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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of letters sent, August–November 1867 (319), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe four volumes of letters sent, August–December 1865, March 1866, and January–April 1867, 1 (488), 2 (488A), 3 (489), and 4 (490), are arranged chronologically. Volume 1 (488) also contains a register of complaints, Aug. 1865–Jan. 1866. Volume 2 (488A)…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two volumes of letters sent, March 1867–December 1868, 1 (324) and 2 (325), are arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two volumes of letters sent, January 1866–May 1868 and August–December 1868, 1 (500) and 2 (501), are arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of letters, special orders, and circulars received, November 1866–August 1868 (186), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of letters, telegrams, special orders, circulars, and endorsements received, February–December 1865 (168), is arranged chronologically with a name index.
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Lewis Adams (October 27, 1842 – April 30, 1905) was an African-American former slave in Macon County, Alabama, who is best remembered for his work in helping found the school in 1881 in Tuskegee, Alabama which grew to become the normal school that with its…
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Lewis Charlton was an orator, school founder, and temperance advocate. He was born a into slavery in the United States in about 1814. He died a speaker in the temperance movement in England, and lived a very eventful life inbetween.
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Lewis Garnett Jordan (uncertain-1834 or 1839) was a Black American Baptist missionary who rose from slavery to lead religious and civic organizations in the United States. Jordan traveled to Liberia, the West Indies, and Europe. He was enslaved as a child.
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Lewis Hayden (December 2, 1811 – April 7, 1889) escaped slavery in Kentucky with his family and reached Canada. He established a school for African Americans before moving to Boston, Massachusetts. There he became an abolitionist, lecturer, businessman,…
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Lewis Sheridan Leary (March 17, 1835 – October 20, 1859) was an African-American harnessmaker from Oberlin, Ohio, who joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, where he was killed.
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Lewis Temple (1800 – 18 May 1854) was an American maker of items used in whaling, blacksmith, abolitionist, and inventor. He was born in slavery in Richmond, Virginia, and moved to the whaling village of New Bedford, Massachusetts during the 1820s, where…
1806–1878
Lewis Woodson (January 1806 – January 1878) was an American educator, minister, writer, and abolitionist. He was an early leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Woodson started and helped to build other…
Dec. 1866–July 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Lexington”.
ca. 2006-2008
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOne (1) cotton quilt tapestry, Libertad (Freedom), crafted by Mujeres Tejedoras de Mampuján (The Weavers of Mampuján), circa 2006 to 2008. The tapestry is vertically oriented with a red cotton border, and depicts a scene constructed of colorful pieces of…
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA copy of Life Magazine from November 22, 1968. The cover of the magazine features an image of a photographic portrait of Frederick Douglass inside an ornamental gold and wooden frame set against a black background. At the top left is the LIFE title in…
November 22, 1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA copy of LIfe Magazine from November 22, 1968. The cover of the magazine features an image of a photographic portrait of Frederick Douglass inside an ornamental gold and wooden frame set against a black background. At the top left is the LIFE title in…
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Lily Ann Granderson (c. 1816-1889), was an American educator. She was born a slave in Virginia in 1816.
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Elizabeth Denison Forth (c. 1786 – August 7, 1866) was an African-American landowner and philanthropist from Michigan. Forth was born enslaved, and worked as a maid before becoming a landowner.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume containing a list of abandoned lands and property in Loudoun County, 1866 and 1867 (269), is arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname of former owner.
June 3, 1944
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA handwritten list of attendees at the launching of the S.S. Harriet Tubman, mounted on a black paper page of a bound photograph album commemorating the event owned by Harriet Tubman's niece, Eva Stewart Northrup. Likely written by Northrup, the note is in…
1805
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis document is titled at the top "List of Bonds due Apphia Rouzee for Negro Hire & Rent for the year 1805." The list consists of one column of names and a column of monetary amounts. The document is one page, single-sided, black ink handwritten on paper.
1794 - 1795
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis document is titled at the top "A List of Bonds Given to Mr. Evan Brown to Collect or put in Suit" and consists of lists of names, dates, and monetary amounts owed for the hire of enslaved persons. The document is divided into three separate lists and…
1798
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is an accounting document for the estate of the late Richard Rouzee consisting of a list of names and amounts. At the bottom right it is signed by Evan Brown with a flourish and at the bottom left is the signature of witness Ralph Rouzee. The reverse…
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