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The Diary of Charles Drayton I, 1799-1805
Drayton I
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African Americans; Buildings; Charleston; Charleston County; Cotton Farmers; Diaries; Drayton Hall; Earthquake Effects; History; Horticulture; Lightning; Plantation Life; Plantations; Rice; Slaver; Slavery; Small Pox; Snake Bite; South Carolina; Southern States
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The old home ain't what it used to be : companion song to the "Old folks at home" / as sung by the original Georgia Minstrels ; by C. A. White
Composer Howard, Charley Performer Hicks, Charles B Dedicatee Georgia Minstrels
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African Americans; African Americans In Popular Culture; Cabins; Choruses, Secular (Mixed Voices, 4 Parts) With Piano; Clothing & Dress; Freedmen; Lithographs; Men; Minstrels; Plantation Life; Rivers; Singers; Songs And Music; Songs With Piano; Steamboats
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Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly / by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Leipsic, John DSI Baker & Smith John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.) Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington Boston Stereotype Foundry
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African Americans; Andrews, Joseph; Baker & Smith; Billings, Hammatt; Boston Stereotype Foundry; Howell, John; Jewett, Proctor, And Worthington; John P. Jewett And Company (Boston, Mass.); Leipsic, John; Plantation Life; Rand, George Curtis; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Wagstaff, Charles Edward
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Labor contracts between Nancy S. Kendrick and freedmen who will work on her property in Bullock and Macon County, Alabama.
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African Americans; Alabama; Bullock County (Ala.); Clark, Lina; Clark, Matthew; Clark, Sarah; Cunningham, Augustus; Cunningham, Charley; Cunningham, Lee; Cunningham, Levi; Cunningham, Mat; Cunningham, Sam; Freedmen; Holland, Jim; Kendrick, America; Kendrick, Nancy S; Kendrick, Thom; Kendrick, Turner; Macon County (Ala.); Plantation Life; Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877); Redd, Jordan; Sellars, Albert; Sharecroppers; West, Elbert; West, Jerry; West, Matilde; West, Peter; West, Willis
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Two letters to Bolling Hall, one from his oldest son, Bolling, and the other from his wife, Mary Louisa.
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African Americans; Alabama; Climate; Compromise Of 1850; Diseases; Government; Hall, Bolling, 1813 1897; Hall, Bolling, 1837 1866; Hall, Mary L. (Mary Louisa Crenshaw), Ca.1815 1858; Legislation; Livestock; Plantation Life; Politics And Government; Slaver; Slavery; Southern Convention (1850 : Nashville, Tenn.); United States
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Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Elizabeth Keckley
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African Americans; Biography; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Correspondence; Davis, Varina, 1826 1906; Freedmen; History; Keckley, Elizabeth, Ca. 1818 1907; Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818 1882; Personal Narratives; Plantation Life; Presidents' Spouses; Slaver; Slaves; Slaves' Writings, American; Social Conditions; Social Life And Customs; Southern States; Washington (D.C.)
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Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Elizabeth Keckley
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African Americans; Biography; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Correspondence; Davis, Varina, 1826 1906; Freedmen; History; Keckley, Elizabeth, Ca. 1818 1907; Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818 1882; Personal Narratives; Plantation Life; Presidents' Spouses; Slaver; Slaves; Slaves' Writings, American; Social Conditions; Social Life And Customs; Southern States; Washington (D.C.)
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Burwell family papers
Burwell, Lewis
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Alabama; Burwell Family; Burwell, Lewis; Burwell, Luke L; Burwell, Luke L., Correspondent; Distribution Of Decedents' Estates; Families; Family Relationships; Farm Management; Health And Hygiene; History; Plantation Life; Plantation Owners; Plantations; Presbyterian Church; Sick; Slaver; Slavery; Southern States; Tobacco Industry; United States
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Henry M. Crydenwise papers
Crydenwise, Henry M
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African American Troops; African Americans; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Crydenwise, Oliver; Florida; History; Mississippi; Otsego County (N.Y.); Plantation Life; Plantations; South Carolina; Southern States; United States; United States. Army; United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 90th (1861 1864)
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Labor contracts between James A. McMillan and freedmen who will work on his property.
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African Americans; Alabama; Bennett, Tonie; Freedmen; Harris, Relius; Heath, Algernon; Heath, Fannie; Heath, Nelson; Houseworth, Green; Mc Millan, Betsie; Mc Millan, Bettie; Mc Millan, Bob; Mc Millan, James A; Mc Millan, Silas; Mc Millan, Silvia; Plantation Life; Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877); Tisdale, Micajah; Wilcox County (Ala.); Young, Alfred
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Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-four Years a Slave; Sold Eight Times! In Jail Sixty Times!! Whipped Three Hundred Times!!! or The Dark Deeds of American Slavery Revealed. Containing Scriptural Views of the Origin of the Black and of the White Man. Also, a Simple and Easy Plan to Abolish Slavery in the United States. Together with an Account of the Services of Colored Men in the Revolutionary War--Day and Date, and Interesting Facts
William J. Anderson
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African American Clergy; African American Methodists; African Americans; African Methodist Episcopal Church; Anderson, William J., B. 1811; Biography; Clergy; Fugitive Slaves; History; Participation, African American; Plantation Life; Religion; Revolution, 1775 1783; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Slaves' Writings, American; Southern States; United States
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Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days, or, A story based on facts
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African American Author; African Americans; Biography; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Freedmen; History; Lowery, I. E. (Irving E.), 1850; Plantation Life; Race Relations; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Social Conditions; Social Life And Customs; South Carolina; Southern States; Sumter County; United States
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave.
