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Military Unit Histories, 8th Air Depot Group. United States Army., 695th Quartermaster Platoon. 8th Air Depot Group. United States Army., Quartermaster Detachment Company. 8th Air Depot Group. United States Army.

James Still World War II Collection

Brief military unit histories of the 8th Air Depot Group, 695th Quartermaster Platoon and Quartermaster Detachment Company of the United State Army from April of 1942 to January of 1943.

Bush Weekly For January Of 1943, 8th Air Depot Group. United States Army.

James Still World War II Collection

Issues of the Bush Weekly from the Army Air Base at Accra, Gold Coast, British West Africa (presently Ghana) for January of 1943.

Correspondence From January Of 1943, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in January of 1943.

Ashanti Figure Collection, James Still

James Still World War II Collection

Ashanti figures purchased by James Still during World War II while stationed in Ghana, Africa.

Photographs - Army Air Base, Accra, James Still

James Still World War II Collection

Photographs of the Army Air Base at Accra, Ghana during the Second World War.

Bush Weekly For December Of 1942, 8th Air Depot Group. United States Army.

James Still World War II Collection

Issues of the Bush Weekly from the Army Air Base at Accra, Gold Coast, British West Africa (presently Ghana) for December of 1942.

Correspondence For December Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in December of 1942.

Who Dat? Daily Bulletin For December Of 1942., 8th Air Depot Group. United States Army., Norman C. Mckenna

James Still World War II Collection

Issues of the Who Dat? Daily Bulletin from the Army Air Base at Accra, Gold Coast, British West Africa (presently Ghana) for December of 1942.

Correspondence For November Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in November of 1942.

Correspondence For October Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in October of 1942.

Correspondence For September Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in September of 1942.

Correspondence For August Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in August of 1942.

Correspondence From July Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in July of 1942.

Correspondence From June Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in June of 1942.

Correspondence From May Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in May of 1942.

Correspondence From April Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in April of 1942.

Duncan Field Flying Times For March Of 1942, San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, Texas, United States Army Air Corps.

James Still World War II Collection

Issue of The Duncan Field Flying Times published at the San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, Texas on March 20, 1942.

Correspondence From March Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in March of 1942.

Correspondence From February Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in February of 1942.

Correspondence From January Of 1942, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in January of 1942.

Correspondence From December Of 1941, Multiple Authors.

James Still World War II Collection

Correspondence written to James Still in December of 1941.

Military Orders, Etc. From 1940-1944, United States Army.

James Still World War II Collection

Military orders and miscellaneous documents issued to James Still by various United States military agencies from October 1941 to December of 1944.

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 24, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This particular show is a play written using letters owned by Lenora Lindley of Livermore, Kentucky written by a freed slave in Liberia to her former owner in Ohio County, Kentucky.

Fictional Advertisement, An Illustration From "Tom Clifton...." By Warren Lee Goss, 1892: "Gang Of 25 Sea Island Cotton And Rice Negroes", Warren Lee Goss

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This item was originally created and disseminated as an illustration in the novel Tom Clifton, or, Western boys in Grant and Sherman's army, '61-'65, by Warren Lee Goss, published in 1892. The advertisement appeared on an unnumbered page in chapter 7.

This is a fictional advertisement for a sale of 25 enslaved people in Charleston, S.C. at Ryan's Mart on Chalmers Street, September 25, 1852.

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

Documents Related to Slavery

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.

Walker’S Appeal, In Four Articles; Together With A Preamble, To The Coloured Citizens Of The World, … (Boston, 1830), David Walker, Paul Royster , Editor & Depositor

Zea E-Books in American Studies

Walker’s Appeal ... is a radical antislavery and antiracist manifesto by a free American of African ancestry. Its bold denunciation of European culture was unprecedented, unrestrained, and startling, viz.:

“The whites have always been an unjust, jealous, unmerciful, avaricious and blood-thirsty set of beings, always seeking after power and authority.”

Walker attacks the slave system and its rampant racism from the viewpoint of America’s allegiance to the idea of freedom; he quotes the Declaration of Independence at length, and strikes a recognizably jeremiad note:

“O Americans! Americans!! I call God—I call angels— I call men, to witness, that your destruction …

List Of Enslaved People, Including Their Ages, At Spring Garden Plantation, Florida, 1829., Spring Garden Plantation

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This item is a list of over 80 enslaved people of African descent at Spring Garden, a plantation in present-day DeLeon Springs State Park, Florida. The list notes the first names of enslave persons and their ages. Annotations indicate occupations and work assignments, family units, and if individuals were sent to Charleston or sold locally. The meaning of some annotations are unclear or at least not explicit, such as small circles next to females' names. Annotations indicate this list was used as reference more than once. One pair of twins is noted as are several infants. Reference to the names …

Deed Of Sale For Seven People (As Slaves) Sold By William O'Neale To John Henry Eaton, Washington, D.C., April 10, 1823., William O'Neale, John Henry Eaton

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This deed or receipt acknowledges the exchange of $800 for seven slaves: Betsy Baker, 55; Nelly, 36 and her son Jim, 12 and daughter Jane, 7; Henney, 40, and her son Washington, 5; and Polly Quander, 21.

Letter From Josiah Masters To John Reade About An Enslaved Man Named Dick Whom (Masters) Wishes To Sell. New York, 1796., Josiah Masters

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Masters writes to Reade that Dick "has been somewhat uneasy with me, the first cause [was] my separating his wench from him."

"The lowest price is one hundred pounds."

Addressed to Reade in Poughkeepsie, NY.