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Slavery--United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the d'Autremont family, 1764-1955 (inclusive), 1764-1897 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: A/A941
Overview:

Typed translations of family letters and genealogical information of the d'Autremont family.

Houghton Library collection on the North American slave trade

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 1278
Overview:

Documents concerning sale of enslaved people and other materials related to slavery in North America, particularly the United States.

Papers of Louise E. Jefferson, 1861-1991 (inclusive), 1943-1980 (bulk), undated

Collection Identifier: MC 1147
Overview:

Maps, correspondence, and artwork of African American artist, cartographer, graphic designer, author, and photographer Louise E. Jefferson.

May Laidley Letter, 16 March 1865?

Collection Identifier: A/L184
Overview:

Letter from May Laidley of New Richmond, Ohio, to Mrs. G. W. Summers of Kanawah County, West Virginia, describing Laidley's visits with an unnamed African American woman who is an acquaintance of the Summers family and may have been enslaved by them.

Contract to hire Peggy, an enslaved woman, 1856-1858

Collection Identifier: A/W3425
Overview:

Contract binding Thomas G. Watson and Thomas Watson to pay $30 to W.W. Forbes for the hire of a "Negro woman" Peggy for the year 1856.