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The Slavery and abolition collections
Title
The Slavery and abolition collections [electronic resource], 1700-1886.
Published
1700-1886.
Physical Description
1 online resource (88 manuscripts, 37 items.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.
Notes
Reproduction of the originals from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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Summary
This collection includes miscellaneous documents from 1700 to the late 19th century, including slave deeds, passes, certificates of registry, manumission papers, wills, appraisals of slaves, and speeches relating to slavery and its abolition, primarily in the Anglo-American colonies and the United States, as well as a few letters concerning the Amistad mutiny. It also contains correspondence by and about abolition leaders such as William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, and William Lloyd Garrison. The bulk range of the collection is 1765-1886.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 04, 2011
Series
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive
Contents
Slavery
Abolition.
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