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Palmer, J. A
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United States. Army
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Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
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Wallach Division Picture Collection
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Harper's Weekly
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Wallach Division: Picture Collection
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Illustration depicting a conv…
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Death Claim Book No. 1
Promissory note for hire of a…
Recruitment brochure and ad f…
Regulation regarding the hous…
Marriage rules, Bureau of Ref…
Bill of sale for mulatto man …
Bill of sale for 3 enslaved p…
List of estate items with sla…
List of estate items with sla…
Letter begins, "We William Br…
Slavery tax receipts for Stat…
Petition to obtain compensati…
Thompson, Alfred - Applicatio…
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Davidson, F. L., Note from Da…
Petersburg, VA - We promise t…
Manumission certificate for N…
L. Warren Nelson authorizing …
Owner's proof on claim for sl…
Doctor's certificate on death…
Certification of witnesses th…
A valuation on Larens, a slav…
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Original receipt for $2,000 c…
Report of South Carolina Stat…
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Nathan Johnson Manumitted by …
Instrument of torture used by…
London's Virginia [colonial m…
The African's right to citize…
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Speech of Rev. Alexander Crum…
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The relations and duties of f…
Group of freedmen, including …
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Convention of the Freedmen of…
Slave bills of sale; Three sa…
The riots in New York : Destr…
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Dr. James McCune Smith
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Isaac and Rosa, emancipated s…
Freedmen voting in New Orleans
Elizabeth Van Lew with her ni…
Mary Silvinia Burghhardt Du B…
Abraham Lincoln recommendatio…
The Anglo-African magazine, F…
"Free Seats"
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Portrait of Joseph Rainey
Office of the Freedmen's Bure…
Teaching the Freedmen
Leaving Charleston on the cit…
Map of Virginia : showing the…
Map of Virginia showing the d…
The breakdown
Selling a freedman to pay his…