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Contemporary copy of Washington's letter to Congress re: Rochambeau

Manuscript written in Tench Tilghman's hand, regarding Rochambeau.

GLC07471

to John Andre re: informing Andre of execution time at 12 o'clock this day

"His Excellency Genl Washington has fix'd the Hour 12o Clock."

GLC07472

The Emancipator---Extra. February 24th 1838, Anti-Slavery Convention

Broadside inviting "Citizens of Connecticut friendly to immediate emancipation of the slaves of our Country, to send delegates to a convention to be held at Hartford" for establishing a state society. The names of the signers are printed in columns.

GLC07437

The General Jackson. [hand-colored lithograph]

Lithograph by Black Artist Jules Lion after the battle of New Orleans. Printed by d'Aubertet de Jurica (?).

GLC07438

To the President of the United States....

Broadside with pledge of 67 Philadelphians to uphold the Union, one day after the fall of Fort Sumter.

GLC07439

William Jay and the Constitutional movement for the abolition of slavery.

Written by Bayard Tuckerman. With preface written by John Jay, grandson of John and son of William Jay. Printed by Dodd, Mead & Company. Jay inscribes to the Honorable William Allen Butler, an author, lawyer, and poet.

GLC07440

Law of Liberty, or the Royal Law ... [abolitionism]

Title continued: "... Earnestly recommended to the serious consideration of all slaveholders and slavedealers." With 4 pages of printed advertisements.

GLC07441

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...

Printed Quaker petition, containing letters and what is apparently the first printing of the first petition brought before Congress by free Blacks (p. 7) appealing for intervention against the Fugitive Slave Act, which is called "a Flagrant proof of...

GLC07442

Exiles of Florida: or, the crimes committed by our Government ...

The "Maroons," who fled from South Carolina and other Slave States, seeking protection under Spanish Law.

GLC07443

Hampton Institute Album [exhibition catalog]

"44 photographs...from an album of the Hampton Institute." Black and white exhibition catalog from the New York Museum of Modern Art. Collateral to Hampton Institute photographs.

GLC07444