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Lien On Crop, March 28, 1879

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Legal paperwork showing the terms for Dunbar, Clark & Co. advance of $45.00 to Henry Glover.

Property Tax Receipt, May 2, 1878

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for property taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by Henry Glover. Signed by Alfred Aldrich, County Treasurer.

Lien And Mortgage, April 22, 1876

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Paperwork showing the terms for Barrett & Caswell. advance of $65.00 to Henry Glover.

Property Tax Receipt, January 27, 1876

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for property taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by Henry Glover. Signed by Jno. C. Dowling for A.D.D., County Treasurer.

Ua96/3 Southern Normal School - Class Lists, Southern Normal School

WKU Archives Records

Class lists for Southern Normal School and early Bowling Green Business University 1876-1910. These lists are incomplete and are part of UA96 Southern Normal School Records. Check KenCat for extant corresponding class portraits.

Property Tax Receipt, October 15, 1875

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for property taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by Henry Glover. Signed by Alfred Aldrich, County Treasurer.

Property Tax Receipt, December 10, 1874

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for property taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by Henry Glover. Signed by Jno. C. Dowling, County Treasurer.

Property Tax Receipt, January 22, 1874

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for property taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by Henry Glover. Signed by Jno. C. Dowling, County Treasurer.

Property Tax Receipt, January 22, 1874

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for property taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by Abraham Dobson. Signed by Jno. C. Dowling, County Treasurer.

Property Tax Receipt, February 11, 1873

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for property taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by Henry Glover. Signed by Jno. C. Dowling, County Treasurer.

Tax Receipt, January 12, 1872

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by [Henry] Glover. Signed by [J.N. Teagan], County Treasurer.

Property Tax Receipt, February 29, 1871

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for property taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by Henry Glover. Signed by C. Ehrhardt, County Treasurer.

Carte-De-Visite Photograph: "2 Headed Girl, Millie Crissie," No Date., J. H. Fitzgibbon

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McKoy in full portrait. Date of photograph unknown (likely ca. 1870, subjects died 1912).

Leek Plantation Freedmen's Bureau Ledger, 1867

Leek Plantation Freedman's Bureau ledger, 1867

Bound ledger listing the names of freedmen working at Leek's Plantation in eastern Pulaski County, Arkansas, as well as the amount of provisions, clothing, medicines, ginning, and interest advanced to them.

Six Military And Patriotic Illustrated Songs. Elaborately Colored. In A Novel Form. Series No. 1., Charles Magnus, John F. Poole, W. J. Florence, George P. Holt, Daniel Decatur Emmett, Tony Pastor, Dan Bryant

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This publication contains the lyrics to six songs, each accompanied by a color illustration, and an advertisement on the last page.

1. Our Grandfathers' Days

2. The Captain with his Whiskers

3. Want — A Substitute

4. Dixie's Land

5. Young American and ould Ireland

6. Kingdom Coming

Manuscript Deed Of Emancipation, Dated April 20, 1864, By William D. Gaylor, Holt County, Missouri, Freeing Charity And Emana Jane., William D. Gaylor

Documents Related to Slavery

Know all men by these presents that
I William D Gaylor of the County of
Holt and State of Missouri for divers
good causes and considerations...
unto ..... do hereby emancipate and
set free my slave Charity aged 28 years
dark color Also my slave Emana Jane
aged... months of a yellow color and
I do hereby release and convey to the said
Charity and Emana Jane all my rights
bills and claims to their services hence
forth and forever Witness my hand
and seal this 30th day of April AD 1864
witnesses William D Gaylor seal

James Scott
John …

Receipt To C. Sareon For Loss Of His Slave, Hooker, To Employment In The Confederate Army, South Carolina. Columbia, February, 1864., South Carolina

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Instrument indicating Sareon received $1250 from S.C. for having Hooker, his slave, build military fortifications in the state.

Runaway Slave Broadside From Clay County, Missouri, Dated July 14, 1860., Gideon Thompson

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RANAWAY

FROM the residence of the undersigned, one mile north of Barry, Clay county, Mis- souri, on the night of the 13th inst., a mulatto negro girl named

VERCILLA,

aged about 17 years, weighs about 135 lbs., and has a scar on her left jaw. ..A liberal reward will be given for the delivery of said negro girl to me, or her confinement so that I can get her

GIDEON THOMPSON. Clay Co., Mo., July 14, 1860.

Sworn Oath To Not Provide Liquor To Slaves; Liquor License., B. H. Teague, Aiken, Barnwell District, South Carolina

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

John F. Cutter attests to not provide or sell liquor to any slaves. Aiken, Barnwell District, South Carolina, 1859.

