Drawer AMD-9
Contains 4 Results:
Facsimile of a broadside advertising a $100 reward offered by John P. Waring, Washington, D.C., for the capture of a runaway slave named Eliza Coursy. Facsimile was reproduced for the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. [gift of Mrs. Edith King, Kirkwood, Missouri, December 23, 1953] (oversize), 1857 Nov 28
The Slaves and Slavery Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. Approximately half of the documents in the collection are receipts for sales of slaves, some of which were recorded in various courts. The collection also includes deeds of emancipation; personal correspondence; and broadsides offering rewards for the capture of runaway slaves.
Facsimile of a broadside advertising a $100 reward offered by Isaac Neff of Clay County, Missouri, for the capture of a 10-year-old runaway slave named John. [gift of Robert D. Withers, Liberty, Missouri, September 10, 1930] (oversize), 1859 Jan 31
The Slaves and Slavery Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. Approximately half of the documents in the collection are receipts for sales of slaves, some of which were recorded in various courts. The collection also includes deeds of emancipation; personal correspondence; and broadsides offering rewards for the capture of runaway slaves.
Oversize parchment document titled “An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri,” signed by more than 60 members of the Missouri constitutional convention. (transferred to collection titled Missouri Secretary of State Ordinance Abolishing Slavery), 1865 Jan 11
The Slaves and Slavery Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. Approximately half of the documents in the collection are receipts for sales of slaves, some of which were recorded in various courts. The collection also includes deeds of emancipation; personal correspondence; and broadsides offering rewards for the capture of runaway slaves.
Typescript document compiled by Jas. C. Espy regarding the history of a gavel presented by Theodore H. Koelling to the Missouri Historical Society. This gavel had been used by St. Louis mayor Chauncey Ives Filley on October 17, 1863, when he presided over a mass meeting at the St. Louis Courthouse denouncing the ordinance restricting the freedom of slaves. (oversize), [circa 1923-1940]
The Slaves and Slavery Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. Approximately half of the documents in the collection are receipts for sales of slaves, some of which were recorded in various courts. The collection also includes deeds of emancipation; personal correspondence; and broadsides offering rewards for the capture of runaway slaves.