Slavery.

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Postcard of Old Slave Market St. Augustine.

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Harper's Weekly, 1-6-1877 Antique Mississippi 1866 - Counties RR with Decorative Header w/ enslaved stevedore.

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2 postcards or former slaves; 1 annotated, postmarked 1934, 1 circa 194?.

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Niles' Weekly Register, published in Baltimore, describing sentencing & hanging of men charged with planning slave revolt in Carson Grove, Madison County, MS on front page.

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Arkansas court document involving the Tucker family of Jefferson County, Arkansas, which used slaves as collateral for a debt.

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Deposition from slave owner in Wilkinson County, Mississippi and related summons, 1831.

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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.

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This collection consists of Dr. Charles C. Bolton’s research materials for his scholarly works.

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Newspaper and magazine articles, journals, newspapers, bumper stickers, cartoons, etc. concerning anti-Semitism and Civil Rights.

Scope and Contents This letter, dated March 8, 1864, was written by W.L. Chatham to "Sis," who the donor has identified as Nancy Elizabeth Searcy. Chatham is writing from the mountains of Jefferson County, Tennessee, where he is in the Confederate Army guarding Bull's Gap.Chatham comments upon the military situation in Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia, and expresses concern about his family and his health. He also writes at length about the possibility of a rumored settlement whereby the...

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Two original handwritten letters regarding slavery in Mississippi.

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The Silvia Buck Hoover Collection consists of one scrapbook page containing information on the death of Silvia Buck Hoover, who claimed to be one of the last living slaves at her death in 1941. This collection would be of interest to researchers studying American history, the Civil War, and slavery.

Scope and Contents The Alexander Melvorne Jackson papers contain correspondence and records pertaining to a wide variety of subjects. These include family concerns, Mississippi politics, the Mexican War, the New Mexico Territory, the Arizona Campaign of the Civil War and Texas Politics.A substantial portion of the collection consists of correspondence between Jackson family members. Dated between the years of 1846 and 1878 are 134 letters written by Alexander to his wife, Cordelia. The...

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A legal document regarding ownership of a female slave in Adams County, Mississippi Territory.

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Slave Transfer Document, Abraham Lincoln Campaign Ribbon, Abraham Lincoln Oversized Campaign Ribbon, and a signature of General Nathan Bedford Forrest on a lined sheet of paper.

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A collection of photographs, booklets, pamphlets, periodicals, postcards, and letters about Mississippi.

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This collection contains a legal document concerning an 1811 dispute between William Robinson and Nathaniel Herbert over Robinson’s property arising from his business ventures. This collection would be of particular interest for researchers studying life in the South in the early nineteenth century.

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Large collection of books, printed material, and memorabilia related to Mississippi and other subjects.

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U.S. Congressman from Mississippi Thompson's speech to Congress on the war with Mexico and slavery.

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Pamphlet aimed at gaining Virginia's support for a convention of slave-holding states.

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This is a collection of documents collected by Ernest A. Walen of Longmeadow, Massachusetts. The collection contains original letters, orders, printed material, official documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, prints, etc. covering the 19th Century with an emphasis on American Civil War materials and some 20th Century materials concerning the Civil War. Most of the material on the Civil War concerns the Confederacy, with some Federal documents included.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a bound copy of the typescript for Southern Negroes, 1861-1865 by Bell I. Wiley. Although the book was published in 1938, the work was originally written as a dissertation during Wiley's studies at Yale University in the early 1930s. The copy in the collection was presented to the University of Southern Mississippi by Miss Anna Roberts on July 11, 1962, and is probably a carbon copy of the original dissertation. The typescript is...