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1885/12/24
Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
to Yale Law school.
Offers to fund a black student's education to Yale Law School: "we have ground the manhood out of them & the shame is ours, not theirs."
GLC07971
26 February 1891
Brown, John Jr. (1821-1895)
to F.B. Sanborn
Acknowledging that his father, John Brown, sometimes offered remarks from the audience at religious assemblies, but refuting accounts that his father ever preached. Also discusses his brothers Jason's attempt to sell Sanborn's biography of their...
GLC08250
04 January 1891
W.P. Garrison has defamed Brown family in "The Prelude of Harper's Ferry 11: John Brown, Guerrilla" by contradicting their claims: "Father early cherished a purpose to make war upon slavery by Force and arms...war as understood by us meant war."
GLC08295
1889
Blair, Lewis Harvie (1834-1916)
The prosperity of the south dependent upon the elevation of the Negro.
First edition inscribed, but not signed, by "the author" on free front endpaper. Inscription dated January 7, 1894. Published by Everett Waddey, Richmond, Virginia.
GLC08410
1 May 1898
Shaffer, Albert (fl. 1898)
[Certification of the Civil War service of William B. Swingle]
Signed by Shaffer as P.C. (Post Commander) and Layton T. Smith as Post Adjutant. Partially printed certification that Swingle had "served as a Union Soldier... in Company A, 137th Regt Pennsylvania Volunteers and also in Battery D, 6th New York...
GLC08442.07
1892
Kurz & Allison
The Fort Pillow Massacre.
Depicts the April 1864 battle at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in which witnesses reported that Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest violated the conduct of war by killing unarmed and surrendered soldiers. Underneath the print, text indicates that...
GLC07727
circa 1882
Unknown
["Any holder but a Slave holder" potholder]
Based on the accompanying letter (GLC 7731.01), created by Miss Lena, who gave the potholder to Frederick Douglass as a gift after reading his narrative. Depicts two African Americans (one male and one female) holding hands and dancing against a...
GLC07731.02
1880 ca.?
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Half length seated carte de visite portrait of Frederick Douglass, with cane
GLC07752.02
1880 ca.
Powelson (fl. 1880)
[Carte de visite of Anna Douglass]
Three quarter length seated carte de visite portrait of Anna Douglass. Douglass appears to be holding a parasol.
GLC07752.03
1889 ca.
Brief autobiographical sketch: "A slave in 1837. Free man 1838..."
Includes envelope addressed to Charles Peirce, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
GLC07762
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