Various Collection of materials concerning enslaved people

Indemnity Bond for Jonathan

One document signed by Josiah Conely and John Ryland and witnessed by Samuel Greer dates October 20, 1834. This document stands as assurance for Jonathan, a recently freed enslaved person. It assures that he will not become a burden to the state of...

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Affidavit by William Andrews

One document signed by William Andrews dated July 16, 1857. This document grants power of attorney to John D. Andrews. This power of attorney grants John D. possession of William's enslaved people, who are identified in the document in the state of...

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Bill of sale for Jane and her four children

One document signed by Henry Bennett for a slave sale dated June 15, 1858. This bill of sale is for a woman named Jane and her four children enslaved to Henry Bennett and sold to John H.F. Chapman. Jane was twenty-nine her children were an unnamed...

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Bill of sale for five enslaved people

One document signed by James W. Howard dated December 2, 1859. This sale record notes the sale of five enslaved people by James W. Howard and his wife Martha to James M.N. The enslaved people are named and described in the document; "Isam a man aged...

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Bill of hire for nineteen enslaved people

One document signed by Abram A. McWillie and William J. Phillips dated November 28, 1860. An agreement to hire nineteen enslaved people for the sum of two thousand dollars with a 12% interest rate. The enslaved people are named in the document...

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Bill of hire for Jack

One document signed by John P. Wallace and Thomas O. Carr dated 1863. An agreement to hire an enslaved man named Jack for two hundred and fifty dollars in 1863.

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The Bible View of Slavery Reconsidered. A letter to the Right Rev. Bishop Hopkins

One pamphlet entitled The Bible View of Slavery Reconsidered. A letter to the Right Rev. Bishop Hopkins dated 1863.

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to Cornelia

One letter from William Van Wagenen to his sister Cornelia dated May 20, 1864. William describes his activites as a U.S. Christian Commission Aget. He particularly describes the horrors of war writing, "Since I have been here I have been very busy. I...

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Return of Captain William A. Prickitt's Company G of the Twenty fifth Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops

One document entitled Return of Captain William A. Prickitt's Company G of the Twenty fifth Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops dated September 1865. This return lists Capt. Prickitt and 1st Lieut. William H. Powers as the Commissioned Officers...

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Anti Slavery Bugle [Vol. 1, No. 29 (February 6, 1846)]

One issue of the Anti Slavery Bugle, Vol. 1, No. 29 dated February 6, 1846. This newspaper leads, in three columns, with Annual Report of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society; an essay on "Comeouterism," a movement among abolitionists to...

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