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CIVIL WAR, POST WAR, SLAVE DOCUMENTS, EPHEMERA: In one binder, including a few war-dated letters, an estate document detailing property including 3 slaves, a several page handwritten document detailing birth and death dates of 50+ named individuals

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1855 1st ed US Documents Constitution Declaration SIGNERS Slave Bills Slavery: 1855 1st ed US Documents Constitution Declaration SIGNERS Slave Bills Slavery Echoes from the Cabinet is a collection of important American documents including the Constitution, The Declaration of Ind

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1857 US Documents Constitution Declaration SIGNERS: 1857 US Documents Constitution Declaration SIGNERS Slave Bills Slavery â€˜Echoes from the Cabinetâ€™ is a collection of important American documents including the Constitution, The Declaratio

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1855 US Documents Constitution Declaration SIGNERS Fugitive Slave Bills Slavery: 1855 US Documents Constitution Declaration SIGNERS Fugitive Slave Bills Slavery Echoes from the Cabinet is a collection of important American documents including the Constitution, The Declaration of I

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1860 US Documents Constitution Declaration SIGNERS: 1860 US Documents Constitution Declaration SIGNERS Slave Bills Slavery Missouri Echoes from the Cabinet is a collection of important American documents including the Constitution, The Declaration of I

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1857 1ed US Documents Declaration Constitution Slave: 1857 1ed US Documents Declaration Constitution Slave Bills Echoes of the Cabinet ‘Echoes from the Cabinet’ is a collection of important American documents including the Constitution, The Declarati

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Manuscript document on early court case of slave law: Heading: (African-American, 1824) Author: Grundy, Felix and James Rucks Title: Original manuscript statement of legal argument on the issue of Negro slave identity Place Published: Nashville, Tennesse

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1828 Mason Co. Ky. MS Slave Document: Single page unlined partial letter sheet (8 x 5”) with inked manuscript reading: Miss Elizabeth Graves and John Graves & Charles Graves Sir you are to pay forty Dollars of my part to Cathirine (

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Virginia/Kentucky 1830 Slave Document: Single page unlined partial letter sheet (8 ½ x 6 ½”) with inked manuscript reading in part: Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Bales of feduruk (sic) County and state of

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Slave Document- Formal Request to Judge regarding slave: This is a formal request to Judge William Hallam Tuck, written by Eleanor B. M. Hilleary, regarding her slave named George, as she is making sure she has enough clothing available for her servants [sl

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Manuscript Ledger Books and Documents: Collection of American manuscript ledger books and documents including; 1.) Ledger book measuring 12" x 8" from Newbury, Vermont. Book exhibits numerous entries from the late 18th/early 19th century t

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The Calumet Electric Street Railway Company Ephemera Assortment: The Calumet Electric Street Railway Company Ephemera Assortment Approximately (12) pounds of 1890 to 1901 documents including a signed photograph of George M. Pullman, receipts, contracts and blueprin

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Lot of Mason County Ky. MS Documents: Circa 120+ documents dating from the 1820s to the 1890s, with most being pre-civil war. Most are legal documents including circa 21 partially printed Commonwealth of Kentucky Sheriffs orders for Mason

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Schryver Family Bible & Ephemera: Lot consisting of documents, including deeds, indentures, military orders, etc., addressed to members of the Schryver family directly; Schryver family genealogy chart; a pair of mittens having belonge

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Lot of Various Paper Items: A lot of various documents including a fragmentary letter book from the Hickok company (Harrisburg) from 1862, A Massachusetts Bay Colony deed from the late 17th century, an 1842 manuscript document r

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Five (5) Slavery Related Documents. 1st-3rd items: Three (3) Receipts believed to refer to slave trading in Lincoln Co., Tennessee with the buyer in all three cases listed as John J. or J.J. Whitaker. 1st receipt records the sale of a "negro man named Jim aged about 30 years" to Whitaker by William D. Thompson for $550 on Feb. 20, 1834. 2nd receipt records the sale of "a negro boy named Jim aged about twenty years... sound in body and mind" to Whitaker by Isham Burnett for $500 on August 18, 1834. 3rd receipt records the sale of "two negro boys to (witt) Hut about nine and Joshua about seven yrs old... sound and healthy and in no way defective" for $450 on December 6, 1830. Note: John J. Whitaker is likely John Jernigan "Pegleg" Whitaker (1760-1837), Revolutionary War veteran, pioneer of Lincoln County and co-founder of the county seat of Fayetteville, TN. Whitaker's plantation home known as Pleasant Garden still stands today. 4th item: 1837 ledger entry mentioning "three negroes," dated 1837. 5th item: Slave receipt with partially illegible writing, recording the estate transfer of "a certain negro girl named Martha bequeathed to Milton L. Ford", signed M.R. Foster, guardian, to___Fluker(?) and A.M. Creagh, Jan. 7th, 1854, location unknown. Largest receipt is 7 1/2" H x 6 1/2" W. Provenance: Private Tennessee collection, ex-George Webb, Tennessee Books and Autographs.