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Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: General Orders, No. 323, War Department, each cook to have two under-cooks of African descent, 1863
Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [New York], to Anne Greene Chapman Dicey, Friday, June 12th, 1863

Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [New York], to Anne Greene Chapman D...

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Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders, No. 11, handwritten, Headquarters, Camp Ullman, recruiting African Americans on plantations; anyone interfering will be reported to Headquarters, May 1863
Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

Letter from Maria Weston Chapman to Anne Greene Chapman Dicey, Oct. 6th, [1863?]

Letter from Maria Weston Chapman to Anne Greene Chapman Dicey, Oct. 6t...

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Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Dec[ember] 3d 1863

Letter from John Jay, New York, [N.Y.], to James Miller M'Kim and the ...

John Jay writes to the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society with his regrets that he will be unable to attend the 30th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. Jay offers a lengthy analysis ... More

Letter from Augustus Hesse, Camp, 9th Mass. Battery, Centreville, Va., to Deborah Weston, May 27th, 1863

Letter from Augustus Hesse, Camp, 9th Mass. Battery, Centreville, Va.,...

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Letter from Joseph Ricketson, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, 2'd mo[nth] 27 [day] / [18]63

Letter from Joseph Ricketson, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston,...

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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman to Anne Greene Chapman Dicey, Oct. 6th, [1863?]

Letter from Maria Weston Chapman to Anne Greene Chapman Dicey, Oct. 6t...

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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Oliver Johnson, May 6, 1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Form No. 5, James W. Simms, Company K, 32nd United States Colored Troops, 1864
Letter from Peter R. Laws, James Island, S.C., to Francis Jackson Garrison, April 1st, 1865

Letter from Peter R. Laws, James Island, S.C., to Francis Jackson Garr...

Peter Laws writes Francis Jackson Garrison relaying the tale of his journey by sea to South Carolina, and the commencement of his duties in his regiment as part of the Massachusetts Colored Infantry troops taki... More

Rough draft of letter from William Lloyd Garrison, [1865?]
Letter from Parker Pillsbury, Toledo, Ohio, to William Lloyd Garrison, 15th Dec[ember] 1874

Letter from Parker Pillsbury, Toledo, Ohio, to William Lloyd Garrison,...

Parker Pillsbury extends his sincere thanks to William Lloyd Garrison for the "beautiful shadow" autographed and mailed to him by Garrison, and states that his "autograph and biography" remain "just as strong a... More

Letter from Samuel May, Jr., Leicester, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, July 25 / [18]76

Letter from Samuel May, Jr., Leicester, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garr...

Samuel May, Jr. thanks William Lloyd Garrison for his delivery of the "Independent" of the 6th, and expresses his joy that Garrison is still living to "hold up the mirror to the people, and make them see the th... More

Letter from Edwin Belcher, Augusta, Ga, to William Lloyd Garrison, April 16th, 1878
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Certificate of Service, C. Arnum, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry, 1890
Colored troops disembarking / motion picture

Colored troops disembarking / motion picture

"The steamer "Mascotte" has reached her dock at Port Tampa, and the 2d Battalion of Colored Infantry is going ashore. Tide is very high, and the gang plank is extra steep; and it is laughable to see the extreme... More

25th Infantry / motion picture -

25th Infantry / motion picture -

"Gen. Frederick D. Grant and Gen. A.S. Burt [commander of the 25th Infantry Regiment] returning from Mt. Ariat [sic], at the head of the famous 25th Infantry, colored"--Biograph picture catalogue. H17963 U.S. C... More

TR in San Francisco, 1903 / - Victorian era public domain image

TR in San Francisco, 1903 / - Victorian era public domain image

The following is a scene-by-scene description of the film: The camera was positioned on the southeast corner of O'Farrell Street and Van Ness Avenue, and pans from north to west to south, and then back to west.... More

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Honor Roll, Company A, 15th New York infantry, 369th Regiment, fought under French, 1917
“African-American troops advancing toward the front…”

“African-American troops advancing toward the front…”

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Serg't Maj. E. P. Frierson, Tenth Cavalry.

Serg't Maj. E. P. Frierson, Tenth Cavalry.

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Unknown platoon of African American troops, Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, 1918.

Unknown platoon of African American troops, Charles Young Buffalo Sold...

Shortly after declaring war on Germany to enter WWI, the US had to construct military training facilities all over the country to prepare men for war. Camp Sherman was built in Ohio in an unfortunate location, ... More

Some of the Spanish-American War Veterans, Tenth Cavalry.

Some of the Spanish-American War Veterans, Tenth Cavalry.

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Colored soldiers building roads "Over There"; Colored soldiers in the trenches "Over There".

Colored soldiers building roads "Over There"; Colored soldiers in the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

United States colored labor troops boarding a transport; An American Negro battalion entering a pier ready to board a transport.

United States colored labor troops boarding a transport; An American N...

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99th Fighter Squadron - National Parks Gallery

99th Fighter Squadron - National Parks Gallery

From May 1943 to July 1944, the 99th Fighter Squadron performed missions over North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Although the squadron was assigned within a white fighter group, only African American troops coul... More

Members of an all-African American company walking in rows during an infantry drill at the First Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center

Members of an all-African American company walking in rows during an i...

