Heslip-Ruffin Family papers

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Heslip-Ruffin Family papers

1822-1946

http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=52

Antebellum free black family. Including correspondence-biographical data, accounts and receipts, legal documents such as the marriage license of Judge Ruffin and Josephine St. Pierre, programs, clippings, photographs and monographs. Monographs include Caroline Bond Day, A Study of Some Negro-White Families, Frederick Douglass, Life and Times, Butler's Book, Representative Women of New England, and a Bible with the family record of births and deaths. Notable among the letters are those from Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, George W. Williams and the letters of Nancy Lewis Ruffin to her husband after she and the couple's children had gone to Massachusetts in order that their children might secure a good education.

1.2 ln. ft. and 1 OS Box. 87 items, and 5 v.

Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6965415

Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

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Day, Caroline Bond, 1889-1948

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