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1.
Color Lithographs from the Darktown Series: Lawn Tennis at Darktown - A Scientific Stroke Lawn Tennis at Darktown
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New York
Date:
1885
Format:
Image
2.
Color Lithograph from the Darktown Series: The Darktown Fire Brigade -Darktown Sports - A Grand Spurt
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New York
Date:
1887
Format:
Image
3.
Two Color Lithographs from the Darktown Series: Lawn Tennis at Darktown - A Scientific Player
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New York
Date:
1885
Format:
Image
4.
Color Lithograph from the Darktown Series: The Darktown Fire Brigade - Under Full Steam
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New York
Date:
1887
Format:
Image
5.
Color Lithograph from the Darktown Series: A Darktown Trial - The Judge's Charge
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New York
Date:
1887
Format:
Image
6.
Color Lithograph from the Darktown Series: Trial by Jury - The Verdict
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New York
Date:
1887
Format:
Image
7.
Pair of Slave Bills Purchasing a Black Woman named Betsy; by Two Different Owners Within Six Months
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1853-08-27
1854-02-04
Format:
Image
8.
Letter from One Slave Trader to Another Requesting Slaves to be Sent on Consignment
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Charleston, South Carolina
Date:
1847-12-08
Format:
Image
9.
Free Negro Boy is Indentured by the Overseers of the Poor
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Campbell County, Georgia
Date:
1815-12-31
Format:
Image
10.
Garrison condemns slavery, writes of his career in the abolitionist movement, and the effect of the Civil War on slavery. With Carte-de-visite
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Boston, Massachusetts
Date:
1861-12-20
Format:
Image
Creator:
William Lloyd Garrison
Addressee:
Maria Mariott
11.
Garrison condemns slavery, writes of his career in the abolitionist movement, and the effect of the Civil War on slavery. With Carte-de-visite
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Boston, Massachusetts
Date:
1861-12-20
Format:
Image
Creator:
William Lloyd Garrison
Addressee:
Maria Mariott
12.
Sumner writes "much has been done, but more remains to be done"
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Washington, DC
Date:
1873-04-16
Format:
Image
Creator:
Charles Sumner
Addressee:
Edward M. Turner
13.
Lieutenant writes that he is strongly in favor of "making the Negroes soldiers"
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Folly Island, South Carolina
Date:
1863-06-07
Format:
Image
Creator:
CEW
Addressee:
Brother
14.
Slave manumission signed by Matilda with an "X". She promises to leave Kentucky within 90 days
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Kentucky
Date:
1861-03-12
Format:
Image
15.
General Orders No. 16 - authorizing payment of a bounty to new volunteers
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1863-11-18
Format:
Image
16.
Preacher attempts to buy the wife of one of his slaves
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Natchez, Mississippi
Date:
1841-12-08
Format:
Image
17.
Certificate of manumission for a woman and her son by Charles Hempstead
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Galena, Illinois
Date:
1845-04-21
Format:
Image
18.
General Orders No. 17 - recruiting volunteers
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1863-11-23
Format:
Image
19.
"Harper's Weekly" - Colored Troops Under Gen. Wild Liberating Slaves in North Carolina"
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New York
Date:
1864-01-23
Format:
Image
20.
Document Pertaining to a Runaway Slave who was Committed to Jail - With Attached Newspaper Clipping
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Columbia, South Carolina
Date:
1808-04-18
Format:
Image
21.
Freedman Circular Asking Freedmen to Observe August 6, 1863 as a Day of Public Thanksgiving. One of two copies
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Beaufort, South Carolina
Format:
Image
22.
Letter and envelope from Slave Auctioneer (Davis and Deupree)--re: sale of slaves (Virginia)
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1861-02-07
Format:
Image
23.
Mississippi Confederate slave impressment receipt
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1865-01-19
Format:
Image
24.
Letter from Slave Dealer (J. Winbush Young)--re: purchased slaves being sent to E.H. Stokes
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1863-10-03
Format:
Image
25.
Slave-catcher's receipt for "Hunting boy Joe with dogs"
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1857-10-15
Format:
Image
26.
Payroll of black "freed laborers" for a month's work on President's Island
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1865
Format:
Image
27.
Alabama, Judgement for slave Bob keeping one dog contrary to law
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1848-01-05
Format:
Image
28.
Letter regarding colored troops
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Camp William Penn, Pennsylvania
Date:
1863-09-13
Format:
Image
Creator:
George Beidelman
Addressee:
Father
29.
General Order #91, Organizing Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Washington, DC
Date:
1865-05-12
Format:
Image
30.
Plantation Owner's Letter, regarding " the state of the Negro market"
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Virginia
Date:
1853-02-28
Format:
Image
31.
Tax Receipt
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Petersburg, Virginia
Date:
1862
Format:
Image
32.
