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1859
Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894
The just supremacy of Congress over the territories: intended as an answer to the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, on popular sovereignty.
Published by A. Williams and Company.
GLC00267.177
4 February 1862
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
[Respite of execution for slaver Nathaniel Gordon]
Countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward. Convicted of engaging in the slave trade, respite granted to allow Gordon to prepare for execution. He was the only slave trader in U.S. history to be executed for that crime and was executed...
GLC00182
1830
Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858
Slave trade.
Mercer reports for "the committee to whom were referred the memorial of the American Society for colonizing the free people of color of the United States; also, sundry memorials from the inhabitants of the State of Kentucky, and a memorial from...
GLC00267.035
12 July 1858
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870
to William A. Winston
Sending "the three Negro men belonging to the estate of G. W. P. Custis, viz: Reuben, Parks & Edward, whom I wish you to hire in Virginia... for the year or a term of years, not exceeding 31 Decr 1862...." Lee asks that the men be kept in the...
GLC03214
circa 1828
Ker, John, fl. 1828
[Petition of Antonio Vela]
Legal document by attorney John Ker who served as petitioner for Antonio Vela, a citizen of Louisiana, in the County Court of Adams County, Mississippi. The petition was showing the court "That on or about the first day of April 1828 he [Vela] was...
GLC02887
1860
Speech... delivered at the Cooper Institute, New York (Tribune Tracts no. 4)
1860 election campaign tract, Tribune Tracts #4, first edition. This pamphlet is the first printing of Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech made in New York the same year. Monaghan 30.
GLC02812
1770/04/20
Livingston, Peter Robert, fl. 1765-1790
to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: further frustration with the DeLancey's
Peter Robert states: "The DeLanceys are striving their utmost to make our famaly ridiculous and to keep them out of all Posts of Honour Profit and are determined to oppose every thing and every Body that they support which is too hard to bear I could...
GLC03107.03238
1715/02/02
Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728
"Leendert Conyn & Kiliaen Winne's oath about the Examination. . .
. . .of Joh: Dykemans negro." Both of the oaths attest to the statement made by an enslaved person of Dykeman's that he did not help another enslaved person named Tom commit murder against his master. The statements are signed by Robert Livingston...
GLC03107.01103
20 March 1860
Todd, Gabriel, fl. 1860
[Petition of a freeman Edward D. Martin to be enslaved]
Petition to the Texas Court. Writes that "petition further represents to your Honor that he desires to avail himself of the law permitting him to select a master and become a slave; and believing Edward D. Martin, a citizen... to be a proper person...
GLC03840
8 June 1803
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
to James Oldham
Discusses construction materials and methods used at Monticello. Suggests that it would be better to use riven pine slabs than linen. Includes a drawing of six parallel lines to show how the boards can be laid out. Mentions that if Oldham needs...
GLC03897
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