Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
8,921 matching cards · 24 cards per page
Undated
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Name Index, Volume (66)”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume name index, September 1865–September 1866 (252), is a part index to the three–volume series of registers of letters received, September 1865–April 1870, described below.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two undated volumes of name indexes are indexes to volumes 1 (146) and 4 (145) for the periods August 1865–February 1867 and April–December 1868.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume name index (no date) is an additional index to Volumes 1 (4) and 2 (5) of letters sent (July 27, 1865–June 27, 1866) and Volumes 1 (16) and 2 (17) of special orders issued by the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama. The…
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe Undated single volume of name Indexes (60) to part of (January–December 1866) the two volumes of letters sent, and part of (January 1866–December 1867) the four volumes of registers of letters received described below are arranged separately.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two volumes of names and addresses of claimants, 1 and 2, are undated, and each is arranged alphabetically, A – Y.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of names and addresses of claimants (94) is undated and arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname of claimant.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two undated volumes of names and addresses of claimants, 1 (107) and 2 (108), are arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname of claimant.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe undated single volume of names and addresses of claimants, (125) is arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname of claimant.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of names of persons who have taken the oaths of allegiance, August 1865–March 1866 (281), is arranged chronologically.
Biography
Nance Legins-Costley (c. 1813–1892), born Nance Legins Cox, an African American, was the first slave legally manumitted (freed) by attorney Abraham Lincoln, in 1841, twenty years before the start of the American Civil War.
Biography
Nancy Clarke (died 1812) was a Barbadian hotelier and free woman of colour who was known for the continued success of the Royal Naval Hotel. According to Professor Pedro Welch of the University of the West Indies, Clarke's history is indicative of the…
Loading image…1834–1923
Nancy Green (March 4, 1834 – August 30, 1923) promoted food stuffs as "Aunt Jemima". She was one of the first African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark and became the advertising world's first living trademark, despite being born into…
1853–1933
Nannette Stafford (June 20, 1853 – May 2, 1933) was a doctor of medicine who was born into slavery and was one of the first women to graduate from Howard University with a degree in medicine. She continued her medical work in Europe, and in 1907, she…
Loading image…c. 1686–c. 1755
Nanny led Windward Maroon resistance against British colonial forces and helped secure freedom and autonomy for Maroon communities.
Loading image…1843–1899
Naomi Bowman Talbert Anderson (March 1, 1843 – June 9, 1899) was an African American suffragist, temperance leader, civil rights activist, and writer who advocated for equal rights for all genders and races in the 1870s. She wrote poetry and gave speeches…
1796
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis book is in two volumes, both bound in brown leather. There is significant loss along the spines of both volumes. At the top of each spine is the author's name and an abbreviated title in gold lettering that reads [Stedmans / Surinam]. The first page…
1884
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA first edition, hardcover book of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth. The dark brown cover has a gold illustration of Truth at center. There is a frontispiece portrait of an engraving of a photograph of Truth opposite the title page. The title page reads,…
1845
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA first edition copy of the memoir and antislavery book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself. The hardcover book has a brown cover with an imprinted decorative border and scrollwork. The title is stamped in…
Feb. 15, 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Narrative Report of Bureau Operations for January 1868”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound narrative report of Bureau operations for January 1868 is dated February 15, 1868. The report may have been compiled by the chief of staff of Assistant Commissioner Sidney Burbank. The last pages of the report are missing.
bulk Jan. 1867 and June–Sept. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Narrative Reports”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of narrative reports, November 1867–June 1868 (174), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.
1867–68
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound narrative reports, affidavits, and court papers, 1867–68, are arranged by type of record.
Biographies, museum objects and archive records are distinct card types. Every card links to its historical source.