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Abolitionists; African American Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery Movements; Authors' Presentation Copies (Provenance); Authors' Presentation Inscriptions (Provenance); Autobiographies; Biography; Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895; Engravings; Fugitive Slaves; History; Maryland; Plantation Life; Publishers' Cloth Bindings (Binding); Slave Narratives; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Social Conditions; United States
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Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
N. B. De Saussure
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Biography; Bostick Family; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Confederate States Of America; De Saussure, N. B. (Nancy Bostick), 1837 1915; Genealogy; History; Personal Narratives; Personal Narratives, Confederate; Plantation Life; Race Relations; Social Life And Customs; South Carolina; United States; Women
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The End of an Era
John S. Wise
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Campaigns; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Confederate States Of America; Government; History; Military Cadets; Military Life; New Market (Va.), Battle Of, 1864; Personal Narratives; Personal Narratives, Confederate; Plantation Life; Politics And Government; Richmond (Va.); Slaver; Slavery; Social Life And Customs; United States; Virginia; Virginia Military Institute; Wise, John S. (John Sergeant), 1846 1913
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The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States
James W. C. Pennington
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African American Blacksmiths; African American Presbyterians; African Americans; Biography; Clergy; Education; Fugitive Slaves; History; Maryland; Moral And Ethical Aspects; New York; Pennington, James W. C; Pennsylvania; Plantation Life; Presbyterian Church; Quakers; Slaver; Slavery; Slavery And The Church; Slaves; Slaves' Writings, American; Social Conditions; United States
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The life and times of Frederick Douglass, written by himself. : His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history fot the present time : including his connection with the anti-slavery movements; his labors in Great Britain as well as in his own country; his experience in the conduct of an influential newspaper; his connection with the underground railroad; his relation with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; his recruiting in the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiment ; his interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson ; his appointment by Gen. Grant to accompany the Santo Domingo Commission ; also to a seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; his appointment as United States Marshal by President R.B. Hayes; also his appointment to be recorder of deeds in Washington by President J.A. Garfield; with many other interesting and important events of his most eventful life
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Abolitionists; African American Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery Literature; Antislavery Movements; Autobiographies; Biography; Bookplates (Provenance); Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895; Engravings; Fugitive Slaves; History; Maryland; Pictorial Cloth Bindings (Binding); Plantation Life; Publishers' Cloth Bindings (Binding); Slave Narratives; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Social Conditions; United States
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The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson. Born the 22d Day of February, in the Year of Our Lord 1819, and Joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1839. This Book Shall Be Called The Young Men's Guide, Or, the Brother in White
Robert Anderson
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African American Clergy; African American Methodists; African Americans; African Methodist Episcopal Church; Anderson, Robert, B. 1819; Biography; Christian Life; Clergy; Conduct Of Life; Description And Travel; Finance; Free African Americans; Georgia; History; Methodist Episcopal Church; Plantation Life; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Slaves' Writings, American
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My ole gal done flew plantation song words by William H. Paine ; music by Charles A. Chase
Chase, Charles A. composer Paine, William H Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI Oliver Ditson Company
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African Americans; American; Americans; Balloonists; Balloons (Aircraft); Bella C. Landauer Collection Of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries); Cats; Chase, Charles A; Flight; Humorous Songs; Minstrel Music; Music; Oliver Ditson Company; Paine, William H; Plantation Life; Popular Music; Songs With Piano; Women
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Letter to "my dear sister," probably Elizabeth DuBose in Alabama, from her sister, Sarah Williams, in Society Hill, South Carolina.
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African Americans; Death; Du Bose, Elizabeth Boykin Witherspoon, 1812 1884; Imprisonment; Plantation Life; Rhoda, Slave In Darlington County, Ala., Of Elizabeth Boykin Witherspoon; Romeo, Slave In Darlington County, Ala., Of Elizabeth Boykin Witherspoon; Slaver; Slavery; South Carolina; Sylvia, Slave In Darlington County, Ala., Of Elizabeth Boykin Witherspoon; William, Slave In Darlington County, Ala., Of Elizabeth Boykin Witherspoon; Williams, Sarah Cantey Witherspoon, 1810 1907; Witherspoon, Elizabeth Boykin, 1787 1861
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