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General Assembly. State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation [with seal]

Printed by John Carter. Stab-stitched. Contains act freeing Quaco, a former slave, as reward for providing information about Newport after it had been seized by the British (pp. 4-5). We know of four African-American Spies, one for the British in...

GLC06066

To Mercy O. Warren

Compares French and American revolutions; describes American government, America's future, and her expectation that wealth from commerce will inevitably hurt democracy and rob the people.

GLC01800.05

Columbian centinel. [Vol. 17, no. 50 (September 1, 1792)] and Columbian centinel. [Vol. 17, no. 51 (September 5, 1792)]

Two issues of the Columbia Centinel bound together from September 1 and 5 of 1792. Issue 50 contains a letter written by Thomas Paine directed to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for the Home Department in Great Britain. Paine defends his work...

GLC00281

to Comte de Moustier re: French fiscal crisis, political affairs, elections

Written as American minister to France. The electioneering was for the gathering of the Estates General. Moderate ink bleedthrough. Published in: Boyd, Papers of TJ, 14: 652-54.

GLC03276

[Legal document concerning the confiscation of James Wright's property with an opinion by Lloyd Kenyon]

Explains the laws and process whereby the estate of James Wright, the loyalist governor of Georgia, was confiscated during the American Revolution. With a autograph signed note at the end containing the opinion of the recipient of the document, G.T...

GLC08734.01

The Provisional Government of the French Republic

One engraving of The Provisional Government of the French Republic dated circa 1860. A group portrait of eleven men named in a cation below. The men featured are Adolphe Crémieux, E. Picard, Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, Gambetis, Eugen Pellatan...

GLC08878.1882

Am I Not a Man Am I Not A Brother

JB00075

"Whose Limit Is All That He Can "

One poster entitled, "Whose Limit Is All That He Can." Text contains a poem attributed to "Observer R.F.C." Displays the difficulty for pilots fighting in France. Suggests that buying bonds will aid the cause during World War I. Illustration is of a...

GLC09808.02

The Enormity of the Slave Trade and the Duty of Seeking the Moral and Spiritual Elevation of the Colored Race

JB00338

A sketch of the operations before Charlestown, the capital of South Carolina

Large engraved map showing military operations, fortifications and outlying plantations, together with shallows and swamps. Shows positions of the various army units and notes that the Americans surrendered the city on 12 May 1780. Imprint from...

GLC01859