Unbound court writs, summons, and other legal papers, 1866–68, are arranged chronologically. The records include a list of justices of the peace and probate judges of Independence County (1867) and a list of persons in Searcy County disqualified to…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1901, File 3.3.5
This Spanish language cover letter discusses a report about an enslaved person in Cuba who has run away. The letter is folded in half vertically. The enslaved person is not named in the document and neither is the writer. Typed text in the top left corner…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.1.119
A cream and blue coverlet woven by an unidentified enslaved person in the James River area of Virginia. The coverlet is composed of indigo dyed cotton and wool. The weave pattern, known as a Pine Cone Bloom or Gentleman's Fancy pattern, consists of squares…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.3
A wooden cradle made by an enslaved person consisting of 5 wooden boards nailed together to form a five-sided bed with open top on 2 rockers. The long sides are sloped, and the short sides have a rounded top edge.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.46.3
A pale gray-green creamer with a hinged pewter top. Top has a rim molded around the top of the vessel. On the body of the creamer are two scenes in relief. In one, a woman holding a baby is chased across ice by a man with a whip. In the other, an auction…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.46.9
Crockett Brown was a state legislator in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives representing Lee County, Arkansas in 1877. He served from the county with Patrick T. Price. He was noted as a politician in an interview of a former slave.
A cross-shaped, wooden pattern for casting iron. It is constructed from wood that has been stained dark brown. The front of the cross has a smaller relief cross at the center. There are two (2) semicircular wedge shapes projecting from the surface of each…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.28
A wooden crown molder or cornice plane. Plane is rectangular in shape with handle and top discharge. On opposite end of the body from the handle, vertically in relief, is [CE CHELOR / LIVING*IN / WRENTHAM]. Beneath, twice, is a fish with the letters [E.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.8.6
A wooden crown molder or cornice plane. Plane is rectangular in shape with handle and top discharge. On opposite end of the body from the handle, vertically in relief, is [(illegible) / LIVING*IN / HOLLISTON]. There are dents from past use disguised by…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.8.7
A wooden crown molding plane. There are dents and abrasions, and losses near where a strike peg would be, stock's toe at top. There is minor stains throughout, most notably on the wedge. There is newer abrasions on the sides, wedge top, and heel top. There…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.8.26
João da Cruz e Sousa (24 November 1861 – 19 March 1898), also referred to simply as Cruz e Sousa, was a Brazilian poet and journalist, famous for being one of the first Brazilian Symbolist poets. A descendant of African slaves, he has received the epithets…
Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis (c. 1841 – July 17, 1935), born Oluale Kossola, and also known as Cudjo Lewis, was the third-to-last adult survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the Americas. Together with 115 other African captives, he was brought…
A cultivator hoe with a wooden handle. The elongated wooden handle ends in a carved ball shape at the top and has two sharp metal digging blades at the bottom that project from the base of the handle. The blades are in slots in the handle and secured with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.21
A cultivator hoe with a wooden handle. The cultivator hoe has two hooked, digging blades that end in sharp points. Each blade is attached to either side of the handle with two nuts and bolts. A third nut and bolt holds the two tines together just below the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.26
A cultivator hoe with a wooden handle. The cultivator hoe has two hooked, digging blades that end in sharp points. Each blade is attached to either side of the handle with two nuts and bolts. A third nut and bolt holds the two tines together just below the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.27
A cutter mattock with a long wooden handle from the Laurel Hill Plantation, South Carolina. The grubbing tool has a head with a combination iron axe blade and an adze, separated by a central eye. The wooden handle is threaded through the eye and has…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.10
Cynthia Hesdra (March 6, 1808, in Tappan, New York, Rockland County – February 9, 1879), daughter to John and Jane Moore. Although Hesdra spent a portion of her life as a slave, at the time of her death, she was quite wealthy. She operated businesses in…
Cyrus Bustill (February 2, 1732 – 1806) was an African American brewer and baker, abolitionist and community leader. A notable business owner in the African American community in Philadelphia, he also became a founding member of the Free African Society in…
