Printed & Manuscript African Americana

Slavery & Abolition

Lot 1

Bill of lading for a very early shipment of "two negroes" from Jamaica to Boston.

Lot 2

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself.

Lot 3

Case of the Vigilante, a Ship Employed in the Slave-Trade; with Some Reflections on that Traffic.

Lot 4
John W. Barber, compiler.
A History of the Amistad Captives,

Lot 5
Solomon Northup.
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of . . . a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington.

Lot 6

Narrative of Andrew Jackson, of Kentucky; Containing . . . Twenty-Six Years of his Life while a Slave.

Lot 7
James Williams.
Life and Adventures of . . . a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground

Lot 8

Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man.

Lot 9

Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including . . . Reminiscences of Slave Life.

Lot 10

Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn.

Lot 11
Catharine Elbert.
Letter from an enslaved woman to the girl she had helped raise.

Lot 12
Dinah Browning.
An enslaved woman's letter to her former master.

Lot 13
Octavia V. Rogers Albert.
The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and other Slaves.

Lot 14
Charles Paxson, photographer.
Wilson, Branded Slave from New Orleans.

Lot 15

Archive of the slave-owning Randolph family of Virginia.

Lot 16

Detailed accounting of a Maryland family's enslaved people who were "not worth the maintenance."

Lot 17

Memorandum book tracking many dozens of enslaved people at a Mississippi plantation.

Lot 18

Moseley family register listing the births and parents of 13 enslaved people.

Lot 19
J.D. Ray.
Letter by a wealthy planter's son boasting of his short stint as an abusive overseer.

Lot 20
Daniel W. Holsenbeck.
Pair of letters from a plantation overseer in Confederate Georgia.

Lot 21

Colonial deed of three generations of named enslaved persons, as part of a coastal Georgia plantation.

Lot 22

Will of a Maryland man dividing 21 named enslaved people between his daughters.

Lot 23

Deed of an enslaved man to a close associate of George Washington.

Lot 24

Partition of 11 enslaved people in a Kentucky estate, dispersed among 11 different heirs.

Lot 25
Theophilus Freeman.
Deed of two enslaved men sold by the infamous slave dealer from Twelve Years a Slave.

Lot 26
Thomas D. McDowell.
Letter negotiating the sale of an enslaved man, unwittingly sent into town on an errand.

Lot 27

Letter investigating a suspicious Alabama slave trader.

Lot 28

"Sheriff's Sale" auction handbill for property including "5 negroes," in Mark Twain's hometown.

Lot 29
John Mattingly.
Letter from a slave trader regarding the purchase of a girl.

Lot 30

Slaves! Valuable Cooks, Washers, Ironers, House Servants, Blacksmith and Slater.

Lot 31

Business card for New Orleans auctioneers Mackey & Day: "Real Estate, Negroes, Horses, Mules, Carriages."

Lot 32

Deed of emancipation for a Connecticut woman named Pegge.

Lot 33

Deed of manumission for a Kentucky man named Peter.

Lot 34

Certificate of freedom issued in New York.

Lot 35

Affidavit that a Maryland woman "was born free and has always passed as such."

Lot 36

Newspaper publication of Pennsylvania's "Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery,"

Lot 37

The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.

Lot 38

Issue of the magazine American Museum containing an address on slavery by Benjamin Franklin.

Lot 39
Thomas Clarkson.
An Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade.