HISTORICAL COLONIAL LETTER FOR SALEOF A SLAVE 1809ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC HISTORICAL MUSEUM AND VERY RARE COLONIAL LETTER FOR THE SALE OF A SLAVE 1809 JONATHAN PEARS AND GEORGE GRIFFINMANUSCRIPT INCLUDING George...
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ABOLITIONIST NEWSPAPER, THE LIBERATOR,NOV 7, 1862 The Liberator full copy with great details of the upcoming Emancipation to start Jan 1, 1863. Articles and speech about what is going to occur and how employment...
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RARE "ENSLAVED ALFRED DEAD" DOCUMENT,LETTER TO GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 18TH NOVEMBER, 1863 9 ¾" x 7 ?" letter, 15 ?" x 12 ?" framed Rare document - letter to Governor of South Carolina, dated 18th Nov....
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RARE "CATCH 'JIM RUNAWAY'" DOCUMENT,WHARTON COUNTY, STATE OF TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1860 9 ¾"x 7 ?" document, 15" x 12" overall framed Document to the Sheriff of the Hoeyer County, State of Texas, two sided...
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2 NASHVILLE CIVIL WAR LETTERS + MS NEWSPAPER2Nashville-related Civil War Documents, 1 signed by future U.S. president Andrew Johnson (Secretarial signed), the other written at Fort Confiscation, and 1 Mississippi Civil...
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CIVIL WAR ARCHIVE OF JACOB K. LONAS,KNOXVILLECivil War Archive of Jacob Kimberlin Lonas (earlier spelling Lones), Sergeant/Captain, 4th TN Infantry which later became the 1st TN Cavalry. He was born on July...
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JOHN DAVIS AND FAMILY ARCHIVEArchiveof items related to John Davis (1770-1853), early surveyor of Nashville, Tennessee, and his family. Includes Davis's will, numerous land documents, survey maps and some slave...
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15 DECORATIVE ARTS & SOUTHERN POTTERYREFERENCE BOOKSTwo groups of fifteen (15) total reference books, general decorative arts and Southern pottery. The general decorative arts grouping includes seven (7) general...
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FORT FAMILY OF NC/TN ARCHIVE, 19 ITEMSINCLUDING SLAVE ...Archive of documents and letters related to the Fort Family of Tennessee, primarily Elias Fort (1730-1819) of Edgecombe, NC who came west on a Revolutionary...
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GROUP OF MIDDLE TN EPHEMERA INC. SLAVESALE, 1852 ALAMA...1st item: Slave receipt, recording $425 received from Daniel Montgomery for "Polly aged about 16 and George aged about 12 years," sold by John Fitzhugh,...
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COL. ANDREW HYNES ARCHIVE INCL. NASHVILLELAND SALES, K...Archive related to the Andrew Hynes of Tennessee, including several land indentures relating to property in downtown Nashville. Andrew Hynes (1786-1849) was...
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SHULKIN 23 P.O. MURAL SKETCHES INCL.WINNER, 1938Anatol Shulkin, American, born Russia, 1899 - 1961, A series of 23 successful and proposed designs for U.S. Post Office murals as a result of a 1938 Treasury Department...
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JEREMIAH THEUS, IMPORTANT GEORGIA PORTRAIT(Charleston,South Carolina/Swiss, 1716-1774)
Portrait of James Habersham, Jr., unsigned, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in., good old gilt wood frame with applied decoration, 37-1/2 x 32 in.
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LETTER ADVISES LEASING SLAVE TO SITTINGGOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA James A. Waugh Autograph Letter Signed, "J. A Waugh," Raleigh, North Carolina, December 28, 1850, 8vo, 3 pp. with integral address panel, to his...
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GROUP OF BOOKS ABOUT BLACK HISTORYIncluding:The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, 2010; The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American...
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WILLIAM STILL (AMERICAN 1821-1902),THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, A RECORD OF FACTS, AUTHENTIC NARRATIVES, LETTERS, ETC., NARRATING THE HARDSHIPS, HAIR BREADTH ESCAPES AND DEATH STRUGGLES OF THE SLAVES IN THEIR...
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SIX ANTIQUE U.S. POLITICAL & HISTORICALBOOKS: CIVIL WAR "BEYOND THE LINES OR A YANKEE PRISONER LOOSE IN DIXIE," 1864; "DESPOTISM: AN INQUIRY INTO THE SLAVE-HOLDING SYSTEM," 1854 1"H X 5 1/8"W X 7 1/8"D (BEYOND...
