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European-Indian Encounters | |
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Iroquois Indian origin story, no date | |
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Arikara Indian origin story | |
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Creation of the Yakama World, told in 1884-1885 | |
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The Journal of Christopher Columbus (October, 1492 | |
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Engravings of a French encounter with the Calusa Indians in Florida in the 1550s | |
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Print of Chief Athore and French explorer Laudonni�re in North Florida | |
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Journal extract by Jacques Cartier on meeting the Micmac Indians in 1534 | |
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Micmac chief 's observations of the French, reported | |
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Engraving by Samuel De Champlain, Deffaite des Yroquoi (Defeat of the Iroquois) | |
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Letter by Capt. John Smith to Queen Anne, 1617 | |
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Remarks by Chief Powhatan to John Smith, c.1609 | |
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Engraving of John Smith taking Chief Opechancanough (King of Pamaunke;) prisoner in 1608 | |
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Letter by William Penn to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders | |
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Painting of William Penn's Treaty with the Lenape Indians | |
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Diversity in Colonial America | |
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List of necessarie in migrating to Virginia, General Historie | |
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Diagram of a slave ship, filled for the middle passage | |
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A Mapp of Virginia discovered to ye Hills 1651 | |
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Description of New York by Father | |
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Private journal by Madam Knight on a journey from Boston to New-York, 1704 | |
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Description of Pennsylvania by William Penn, 1681 | |
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Legal statement by Pedro Hidalgo, soldier, Santa Fe, August 10, 1680 | |
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Testimony by Pedro Naranjo, Pueblo Indian, to Spanish authorities, 1681 | |
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Modern painting (1976) by Fred Kabotie, of the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 | |
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Mission of San Estevan at Acoma | |
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Conversion narrative of Robert Browne | |
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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 1682 | |
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Jonathan Edwards, selection from his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 1741 | |
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Benjamin Franklin on religion, 1771 | |
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Church record of a marriage conflflict, Brooklyn, 1663 | |
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Trial of Elizabeth Clawson, Stamford, Connecticut, 1692 | |
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The laws of Virginia on interracial marriage and offspring, 1662 and 1691 | |
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Trial testimony, Accomack, Virginia, 1679 | |
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The Rhythms of Early Family Life | |
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Map of Boston, 1770 | |
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Portrait of Paul Revere, 1773 | |
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Portrait of Paul Revere, 1815 | |
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Portrait of Rachel Revere, 1815 | |
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Revere family genealogical chart, prepared by Leslie Lindenauer for the Paul Revere House | |
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Poem by Paul Revere for Rachel Walker, 1773 | |
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Two poems by Anne Bradstreet | |
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Newspaper article about the expenses of a married life, aryland Gazette, July 4, 1754 | |
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Legal indenture papers of Isaiah Thomas, June 25, 1756 | |
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Letter from Maria Revere to her mother, May 25, 1801 | |
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Receipt for John Revere's medical school expenses, May 2, 1812 | |
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Legal inventory of Benjamin Curtis's household, March 19, 1773 | |
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A child's chair belonging to the Revere family, undated | |
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A sewing desk, supposedly belonging to Rachel Revere, undated | |
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A cradle made from a molasses keg, belonging to the Revere family, undated | |
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A sampler made by Maria Revere Curtis, January 25, 1819 | |
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Pen and ink drawing of the Revere property, undated, attributed to Paul Revere | |
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Causes of the American Revolution? | |
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Political cartoon on the Stamp Act, The Repeal. or the Funeral Procession of Miss Americ-Stamp London, 1766 | |
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Broadside on the Boston Massacre, A Monumental Inscription on the Fifth of March 1772 | |
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Broadside on theGaspeeincident, A Proclamation by the Honorable Joseph Wanton, 1772 | |
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Broadside on the Boston Tea Party, Tea Destroyed by Indians Boston, 1773 | |
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Political cartoon, The Bostonians Paying the Exciseman, or Tarring and Feathering Lithograph by Pendleton, 1830 | |
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Political cartoon, A New Method of Macarony Making as Practised at Boston in North America London, 1774 | |
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Letter by Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, April 2, 1774 | |
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Political cartoon of The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught May 1, 1774 | |
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Engravings by Amos Doolittle, The Battle of Lexingto and A View of the South Part of Lexington published December 13, 1775 | |
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Broadside, an American account of the battle of Lexington and Concord, Bloody Butchery by the British Troops Salem, Massachusetts, 1775 | |
