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1861
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “1907 [punched] / SERVANT [stamped] / 1861 [stamped].” There is a hole punched at the center top.
1862; reworked 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “176 [punched] / SERVANT [stamped] / 1863 [stamped].” On the verso is text that reads ”CHARLESTON…
1862; reworked 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “1862 [stamped] / PORTER [stamped] / 1128 [punched].” On the verso is text that reads ”CHARLESTON…
1862-1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA square copper slave badge with clipped corners set on point with text die stamped and punched on the recto reading: "CHARLESTON / 1862 / PORTER / [punched] 223". Text die stamped and punched on the verso reads: "CHARLESTON / [punched] 33 / [stamped]…
1862; reworked 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “92 [punched] / SERVANT [stamped] / 1863 [stamped].” On the verso is text that reads ”CHARLESTON…
1862
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “1862 [stamped] / SERVANT [stamped] / 1241 [punched].” There is a hole punched at the center top.
1862
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “1862 [stamped] / SERVANT [stamped] / 1327 [punched].” There is a hole punched at the center top.
1862
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “1862 [stamped] / SERVANT [stamped] / 1618 [punched].” There is a hole punched at the center top.
1862
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “1862 [stamped] / SERVANT [stamped] / 846 [punched].” There is a hole punched at the center top.
1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “672 [punched] / SERVANT [stamped] / 1863 [stamped].” There is a hole punched at the center top.
1864
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “336 [punched] / PORTER [stamped] / 1864 [stamped].” There is a hole punched at the center top.
1864
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “99 [punched] / PORTER [stamped] / 1864 [stamped].” The proper left corner is missing. There is a…
1864
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “58 [punched] / SERVANT [stamped] / 1864 [stamped].” There is a hole punched at the center top.
ca. 1864
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a square metal slave badge set on point with clipped corners. On the recto is text that reads ”CHARLESTON [stamped]” across the top. Under that is “24 / 6 [punched] / PORTER [superimposed on top] / MECHANIC [below] FRUITERER [on verso] [stamped] /…
Biography
Charlotta Gordon Pyles (c. 1790~1806-1880) was an African American abolitionist and lecturer. She raised money needed to purchase the freedom of some of her family members by embarking on an anit-slavery lecture tour.
1813–1891
Charlotte B. Ray (née Charlotte Augusta Burroughs; c. 1813 – 25 October 1891) was an American prominent pastor, suffragist, and abolitionist. Charlotte was the second wife of Charles Bennett Ray a revered African-American journalist. They were an active…
Dates not recorded
Charlotte Dupuy, also called Lottie (c. 1787–1790 – c. 1866), was an enslaved African-American woman who filed a freedom suit in 1829 against her enslaver, Henry Clay, who was then Secretary of State. The case went to trial 17 years before Dred Scott filed…
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Charlotte Louise Bridges Grimké (née Forten; August 17, 1837 – July 23, 1914) was an African-American abolitionist, poet, and educator. She grew up in a prominent abolitionist family in Philadelphia. She taught school for years, including to freedmen in…
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Charlotte Vandine Forten (1785–1884) was an American abolitionist and matriarch of the Philadelphia Forten family.
1971–
Charmaine Andrea Nelson (born 1971) is a Canadian art historian, educator, author, and independent curator. Nelson was a full professor of art history at McGill University until June 2020 when she joined NSCAD University to develop the Institute for the…
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Che Gossett is an American writer, scholar, and archivist. They have written extensively on black and trans visibility, black trans aesthetics, capitalism, and queer, trans and black radicalism, resistance and abolition.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe five volumes of check stubs, July 1866–December 1867, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, are arranged in chronological order and numbered.
Biography
Cheney Lively (c. 1790s–1858) (also spelled Chaney, Chany, China, or Chinny) was the first African-American property owner and permanent resident in Indianapolis, Indiana. Originally born into enslavement in Kentucky circa 1795, Lively was later bought (or…
1854–1908
Chester W. Keatts (1854–1908), a former slave, co-founded the Mosaic Templars of America in Little Rock, Arkansas. He worked for the railway mail service, federal court, and as a lawman. He campaigned for two offices as a member of the Republican Party and…
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