1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Regiment, 1863-1865
Pages from the original account book of Capt. Ethan Earle of Boston, commander of the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Regiment Company
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1860 Notice of Slave Auction in Charleston, South Carolina
Historic document advertising the auction of sixty-eight slaves belonging to "the late Christopher J. Whaley" of Charlston, South Carolina
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Bible record for the Elisha Swan family, 1813-1888, Mss A 6880
Original family bible record belonging to Elisha and Sarah (Jackson) Swan of Horseheads, Chemung County, New York.
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Manumission of slave, Lincoln, Mass., May 28, 1776
An original 18th century manumission of slave Cuff by his owner John Hoar of Lincoln, Mass., call number Mss A 6628.
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Massachusetts took state censuses every ten years from 1855 to 1925, but only the enumerations for 1855 and 1865 still exist. Ann S. Lainhart has extracted the names of every person of color from these censuses for this database. The original censuses are available at the Massachusetts State Archives and microfilm copies are available at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library, and through the LDS Church libraries.
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