A ticket stub from a "Servant's Ticket" for the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. The ticket ensures passage for one enslaved person from Alexandria to Warrenton, Virginia. The ticket has a decorative border and reads [ORANGE & ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD. / Servant's…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.10.4
A service bell owned by Eliza Kearns Jackson. The brass tone metal desk bell is attached to a small marble pedestal. The bell has four main parts: the bell itself, an ornamental support, a base, and a button at the top. The base and the bell are plain. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.17.2
A set of wrought iron leg shackles consisting of an iron bolt with a pair of loops slid onto it through a hole in each end of the loop. One end of the bar is fixed closed by an integral metal flange large enough to prevent the loops from being removed. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2008.10.2
Shackles consist of an iron bolt with a pair of loops slid onto it thorugh a hole in each end of the loop. One end of the bar is fixed closed by an integral metal flange large enough to prevent the loops from being removed. The other end of the bar ends in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2008.10.4
Seymour Burr (1754/1762–1837) was an enslaved African-American in the Connecticut Colony in the North American British Colonies and United States. Enslaved by the brother of Colonel Aaron Burr, who was also named Seymour, he was known only as Seymour…
Shackles consisting of an iron bolt with a pair of loops slid onto it through a hole in each end of the loop. One end of the bar is fixed closed by an integral metal flange large enough to prevent the loops from being removed. The other end of the bar,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2008.10.3
Metal shackle connected by a four link chain to a pair of metal loops. Shackle has a small hole for a key. Key (.2) consists of as thin piece of metal with small loop at end the faces forward. A flat loop is found at the opposite end of the key.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.312.11.1-.2
Metal shackles connected by six link chain. One of the shackles has a locking mechanism, while the other shackle closes using metal loops. Key (.2) consists of a small rectangular piece. Key has large loop handle.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.312.12.1-.2
Shadrach Minkins (c. 1814 – December 13, 1875) was an African-American fugitive slave from Virginia who escaped in 1850 and reached Boston. He also used the pseudonyms Frederick Wilkins and Frederick Jenkins.
Shandy Wesley Jones (December 20, 1816 – February 4, 1886) was an American clergyman, photographer, barber, state legislator, and customs inspector in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Born into slavery December 20, 1816 he was freed as a child, became a barber and…
A one page document, legal-size, handwritten in black ink on lined paper. At top left is [Georgia / Lumpkin Co.] and the document begins at top right with "This contract and agreement made this 11th day of March 1867, between Daniel Weaver of said county,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.14.6
A handwritten document on lined, off-white paper outlining a sharecropping agreement between Amos G. Robinson and Berry Couch. The document is dated [February 1, 1866] in the top right with [Georgia / Dawson County] at top left. The agreement states, in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.26.13
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