Manuscript Document Regarding Hiring Out Of Slaves By Dr. Robert M. Miller [From An Estate In Charleston, S.C.]. Dates Range From 1857 To 1859., Robert M. Miller

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Dr Robert M Miller guardian of Wm L

1857 Hire negroes due 1 January 1858

Joshua to to Capt Macklin $125

George to R Miller $115

Minerva to " $27

Hetty to Sol Harris $21

Salley to Wm J Culp $22.50

Mary to Wm Watson $14

Hire for 1857 due 1 Jan 58 $324.50 $324.50

1857 January 1 balance or ???

? return 8 ? 1857 $550.54

Int for 1 January 1857 to 1 Jan 1858 $108.53

$659.07 $659.07

$1993.57

Hire negroes yr 1858 due Jan 1859

Joshua to Joseph Ooss $125

George to Alex M Ilwain $95

Hetty to …

Manuscript, Partly Printed Document Authorizing The Seizure Of 2 Slaves, 3 Horses, 80 Head Of Cattle, And Sixty Head Of Hogs, In Payment Of A Debt Owed By William Garborough And Hugh Rusk To William A. Austin, Jackson County, Florida, Dated January 22, 1858., William A. Austin

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State of Florida Know all men by these presents that Jackson County We William Garbrough and Hugh Rusk bound unto William A Austin by the sum of two hundred dollars and ... cents for the payment whereof well and truly to be made. we bind, ourselves. our heirs. executors and administrators. jointly and severally. firmly by these presents. signed and sealed this twenty second day of January A.D.1858 THE CONDITION OF .THE ABOVE OBLIGATION IS SUCH; that whereas James Griffin. Sheriff of Jackson County. by virtue of an execution in favor of the said William A. Austin against the said …

Instructions For The Court, 1856 June 8

Arkansas-Missouri slave case records, 1849-1859

Andrew Estes v. Willis A.J. Clinton, the said defendant has requested the court consider prepared instructions.

The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglass

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Frederick Douglass based this story on the real-life heroism of Madison Washington, who led the largest successful slave revolt in U.S. history in 1841. His story is told through the eyes and words of two white men. First, Mr. Listwell from Ohio sees Madison enslaved in Virginia, then a fugitive in Ohio, and finally a recaptured returnee bound from Richmond to the slave markets of New Orleans. Lastly, Tom Grant, the mate on the slave transport Creole, describes the ship’s takeover by its human cargo and its passage to the British Bahamas, where 128 men and women stepped out of …

Depositions Of Witnesses, 1851 January 16

Arkansas-Missouri slave case records, 1849-1859

Depositions of witnesses, William M. Dodson, Deverin Pully, James Winfrey, David Vaught, Thomas Morgan, and Lewis Brown, all residents in Camden County, Missouri, of the black family being taken from Mr. Andrew Estes. Testimony was sworn by Samuel Lain, J.P. and recorded by Thompson J. Kelly, Camden County clerk.

Writ Of Replevin, Andrew Estes V. Willis A.J. Clinton, 1850 August 30

Arkansas-Missouri slave case records, 1849-1859

Writ of Replevin filed by Andrew Estes, Plaintiff v. Willis A.J. Clinton, defendant, wherein Andrew Estes complained that Willis A.J. Clinton had wrongfully taken the following decribed Negro Slaves: Milley, Bob, Angline, Sam, Betty, Malissa, and Ned. According the this writ, Mr. Estes recovered his property on August 30, 1850.

An Address To The Slaves Of The United States Of America, Henry Highland Garnet

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Brethren and Fellow-Citizens :

Your brethren of the north, east, and west have been accustomed to meet together in National Conventions, to sympathize with each other, and to weep over your unhappy condition. In these meetings we have addressed all classes of the free, but we have never until this time, sent a word of consolation and advice to you. We have been contented in sitting still and mourning over your sorrows, earnestly hoping that before this day, your sacred liberties would have been restored. But, we have hoped in vain. Years have rolled on, and tens of thousands have …

The Past And The Present Condition, And The Destiny, Of The Colored Race, Henry Highland Garnet

Zea E-Books in American Studies

Henry Highland Garnet’s 1848 address to the Female Benevolent Society of Troy, New York, published that year, is an eloquent survey and reclaiming for the race of its share in the Western intellectual tradition. That the ancient Egyptians were Africans, that the Song of Solomon was addressed to an African woman, that the Ethiopians warriors were celebrated by Homer, that Moses’ wife was Ethiopian, that Hannibal, Terence, Euclid, Cyprian, Origen, and Augustine all were of African ancestry—these facts are adduced by Garnet to suggest both the heritage and the potential achievements of the Africans in America. Gar-net surveys the origin …

Manuscript Slave Deed, Dated St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, February 15, 1845, From Charles W. Harris To Dempsey K. Gorman., Charles W. Harris

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No 10 Charles W. Harris Sale of Slaves To D.K. Gorman

Filed 15th February A.D. 1845 Samuel Gorman Parish Judge Recorded

The State of Louisiana) Be it remembered Parish of St. Helena ) that on this fifteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty five before me Samuel Lion and Parish Judge and exoficio notary pub lie in and for said Parish appears Charles D. Harris of the State of Mississippi who did Declare and say that for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars paid to him by Dempray K. Gorman of …

Slave Trade Ledger Of William James Smith, 1844-1854, William James Smith

Local History

This ledger meticulously details the prices paid and received for scores of human beings (as slaves; only first names are recorded), as well as the expenses incurred by Smith in undertaking this business venture, such as feeding, clothing, sheltering, and nursing the people he purchased and sold. The details of the book illustrate that Smith took several "trips" between 1844 and 1854 to buy and sell slaves: detailed records of purchases and sales of "Negroes" exist for all of the years between 1844 and 1854. The listing of expenses for the year of 1844 (the most complete account) indicate that …

Liquor License, Barnwell District, South Carolina, August 21, 1841., Barnwell District, South Carolina

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

In which the licensee, William Robertson Jr., swears to not "sell give exchange barter" liquor to any slaves. Signed by C.A. Scott.