Letter from Slave Anney to her former master ()
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Georgia
Date:
1848-02-05
Format:
Image
33.
Bill of Sale by slave dealers
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Louisiana
Date:
1859
Format:
Image
34.
Debt covered by one piano and one slave
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Tennessee
Date:
1861-01-16
Format:
Image
35.
Document listing the division of 59 slaves
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Tennessee
Date:
1857-12-10
Format:
Image
36.
Tax Receipt
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Petersburg, Virginia
Date:
1856
Format:
Image
37.
Soldier describes Christmas sport of African Americans running in sack race
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Ship Island, Mississippi
Date:
1862-01-02
Format:
Image
Creator:
Corp. John B. Green
Addressee:
Brother and sister
38.
Natchez Courier Journal - Slave Auction Advertisement - Proof of Publication
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Natchez, Mississippi
Date:
1842-12-29
Format:
Image
39.
Purchase Order for a Male Slave and for a Cook
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Date:
1853-11-28
Format:
Image
40.
Grandfather Deeds Granddaughter a Negro Child
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Robertson County, Texas
Date:
1847-12-20
Format:
Image
41.
Potential Buyer for a Slave Bricklayer
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Louisville, Mississippi
Date:
1836-11-11
Format:
Image
42.
New Orleans Slave Sale
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Date:
1858-02-13
Format:
Image
43.
Sale of Eighty-Four slaves
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Charleston, South Carolina
Date:
1847-04-01
Format:
Image
44.
Slave Family Sold at Auction
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Virginia
Date:
1823-01-03
Format:
Image
45.
Runaway Slave is Sent Home
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date:
1823-05-01
Format:
Image
46.
Letter describing slaves crossing lines at night and getting a 'piece of cold lead'
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Jackson, Tennessee
Date:
1862-09-10
Format:
Image
Creator:
David W. Poak
Addressee:
SJ Poak
47.
Detailing the Sale of 17 Slaves by Two Free People of Color
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Iberville Parish, Louisiana
Date:
1833
Format:
Image
48.
Free Man Pays Tax on Himself and His Property
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Albemarle County, Virginia
Date:
1862
Format:
Image
49.
Underground Railroad Letter
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1858
Format:
Image
50.
Letter Describes Rickett's Trip to Annapolis, the Wounded Soldiers and an Arrest of an African American for Attempting to Poison Soldiers with Rum
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Annapolis, Maryland
Date:
1861-08-31
Format:
Image
Creator:
Wm. Ricketts
Addressee:
Father and mother
51.
Slave owner Accuses an Overseer of Brutality, Causing Slaves to Run Away
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Stantonsburg, North Carolina
Date:
1864-03-26
Format:
Image
Creator:
William H. Kennedy
Addressee:
Messrs. RR and JL Bridges and Co.
52.
Louisiana Slave Revolt
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
St. Francisville, Louisiana
Date:
1841-08-20
Format:
Image
Creator:
H. Hinchy
Addressee:
BP Hinchy
53.
one of Two Color lithographs from the Darktown Series: The Darktown Fire Brigade - A Prize Squirt
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1885
Format:
Image
54.
one of Two Color lithographs from the Darktown Series: The Darktown Fire Brigade - A Prize Squirt
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1885
Format:
Image
55.
Slave Auctioneer's Pre-Printed Bill of Sale for a Slave Girl
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Richmond, Virginia
Date:
1860-09-17
Format:
Image
56.
Bill of Sale for a Fugitive Slave who has run to Boston. Payment will only be made if the slave can be obtained.
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Enfield, North Carolina
Date:
1785-02-21
Format:
Image
57.
Tax Receipt for "6 heads of cattle…29 Slaves.."
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Mississippi
Date:
1863-03-06
Format:
Image
58.
Buying Slaves in 1850 Texas
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Van Buren, Texas
Date:
1850-03-22
Format:
Image
59.
Colored troops capture Major Barrows, a noted guerilla, eleven prisoners, and confiscate 500 contraband slaves
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Camp near Norfolk, Virginia
Date:
1863-11-29
Format:
Image
Creator:
Eugene Bates
Addressee:
Mother
60.
African caught thieving is forced to run through a guantlet of other men and nearly clubbed to death
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Camp at Richmond, Virginia
Date:
1865-05-25
Format:
Image
Creator:
Edward Flagg
Addressee:
Father and mother
61.
Content on African American man gets revenge over a rebel who intimidated and beat him
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1860-09-23
Format:
Image
Creator:
Lewis Sims
Addressee:
Courtney (wife)
62.
African American cavalry fight
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Fort Powhattan
Date:
1865-01-30
Format:
Image
Creator:
Richard Walton
Addressee:
Sallie Walton
63.
