Slaves--Emancipation--United States

Letter marked 'Confidential' to Lysander Spooner of Boston [Massachusetts], dated October 1, 1861, requesting his participation in an Executive Committee formed to advocate for the enlistment of blacks to fight in the Civil War. Signed by George L. Stearns on behalf of the Committee. This letter is part of the Slavery collection in New-York Historical Society.

The Emancipation Proclamation. Printed document signed.

Signed on p. [2]: Philadelphia, August 14, 1777. Antibiastes. Printer's name from colophon. References: Evans 15239; Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 628.

Signed on p. [2]: Philadelphia, August 14, 1777. Antibiastes. Printer's name from colophon. References: Evans 15239; Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 628.

Pictorial Envelope: 1 envelope; 3 x 5 1/2 in. African-American man dancing happily. White envelope with blue ink. Image on left. Printed below image: I'se just 'seceshed' from / Ole Massa, Yah, Yah, Yah!'

Souvenir copy of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, with autograph signatures of Lincoln, William Seward, Secretary of State, and John Nicolay, Private Secretary to the President. This is known as the Leland-Boker edition of the Emancipation Proclamation, after the two men who arranged for its printing by Frederick Leypoldt and subsequent sale at the Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair of June 7-29, 1864. The Sanitary Fairs were created to raise money for sick and wounded soldiers, and to improve conditions in military camps.

Deed of indenture for "a Negro boy named Primus" for a term of three years to Walter Butler, who received the slave from his cousins John and Myndert Wempel.

Four-page memorial from a Convention of the Friends of the Negro addressed to His Excellency Silas H. Jenison, Governor of Vermont regarding the abolition of slavery in the United States. Signed on behalf of the Convention by Thomas Clarkson, President. The Convention was held by the British and Foreign Antislavery Society in London from the 12th to the 23rd of June 1840.

Six-page letter from Theodore S. Fay regarding compensation for his appointment in Berlin and the abolition of slavery.

Four-page letter from J. M. M'Kim to S. H. Gay detailing the escape of slave [Henry 'Box' Brown] from Richmond [Virginia] to Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] via overland express in a box. M'Kim requests that Gay refrain from publishing the story, and to 'send him on' to Francis Jackson.

Two-page letter from John Henderson of Natchez [Mississippi] to the Editors of the National Intelligencer [Washington, D.C.], William Winston Seaton and Joseph Gales, Jr., regarding the submission of his article on the abolition of slavery.

Four-page letter from Abby Kelley of Lynn [Massachusetts] to Angelina E. Grimke of New York City regarding the abolition of slavery. Includes mention of lectures given by H. B. Stanton, William Lloyd Garrison, and George Thompson at the Society of Friends in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Three-page letter marked 'Confidential' to Lysander Spooner of Boston [Massachusetts] requesting his participation in an Executive Committee formed to advocate for the enlistment of Blacks to fight in the Civil War. Signed by George L. Stearns on behalf of the Committee.

Four-page memorial from a Convention of the Friends of the Negro addressed to His Excellency William H. Seward, Governor of New York, regarding the abolition of slavery in the United States. Signed on behalf of the Convention by Thomas Clarkson, President. The Convention was held by the British and Foreign Antislavery Society in London from the 12th to the 23rd of June 1840. Docket title 'From the World's Anti Slavery Convention, July 25th, 1840.'

Two-page letter to Elder John Waller from Robert Carter of Nomony [Nomini] Hall regarding the abolition of slavery in the United States.

Four-page letter from Angelina Emily Grimke to her sister Sarah Moore Grimke regarding the abolition of slavery.

Two-page letter to Mr. T. T. Barnes regarding the illegal sale of slave Flavilla Ann, whose mother Jane had been manumitted in 1835.

Two-page letter from the Antislavery Office, Philadelphia, giving notification for an Antislavery convention to be held in Harrisburg [Pennsylvania] on December 19, 1837, with the intent of organizing a State Antislavery Society. Signed by committee members of the Friends of Immediate Emancipation in Pennsylvania. Letterhead features engraving 'A Colored Young Man of the City of New York, 1835' by P. Reason.

Signed on p. [2]: Philadelphia- August 14- 1777. Antibiastes. Printer's name from colophon. References: Evans 15239; Lib. Company. Afro-Americana- 628.