William Reese Company
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Jackson to Henry Baldwin Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4765
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letter signed by Andrew Jackson, dated April 28, 1825, written from the Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee. Addressed to Henry Baldwin, the letter serves as an introduction for Harvey Lindsley, a professor at Cumberland College (now the University of Nashville). Jackson describes Lindsley as a "very worthy young man" and requests Baldwin’s hospitality during his travels, particularly in the Pittsburgh area. The letter is a significant artifact, highlighting...
Dates:
1825
Emancipation Petition by Five Women
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4386
Scope and Contents
This petition, submitted in 1836 to the United States Senate and House of Representatives by five women from Cumberland (potentially in New York, Maryland, Virginia, or Rhode Island), advocates for the abolition of slavery. The document reflects the growing participation of women in the anti-slavery movement and provides insight into early grassroots activism against slavery in the United States. It underscores both the moral and political arguments presented by female abolitionists during...
Dates:
ca 1836
Henry Watkins Collier inaugural address before the two houses of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama at its second biennial session
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3760
Abstract
The inaugural address given by Governor Henry W. Collier in 1849.
Dates:
1849 November 17
Oscar DePriest Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4745
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a broadside announcing a speech by Congressman Oscar DePriest at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 6, 1931, at 8 PM. The broadside highlights DePriest’s historic significance as the only African American in Congress at the time, the first African American elected to Congress outside the South, and the first African American Congressman of the twentieth century.The text of the broadside praises...
Dates:
1931
Reward Broadside for Runaway Slaves
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3761
Abstract
Early broadside offering a reward for two runaway slaves.
Dates:
1833-04-09
The Injustice of Poll Taxes Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4746
Scope and Contents
This broadside, The Injustice of Poll Taxes Broadside, authored by Henry P. Farrow, is a passionate plea against the implementation of the poll tax in Georgia during the Reconstruction era. Written at a pivotal moment while the Georgia Reconstruction Constitutional Convention was in session, Farrow’s argument articulates the economic and moral injustices of such a tax, which disproportionately affected the poor of all races and ultimately served as a...
Dates:
ca 1867
Ulysses S. Grant to Edward O. C. Ord Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4779
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a letter signed by General Ulysses S. Grant, written in the form of a telegram to Major General Edward O. C. Ord. The document is dated March 19, 1865, and sent from City Point, Virginia, during the final weeks of the American Civil War. In the message, Grant discusses the arrival of two to three thousand African American individuals accompanying General Philip H. Sheridan and issues orders regarding their transfer to Fort Monroe in Virigina for further processing...
Dates:
1965 March 19
White Supremacy Now and Forever Broadside by E.C. Barnard
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4754
Scope and Contents
This broadside contains excerpts from a 1957 speech by E.C. Barnard, a Mobile City Commission candidate and a leader in the local Ku Klux Klan. The document reflects the segregationist rhetoric of the period and serves as a historical artifact of the mid-twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the American South.The 1957 local election in Mobile was a pivotal moment, with Joseph Langan, a moderate with progressive views on race, running against Barnard. The election also...
Dates:
1957
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- Broadsides 3
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama 2
- Activism 1
- African American churches 1
- African American legislators 1
- African Americans -- History 1
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. 1
- African Americans -- Suffrage 1
- Alabama -- History -- 1819-1950 1
- Alabama -- Politics and government 1
- Antislavery movements 1
- Charleston (S.C.) 1
- Civil rights 1
- Civil rights -- Alabama 1
- Correspondence 1
- Elections 1
- Fort Monroe (Va.) 1
- Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States 1
- Governors -- Alabama 1
- Governors -- Inaugural addresses 1
- Judges -- United States 1
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
- Patronage, Political -- United States 1
- Petitions 1
- Political campaigns -- Alabama -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Politics and government 1
- Poll tax 1
- Presidents -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Racism 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Georgia 1
- Segregation -- Alabama 1
- Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century 1
- Slavery -- United States 1
- Suffrage 1
- Taxation 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American 1
- United States -- Race relations 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Voter suppression 1
- White supremacy movements 1 + ∧ less
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