Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA metal rake head. The rake head has fourteen (14) tines and a thick wire head. There is red paint on the portion of the head that would be inserted into the handle.
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Ralph Williams (fl. 1870s) was a magistrate and state legislator in Mississippi. He was documented as having been enslaved from birth. He established a wagon manufacturing business in Lamar, Mississippi, after the end of the American Civil War in 1866. He…
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Randal B. Vandervall (March 23, 1832 - 1898) was an early African-American Baptist preacher in Nashville, Tennessee. He began preaching while still a slave. After emancipation, he helped found Roger Williams University.
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Ransom Montgomery (c. 1806 – December 6, 1884) was an American slave, the only slave owned by the state of Georgia, and the second black person to own property in Atlanta.
2022
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA work consisting of palm oil soap cast in the shape of Nat Turner's severed head. The head is presented on an ornate silver platter, lying cheek side down. The surface of the head is smooth and slightly concave at the severed neck edge. Air bubbles in the…
Aug. 1865–Dec. 1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Ration Reports”.
April 1866–Nov. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound ration reports, April 1866–November 1868, are arranged chronologically.
Aug. 1866–Jan. 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Ration Returns”.
Nov. 1866–Dec. 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound ration returns, November 1866–December 1867, are arranged chronologically.
July 1865–Dec. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound ration returns and reports relating to rations, July 1865–December 1868, are arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of rations returns, register of outdoor patients, and receipts, 1865, 1867–68 (227), is arranged by type of record and thereunder chronologically.
1910–2003
Raymond Gray Lewis, CM (October 8, 1910 – November 15, 2003) was a Canadian track and field athlete, and the first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist. The descendant of African-American slaves, he was born and died in Hamilton, Ontario. Lewis was…
1850s-1860s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA razor owned by Marquis Peterson. The handle is dark colored wood with raised lettering on one side that reads “ORIGINAL PIPE RAZOR.” The lettering has remnants of gold flake. A makers mark in the shape of a pipe is engraved on the blade near the handle…
1831–1895
Crumpler graduated from the New England Female Medical College in 1864 and devoted her career to treating formerly enslaved people and underserved communities.
1837–1932
Rebecca Primus (July 10, 1836 – February 21, 1932) was a free African-American woman from Connecticut and is one of the few African-American women whose work in Reconstruction programs has been documented. Her life offers insight into the differences and…
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Rebecca Freundlich Protten, also Shelly (1718–1780) was a Caribbean Moravian evangelist and pioneer missionary who proselytized the Gospel to enslaved Virgin Islanders of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. A "mulatress" and a former enslaved Antiguan,…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume receipt book for money dated September 1865–January 1866 (141) is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume receipt book, January–November 1875 (230), is arranged chronologically.
April 21, 1778
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOne page, quatro receipt, written on both sides in black ink.
September 8, 1819
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis handwritten, single page document is a receipt given to Mr. Robert Hord for meals served at the Farmers Hotel. The receipt itemizes "5 dinners, servants' dinners, and 3 horses fed." The receipt is dated September 8, 1819. The document is written in…
September 18, 1817
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA receipt written by Th. Matthews for the payment by Mr. Edward Rouzee of the amount of twenty (20) dollars for "his purchase of Ned at the sale of Henry [illegible] Estate." A one-page, single-sided document of handwritten black ink on paper. The paper is…
August 7, 1852
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA receipt for the sale of the enslaved woman, Milly, age 28, and her four children (Susan, 12; Henry, 10; Harriet, 6; and Nancy, 4) by Sarah McClelland to T.B. Hickman for $400. This bill of sale is handwritten in brown/black ink on white paper. The bill…
January 1808
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis half size, single page, double-sided handwritten document is a payment receipt received from Apphia Rouzee, executrix of Richard Rouzee, for "the carriage of two familyes [sic] of negroes to Culpepper." The document is dated January 1808. A second…
August 19, 1856
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGReceipt for the sale of an enslaved boy named John, dated 1856. The document has been handwritten in brown iron gall ink on off-white laid rag paper. The document reads: [Receive of S.G. Boyden / Seven hundred & twelve dollars / & fifty cents for a Negro…
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