1. Abel Brewster, last will and testament bequeaths portion of the estate to the American Colonization Society Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Hartford, Connecticut Date: 1831-12-04 Format: Image
2. Abolitionist discusses the issues of the time, much anti-slavery content Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Quincy, Massachusetts Date: 1845-07-24 Format: Image Creator: Charles Francis Adams Addressee: Charles Whipple
3. Accounting of Estate Expenses - deals with shipping cotton to Glasgow Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Alabama Date: 1843-1846 Format: Image
4. Accounting of Large Estate of Thomas Riviere, Including the Hiring Out of 31 Named Slaves Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Upson County, Georgia Date: 1859-12-13 to 1859-12-14 Format: Image
5. Account of the 1834 New York anti-abolitionist riots Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: New York City Date: 1834-07-20 Format: Image Creator: Jane MacNeven Addressee: Rosa P. MacNeven
6. Account of the Hiring of Slaves of the Estate of Wiley Jones Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Wilcox County, Alabama Date: 1841-01-11 Format: Image
7. 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
8. African Americans driving mules and horses in Philadelphia Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Date: 1862-09-19 Format: Image Creator: William T. Lewis Addressee: Parents
9. 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
10. Agent Advises Recipient of Efforts of Freedman's Bureau to Send Boys and Girls North to Good Families Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Washington, DC Date: 1867-03-03 Format: Image
11. Agreement to pay a substitute confederate soldier with a slave Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Texas Date: 1862-08-21 Format: Image
12. "A Happy New Years Greeting" - Freedmen circular Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Beaufort, South Carolina Date: 1864-01-01 Format: Image
13. 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
14. Alabamian defends the intelligence of slaves Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Florence, Alabama Date: 1843-09-18 Format: Image Creator: D. MacAuley Addressee: Rev. Robert C. Waterston
15. "A Literary Debate in the Darktown Club" Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: New York Date: 1885 Format: Image
16. A Manumission of "A Coloured Man, Mariner" Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: New York City Date: 1822-10-26 Format: Image
17. An account of hire of men, farm and house of James Lakenan made by William Gardner Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: St. Louis County, Missouri Date: 1827-01-22 Format: Image
18. Andrew Jackson vetoes the rights act of 1866 Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Washington, DC Date: 1866-03-29 Format: Image Creator: Samuel Jackson Randall Addressee: Adam John Glossbrenner
19. Anxiety of purchasing slaves Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: South Carolina Date: 1791-04-13 Format: Image Creator: Anthony Wayne Addressee: Sharp Delany, Esq.
20. Appraisal of 38 slaves for use in defense of Richmond Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Richmond, Virginia Date: 1862-11-06 1862-11-11 Format: Image
21. A Quaker bemoans his decision not to manumit his slave Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Date: 1795-06-13 Format: Image Creator: William Gifford
22. Attempt to capture escaped slave Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: South Carolina Date: 1850 Format: Image
23. Auction-Slaves for Hire Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Date: 1860 Format: Image
24. Availability of a Slave Woman for Sale Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Augusta County, Virginia Date: 1854-01-21 Format: Image
25. Bill of Sale by slave dealers Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Louisiana Date: 1859 Format: Image
26. Bill of sale containing names and ages of 123 Georgian Slaves sold for $61,000 Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Glynn County, Georgia Date: 1856-12 Format: Image
27. 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
28. Bill of Sale for a Slave Boy "who has run away with the Yankees" Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Date: 1863-05-06 Format: Image
29. Bill of Sale for a Slave Family Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Date: 1844-05-18 Format: Image
30. Bill of Sale for a woman Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Date: 1847-03-19 Format: Image
31. Bill of Sale for twelve year-old boy Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Washington, DC Date: 1833-07-12 Format: Image
32. Bill of Sale for two children Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Maryland Date: 1776 Format: Image
33. Bill of Sale for two four year- old children Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Georgia Date: 1846-03-02 Format: Image
34. Black Confederate soldier writes to his master Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Petersburg, Virginia Date: 1865-02-18 Format: Image Creator: Aabram Addressee: Master
35. Blackmailing free African Americans to avoid army conscription Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Date: 1863-11-17 Format: Image Creator: Lt. Colonel Don Albert Pardee Addressee: Captain Fordham
36. Bounty for Capturing Runaway Slave Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Dinwiddie County, Virginia Date: 1857-02-05 Format: Image
37. British Slave Trade Correspondence--"the profits outdo any South American Mine" Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Date: 1798-01-04 Format: Image
38. Broadside - Gang of Thirty-Seven Negroes For Sale (In Families) Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Florida Format: Image
39. Buyer purchases five young women Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Date: 1847-02-27 Format: Image
40. Buying Slaves in 1850 Texas Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Van Buren, Texas Date: 1850-03-22 Format: Image
41. Buying Slaves in the Deep South Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Prairie Date: 1856-09-23 Format: Image
42. Capturing Runaways in Florida - An Account of Expenses Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Florida Format: Image
43. Carolyn Shupp sells "One Black Man", a bed and other property to Elias Greshow Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Frederick County, Maryland Date: 1824-09-13 Format: Image
44. Cavalryman Instructs Wife on How to Care for Their Slaves Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Bacon Race Church, Virginia Date: 1861-08-29 Format: Image Creator: Sgt. Leonard Williams Addressee: Wife
45. Certificate for Mary Pearl Chance with chromolithograph image of 2 children and note Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Date: ca. 1899 Format: Image
46. Certificate of Freedom for George Howard Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Alleghany County, Pennsylvania Date: 1828-11-07 Format: Image
47. Certificate of freedom for John Jones Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Frederick County, Maryland Date: 1807-12-23 Format: Image
48. 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
49. Certificate of Title Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Louisiana Date: 1841-04-06 1843 Format: Image