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Broadside, a British account of the battle of Lexington and Concord, A Circumstantial Account of an Attack that happened on the 19th of April, 1775, on His Majesty's Troops Boston, 1775 | |
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Legal deposition, Paul Revere's Deposition c. 1775 | |
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Proclamation of Go | |
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Thomas Gage, June 12, 1775 | |
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The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 | |
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Experiencing and Extending the American Revolutio | |
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Letter from William Sands to his parents, July 20, 1776 | |
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Letter from William Sands to his parents, August 14, 1776 | |
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Letter from a Revolutionary War soldier 1822 | |
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Letter from General Nathanael Greene to Samuel Huntington, President of the Continental Congress, March 16, 1781 | |
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British broadside, By Authority March 26, 1781 | |
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Letter from Nathanael Greene to Catharine Greene, July 17, 1778 | |
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Letter from Nathanael Greene to Catharine Greene, October 15/16, 1780 | |
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Slave petition to the House of Representatives in Massachusetts Bay, January 13, 1777 | |
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Slave petition to the General Assembly in Connecticut, May 1779 | |
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Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31-April 5, 1776 | |
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Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, May 7, 1776 | |
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Letter from Sarah Bache to her father, Benjamin Franklin, September 9, 1780 | |
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Broadside, The Sentiments of an American Woma Philadelphia, 1780 | |
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Woodcut, Daughter of Liberty broadside, 1779 | |
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Engraving, A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina by Philip Dawe, London, 1775 | |
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Creating a New Nation | |
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The Federalist No. 51, by James Madison, February 8, 1788 | |
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Letter to the Providence Gazette and Country Journal about the proposed constitution, October 18, 1788 | |
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Letter from John Adams to Mr. Brown and Mr. Francis, February 28, 1790 | |
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Copy of a letter describing the celebration at Rutland, Vermont, March 8, 1791 | |
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Engraving of John Adams, by Amos Doolittle, 1799 | |
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Glass painting commemorating Washington's death | |
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Song on the death of Washington, 1810-1814 | |
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Noah Webster's textbook lessons on Reading and speaking, inAn American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking, Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth(Newport: Peter Eddes, 1789 | |
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" L' Amerique', or Columbia as Indian Maiden France, 1810 | |
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Needlework of Miss Liberty undated, artist unknown | |
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Letter from Dolley Payne Madison to Lucy Payne Todd, August 23, 1814 | |
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Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address, March 4, 1801 | |
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Expansion and Cultural Encounters in the West | |
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President Jefferson's confidential message to Congress, January 18, 1803 | |
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Map of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1806 | |
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Map of Indian country, 1835 | |
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Lewis and Clark meet the Shoshone at the Continental Divide, August 17, 1805 | |
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Photograph of John Work, undated, photographer unknown | |
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Photograph of Mrs. John Work with Suzette and David Work, undated, photographer unknown | |
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Le Borgne, a Crow chief, talks about white traders, 1805 | |
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A Mexican official's view of Anglo migrants into Texas [Mexico], 1828 | |
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A Mexican official's view of the battle of the Alamo, 1836 | |
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George Catlin painting of an Assiniboine chief, 1832 | |
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Pastel drawing of clothing and animals, 1846-1847, Indian artist unknown | |
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Letter from Marcus Whitman to Re V. David Greene, ABCFM missionary board, May 18, 1844 | |
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Letter from Mariah and Stephen King to their family, April 1, 1846 | |
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John Gast, merican Progress, 1872, chromolithograph by George Croffut, 1873 | |
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Changing American Socio-Economic Life, 1800-1860 | |
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A page from the newspaper Western Spy, December 28, 1811 | |
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Publisher's Preface to the Cincinnati Directory | |
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Map of Cincinnati, 1842 | |
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Extract from the Cincinnati Directory, 1831 | |
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Extract from the Cincinnati Directory, 1840 | |
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Pictures of women and work in the metropolis, April 18, 1868 | |
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Commentary on sewing machines1859 | |
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Magazine article, Female Workers of Lowell 1836 | |
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Magazine article, A Week in the Mill Lowell Offering,1845 | |
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Advertisement for Seth Low and Co., 1841 | |
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New York city ordinance on trash, 1839 | |
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Magazine article, Woman-At Home in The Lady's Book, vol. 2 (1831), p. 97 | |
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Letter from Guy C. Ward to Joseph Boyd, October 14, 1857 | |
