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The white slave by Bartley Campbell
Visual Materials
Image of a male plantation owner holding a cane and a sad looking white woman holding her bonnet with African American slaves harvesting cotton in the field behind them and a plantation house, slave cabins, river, and steamship in the background; the poster advertises the drama "The White Slave" by Bartley Campbell.
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mssHM 43974-44029
Manuscripts
Letters (including one volume of the captain's letterbook) and documents concern slaves and the slave trade, including the purchase and treatment of slaves; the equipment, crew, activities, and finances of a slave ship; precautions taken to disguise the true nature of the voyage. The record of the voyage extends from November, 1824 through October, 1825.
mssHM 43974-44029
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John T. B. McMaster ledger of the medical practice of John T. B. McMaster and John L. Hearn
Manuscripts
This bound-volume is a ledger kept by Dr. John T. B. McMaster and his partner Dr. Hearn regarding their medical visits to citizens of New Town, Worcester County, Maryland from 1850 to 1852. The doctors include name of patient (some of the time), reason for visiting, treatment, date of visit, and the fee paid to them for services. The doctors treated both whites and blacks (free blacks, fugitives and slaves). In their ledger, if the patient was black, they would write "Negro" after the patients' name (although it is expected that not every black is identified as such). The patients include a slave at Beverly, a large estate owned by John Upshur Dennis.
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Manumission of "a certain male slave named Frank,"
Manuscripts
The manumission of a 49-old man named Frank issued by his owner, Adrian Martens of Flatbush, King Co., N.Y., in accordance with An Act Concerning Slaves and Servants passed by the New York legislature on April 8, 1801, that provided that all slaves under 50 years, capable of providing for themselves, be freed by 1825. Countersigned by the Overseers for the Poor of the Township of Flatbush.
mssHM 69812
[Ship's Journal] No. 1 of Le Jeune Louis: [Logbook] from French Clandestine Slave Trade papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains the original French documents relating to an African slave trade expedition undertaken by the French ship Le Jeune Louis in 1824-1825. The trip extended from Nantes to the coast of Nigeria, from there to Havana and back to Flushing.There are 38 letters, 63 documents, and five volumes, one of which is the captain's letterbook. All of the papers pertain directly to the slave ships equipment, the crew, salaries, merchandise, accounts, passports, bills of health, and an insurance policy. The actual purchase of the slaves, their prices and negotiations with Negro Kings is discussed in one of the journals and other papers. There are records of suicides and deaths. Information regarding the precautions taken to veil the true nature of the expedition is included. The record of the voyage extends from November 1824 through October 4, 1825.
mssHM 43974-44029
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Two More Slaves; or, The Escape from Brixton. Burlesque parody, 1 act
Manuscripts
Application Nov. 30, 1822, Daniel Egerton, Olympic. Prod. (as The Two Gallows Slaves; or, Escaped from Brixton) Dec. 9. MS: title-page, dated by Larpent Nov. 30 and Dec. 2, states, Parody on the Two Galley Slaves; earlier title, The Two Gallow's Slaves or the Mill of Brixton, partially deleted.
LA 2322