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29 July 1749
Livingston, Robert, Jr.
to Peter DeWitt re: slave trade
Robert Livingston, Jr. describes the multiple deaths of enslaved people on a trading vessel, and expresses disappointment at the financial loss.
GLC03107.04449
1863
Currier & Ives
The gallant charge of the fifty fourth Massachusetts (colored) Regiment. On the rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, near Charleston, July 18th, 1863, and death of Colonel Robt. G. Shaw.
Portrays African American soldiers carrying a United States flag which reads "54th Mass" on the stripes section of the flag as they meet a battle line of Confederate troops. There are 2 prints of this image, with different colorization, both are...
GLC02881.23
4 June 1897
Atkinson, Edward (1827-1905)
to the committee on the Shaw monument
Atkinson, treasurer of the Robert Gould Shaw monument committee, informs other members of the committee that he intends to depart for London, England, and St. Petersburg, Russia. States that he hopes to finish matters concerning the monument before...
GLC02928.04
circa 1897
Unknown
[Draft of inscription intended for the Robert Gould Shaw monument]
Includes hand written corrections. Describes the Shaw monument as a tribute to the famous 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, organized in Boston and reviewed by Massachusetts Governor John Albion Andrew 18 May 1863. Includes extracts from Andrew...
GLC02928.05
24 June 1865
Augustin, D. (fl. 1865)
[Certificate of amnesty]
Signed by Augustin as a United States Commissioner for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Also signed by Emmanuel Lebreton Deschapelles, who swears an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States following the Civil War. Deschapelles...
GLC02943.01
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