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Changing Views of Slavery: The Case of Enslaved Women | |
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Print depicting the slave trade, frontispiece, Abb� Raynal, istoire philosophique et politique: Des �tablissemens and du commerce des Europ�ens dans les deux Indes(1774) | |
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Photographs of slaves plowing rice and slaves picking cotton | |
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Photograph of slaves on James Hopkinson's plantation, in John Blassingame | |
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Advertisement for a slave sale, Charleston, South Carolina,1768 | |
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Announcement of a slave sale, Charleston, South Carolina,1860 | |
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Advertisements offering slaves for hire, from Paris Western Citizen, December 17, 1852 | |
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Overseer's report from Chicora Wood Plantation, July 18-24, 1858 | |
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Letter by overseer W. Sweet to Adele Petigru Allston, September 14, 1864 | |
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Painting, lave Market, artist unknown, about 1860 | |
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Two poems, The Slave Mothe and The Slave Auction by Frances E. W. Harper, 1854 | |
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Slave narrative, The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave related by herself, London, 1831 | |
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Slave Narrative, The Story of Mattie J. Jackson A True Story Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1866 | |
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Oral Testimony by an ex-slave, Ophelia Settle Egypt Archive Ten: Perfecting America | |
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From Charles Finney's lecture to converts | |
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Organizational records of the Dorcas Society of Cincinnati, 1816-1824 | |
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Painting showing a happy and abstemious family, around 1830 | |
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Painting showing the woes of liquor, around 1830 | |
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Temperance warnings on the effects of drunkenness, in Charles Jewett, he Youth's Temperance Lecturer of 1841 | |
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Engraving, Keep Within the Compass c. 1785-1805, artist unknown | |
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Newspaper account of seduction and death, incinnati Daily Commercial, March 12, 1850 | |
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Organizational records of the Anti-Slavery Society of Leicester, Massachusetts | |
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Membership certificate for the Lynn Female Anti-Slavery Society, September 20, 1836 | |
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Antislavery petition to the House of Representatives, September 18-19, 1837 | |
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Antislavery Petition, Blank Form, c. 1835 | |
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How to Agitate the Public Mind, 1841.The New England Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1841 | |
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Newspaper excerpts from the report of the Society's visiting committee, dvocate of Moral Reform and Family Guardian, January 1, 1838 | |
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Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, 1848, prepared by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Archive Eleven: The Purposes and Meaning of the Civil War | |
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Confederate Constitution, March 11, 1861 | |
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Letter by Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 | |
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Letter from Guy C. Ward to Joseph B. Boyd, August 11, 1862 | |
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Letter from Charles Miller to Joseph B. Boyd, November 2, 1862 | |
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Letter from H. Ford Douglas to Frederick Douglass's Monthly, January 8, 1863 | |
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Slave narrative, The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: A True Story Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1866 | |
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Slave narrative of Annie L. Burton, Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days Boston, 1909 | |
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Letter from J. R. Underwood to Wm. H. Seward, October 24, 1863 | |
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Letter from Elizabeth Underwood to Thomas C. Cox, November 3, 1863 | |
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Sheet music for the song The Vacant Chair 1864 | |
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Sheet music for the song How Are You Conscript date unknown | |
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Engraving, Burial of Latane | |
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Painting, Prisoners from the Front, 1866, by Winslow Homer | |
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Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, First Draft, November 19, 1863 | |
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Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 | |
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Reconstruction: Clashing Dreams and Realities, 1865-1868 | |
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Painting, he Armed Slave, William Spang, about 1865 | |
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Confederate song, I'm a Good Old Rebel by R. B. Buckley, 1866 | |
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Legal form for the restoration of confiscated property held by the Freedmen's Bureau, South Carolina Freedmen's Bureau records | |
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Black Codes [Laws] of Mississippi, 1865 | |
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Legal contract between Alonzo T. Mial and 27 freed laborers, 1866 | |
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Affidavit of ex-slave Enoch Braston, enclosed in letter from Chaplain L. S. Livermore to Lt. Col. R. S. Donaldson, January 10, 1866 | |
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Freedmen's School, 1866, appearing inFrank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 22, 1866 | |
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Broadside, The Freedman's Bureau, 1866 | |
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Letter from James A. Payne to stepdaughter Katherine F. Sterrett, September 1, 1867 | |
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Letter from a Mississippi black soldier, Calvin Holly, to Major General O. O. Howard, December 16, 1865 | |
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Letter from ex-slave Hawkins Wilson to Jane Wilson, May 11, 1867 | |
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Cartoon, This Is a White Man's Government by Thomas Nast, arper's Weekly, vol. 12, September 5, 1868 | |