Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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Coralie Franklin Cook (March 1861 – August 25, 1942) was an African-American educator, public speaker, and government official. She is also the first known descendant among those enslaved at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate to graduate from college.
1852–1916
Henrietta Cordelia Ray (August 30, 1852 – January 5, 1916) was an African American poet and teacher. Her parents were notable abolitionists, and had worked for the Underground Railroad in Manhattan.
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Cornelius J. Jones (August 13, 1858 – March 13, 1931) was an African-American attorney, activist and politician who was active in Mississippi, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and Tennessee between approximately 1880 and 1931. In the 1890s, Jones became one of…
Born 1813
Cornelius Sinclair (c. 1813 to unknown) was an African American child kidnapped in Philadelphia in August 1825 by Patty Cannon's gang. He was one of a number of children kidnapped that summer and later transported south, to be sold into slavery.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Correspondence”.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis volume includes endorsements sent, July–Aug. 1866; register of letters received and endorsements sent, Mar.–Apr. 1867; letters sent, July 1866–Apr. 1867; and proceedings of freedmen's court, Jan.–Apr. 1866.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of correspondence relating to the restoration of property, September 1865–January 1866 (110), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.
Biography
Cosme Bento das Chagas (between 1800 and 1802 – September 1842), also known as Negro Cosme, was the Black Brazilian leader of a settlement of runaway enslaved people, known as a quilombo. In 1830, having already been freed from slavery, was imprisoned in…
2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis costume worn by Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup in the film 12 Years a Slave (2013) consists of a straw hat (.1), a shirt (.2), a vest (.3), a neckerchief (.4), pants (.5), and a pair of brogan shoes (.6ab).
2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA costume consisting of a dress (.1) and shoes (.2) worn by Lupita Nyong'o as the character Patsey in the film 12 Years a Slave (2013). The dress is designed and weathered to resemble an early 19th century Regency era gown that survived until the 1840s…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pea scale, also known as a cotton scale, balance scale, or a steelyard balance. The scale is comprised of two parts: a scale with an elongated, tapered bar of steel ending in a hook, and a weight that can be hung along the length of the scale.…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of court cases, November 1866 (267), is arranged in chronological order and numbered. The volume also contains a "Journal of Business," April 1867–December 1868, arranged chronologically, and a register of rations, June 1866 and July…
Apr. 1866–Aug. 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Court Cases Settled”.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound court cases settled, April 1866–August 1867, are arranged chronologically.
1865–66
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound court papers and reports are arranged by type of record. The records include land reports (October 1865 and January 1866) and financial reports (August–September 1865).
1866–67
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound court papers and vouchers, 1866–67, are arranged by type of record.
Oct. 1866 and June 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound court papers, October 1866 and June 1867, are arranged by name of case. Most of the papers relate to the case of Tousey and Roberts v. Freedmen on the McHatton Plantation.
November 4, 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA handwritten petition to the county court of Madison County written by Jeremiah Fuller concerning the three children of a woman named Harriet. The petition is written in brown ink on off-white, blue lined paper. Handwritten in graphite in a different hand…
Sept. 1865–Feb. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Court Records”.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound court records, July 1864–November 1867, are unarranged.
1866–67
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe three remaining records for Livingston included a single–volume register of complaints, August–November 1868, unbound court records, 1866–1867, and list of contracts (no dates). The unbound court records are arranged by case.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound court records, May–December 1864, are unarranged.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound court records, 1864–65, are arranged by type of record. The series consist of court reports, proceedings of courts, petitions, deeds, and reports of cases tried.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound court records, September 1865–February 1868, are arranged chronologically.
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