50. Certified Copy of Indenture recording division of slaves, cattle, land, etc. Copy signed by William Huff Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Fort Bend County, Texas Date: 1861 1868-06-16 Format: Image
51. 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
52. Colonizing Africans in Africa Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Kentucky Date: 1836-09-03 Format: Image Creator: Henry Clay Addressee: Samuel Gwatheny Robertson
53. 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
54. 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
55. 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
56. 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
57. 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
58. 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
59. Complaint written on behalf of slave, asking to get her child back Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Georgia Date: 1867-08-17 Format: Image
60. Confederate Officer gives his wife instructions if the enemy were to come, including sending the slaves south to be hired out Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Yorktown, Virginia Date: 1862-03-20 Format: Image Creator: Captain George Bouton Addressee: Lucetta
61. Confederate soldier fears the federals have caught his slave Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Tullahoma Date: 1863-02-25 Format: Image Creator: Robert M. Rucker Addressee: Mother
62. Content Includes Whipping and White Women Kissing Slave Children Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Camp Suffolk, Virginia Date: 1862-02-26 Format: Image Creator: Newman Whipple Storer Addressee: Everett Storer
63. 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)
64. Content on African American troops Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Beaufort, South Carolina Date: 1863-03-04 Format: Image Creator: Paul S. Mauk Addressee: Friend
65. Conveyance of two slaves to pay a debt Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: North Carolina Date: 1837-12-05 Format: Image
66. Copperplate Engraving of the Early African Slave Trade Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Date: ca. 1650 Format: Image
67. Court Agreement to Make a Free Negro Child an Apprentice Until She Reaches the Age of Eighteen Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Campbell County Southeastern District, Georgia Date: 1804-10-12 Format: Image
68. 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
69. Debt levied on slaves and horses Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Tennessee Date: 1838 Format: Image
70. Declaration of Freedman Status Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: King George County, Virginia Date: 1851-06-05 Format: Image
71. Deed of freedom for 14 year old Henry Blake Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Date: 1842-08-19 Format: Image
72. Deed of Gift of a Slave Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: North Carolina Date: 1796-01-15 Format: Image
73. Describes the 3 days of riots following the new draft laws forcing men to join the army Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: New York Date: 1863-07-17 Format: Image Creator: Maria Addressee: J.J. Mitchell
74. Describing Vicksburg after its capture, noting especially the behavior of white civilians and freed slaves Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Vicksburg, Mississippi Date: 1863-10-16 Format: Image
75. 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
76. Discusses guerrillas, man bought and sold three times, hundreds made to work on fortifications, and humorous hospital incident Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Portsmouth, Virginia Date: 1863-09-10 Format: Image Creator: Charles D. Garlick Addressee: Parents
77. Discusses Prospects of Opening a Slave Dealership Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Mobile, Alabama Date: 1843-12-21 Format: Image
78. Discussion of commerce, opportunities for future independence, and the capture of an illegal American slave ship Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Monrovia, Liberia Date: 1845-10-03 Format: Image Creator: Joseph Jenkins Roberts Addressee: Benjamin Coates
79. Division of slaves belonging to Hamilton R. Heath Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Lee County, Georgia Date: 1848-01-01 Format: Image
80. Division of Slaves in the Estate of Bennett Ferrell Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Date: ca. 1830 Format: Image
81. Document Approving Pay for "Contraband Teamsters" Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Bridgeport, Alabama Date: 1864-04 Format: Image
82. Document certifying that woman is a freed slave and that her daughter was born free Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Rockingham County, Virginia Date: 1839-02-15 Format: Image
83. Document concerning runaway slave, signed Isaac Ford Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Date: 1804-12-22 Format: Image
84. Document divides slaves Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Bourbon County, Kentucky Date: 1861-09-02 Format: Image
85. Document giving permission for slave to marry Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Date: 1850-06-28 Format: Image Creator: Charles A. Price Addressee: Captain Price
86. Document listing the division of 59 slaves Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Tennessee Date: 1857-12-10 Format: Image
87. Document listing the division of 59 slaves Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Tennessee Date: 1857-12-10 Format: Image
88. Document Manumitting London Henry and his Family Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Port Royal, South Carolina Date: 1862-08-22 Format: Image
89. Document of Slave given as security for a bond Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Tennessee Date: 1858-07-26 Format: Image
90. Document of Slave purchased and freed by mother Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Maryland Date: 1831-10-18 Format: Image
91. 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
92. Document settling an estate listing human property alongside cattle, wagons, mares, etc. Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Union District, South Carolina Date: 1849-08-29 Format: Image
93. Elderly Woman Grieves Because her Slave Families Are to be Broken Up Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Baldwin County, Georgia Date: 1858-04-20 Format: Image Addressee: EP Peek
94. Enlisted slave gains manumission, 3 documents Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Maryland Date: 1863 Format: Image
95. Estate appraisal including 100 year-old slave, plus letter to judge and letter from executor Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Mississippi Date: 1859-08 to 1859-12 Format: Image
96. Estate Appraisal including 28 slaves Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Florida Date: 1854-01-21 Format: Image
97. Estate Appraisal Listing Two Female Slaves Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Garrard County, Kentucky Date: 1813-11-02 Format: Image
98. Estate Inventory Written on Verso of Confederate Cotton Loan Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Alabama Date: 1862-09-05 Format: Image
99. Estate list of Wm. Byars Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Location: Virginia Date: 1815 Format: Image
100. Estate Sale Notice Collection: Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection, 1728-1973 Date: 1851-01-04 Format: Image