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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Autograph of Henry Ward Beecher, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Sheet music, "Babylon is Fallen!" by Henry C. Work, and "Abraham's Daughter," as sung by Bryant's Minstrels, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from teacher in Freedmen's Camp, Pine Buff, Ark., children stealing everything from one another, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside, "Kingdom Coming" (song), undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Poem, handwritten, "The Little Contraband," n.d

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Poem, handwrit...

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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Poem, southern viewpoint, "Our Opinion," white child and her black "mammy" talk about President Lincoln and freedom, undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Poem, southern...

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Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States. The resolves of Congress, for prohibiting the importation of slaves, demonstrates the consistent zeal of our rulers in the cause of

Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the ...

Imprint 3.; Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 144, Folder 31.

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War document, "Sir, Please to pay Prince Negro two pounds for his clothing destroyed by the enemy," state of Connecticut, signed with "x," 28 June 1777
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Jack Yale, served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1780
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War document, Caster Freeman served as a private in the 8th Connecticut Regiment, Camp Highland, Jan. 1780
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Connecticut line of the Continental Army, Prince George, June 1781
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War document, Middletown, Conn.?, re shoes and stockings, Dec. 1781
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Exeter Lyons, Oct. 1782
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War document, West Point, N.Y., pay the balance for his service in the Continental Army for the year 1780, Exeter Freeman, Nov. 1782
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Prince Dennison, Mar. 1782
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Caster Freeman, Mar. 1782
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Exeter Freeman, Mar. 1783
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, Abraham Pharoah served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1780-1785
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt to Ovid Negro, Hartford, trucking six bundles of hay from the waterside, 1787
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher for Frank Freeman, served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, 1782-1789
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's pay voucher, 1st Lieutenant Webb, 8th Regiment, United States Infantry, African-American servant Ceasar, June 1818
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's pay voucher, 8th Regiment, United States Infantry, African-American servant, 27 July 1818
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's pay voucher, 8th Regiment, United States Light Artillery, African-American servants, Oct. 1818
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's pay voucher, 8th Regiment, United States Light Artillery, African-American servant, 31 July 1818
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Officer's pay voucher, 8th Regiment, United States Infantry, African-American servant, 31 Dec. 1819
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Speech of Mr. Slade on the abolition of slavery and the slave trade within the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Dec. 1835
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Remarks of Mr. Hammond of South Carolina on the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, delivered in the House of Representatives, Feb. 1836
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside poem with chromolithograph illustration, "Darkey Conscript," undated

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside poem...

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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: House of Representatives document no. 282, 27th Congress, 2nd session, letter from the secretary of the navy re African Americans in the navy, Aug. 1842
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Blank form, slave for hire, 1850s
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Note signed by Silas Casey, re "God in his wisdom means to examine the black devil which has no place in this nation," with photo of Casey, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate letter concerning slaves, General Mosely, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War documents, three pay vouchers and a financial paper with notes, Cuff Freeman had served on the Continental line for Connecticut, 1780-1789 , undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter and related documents of Private David Lee, Company C, 115th United States Colored Troops. He was given a pass to visit Washington City yet arrested by the city police and jailed, 1865-1866
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from Union soldier, Marine Hospital, La., describes an African-American wedding, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside, "The Colored Volunteer" (song), chromolithograph, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Special Orders, No. 14, 38th United States Colored Infantry, private detailed as sharpshooter to report to headquarters, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Documents of Captain Romanzo C. Bailey, 8th United States Colored Troops, correspondence, certificates, pension papers, 1863-1920
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Signature, John R. Lynch, House of Representatives, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Broadside advertising a free military school for command of colored troops, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay vouchers (four), state of Connecticut; Juba Freeman had served on the Continental line, 1782-1789
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Revolutionary War pay voucher, state of Connecticut, Bristol Cesar who served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, in upper left "cold Nigar," 1780-1789
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate ordinance concerning convicted slave named Richard, undated
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter by Colonel Hartwell, 55th Massachusetts, Edisto Island, S.C., signed "Civilian," Mar. 1866
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt, "on hire of servant girl," S. Snodgrass, Mar. 1849
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Business card of Levi Coffin, general agent, American Missionary Association and Western Freedmen's Aid Commission, circa 1850
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Speech of Honorable Daniel Webster on Slavery, Boston, Mass., 1850

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Speech of Hono...

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William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Tax form, Frederick County, 1858
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Receipt for hire of servant girl, Oct. 1859
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Tax form, Frederick County, 1860
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate tax in Scott County for slaves, 1860
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, slave appraisal, Mississippi, Jan. 1861
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, receipt for loss of slave described in item 25, from state, $1,800, 1863-1864
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter, Private Jones to sister, 11th Massachusetts, "i have got a little niggar girl for you and i will bring her home when i come," Oct. 1861
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate tax receipt, 1861
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter to father and mother, Camp Seward (abolition), Lincoln Avenue No. 10, Santa Rosa, Fla., detailed escape of slaves, Mar. 1862
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Pay voucher of Lieutenant John Shaw, 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers, African-American servant, 1862
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: "Confiscation of Rebel Property," remarks of Owen Lovejoy delivered in the House of Representatives, Apr. 1862
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Document re hiring out of slaves owned by Governor Aaron V. Brown of Tennessee, circa 1862
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate document, Governor Vance's message to the General Assembly of North Carolina, slaves to be employed for state defense, slaves taxed, Nov. 1862
William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Confederate letter, Flint Hill, what to do with slaves if Yankees come, Aug. 1862
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