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1927

Anderson, Robert Ball, 1843-1930

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Title: From Slavery to Affluence: Memoirs of Robert Anderson, Ex-Slave

One book entitled "From Slavery to Affluence: Memoirs of Robert Anderson, Ex-Slave" written by Robert Ball Anderson dated 1927. Recounts Anderson's life as an enslaved person. In 1864, Anderson heard that a Union recruiting officer was nearby the Kentucky plantation where he was enslaved. He decided to escape and recounts, "I went to my old master and talked it over with him. At first he was angry, then he told me I would have to decide for myself what I wanted to do, and that if I wanted to go, for me to go. He seemed to sense the fact that the slavery of the past was over, and that a new…

GLC09935

1940

Jones, Henry L., fl. 1940

Book

Title: The Negro's Opportunity

One book entitled "The Negro's Opportunity" written by Henry L. Jones published in 1940. This is a vocational guide book geared towards African Americans.

GLC09936

1902

Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar, 1823-1915

Book

Title: Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Centuries

One book entitled Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Centuries by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs with an introduction by Booker T. Washington dated 1902. An autobiography that recalls a life of myriad transformations - from a youth of poverty to success in gold rush California to election as the first black municipal judge in America to service as the American consul to Madagascar. It also offers historical sidelights such as the underground railroad the author knew first hand. The book is broken into thirty three chapters.

GLC09937

1906

Suggs, Eliza, 1876-1908

Book

Title: Shadow and Sunshine

One book entitled Shadow and Sunshine by Eliza Suggs dated 1906. Elizabeth "Eliza" Gertrude Suggs, born with Osteogenesis imperfecta (commonly called "brittle bone disease") was not anticipated to live past childhood. Her father, a former slave, became a minister with the Free Methodist Church after Emancipation and moved the family west to Orleans, Nebraska. Despite her fragile health, she gained an education and went on to become a prominent temperance lecturer.

GLC09938

1926

Ray, Emma J. Smith, fl. 1859-1926

Book

Title: Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Ray

One book entitled Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Ray dated 1926.

GLC09939

1912

Rosselle, F.A., fl. 1912

Header Record

Title: 1912 Lower Mississippi Flood photo postcards [Decimalized .01-.03]

Three postcards by F.A Rosselle dated 1912. Feature the effects of the Mississippi Flood of 1912, efforts to contain the rising waters, and refugees from the flooding. A late snowfall coupled with heavy spring rain gave way to devastating flooding along the Lower Mississippi River that killed 200 people and caused $70 million in damage.

GLC09940

19 June 1941