1810/05/24

Hallowell, Ben, fl. 1810

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles Cotton re: British treaty with Dey of Algiers (tipped into book)

GLC04212.02

1804/01/19

Truxton, Thomas, fl. 1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Aaron Burr re: opinion on the government's response to Barbary pirates

Giving Burr his opinion about war with the Barbary states: "If the subject of carrying a war with... the Barbary States had been properly stated to the government, a more suitable force would have been provided."

GLC06907

1815/09/14

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Unknown.

Discusses his ill health, Napoleon's demise and a treaty with Algiers

GLC05281

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

1838 ca.

Broadside

Title: Constitution of the [blank] Colonization Society [form for local Ohio chapters]

Blank form for local auxiliaries of the Ohio State Colonization Society: "Article I. This Society shall be called [blank] Colonization Society, and shall be auxiliary to the Ohio State Colonization Society. Article II. The object to which its views shall be exclusively directed, is the Colonization, on the Coast of Africa, with their own consent, of the free people of color of the United States...."

GLC05334

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

1828/09/12

Warrington, H., fl. 1828

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Italian ambassador.

Written as British emissary, to the Italian ambassador, concerning an offer of $100,000 to prevent kidnappings of British nationals.

GLC05251

1910/03/10

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Header Record

Title: to Walter S. Field re: asking Field to appear for Roosevelt in suits in Oklahoma

Includes four related letters: 1. Roosevelt letter to Walter S. Field 3/10.1910. 2. La Follette, Robert M. TLS: Washington, D.C., to Theodore Roosevelt. 18 January 1910. 1 p. re: land formerly belonging to Kickapoo Indians. 3. Field, Walter S. TLS: Washington, D.C., to Theodore Roosevelt. 21 January 1910. 2 p. re: request to represent Roosevelt in Kickapoo land dispute. 4. Teller, Henry Moore. TLS: Washington, D.C., to Theodore Roosevelt. 26 January 1910, 2 p. re: urging Roosevelt to allow Walter Field to represent him in the Kickapoo land dispute.

GLC07733.02

1804 ca.

Tripoli, fl. 1804

Print

Title: Blowing Up the Fire Ship Intrepid commanded by Capt. Sommers...

[Title continued] "by the American Squadron under Commodore Edward Preble." Hand-colored copper-plate engraving by John Guerrazzi, London.

GLC07729

1803/11/18

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: Appointing Tobias Lear as Consul to Algiers

GLC07658

1862/04/04

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

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

GLC07751

1839/09/04

Knight, F., fl. 1839

Autograph letter signed

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

GLC07773

1804/09/28

Krafft, C., fl. 1804

Map

Title: A View of Tripoli in Barbary

GLC07828

February 8, 1840

Forsyth, John, 1780-1841

Letter signed

Title: to William S. Holabird

Writes regarding arrangements made by the Spanish Government for Antonio, the slave cabin-boy on board the Amistad, to testify at an upcoming trial in New Haven, Connecticut. Discusses the Minister's obtainment of Jose Ruiz's and Pedro Montes's proprietary title in the other Africans aboard the ship (the titles are to be procured from Cuba). Reports that he informed the Spanish Minister of Holabird's suggestion regarding obtainment of the Spanish laws and edicts prohibiting the importation of African slaves in Cuba. Relates that a Spanish Consul in Boston, Antonio G. Vega, and the Spanish…

GLC05636.20

1808/04/22

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Letter signed

Title: Petition to Dey of Algiers re: protecting consuls & families (in French)

Signed as American agent and consul general. With other signers from the European powers, written after the Consul of Denmark was thrown into chains by the Dey. The document is a declaration of solidarity protesting Algerian aggression. Also signed by the consuls of Great Britain (H.S. Blanckley), France (Dubois as Chargee for Napoleon), Spain (Alonso Intur[?], Sweden (A. M. Fraissinitt [?]), Denmark (Georg Frederik Ulrich) and Holland ([illegible]).

GLC04659

1817/01/17

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Plumer

Regarding the European feeling that Americans shall "become dangerous members of the Society of Nations." Naval Victories, state of Barbary (fighting the pirates of Barbary and Algiers rather than giving them tribute), enemies everywhere, few friends except Russia. Also mentions subserviency to "Holy Religion, and the Press Gang."

GLC04755

1787/01/01

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794

Map

Title: Europe divided into its Empires, Kingdoms, States... [Wall Map on 4 sheets]

This map has an attractive depiction of Algiers and the Barbery states which is slightly larger than that for GLC# 4412.04 (Africa)

GLC04412.02

1787/01/06

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794

Map

Title: Africa with all its states, kingdoms... by S. Boulton [Wall Map on 4 sheets]

GLC04412.04

1799/11/16

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Morton re: slave trade

"Put a stop to the exercise of the slave trade by our citizens. Spanish laws prohibit neutrals from trading to the main, unless they import a given number of what are called 'New Negroes,' meaning such as are immediately from Africa." Morton served as U.S. Consul in Havana. (Insect losses at edge of p. 1 affecting text.)

GLC07221

1816/06/29

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: James Monroe

Barbary piracy and its connection to Spain with respect to recently captured ships. With Monroe's docketing.

GLC07978

1857 circa

Pike, John W., fl. 1857

Manuscript document

Title: Information regarding slavers, received from the master of the "Jupiter" captured by Her M S "Antelope"

Clerical copy of a deposition taken by Lt. John W. Pike, captain of the HMS "Antelope," from the master of the "Jupiter," an illegal slaver captured by the "Antelope" in June of 1857. The statement describes the operation of an illegal slave ship, including financing, use of false papers and colors, circuitous route taken, initial contact with slave traders in Africa by the raising of certain colors, refitting of the ship from a merchant hold to a slave ship, picking up of the slaves some time later, and other tactics. It then details the voyage of the "Jupiter" prior to her capture. The…

GLC05832.05

1840/09

Document

Title: Printed fundraising document for the Amistad captives

"Here are thirty men taken out of the midst of a heathen nation in the interior of Africa, and in the providence of God thrown on the shores of New England. If they should be delivered from the fangs of wicked oppressors, (for which many prayers ascend to God,) they will be sent back to their native continent. Shall we not then by every means in our power, during the short period they remain among us, use every effort for their instruction and conversion...?" Signed Leonard Bacon, Henry G. Ludlow, and Amos Townsend, Jr.

GLC07606

1806/05/19

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown re: U.S. role in Mediterranean after end of the Barbary War

Also discusses ratifying Treaty of Peace and changing from war to peace establishment. Written in Monticello

GLC07465

1804/01/27

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter

Title: to Monsieur Beaussier

re: negotiating with Barbary pirates. Jefferson promises that he holds the friendship of the Prince Bey of Tunis in high regard and does not intend to be misunderstood, but regrets to be forced to decline his request for a frigate of 30 guns to be used in the defence against pirates. 2. 3 pgs + docket. 23x19 cm. From United States Ship Constitution Off Tripoli. Marked on docket "Copy of my letter to Monsieur Beaussier." 12 June 1804. From Commodore Edward Preble to Monsieur Beaussier. Commodore Preble enlists Beaussier's help in forcing the Bashaw of Tripoli to allow stores and…

GLC07903.01

1829/04/15

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Bayley re: plan to liberate his slaves, colonization, personal matters

Written to Mr. Bayley in England. Discusses his plans for colonizing his freed slaves in Haiti or Liberia. Lafayette also mentions the Catholic emancipation bill, etc.

GLC06721