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Capt. George Randolph Dyer AQM--Lincoln-SignedCommission and Pilot Knob Archive Comprising an early eagle mast head commission partially printed on vellum 12.25 x 15.75 in. matted framed and glazed 14.25 x 17.25 in. dated...
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Gilman Marston Civil War General andPolitician Manuscript Archive 233 letters 82 essays and speeches ca.80 deeds receipts and miscellaneous business records. Ca 1830-1900 (bulk 1834-1859). A son of Orford New...
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Colonel Francis Parker 32nd MassachusettsVolunteers Civil War Archive 38 war-date letters 1860-1862. During the first days of the secession crisis in December 1860 Francis J. Parker wrote to Massachusetts Gov. John...
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Corporal George F. Lewis 12th MassachusettsInfantry Civil War Archive 9 letters 1861-1864. Organized by Fletcher Webster a son of the great statesman Daniel Webster the 12th Massachusetts Infantry began recruiting...
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Lieutenant George W. Weston 26th IowaInfantry Civil War Archive Lot includes 15 letters and documents (12 war-date); Weston's bayonet & scabbard; scrapbook and relics; wallet including receipts; Bible; 6 photographs....
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Exploration of the Nile tributariesof Abyssinia : the sources, supply, and overflow of the Nile : the country, people, customs, etc. interspersed with highly exciting adventures of the author among elephants,...
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2 vols. (1 wrappers) Slavery: Dumont,P.J. de. Histoire de l'Esclavage en Afrique. Paris: Pillet Aine, 1820. 3rd ed. 8vo, contemp. 1/4 calf & marbled bds., red morocco spine label; scuffed, extremities rubbed....
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Letters Between the Sturges BrothersMost Antebellum Including J.R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA These 58 letters encompass a "snapshot" of antebellum life in the South.Samuel Sturges (1774-1831) was born in Fairfield...
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Archive of Documents Associated withthe Sturges Family Including John R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA The lot contains a variety of items including over 100 receipts and other ephemera an early indenture and...
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Ten slavery related manuscripts: two-pageletter, Martindale, North Carolina, July 3, 1864, "…we had considerable stir in our county last Wednesday about the Yanks taking Morganton & Camp Vance…Our...
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Two Bills of Sales for Slaves and LaterNotes and Photographs A view of slavery and the relationships between these social groups before and after the Civil War. The group includes a sale document for two slaves...
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Samuel Lawrence Early New York Representative& the Lawrence Family Manuscript Archive An extensive archive of approximately 67 documents of the noted Lawrence family of New York spanning the years 1799 to 1908. Dealing...
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Scrapbook with Piece of ConfederateFlag and Ellsworth Relic Scrapbook 3/4 leather with brown cloth boards approx. 8 x 10 in. Assembled by an unknown hand the album contains just over 40 pages of trimmed and...
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4 vols. Townsend, George Alfred, "Gath":Tales of The Chesapeake. New York: American News Company, 1880. 1st ed. 12mo, orig. pictorial red cloth; moderate edge wear, moderately dust soiled. Frontis. Front free endpaper...
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Harriet Manigault archive, miniatures:(Harriet Manigault Wilcocks, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1793-1835), The Manigault name is among the most prominent in South Carolina and specifically Charleston history,...
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1849 Georgia slave document, handwrittenletter dated July 5, 1849, sent from H.B. Troutman (Hiram Baldwin Troutman, dates unknown) of Knoxville, Georgia, and addressed to the Hon. E.A. Nisbet (Eugenius Aristides...
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The History of the Negro Race in Americafrom 1619 to 1880. Negroes as Slaves Soldiers and as Citizens by George W. Williams New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1883. Two volumes in one hardbound in green cloth...
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ARCHIVE OF THE FITZHUGH FAMILY OF VIRGINIAAND WEST VIRGINIA. A large and diverse gathering of letters documents and ephemera spanning the entirety of the 19th century as well as genealogical information created...
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Six civil rights leaders: partly printeddeed of trust, October 22, 1881, signed in black ink "Fredk Douglas" (Frederick Douglas, 1817-1895, slave-born American abolitionist and author) as District of Columbia...
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