Slaves--United States.
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Samuel Andrew Agnew Diaries
Diaries of farmer, teacher, minister in North Mississippi, 46 volumes.
AM18-049, circa 1925-1942
Text on front of postcard: "Uncle 'Doug' Ambrose, Internationally Famous Civil War Slave at Lewis Turpentine Still and Plantation, Brooksville, Florida."
AM18-65, February 10, 1960; February 10, 1961
Two photos of centenarian, Mrs. Sally Powell, born in slavery.
AM19-50, circa 1934-1940s
2 postcards or former slaves; 1 annotated, postmarked 1934, 1 circa 194?.
AM20-082, April 16, 1860
AM22-018, May 8, 1915
Small, framed announcement of an ex-slave reunion to be held at M.E. Church near Meridian, MS. Dr. W.W. Lucas was to speak after a celebratory dinner.
Alfred P. Andrews Sylvester Magee Research Collection
The collection includes materials collected and produced by A. P. Andrews, in his effort to substantiate Sylvester Magee’s claim to have been an adult enslaved man that served in the Civil War. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings and journal articles, research notes produced by Andrews, photographs, and reel-to-reel tapes of oral histories of Magee and some of his family members.
Sylvia Buck Hoover Collection
The collection consists of one scrapbook page with newspaper clippings from around the time of Hoover’s death, as well as a photograph and a piece of yellow paper with her name, address, and age written in script. The scrapbook page comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Mike Mulhern Research Papers (AM18-21)
Mississippi Historical Collection
A collection of photographs, booklets, pamphlets, periodicals, postcards, and letters about Mississippi.
W.C. Rabb Farm Journal
The collection contains photocopies of the journal kept by William Craig Rabb, of Yazoo County, Mississippi, ca. 1839-1853. It chronicles the daily operation of the farm, the births of slaves, weather conditions, and expenditures and includes the occasional recipe.
