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Jesse J. Jackson Slavery and Civil War documents collection
- Title
- Jesse J. Jackson Slavery and Civil War documents collection, 1974-1983.
- Author
- Jackson, Jesse
- Supplementary Content
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 896 box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- .2 lin. ft. (1/2 archives box)
- Summary
- Jesse J. Jackson Slavery and Civil War documents collection consists of approximately 90 individual documents relating to Southern slavery and the Civil War. The majority of the documents are manuscript bills of sale and deeds of gift for enslaved persons, issued in North Carolina, 1800-1858. Each document generally gives the enslaved person's name, sex, approximate age, and occasionally other information such as occupation, as well as prices and names of seller and buyer. Other interesting information is sometimes provided including mention that the enslaved person being sold is "at large," and an affidavit accusing a dealer of selling a man's runaway despite the fact that the owner had asked the dealer to hold the runaway until he could be retrieved.
- Other documents in the collection include two petitions to courts in Wilcox County, Alabama, asking permission to sell the enslaved persons belonging to estates, dated 1859 and 1862, and four documents issued in Fredericks County, Maryland, attesting to the freedom of the individuals.
- Subjects
- Slave trade > Southern States > History
- African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc > North Carolina > History
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans
- Alabama > Race relations > History > 19th century
- African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc > Maryland > History
- Slavery > Maryland > History > 19th century
- African Americans > Social conditions > 19th century
- Slavery > Alabama > History > 19th century
- Slavery > North Carolina > History > 19th century
- Petition, Right of > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources
- Slavery > Southern States > History
- Slaves > Emancipation > United States > History > 19th century
- Maryland > Race relations > History > 19th century
- African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc > Alabama > History
- African Americans > History > 1863-1877
- North Carolina > Race relations > History > 19th century
- Southern States > History > 19th century > African Americans
- Slave bills of sale > United States > History > 19th century
- African Americans > Southern States > History
- Note
- Books transferred to Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division.
- Source (note)
- Ann and Judith Ann Jackson
- Biography (note)
- Jesse J. Jackson (1908-1983), the collector of these documents acquired them over ten years while serving as a writer-in-residence at Appalachian State University. Jackson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University. He wrote 8 books for children, and often wrote for magazines, journals, and local newspapers.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 896
- OCLC
- 910330332
- Author
- Jackson, Jesse, collector.
- Title
- Jesse J. Jackson Slavery and Civil War documents collection, 1974-1983.
- Biography
- Jesse J. Jackson (1908-1983), the collector of these documents acquired them over ten years while serving as a writer-in-residence at Appalachian State University. Jackson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University. He wrote 8 books for children, and often wrote for magazines, journals, and local newspapers.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 896