By the President of the United States of America. A proclamation. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September ... a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States … That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free ... Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln ... do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free ... Done at the City of Washington this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three ... By the president: [signed Abraham Lincoln].
Creator / Contributor
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) ; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Title
By the president of the United States. A proclamation. … That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free ... Done at the City of Washington this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three ... By the president: [Abraham Lincoln] ...
Creator / Contributor
United States President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) ; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 ; Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 ; Nicolay, John G. 1832-1901 ; Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823-1890 ; Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 ; Leypoldt, Frederick, 1835-1884
Title
I'se just 'seceshed' from Ole Massa, Yah, Yah, Yah!
Collection Title
Patriotic envelope collection. Series I: Civil War envelopes, 1861-1865.
Title
Letter to E. John Waller
Creator / Contributor
Carter, Robert, 1728-1804 ; Waller, John
Title
Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States, page [1]
Creator / Contributor
Antibiastes ; Steiner, Melchior, d. 1807? ; Cist, Charles, 1738-1805
Title
Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States, page [2]
Creator / Contributor
Antibiastes ; Steiner, Melchior, d. 1807? ; Cist, Charles, 1738-1805
Title
Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States.
Creator / Contributor
Antibiastes ; Steiner, Melchior, d. 1807? ; Cist, Charles, 1738-1805
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To His Excellency Silas H. Jenison, Governor of Vermont
Creator / Contributor
British and Foreign Antislavery Society ; Jenison, Silas Hemenway, 1791-1849 ; Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846
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To His Excellency Wm. H. Seward, Governor of New York
Creator / Contributor
British and Foreign Antislavery Society ; Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 ; Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846
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[Indenture of a Negro boy named Primus]
Creator / Contributor
Butler, Walter ; Wempel, John ; Wempel, Barent ; Wempel, Myndert
Title
[Letter from A. E. G. to Sarah M. Grimke]
Creator / Contributor
Grimke, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879 ; Grimke, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873
Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839 ; Gunn, Lewis C. (Lewis Carstairs), 1813-1892 ; Parrish, Isaac ; Jones, Benjamin Smith, 1812-1862 ; Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898
Title
[Letter from George L. Stearns to Lysander Spooner, Esq.]
Creator / Contributor
Stearns, Geo. L. (George Luther), 1809-1867 ; Spooner, Lysander, 1808-1887 ; Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876 ; Bird, F. W. (Francis William), 1809-1894 ; Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888 ; Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 ; Heyward, E. H. ; Stone, James M., d. 1880
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[Letter from J. M. M'Kim to S. H. Gay]
Creator / Contributor
M’Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874 ; Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888 ; Jackson, Francis, 1789-1861 ; Brown, Henry Box, b. 1816
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[Letter from John Henderson to Messrs. Gales and Seaton]
Creator / Contributor
Henderson, John, 1755-1841 ; Gales, Joseph, 1786-1860 ; Seaton, William Winston, 1785-1866 ; National intelligencer (Washington, D.C.) ; American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States
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[Letter from Jos. H. Bradley to T. T. Barnes]
Creator / Contributor
Bradley, Joseph H. ; Ulysses ; Jane ; Flavilla Ann ; Barnes, T. T. ; Settimiss, S. ; Orme, Mrs.
Title
[Letter from Theo. S. Fay]
Creator / Contributor
Fay, Theodore S. (Theodore Sedgwick), 1807-1898 ; Ruggles, Mr. ; Meyendorf, Georg von
Title
[Letter to Lysander Spooner, Esq.]
Creator / Contributor
Stearns, Geo. L. (George Luther), 1809-1867 ; Spooner, Lysander, 1808-1887 ; Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876 ; Bird, F. W. (Francis William), 1809-1894 ; Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888 ; Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 ; Heyward, E. H. ; Stone, James M., d. 1880
