Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," May 1867–September 1868 (395), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," April 1867–April 1868 (242), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," April 1867–November 1868 (435), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," June 1867–August 1868 (465), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two–volume journal of business transacted, April 1867–December 1868, 1 (199) and 2 (200), is arranged chronologically. The journal entries cover mainly visitors' complaints, the paperwork performed, and visits made.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business" Transacted, June 1867–May 1868 (282), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume journal of complaints ("MEMORANDUM BOOK Book"), May 1866–December 1867 (181), is arranged chronologically. In Feb. 1867 this became a numerically arranged register of complaints, which is a cross–reference to Volume 2 (177) of the…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume journal of the freedmen's court at the Home Colony, June–December 1865 (124), is arranged chronologically. Included in the volume are instructions on the composition of the court and its duties.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two volumes of "Journal of Business," April 1867–December 1868, 1 (385) and 2 (449), are arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two volumes of "Journals of Business," March 1867–December 1868, 1 (493) and 2 (494), are arranged chronologically. Volume 2 (494) also contains a register of complaints (March 1867–January 1868), arranged chronologically. Both volumes have name indexes.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two volumes of "Journals of Business," May 1867–September 1868, 1 (483) and 2 (484), are arranged chronologically. Volume 2 (484) also contains accounts, May 1867–August 1868, arranged chronologically. There is a name index in Volume 2 (484) to…
1947–2014
Joy Chatel (June 28, 1947 – January 8, 2014), also known as Mama Joy, was a cosmetologist, community organizer and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. She fought battles against the Bloomberg administration and millionaire developers to keep the history…
1958–
Joy James (born 1958) is an American political philosopher, academic, and author. James is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College. Her books include Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals,…
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Jude (Judas) Hall was an African-American soldier in the American Revolutionary War. He served from 1775 to 1783, one of the longest serving soldiers either Black or white, and earned his freedom from slavery. After the war, he married and settled in…
1842–1865
Julia C. Collins (c. 1842 – November 25, 1865), was an African American schoolteacher in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who in 1864 and 1865 contributed essays and other writings to The Christian Recorder, a publication of the African Methodist Episcopal…
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Julia Greeley, OFS (c. 1833-48 – 7 June 1918), was an American philanthropist and Catholic convert. An enslaved woman later freed by the U.S. government, she is known as Denver's "Angel of Charity" because of her aid to countless families in poverty.
1811–1870
Julia Ward Williams Garnet (July 1, 1811 - January 7, 1870) was an American abolitionist who was active in Massachusetts and New York. Born free in Charleston, South Carolina, she moved with her family as a child to Boston, Massachusetts, and was educated…
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Julian Herman Lewis (May 26, 1891 – March 6, 1989) was an American pathologist. The son of a freed slave, Lewis became the first African-American associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1922. His research interests included racial differences…
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Juliet Gilkes Romero, previously credited as Juliet Gilkes (IPA: /dʒɪlks/), is an English playwright and screenwriter, known for "politically charged" works that discuss British colonial history, Black British history, and slavery. Her accolades include…
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Juliette Noel Toussaint (c. 1786 – May 14, 1851) was a formerly enslaved Haitian-American philanthropist who collaborated closely with her husband Pierre Toussaint in helping the poor and doing charitable works in downtown New York. Her husband was…
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Julius Caesar Chappelle (c. 1852 – January 27, 1904) was an American Republican Party politician who was born into slavery in South Carolina and served in the Massachusetts General Court. He was a leading figure of Boston's black community from 1870 until…
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Julius Soubise (c. 1754 – 25 August 1798) was a Saint-Kittian-born socialite active in 18th-century London. Born in Saint Kitts into slavery, Soubise (then named Othello) was purchased by a Royal Navy captain before being brought to England in 1764, where…
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Junius R. Lewis (c. 1842–1938) was born into slavery in Mississippi and he ran away in 1862 after his mother was sold. A Confederate officer captured him in Kentucky after he walked north from the plantation.
1819–1887
Justin Holland (July 26, 1819 – March 24, 1887) was an American classical guitarist, a music teacher, a community leader, an African American man who worked to help slaves on the Underground Railroad, and an activist for equal rights for African Americans.…
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