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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Unknown Apraisment of negros

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03434.23 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: no date Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 13 x 17.5 cm. Order a Copy

Listing the values of nine enslaved people, all worth between ten and sixty dollars. Title from docket.

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