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New-York Manumission Society records, 1785-1849
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was dissolved in 1849, provided legal and financial assistance to individual slaves seeking manumission and supported efforts to enforce laws banning the sale of slaves in New York State. Meeting minutes, commission reports, financial records, indentures, registers, and miscellaneous records of the New-York Manumission Society, dating from the year of the Societys organization in 1785 to that of its dissolution in 1849. Minutes of the Societys quarterly meetings, standing committee, and ways amd means committee concern such topics as political activities of the Society, Society finances, efforts to enact legal reforms aimed at abolishing the slave trade in New York and preventing the exportation of slaves, reports on individual cases of slaves in need of assistance in negotiating their freedom, the protection of manumitted slaves, reports and decisions concerning the Societys sponsorship and operation of the African Free School and houses of refuge for the benefit of New Yorks African American population, appointments, elections, etc. Records also include an account book, 1819-1849, kept by the treasurer of the Society; a register of manumissions of slaves in New York City, 1816 Jun. 18-1818 May 28; indentures, 1809-1829, drawn up for slaves granted the status of indentured servants with the assistance of the Society; and miscellaneous minutes and reports, including papers pertaining to the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Some of the Societys active members were: Robert C. Cornell, W. W. Woolsey, Nehemiah Allen, Melancton Smith, William T. Slocum, Samuel Bowne, Adrian Hegeman, Willet Seaman, Thomas Burling, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Duane, John Murray, Jr., William Dunlap, Alexander McDougall, Noah Webster, Egbert Benson, and many others.
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Banneker's Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina almanack and ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1796; being bissextile, or leap-year; the twentieth year of American independence, and eighth year of the federal government
In: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.69015000003018
"The Anatomy of Man's Body" on page [3] is the only illustration. ; Title within double rule. ; Signatures: [A]⁶ B-C⁶. ; Minick, A.R. History of printing in Maryland, 1791-1800, ; Evans, C. American bibliography, ; Drake, M. Almanacs of the United States, ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Contemporary printed limp paper cover/title page; three gatherings; stab-sewn; untrimmed edges. Housed in half brown leather slipcase with brown cloth sides, spine titled in gold. ; Clements Library copy imperfect: pages [5]-[6] torn, not affecting text. ; ACQ: 6451; Heartman; 1/14/1948.
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Gleanings in Africa : exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope and surrounding country. With a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the colonists: soil, climate, natural productions . Interspersed ...
The original document was digitized with financial support from Media24. ; From the editor's preface: . series of letters from a gentleman who resided a considerable time at the Cape of Good Hope .
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An epitome of history; or, A concise view of the most important revolutions, and events, : which are recorded in the histories of the principal empires, kingdoms, states, and republics, now subsisting in the world: also their forms of government : Accompanied with short accounts of the different rel...
In: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082394614
Advt. on last page is for Epitome of history, v. II, containing Asiatic, African, and American histories. ; 8vo: pi¹ a² B-Z⁸ Aa⁸ Bb³. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Pforzheimer copy: In Hodgson's 6/3/55, lot 554, (Capt. G.M.G. Wilshere library). ; Binding (Pforzheimer copy): Original blue-gray boards, tan paper back-strip, worn; title hand inked; in blue cloth drop-back box, gilt titling.
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Letter from Josiah Masters to John Reade about a slave man named Dick he (Masters) wishes to sell. New York, 1796
Masters writes to Reade that Dick "has been somewhat uneasy with me, the first cause [was] my separating his wench from him. "The lowest price is one hundred pounds." Addressed to Reade in Poughkeepsie, NY. ; https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1326/thumbnail.jpg
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Deed of sale for Seven People (as slaves) sold by William O'Neale to John Henry Eaton, Washington, D.C., April 10, 1823
This deed or receipt acknowledges the exchange of $800 for seven slaves: Betsy Baker, 55; Nelly, 36 and her son Jim, 12 and daughter Jane, 7; Henney, 40, and her son Washington, 5; and Polly Quander, 21. ; https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1289/thumbnail.jpg
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