African Americans -- History

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This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.

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On February 8, 1850, Sarah Williams, a Methodist from Liverpool, England, wrote a letter to her brother-in-law, William Ingram, a British immigrant and committed abolitionist residing in Petersburg, Virginia. This letter provides a rare personal glimpse into the life of a man who would become one of the most daring figures in the Underground Railroad movement in the Southern United States.

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...

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The Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States contains receipts, correspondence, and other materials that document the presence of enslaved African Americans in the US South.

Scope and Contents This collection contains a single holograph deed dated September 15, 1788, written and signed by Revolutionary War veteran Wentworth Cheswell (also spelled Cheswill), while serving as the administrator of the estate of Jacob Durgan in Strafford County, New Hampshire. The folio-sized document (9½” x 14¾”) is written entirely in Cheswell’s hand and details the legal transaction in which Mrs. Martha Tash, wife of Thomas Tash, purchases Lot Number Seven from the Durgan estate. The deed...

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This collection contains materials relating to Simpson's participation in the Rural Project, a 1930s "program of supervised student teaching in selected crowded rural Negro schools of Montgomery County [Alabama]." It includes photographs of Tankersley, Peoples Village, Ramer, Little Zion, Jericho, and Pine Grove schools, and information about students' activities.