Miscellaneous slavery collection, 1700-1885.

ArchivalResource

Miscellaneous slavery collection, 1700-1885.

Consists of an open collection of correspondence and documents related to slavery in America, Africa, and the Carribean area in the 17th through 19th centuries.

.40 linear ft. (1 archival box)

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7245557

Princeton University Library

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Daniel and Henry (Ship)

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Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806

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