[n.d.]

Photograph

Title: [Brown, John]

Three quarter length standing view facing proper right. Photograph from painting or engraving. White mount.

GLC06391.14

[n.d.]

J.E., Tilton, & Co., 1851-1878

Photograph

Title: Lowell, James Russell.

Tilton imprint on recto. Identified in ink on verso. Vignette half length seated portrait, holding cane. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.19

[n.d.]

Charles Taber & Co., fl. 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Subdun[?], Benj[amin]

With Charles Taber imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Oval vignette bust portrait. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount

GLC06391.30

[n.d.]

Photograph

Title: [Unidentified ]

Oval bust portrait of a middle-aged man. White mount.

GLC06391.31

[n.d.]

Anthony, Edward, 1819-1888

Photograph

Title: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher.

From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Full length seated portrait of all three. White mount with red border.

GLC06391.32

[n.d.]

D. Appleton & Company, fl. 1861-1880

Photograph

Title: Bryant, W[illia]m Cullen.

Photograph by A.A. Turner. ; Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Half length seated portrait of Bryant as an old man. White mount with gold border.

GLC06391.33

[n.d.]

Anthony, Edward, 1819-1888

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of George W. Curtis

Anthony label on verso. Half length seated portrait of a middle-aged man in civilian dress.

GLC06391.02

[n.d.]

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Wendell Phillips

Half length seated portrait of a middle-aged man in civilian dress, with arm resting on table.

GLC06391.03

[n.d.]

Anthony, Edward, 1819-1888

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Charles Sumner

Anthony imprint on verso. Half length standing portrait in civilian dress, facing proper right.

GLC06391.04

Header Record

Title: Set of 17 items related to William Wilberforce and documents regarding slavery [Decimalized .01-.17]

GLC09898

1781-1864

Various

Header Record

Title: The James Basker and Angela Vallot Family Archive [Decimalized .01-.35]

A collection of material related to abolition in the United States as well as in England. Contains engravings, and newspapers.

GLC09791

1852/06/19

Bibb, Henry, fl. 1813-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Calkins re: how his money was used for fugitive slaves

A long, detailed letter from Bibb, the noted runaway slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad, telling Calkins of Wilbraham, Mass., how his money was spent in aiding runaway slaves who had traveled on the Underground Railroad, particularly those who had just arrived in Canada. In part: "The next sum was used to aid a sick man who had [been] but a short time in Canada before he was attacked with the intiminant fever.... He must have died had I not procured medical aid for him." Bibb lectured widely and published a number of works, including his Narrative of the Life and Adventures of…

GLC06834

1856/07/29

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. S. Foy re: politics, slavery and morality in North and South

"I am quite aware that the people of the South are not all 'slave drivers' or 'slave holders,' but the non-slaveholders allow the slave drivers to rule them and rule us by means of them.... We have prostitution and other evils here, but our laws are not on the side of the vices but against them: Is it so with yours?... My friend our house has many windows...."

GLC06837

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

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

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

February 10, 1865

Confederate States of America. Congress

Printed document

Title: House of Representatives, No. 367. [Authorizing President "to organize slaves into companies, battalions, regiments and brigades," but keeping them as slaves.]

stamp of record division

GLC06745.162

1853-1854

Autograph document

Title: [List of belongings, includes enslaved people]

Document from King and Queen County Virginia. It lists the name of 12 enslaved people. "Go Wm P Courtney/ Self 21/ Slaves over 16 Thorton, Thorton Jr., Temple, John, Oney, Sally, Martha, Agnus, Harriet, Oney Jr., Sarah Anne, Mariah 12/ Between 12 + 16- Buck 1/ Homes +c 6-$300 52 Cattle sheep + Hogs $130 2 Coney's 100/2 watches value &60/ 1 clock $10. Furniture $250."

GLC10058.02

28 September 1790

Hackney, Benjamin, fl. 1790

Autograph document signed

Title: [Virginia Slave Deed]

Deed from Benjamin Hackney to his daughter Elizabeth Philpott. Giving her three enslaved people; Ben, Peggy, and Seller, as well as their future children.

GLC10058.03

1859

Brumfield, John, 1829-1903

Autograph document signed

Title: [Yazoo County appraisal of hired Enslaved people 1859]

A appraisal of value of work for enslaved people loaned to Yazoo County by their owner John Lambeth during the year 1859. Lists the names and value of work done by enslaved people. Names and ages of enslaved people; Issac 15, Dareus 48, Robert 15, Lit[tle] Milly 13, Mary 11, Old Milly 65, Allen 55, Martha 40, Sally 38, Lucinda 13, Milly 11, and Matilda 75.

GLC10058.04

1 June 1829

Kohl, George, fl. 1829

Autograph document signed

Title: [Affirmation of manumission of Nancy Joyce]

Affirmation of manumission of Nancy Joyce by former slave holder Ignatus Davis on November 8, 1803

GLC10058.05

1830/04/06

Document

Title: Decree approved April 6, 1830, repealing colonization law of March 24, 1825

Printed document, provides for colonization contracts by Mexican empresarios in an attempt to staunch the flood of Anglo-American immigration to Texas. Also abolishes slavery and places Mexican troops in Texas. References: "Handbook" 2: 154; Eberstadt 162: 161; Streeter 759.

GLC04252

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

February 19, 1892

Adams, Anne Brown, 1843-1926

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander M. Ross

Hopes to unmask a man pretending to have been at Harpers Ferry with John Brown. "It is my wish that you publish this Richard W. Howard, who claims to have been with John Brown at Harper's Ferry, as a fraud and a humbug. It is evident that he intends to make a money making scheme out of this, by exhibiting himself as a last survivor. I think he ought to be 'nipped in the bud' before he has time to blossom into a full blown impostor." Sent in response to an article in the Chicago Tribune Ross sent her about Howard. Wants to prove this man was never at Harpers Ferry. She is "certain that…

GLC03007.30

February 8, 1833

Hale, Aurelia, 1798-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sarah W. Hale

She begins by apologizing for not writing sooner, but says that shortly after she started a letter, she was called away to see her cousin Frank, who appeared to be on his deathbed. He became delirious and spoke about God and the Devil, but appears to have recovered. She mentions that the friends Sarah made when she visited.

GLC08934.038