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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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[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahee, South Carolina, and escaped slave named Gordon]
McPherson & Oliver
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African Americans; American; Army; Baton Rouge; Campaigns & Battles; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Combahee River; Fugitive Slaves; History; Louisiana; Military Personnel; Military Service; People; Periodical Illustrations; Punishment & Torture; Slaver; Soldiers; South Carolina; South Carolina Volunteers, 2nd (1863 1864); Union; United States; Wood Engravings; Wounds & Injuries
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Port Royal Island - 1. Camp Saxton (Smith's plantation) - the new headquarters of the 1st S.C. Vol. (Colored), Col. Higginson. 2. Mitchelville, the new south village for contrabands, Hilton Head
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African Americans; Armored Vessels; Army; Batteries (Weaponry); Charleston; Cities & Towns; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Confederate; Confederate States Of America; Facilities; Fugitive Slaves; History; Military Facilities; Military Service; Mitchellville; Mitchellville (S.C.); Naval Operations; Periodical Illustrations; Port Royal; Slaver; South Carolina; South Carolina Volunteers, 1st (1862 1864); Union; United States; War; Wood Engravings
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[Captain Beriah S. Brown of Co. H, 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, Captain John P. Shaw of 1st Rhode Island Infantry Regiment and Co. F, 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, and Lieutenant T. Fry with three African American boys at Camp Brightwood, Washington, D.C.]
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African Americans; Albumen Prints; Army; Brown, Beriah S.; Camp Brightwood (Washington, D.C.); Children; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Fugitive Slaves; History; Military Life; Military Personnel; Military Uniforms; People; Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861 1865); Shaw, John P.; Slaver; Soldiers; Stereographs; Union; United States; Washington (D.C.)
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Benjamin F. Butler
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Albumen Prints; American; Antislavery Movements; Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818 1893; Cartes De Visite; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Fugitive Slaves; Generals; Governors; History; Legal Status, Laws, Etc; Legislators; Massachusetts; Military Personnel; Portrait Photographs; Portraits; Slaver; Union; United States
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Facts & notes relating to the redemptioners and the early emigration of the poor to America, 3
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Domestics; Emigration And Immigration History 18th Century Sources; Emigration And Immigration History 19th Century Sources; Fugitive Slaves; Genealogy; History 18th Century Sources; History 19th Century Sources; History Colonial Period, Ca. 1600 1775 Sources; Indentured Servants; Redemptioners; Slaver; Slavery; United States; United States History 18th Century; United States History 19th Century
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Facts & notes relating to the redemptioners and the early emigration of the poor to America, 2
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Domestics; Emigration And Immigration History 18th Century Sources; Emigration And Immigration History 19th Century Sources; Fugitive Slaves; Genealogy; History 18th Century Sources; History 19th Century Sources; History Colonial Period, Ca. 1600 1775 Sources; Indentured Servants; Redemptioners; Slaver; Slavery; United States; United States History 18th Century; United States History 19th Century
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Facts & notes relating to the redemptioners and the early emigration of the poor to America, 8
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Domestics; Emigration And Immigration History 18th Century Sources; Emigration And Immigration History 19th Century Sources; Fugitive Slaves; Genealogy; History 18th Century Sources; History 19th Century Sources; History Colonial Period, Ca. 1600 1775 Sources; Indentured Servants; Redemptioners; Slaver; Slavery; United States; United States History 18th Century; United States History 19th Century
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Facts & notes relating to the redemptioners and the early emigration of the poor to America, 5
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Domestics; Emigration And Immigration History 18th Century Sources; Emigration And Immigration History 19th Century Sources; Fugitive Slaves; Genealogy; History 18th Century Sources; History 19th Century Sources; History Colonial Period, Ca. 1600 1775 Sources; Indentured Servants; Redemptioners; Slaver; Slavery; United States; United States History 18th Century; United States History 19th Century
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Facts & notes relating to the redemptioners and the early emigration of the poor to America, 7
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Domestics; Emigration And Immigration History 18th Century Sources; Emigration And Immigration History 19th Century Sources; Fugitive Slaves; Genealogy; History 18th Century Sources; History 19th Century Sources; History Colonial Period, Ca. 1600 1775 Sources; Indentured Servants; Redemptioners; Slaver; Slavery; United States; United States History 18th Century; United States History 19th Century
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Facts & notes relating to the redemptioners and the early emigration of the poor to America, 1
