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circa 1866
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
The death of slavery
Bryant's poem, transmitted to the editor of Atlantic Monthly with a letter written 5 June 1866 (GLC 1543.01).
GLC01543.02
circa 25 March 1892
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
[Final page of manuscript praising book on Civil War by Mr. Trent ]
Writes that Trent has "studied too deeply to waste his time" and discusses his proposition "that a battle for human slavery can really be called a battle for civil liberty." Roosevelt's signature is struck. Date is inferred from a stamp on verso...
GLC04725
January 1840
Unknown
[Testimonies regarding the capture of the Amistad; includes Cinque's testimony]
Created at Connecticut District Court in 7-9 January 1840 by or for William S. Holabird. Serves as notes of the testimony of Richard Robert Madden (head of the British Anti-Slavery [Mixed] Commission in Havana), Sullivan Haley (on board the USS...
GLC05636.13
20 March 1852
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)
to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
On its first day of publication in 1852, Stowe sends a copy [not present] of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. Slavery had been abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833, and Stowe holds Britain up as a model for...
GLC01585
28 June 1875
The death of Lincoln
The poem is copied and signed by William C. Bryant.
GLC00014
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