Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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Bob Height was an American 19th-century African-American blackface minstrel performer. He was a standout talent in the companies with which he performed, although frustrations eventually drove him to pursue a career in Europe. Later writers have compared…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA metal bolt with nut. The bolt has a roughly square head with treading at the top and is attached to the nut at the bottom. The bolt its holding a loose rectangular piece of metal with a center hole.
1852
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBond dated 1852 from Virginia Central Railroad Company promising to pay $100 to Robert King of Albemarle [Virginia?] "for the hire of Negro Harry" "to be employed on the Virginia Central Railroad, and to be returned well clothed in the usual way and with a…
October 28, 1808
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis document is a bond for the debt of ten pounds due to Susanna Faver from Edward Rouzee for the hire of an enslaved man named Jacob. The document is dated October 28, 1808. In the bottom left is the signature of the witness Elizabeth M. Rouzee. There is…
February 16, 1838
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis document records a bond of $1,854.50 from Charles Crouch to Thomas Gadsden dated February 16, 1838 in Charleston, South Carolina. The document is a pre-printed form with handwritten text written in ink. On the reverse of the document is handwritten…
Dec. 1864–May 1865
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Bonds to Transport Products”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound bonds to transport products, December 1864–May 1865, are arranged chronologically.
ca. 1874 and 1876; printed later
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA page from an unidentified book with a black-and-white reproduction of an engraving of Robert B. Elliott by George E. Perine on one side. Dressed in a bowtie, white shirt, and dark jacket, Elliott is pictured from the chest up, gazing to his proper left.…
Loading image…1856–1915
Washington rose from slavery to become a nationally known educator, author and institution builder focused on training and economic advancement.
September 20, 1773
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGIssue number 1982 of the Boston Evening-Post from September 20, 1773. The newspaper is a single piece folded in half once, producing four pages. On page two, at the center of the second column directly under the heading [BOSTON, September 20, 1773], is an…
Biography
Boston King (c. 1760–1802) was an American slave and Black Loyalist, who gained freedom from the British and settled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. He later immigrated to Sierra Leone, where he helped find Freetown and became the…
June 3, 1944
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe original christening bottle from the ceremonial launching of the Liberty ship SS Harriet Tubman. The glass bottle is wrapped in red, white, and blue silk and housed in a specially made oak box with a glass window. Screwed to the box is a metal plaque…
Mar.–July 1871
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Bounty Receipts”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound bounty receipts, March–July 1871, are arranged chronologically.
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA metal box grater. The grater is tubed shape and is constructed from two (2) pieces of sheet metal, a flat back and a curved front. The curved front has been punched in concentric circles forming the grater blade and the back is flat with a hole to…
1850s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA long leather snake-style whip. Singled leather braided strip with multiple leather strip tails on the end, acting as the popper. By the handle, there are two different adjacent butt knots. One closest to the handle is braided but appears to be made up of…
1800s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSlave branding iron with "O" head. Branding iron is made of metal and had a wooden handle at end opposite of "O" head. Metal portion of brand is twisted to create spiral-like design at center of brand. Wood handle is round and worn.
1800s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSlave branding iron with "S" head. Branding iron has a "T" shaped wood handle, attached to brand using a nail. Iron brand is cylindrical and breaks in to two prongs that attach to the top and bottom of the "S" head.
1790-1830
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSlave branding iron with "V" head. Branding iron is made of metal, with a wood handle at the end opposite of the "V' head. Wood handle is round and worn.
1800s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSlave branding iron with "W" head. Branding iron is made of metal with "W" head at one end and a loop at the opposite end. Metal is twisted to create spiral-like design at center of brand.
ca. 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGMetal plate with raised edge and cut out letters “Wm.HILL,/ Co.G.29,' Conn.V”.
18th-20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA solid style, ground molded brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape and is grayish brown in color with heavy wear and losses on the surfaces and edges. One header has losses at all four corners. One brick face has…
18th-20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA solid style, sand cast brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is dark reddish brown in color with heavy wear and losses on the surfaces and edges. The brick is misshapen giving it a slightly trapezoidal shape. One of the brick’s faces…
18th-20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA solid style, ground molded brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape and is dark reddish brown in color with heavy wear and losses on the surfaces and edges. One face has a patch of thick grayish white mortar…
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