Historical Documents

CHARLES SUMNER (1811-74) U.S. Senator & abolitionist; nearly beaten to death on floor of U.S. Senate after delivering anti-slavery speech. Signe...

CHARLES SUMNER Civil War date LS, 1p, Mar 3, 1865, 8vo, Senate Chamber, to T John Stone, interesting content re freedom. In part, "...The subje...

CHARLES SUMNER (1811-74) LS, 1p, Mar 20 (ny), 8vo, U.S. Senate chamber, to E D Bradford, informing him that no copy of "Lauman's Dictionary...

WENDELL PHILLIPS (1811-84) American orator & abolitionist. AQS, on a card, "You cannot dream yourself into a character, You must however fo...

DANIEL S DICKINSON (1800-66) American politician; prominent conservative Democrat, serving as U.S. Senator from New York (1844-51). Wardate ALS, &qu...

(Slave Bill of Sale) DS, 1p, Mar 10, 1807, oblong 8vo, Kentucky, slave bill of sale. In part, "I Joseph Carrico of Shelby county Kentucky as fo...

(Slave Bill of Sale) DS, 2 1/2pp, Nov 13, 1851, oblong folio, Columbia County, Florida, slave bill of sale. In part, "...Know all men...that I ...

(Slave Bill of Sale) DS, signed by the sheriff, 1p, June 13, 1842, oblong 8vo, interesting content re the forced sale of a slave. In part, "Rec...

(Slave Auction) ADS, from the sheriff, 1p, Nov 24, 1823, oblong 8vo, Brunswick County, notice of a slave auction. Reads, "Notice, By Virtue of ...

(Slave Auction) DS, signed by Alonzo Lancaster, 1p, Feb 19, 1853, 4to, Jackson, Miss, re an auction of slaves. In part, "Know all men...that I ...

(Slave Auction) DS, signed by Sheriff Louis L Morgan, 2 1/2pp, Mar 30, 1857, Parish of St Tammany, Louisiana, re an auction of a slave. In part, &qu...

(Slavery) Partly printed DS, 1p, Mar 19, 1859, legal folio, Shelby County, Tennessee, re the sale of slaves. In part, "...J H McNeil...held and...

(Slavery) ADS, by A Robinson, Justice of the Peace for Stokes County, 2 1/2pp, Aug 4, 1802, legal folio, interesting content re arresting and interrog

(Confederacy) Wardate LS, 1 1/2pp, nd, 4to, Edgefield District, South Carolina, addressed to the Confederate Sec of War, a petition requesting that Wi

(Americana) DS, 2+pp, April 16, 1850, folio, Paris, Tennessee. A divorce petition, in which Thomas Jones requests the Honorable William Fitzgerald, Ju

(Plantation) DS, "An Inventory and appraisement of the personal Estate and Slaves of Samuel W Warren deceased...", 9pp, Oct 5, 1839, 8vo, ...

(Black History) Cabinet card, illustration of the shooting of black scavengers who are picking over the dead bodies of several white people, with a so

(Cuban Slavery) Collection of 4 ALsS, 1 Autograph Manuscrpit (unsigned), and 1 Manuscript Map relating to a slave uprising in Matanzas, Cuba, 8pp, 182

WINFIELD SCOTT (1786-1866) Future Union Lieutenant General, known as "Old Fuss and Feathers." ALS, "W Scott", as Lt Colonel comm...

WINFIELD SCOTT ALS, "W Scott", as Adjutant General, 1p, April 24, 1813, legal folio, Rome (New York), to Major General Henry Dearborn (175...