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Autograph letter signed

to unknown recipient re: requests that his book be sent to Charles Francis Adams

1872/04/10

Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

Wilson's book is titled "History of the Rise and fall of Slave Power".

GLC07431

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Manuscript document signed

Bill of sale and receipt for $45, slave Samuel in Saddle River, NJ

1833/08

Outwater, Jacob, fl. 1833

Samuel (slave) sold by John D. Ryerson and signed with his mark. Document is countersigned by Aaron Doty. Receipt also signed by Doty. Bill of sale 32.7 x 20.4 cm. Receipt 8.8 x 19.6 cm.

GLC07406

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Document

Freedmen's Bureau blank printed Marriage Certificate, Dept. of TN and AR

1864/03/28

Printed blank document, printed in blue ink at the Freedmen Press Print, Vicksburg, MS.

GLC07407

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Broadside

Auburn Daily Democrat Extra re: Fort Sumter

1861/04/15

Presidential Proclamation calling for 75,000 Militia to put down secession and reclaim "forts, places and property which have been seized from the Union."

GLC07408

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Document

Blank Confederate Slave impressment receipt

1863/04

Printed blank receipt for the Department of the Gulf. Written at the Department of Gulf.

GLC07409

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Autograph letter signed

to George W. Randolph et al. re: the South's peril from the North

1859/12/08

Scott, Robert, fl. 1859

Written to Randolph and others. "The Northern People came to us with assurances that the south was in no peril...Harper's Ferry was invaded and captured...We have but to be one united people for security out of the Union or Justice & Equality in it...

GLC07410