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18 March 1799
[Slavery]
Negro woman "Jane" seeks a writ of "Homine Replegiando" (asking the Court to return to freedom) against Edward Worrall.
GLC08356
circa 1840-1891
Slavery archive [decimalized]
Duley Family Papers, mostly by Enoch Duley and his son Enoch M. Duley. The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, land grants, genealogical material, land surveys and maps, a hymn book, and photographs, including cabinet cards, tintypes, and...
GLC06377
circa 1850s
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
[Allegorical verses on slavery]
Written in Harriet Beecher Stowe's hand. Her clipped signature ("H B Stowe") has been pasted to the end of the poem. Despite being in Stowe's hand and having the addition of Stowe's signature, both poems are actually 1842 works on slavery by Henry...
GLC05570
20 July 1830
Unknown
[Announcing pro-slavery meeting]
GLC01450.600.057
17 September 1807
Harrison, William Henry (1773-1841)
[Slavery laws of the Indiana Territory]
Approved by Harrison and also signed by Jesse B. Thomas as Speaker of the House and B. Chambers as President of the Council (this is a copy). Title continues: "Laws of the Indiana Territory Comprising those Acts formerly in force and as Revised...
GLC08939
May 1836
American Anti-Slavery Society
The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 2, no. 17.
Includes an article on Phillis Wheatley.
GLC09084
circa 1841
[Resolution regarding the licentious principles of slavery]
"From the Advocate of Moral Reform. Resolution passed at the last meeting of the Parent Society Resolved that the licentious principles & practice which form an inherent part of the system of Slavery wherever it exists, warrant this society in...
GLC06593.13
23 July 1836
[Announcement of pro-slavery meeting in Kansas]
GLC01450.600.57
1751-1865
Christian discipline, and anti-slavery broadsides. [Decimalized .01-.07]
GLC00246
1796
Tucker, St. George
A Dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it...
[Complete title] "A dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it, in the State of Virginia." First edition. With contemporary notations on and a page of manuscript notes dated 1836 in front. St. George Tucker was an...
GLC06610
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