Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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1828-1850
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA piece of fabric with open whitework embroidery in a paisley design. The embroidery is situated along the longest edge of the fabric fragment and features open holes in the fabric overcast with white embroidery thread. The holes are arranged in a series…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe three volumes of fair copies of contracts, September 1865–January 1868 1 (81), 2 (82), and 3 (83), are arranged chronologically and numbered, and there is a name index for the period January 1867–January 1868. The volumes include a copy of each…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe four volumes of fair copies of contracts dated 1865, 1 (196), 2 (197), 3 (198), and 4 (199), are unarranged and consist of copies of contracts made in counties outside the Montgomery subdistrict. Volume 2 (197) contains a list of rooms and tenants at…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe records for the subassistant commissioner at Tuscumbia include a single volume of letters sent, May–August 1868 (159), and a single volume of fair copies of contracts, November 1865–March 1868 (160). Both of these record series are arranged…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe volume of fair copies of letters received and endorsements sent, April–July 1868 (155), is arranged chronologically and has a name indexs.
1837–1913
Born into slavery, Coppin became one of the first Black women to graduate from an American college and led the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia for decades.
Jan. 1, 1865–Jan. 1, 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Fayette – Hardeman Counties”.
Aug.–Nov. 1865
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Federal Agencies”.
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Felipa Larrea de Larrea (born 1 May 1810 – 18 January 1910) was an Afro-Argentine woman, widely considered to be the last surviving African slave from the colonial period in Argentina.
Biography
Felix Battles (early 1840s – April 20, 1907) was an American former slave and Civil War veteran who served in the United States Colored Troops, and one of the first settlers of Moorhead, Minnesota, where he was a businessman running his own barbershop. He…
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Felix Holbrook was a Black activist born in Africa but lived in Boston and Rhode Island during the mid- to late-eighteenth century. A slave for more than 25 years, he was a staunch advocate of abolitionism. He married his wife, Susannah in 1772, when he…
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Femi Taylor (born 8 April 1961) is a Nigerian-born British dancer and actress, best known for portraying Jabba the Hutt's Twi'lek slave dancer Oola in the 1983 motion picture Return of the Jedi. She is the sister of Benedict Taylor.
1846–1918
Ferdinand Havis (November 15, 1846 – August 25, 1918) was an American barber, state legislator, businessman, government official, and state militia member in Arkansas. Havis was born into slavery, the son of his enslaver and enslaved mother. He was a…
1850s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA wooden hand-crafted field noisemaker, with a gearwheel and two horizontal stiff boards at the top, with a vertical curved board in between, laying between wooden rods connecting the top and bottom horizontal wooden sheets, all mounted on a handle, which…
1850s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA long, single-tailed snake whip made of coiled leather strands inside a smooth, hand-stitched leather shot bag running three quarters of the length. The fall consists of two tightly twisted strands that terminate in a hard knot. The metal knob handle is…
February 15, 1871
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn edition of a speech by Congressman Francis P. Blair printed in black ink on off-white wove paper in a center bound booklet. There is no separate cover or title page, the first page of text begins with the heading [FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. / SPEECH / OF /…
1974
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA 1974 poster for the World Heavyweight Championship Fight between Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman. The top of the poster has black text that reads [From Slaveship to Championship]. Below that text, in the top proper right corner, there is a depiction of a…
1865–66
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound fiscal and legal papers, 1865–66, are arranged by the type of record and include bonds, labor contracts, affidavits, and receipts for services rendered or goods produced.
July 1865–June 1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound fiscal papers of superintendents Lewis H. Carhart and Nathan Cole, July 1865–June 1866, are arranged chronologically and include monthly statements of accounts current and supporting vouchers.
1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "The slave fort at Goree; fishermen in the foreground. Taken during July and August, 1980 on my trip with Dale Williams. The date on the slide is SEP 80.".
1890
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA 42-star United States flag commemorating an 1890 Boston reunion of soldiers from the 54th Massachusetts Infantry regiment who survived the battle of Fort Wagner in July 1863. The American flag is made of muslin and has 13 alternating red and white…
1912-1959
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA United States 48-star flag used at veteran's reunions of the \9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry battalion, who served in the Spanish-American War under then Major Charles Young. The flag is made of white cotton printed in blue and red ink on the recto and…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Flemish brick from an unknown architectural structure in Charleston, South Carolina, made by an enslaved person. It is a solid style, fired terracotta brick. The rectangular brick is brownish red in color with grayish-white, Portland cement mortar…
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Florence Johnson Smith (May 1850 – September 15, 1920) was a mixed-race woman from Tennessee who was enslaved, from birth until approximately age 13, by Andrew Johnson, later the 17th president of the United States. She worked in service at the Tennessee…
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