Notice to African American man to get out of town
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Swanzey, Massachusetts
Date:
1791-05-14
Format:
Image
Creator:
Select men of Swanzey
64.
One of two prints, Billiards from the Darktown Series
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New York
Date:
1882
Format:
Image
65.
One of two prints, Billiards from the Darktown Series
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
New York
Date:
1882
Format:
Image
66.
Fees charged for selling three slaves, signed by Thomas Helm
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Lincoln County, Kentucky
Date:
1821
Format:
Image
67.
Partially printed receipt for hire of a man
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1854-01-02
Format:
Image
68.
Chromolithograph image of 2 children, with note and certificate for Mary Pearl Chance
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
ca. 1899
Format:
Image
69.
part of Two bills of sale for slaves, plus notes and photographs
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1806-1943
Format:
Image
70.
part of Two bills of sale for slaves, plus notes and photographs
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1806-1939
Format:
Image
71.
part of Two bills of sale for slaves, plus notes and photographs
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1806-1944
Format:
Image
72.
part of Two bills of sale for slaves, plus notes and photographs
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1806-1937
Format:
Image
73.
part of Two bills of sale for slaves, plus notes and photographs
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1806-1941
Format:
Image
74.
part of Two bills of sale for slaves, plus notes and photographs
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1806-1940
Format:
Image
75.
part of Two bills of sale for slaves, plus notes and photographs
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1806-1938
Format:
Image
76.
part of Two bills of sale for slaves, plus notes and photographs
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1806-1942
Format:
Image
77.
Letter from Former Slaveholder, explaining "I could never consent again to own slaves"
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Date:
1845-07-10
Format:
Image
Creator:
James Jarman
Addressee:
Captain John F. Hawkins
78.
Letter from a Slave Auctioneer (Davis and Deupree)--re: seeks consignments of slaves
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Virginia
Date:
1860-06-20
Format:
Image
79.
Letter from a Slave Auctioneer (Davis and Deupree)--re: seeks consignments of slaves
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Virginia
Date:
1860-06-20
Format:
Image
80.
Receipt of Captured Negroes
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Sierra Leone
Date:
1812
Format:
Image
81.
Plantation Inventory Listing Slaves Purchased Between 1829 and 1849
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1859
Format:
Image
82.
Last Will and Testament of William Rowland leaving slaves to family members
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Virginia
Date:
1833-12-22
Format:
Image
83.
Slavery Letter, regarding trading men for cattle and cotton
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Louisiana
Date:
1865-03-24
Format:
Image
84.
Manuscript Document, regarding Slave for hire
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Virginia
Date:
1841-01
Format:
Image
85.
Slave buys his own freedom
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Washington, DC
Date:
1845-10-31
Format:
Image
86.
One of Three Autographed letters from Israel Randall, re: slave trade
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date:
1841-12 to 1842-08
Format:
Image
Author:
Israel Randall
87.
One of Three Autographed letters from Israel Randall, re: slave trade
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date:
1841-12 to 1842-08
Format:
Image
Author:
Israel Randall
88.
One of Three Autographed letters from Israel Randall, re: slave trade
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date:
1841-12 to 1842-08
Format:
Image
Author:
Israel Randall
89.
Slave Dealer's Business Card
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Richmond, Virginia
Date:
ca. 1850
Format:
Image
90.
Invoice for Capture of Runaway Slave
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Mississippi
Date:
1856
Format:
Image
91.
Letter from Rich Perkins, Jr. to Capt. Charles Anthony (letter carried by slave)
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Virginia
Date:
1849-06-23
Format:
Image
92.
Slave Dealer Letter to his partner--"Buy another little girl..."
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Mississippi
Date:
1855-01-05
Format:
Image
93.
Document listing the division of 59 slaves
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Tennessee
Date:
1857-12-10
Format:
Image
94.
Power of Attorney to sell slave
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Louisiana
Date:
1842-06-30
Format:
Image
95.
Letter Discusses Favorable Opportunities to Invest in Land and Slaves
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Plantation, Iberville
Date:
1839-09-05
Format:
Image
Creator:
Jno. PR Stone
Addressee:
Captain John Overstreet
96.
Hanging Abolitionists and slaves in Texas
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Palopinto County, Texas
Date:
1860-08-12
Format:
Image
Creator:
Gramville Cornutt
, ...
Addressee:
Father
97.
Slave Tax Receipt
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Adams County, Mississippi
Date:
1852-02-12
Format:
Image
98.
Division of Slaves in the Estate of Bennett Ferrell
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
ca. 1830
Format:
Image
99.
Newly Freed Slaves Fare Poorly in Tennessee After the War
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Location:
Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee
Date:
1865-10-08
Format:
Image
100.
Slave Trade Engraving
Collection:
Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973
Date:
1830
Format:
Image
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