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Domestics; Emigration And Immigration History 18th Century Sources; Emigration And Immigration History 19th Century Sources; Fugitive Slaves; Genealogy; History 18th Century Sources; History 19th Century Sources; History Colonial Period, Ca. 1600 1775 Sources; Indentured Servants; Redemptioners; Slaver; Slavery; United States; United States History 18th Century; United States History 19th Century
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Facts & notes relating to the redemptioners and the early emigration of the poor to America, 4
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Domestics; Emigration And Immigration History 18th Century Sources; Emigration And Immigration History 19th Century Sources; Fugitive Slaves; Genealogy; History 18th Century Sources; History 19th Century Sources; History Colonial Period, Ca. 1600 1775 Sources; Indentured Servants; Redemptioners; Slaver; Slavery; United States; United States History 18th Century; United States History 19th Century
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Facts & notes relating to the redemptioners and the early emigration of the poor to America, 6
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Domestics; Emigration And Immigration History 18th Century Sources; Emigration And Immigration History 19th Century Sources; Fugitive Slaves; Genealogy; History 18th Century Sources; History 19th Century Sources; History Colonial Period, Ca. 1600 1775 Sources; Indentured Servants; Redemptioners; Slaver; Slavery; United States; United States History 18th Century; United States History 19th Century
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Letter From Colonel George Merrill, Pittsburgh, to Major Harrison Gleim, undated
Harrison Gleim
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Adams County; African Americans; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Fugitive Slaves; History; Illinois; Legal Status Of Slaves In Free States; Merrill's Horse; Merrill, Lewis (1834 1896); Military Correspondence; Missouri; Quincy; Slaver; Slavery; United States; United States. Army. Cavalry; United States. Army. Missouri Cavalry, 2nd
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Letter to] Dear friend Garrison [manuscript
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Abolitionists; African American Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery Movements; Child, Lydia Maria, 1802 1880; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879; Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884; Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799 1888; Slaver; Social Reformers; Thompson, John, 1812 1860; White, James C. (James Clarke), 1833 1916; Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807 1892
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Letter to] Dear Garrison [manuscript
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Abolitionists; American Anti Slavery Society; Antislavery Movements; Civil Disobedience; Foster, Abby Kelley, 1811 1887; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879; Holley, Sallie, 1818 1893; May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797 1871; Slaver; Social Reformers; United States; Vigilance Committees; Women; Women Abolitionists
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Letter to] Dear Garrison [manuscript
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Abolitionists; American Anti Slavery Society; Antislavery Movements; Civil Disobedience; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879; Jerry Rescue Convention (1853 : Syracuse, N.Y.); May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797 1871; Parker, Theodore, 1810 1860; Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884; Slaver; Social Reformers; Stone, Lucy, 1818 1893; Syracuse States School (N.Y.); United States; Vigilance Committees; Women; Women Abolitionists; Yerrinton, J. M. W. (James Manning Winchell), 1893
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Letter to] Dear Garrison [manuscript
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Abolitionists; African American Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery Movements; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879; Greeley, Horace, 1811 1872; Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831); M'kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810 1874; May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797 1871; New York Tribune (New York, N.Y. : 1841); Slaver; Social Reformers; Still, Peter, 1801 1868; Webster, Daniel, 1782 1852
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Letter to] Dear Garrison [manuscript
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Abolitionists; African American Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery Movements; Civil Disobedience; Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879; Loguen, Jermain Wesley; May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797 1871; Parker, Theodore, 1810 1860; Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884; Slaver; Smith, Gerrit, 1797 1874; Social Reformers; Vigilance Committees; Women; Women's Rights
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Letter to] Dear Knapp [manuscript
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Abolitionists; Antislavery Movements; Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800 1871; Fugitive Slaves; Gaines, Edmund Pendleton, 1777 1849; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879; Hornblower, Joseph C. (Joseph Coerten), 1777 1864; Jackson, Andrew, 1767 1845; Knapp, Isaac, 1804 1843; Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803 1858; Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799 1888; Slaver; Thompson, George, 1804 1878
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