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• Title: Bill of indictment for theft against a slave belonging to Ritchard Potts, 1839
• Description: Bill of indictment against a slave, by the jurors of the State of Maryland, for receiving and secreting stolen goods from another slave.
• Subject:
• Subject: Slaves
• Text: ...ber Term 1839 The Jurors of the state of maryland for the body of Frederick County in United states [Presaid?] Henry Grace a slave for life the Property of Ritchard Potts Esq for receiving and secreting stolen Goods some time in or about the month of September last [?] the from Lawrence Por...

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• Title: Bill of indictment for theft against a slave belonging to Ritchard Potts, 1839
• Description: Bill of indictment against a slave, by the jurors of the State of Maryland, for receiving and secreting stolen goods from another slave.
• Subject:
• Subject: Slaves
• Text: ...ber Term 1839 The Jurors of the state of maryland for the body of Frederick County in United states [Presaid?] Henry Grace a slave for life the Property of Ritchard Potts Esq for receiving and secreting stolen Goods some time in or about the month of September last [?] the from Lawrence Por...

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• Description: Petition by the executors of the estate of Edmund Townsend directing the disposition of two female slaves who are the daughters of the deceased.
• Subject:
• Subject: Slaves
• Text: ... at public auction, the real estate and personal property belonging to the estate of said decedent, and whereas, amongst the slaves belonging to said estate, there are two female slaves, named Elizabeth M aged about fourteen years and Virginia aged about eleven years, whom the said...

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• Title: Inventory of land and slaves belonging to James Fullen, 1815
• Description: Inventory of land, property and slaves owned by James Fullen.
• Subject:
• Subject: Slaves
• Text:
• Text: ...List of Land lots of ground with their improvements Dwelling houses and Slaves owned by James Fullen on the first day of April 1815 lying and being with in the 1st district of the State of Virginia Viz in the County of Russell one farm on the Rich Mountain Containing one hundred and fifty a...

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• Title: Special mortgage on twenty two slaves by Francis Duplessis, 1839
• Description: Special mortgage taken by Francis (Francois) Duplessis (b. 1786 in New Orleans) on twenty two slaves. This mortgage, held by the Union Bank of Louisiana, replaces a previous mortgage on thirty one slaves.
• Subject:
• Subject: Slaves
• Text: ...Peggy aged twenty eight years and her child Polly aged four years and 22. Salomon a negro Boy aged about eighteen years, all slaves for life The said mortgage being for the purpose of replacing a certain number out of the thirty one slaves which are mortgaged in favor of the said U...

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• Title: Bill of sale for slave of Thomas Stone, February 4, 1836
• Subject:
• Subject: Slaves
• Text: ...s Cotton the sum of Eight hundred and fifty dollars for the purchase of a negroe girl named Mariah which I warrant sound and slave for life and likewise warrant the title against the claim of any person whomsoever, given under my hand and seal the day and date as above written Thos Stone Th...

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• Title: Bill of sale for slave of William B. Withers, January 18, 1858
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• Subject: Slaves
• Text: ...Boy I transfer to W B Withers and covnant and defend the same against any other person whatever and warrant the said negro a slave for life. Jany 18th 1858 Test Elam A. Sherrill John G Withers [Handwritten docketing] Bill of Sale for Dick ...

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• Title: Bill of sale for slave of Abraham Brower, September 17, 1805
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• Subject: Slaves

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• Title: Slaves of Success
• Description: Binding of Slaves of Success, by Elliott Flower, published by L.C. Page and Company, 1905.

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• Title: The Slave Ship
• Description: Binding of The Slave Ship, by Mary Johnston, published by Little, Brown, and Company, 1924.

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• Title: Ella: A Story of the White Slave Traffic
• Description: Binding of Ella: A Story of the White Slave Traffic, by John C. Wright, published privately by John C. Wright, 1911.

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• Title: Students view the "Mechanical Slave" at work
• Description: Students view the "Mechanical Slave" at work.

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• Title: Students view the "Mechanical Slave" at work
• Description: Students view the "Mechanical slave", mechanical arms that can handle radioactive material, at work.

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• Description: Roach on the steamboat S. S. Prentiss. Freight to be shipped down the Yazoo River includes slaves, tools, and general supplies.
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• Description: Appraisal of the personal estate of James Ricks filed in Probate Court in Calhoun County, Arkansas. Property listed includes 14 slaves, livestock, farm equipment, and tools.
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• Subject: Slaves
• Text: ... the Estate of James Ricks as heir or Legatee, and that we will according to the best of our abilities View and appraise the Slaves and other personal property to us produced Sworn & Subscribed before me this 17th day of January AD 1860 So help us God William Wood James Dickinson Jennis...

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• Description: Letter describing the recent debate over the reorganization of Kansas, the Fugitive Slave Law, and a vote on the unconstitutionality of the Compromise of 1850.
• Text: ...Aug: in which he charges that Mr. Wade & others with having voted for a fugitive slave law in Kansas & Nebraska. Mr. Wade owned it --- like a man & Giddings squirmed. This was in the 24th Sec: of McDunn’s bill for the reorganization of Kansas --- as quoted & acknowledged ...

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• Description: New York Times article about President Kurt Waldheim of Austria, and his possible involvement in the deportation of 488 Yugoslav civilians to slave labor camps in 1942.
• Text: ...lists in the his­ on Aug. 8, 1945, defined "ill-treat- tory of World War II had "looked at ment or deportation to slave labor the military practices, functions or any other purpose of civilian and responsibilities" of Waldheim population of or in occupied terri- and that &qu...

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• Description: C., d. 11 Nov. 1850 in Wilcox, Co., Alabama). Inventory of property includes 41 slaves, livestock, equipment, tools, furnishings, and other effects.
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• Title: Inventory of slaves on the Jeffries Plantation, ca. 1851
• Description: ...roperty possibly drawn up as part of the settlement of the estate related to the Jeffries Plantation. Inventory lists eighty slaves by first name arranged by families. Information regarding their ages, years of birth or death, and in some cases remarks as to their household status or health...
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• Subject: Slaves

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• Text: Slaves are slaves, but slaves are human. Slaves are people. Slaves have feelings. Slaves must not be used as a commodity, as so much chattel. As he brooded in the isolation of the desolate wilderness, I wonder if he churned inwardly.

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• Text: ...Duds which was to have been scn " \~hey can only turn. round and round :i.n riieanin5less drudeery•M ••they are slaves , When e11vy !) bitterness and jt;?alousy .sou:r;th1~1.r joys and darken the b:riehtness of their contentment--they are slaves to theriselves nncJ. sh...

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• Description: The letter concerns the management of the properties, sale of livestock, and the behavior of one of the slaves.
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• Subject: Slaves

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• Text: ...Once again, the institution of slavery was undercut by the Gospel because masters and slaves were alike called to respond to every human being as a human being. A slave in the early centuries was a thing, not a person, and masters were given counsel as well as the slaves, ...

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• Text: ...In those days Aunt Jemima didn’t look like the lady you see on the box today. She was a slave woman, and a demonstrator was expected to act and talk like a slave woman, using a kind of broken patois. Jemima’s do-rag was replaced by a plaid headband. Eventually the headdress was...