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African American and African Diaspora collection, 1729-1970 (majority within 1781-1865)
0.75 linear feet
The African American and African Diaspora Collection is comprised largely of individual letters, documents, and other manuscript items relating to slavery, abolition movements, and aspects of African American life, largely dating between 1781 and 1865. Topics addressed in the letters and documents include the experiences and work of enslaved persons in the North and South; the buying and selling of enslaved men, women, and children; participation in the French and Indian War, American Revolution, and Civil War of African descended persons; abolitionists and abolition societies; the American Colonization Society; the lives of formerly enslaved persons; African American education; and many other subjects. For details on each document, see the inventory located under "Detailed Box and Folder Listing"
. Samuell Conyer [Samuell Coniard] DS to Samuell Talcott; [Wethersfield, Connecticut]., 1729 May 23
1 page
. John Wright ALS to John Tomlinson; Brunswick, [Georgia]., 1742 January 7
2 pages
. Jonathan Low DS to Seth Story; Ipswich, Massachusetts., 1752 December 25
1 page
. John Bull DS to Sabinah Wilson; Granville County, South Carolina., 1756 July 23
2 pages
. Scipio Wood, John Ells, Benjamin Buell, Benjamin Payne, and J. Lawrence 5 DsS; Windham County and Hartford, [Connecticut]., 1757 December 3 - 1772 June 9
9 pages [total]
. Francis Bernard ALS to Charles Read; Amboy, [New Jersey]., 1760 January 8
3 pages
. John Mountague ADS to Charles Gordon; ., 1767 January 1
2 page
. John Madocks ADS; Lincoln's Inn., 1770 April 21
3 pages