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Blackford, Launcelot Minor, 1894-1964. Mine eyes have seen the glory : the story of a Virginia lady Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, 1802-1896, who taught her family to hate slavery and to love the Union, 1954.

Title: Mine eyes have seen the glory : the story of a Virginia lady Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, 1802-1896, who taught her family to hate slavery and to love the Union, 1954.

Blackford recounts the life of his grandmother, author of the 1832 "Notes illustrative of the wrongs of slavery." He quotes extensively from Blackford family letters and journals. Included in the story are excerpts from the letters of Abram Blackford, a freed slave to emigrated to Liberia, letters from her husband William M. Minor on a diplomatic mission to Bogotá, and an account narrated by Betsy, a slave owned by Dr. John Staige Davis of the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Blackford, B. L. (Benjamin Lewis). B. L. Blackford letters, 1853-1868 [manuscript].

Title: B. L. Blackford letters, 1853-1868 [manuscript].

Family correspondence of B. Lewis Blackford, his mother, and his brothers, Charles Minor and Launcelot M. Blackford, including an 1853 letter from Charles Minor Blackford, a student at the University of Virginia, describing student life and including two diagrams of his room.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Blackford, B. L. (Benjamin Lewis). Map of country between N.E. Cape-Fear River and Topsail sound / made under the direction of Capt. Wm. H. James, Chf. Engineer, by B.L. Blackford, Top. Eng.rs.

Title: Map of country between N.E. Cape-Fear River and Topsail sound / made under the direction of Capt. Wm. H. James, Chf. Engineer, by B.L. Blackford, Top. Eng.rs. [1865]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map : col., ill. ; 69 x 98 cm.

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B. L. Blackford Letters, ., 1853-1868

Title: B. L. Blackford Letters, . 1853-1868

B. L. (Benjamin Lewis) Blackford worked for a time at an insurance company in Washington, D.C. The collection includes family correspondence of B. L. Blackford, his mother, and his brothers, Charles Minor and Launcelot Minor Blackford, including an 1853 letter from Charles Minor Blackford, a student at the University of Virginia, describing student life and including two diagrams of his room.

ArchivalResource: 5

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