin.

GLC07185