urn:taro:utexas.cah.01080 A Guide to the Black History Collection, 1826-[ca. 1890] Original EAD encoding by Laurel Rozema according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. September 2008 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Black History Collection. Black History Collection 1826-[ca. 1890] Materials are written in English. 81-001; 81-123; 82-328; 82-353; 83-356; 85-014; 91-055; 91-074; 92-146; 93-403 .25 in Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin These papers have been combined into an artificial collection of material relating to black history, including an estate and slave inventory, muster roll for U. S. Colored Troops, Freedmen's Bureau reports, sharecropping contract, photographs, and court records concerning slaves. Scope and Contents

These papers have been combined into an artificial collection of material relating to black history, including an estate and slave inventory, muster roll for U. S. Colored Troops, Freedmen's Bureau reports, sharecropping contract, photographs, and court records concerning slaves.

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 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Mills, Robert. Ashe, John B. McCalley, William J. Slaughter, Nathan. Jenkins, Allen. Davidson, William. Brown, Joe. Carmack, Alexander. Elliot, Davis. Spence, Riley. Cocks, James. Delesdernier, George. Subjects (Organizations) United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. United States. Colored Troops. Infantry Regiment, 29th (1864-1865) Subjects African-Americans -- History. Crimes and criminals. Sharecropping--Alabama--History--Sources. Slavery--United States--History--19th century--Sources. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans. Autopsy -- Texas. Places Brazos River (Tex.) Austin County (Tex.) Columbia (Tex.) Gonzales County (Tex.) White Ranch (Tex.) Mississippi. Alabama. Preferred Citation

Black History Collection, 1826-[ca. 1890], Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 3P52 1 L. Kirkland Estate inventory; describes Negro slaves sold by the order of the Orphan Court; Natchez, Mississippi, October 7, 1826 3P52 2 Freedman's Bureau reports; reports concern treatment of freedmen; includes case and judgement of Allen Jenkins vs. William Davidson for assault and battery; includes settlement of complaints of Col. Bass against Freedman, Joe Brown, Columbia, Texas, May 21-26, 1866 3P52 3 McCalley/Slaughter sharecropping contract; describes agreement between landowner, William J. McCalley, and freedman, Nathan Slaughter, and family; Madison County, Alabama, January 16, 1867 3P52 4 Confession of "Charles, a colored man and slave" to the murder of Alexander Carmack, in Austin County, August 31, 1838 3P52 5 Robert Mills, et al. versus John B. Ashe manuscript; seeks overturn of court verdict on case against Robert Mills, et al., owners of Steamer Bell; case concerns death of a slave while sounding the Brazos River; February 14, 1856 3P52 6 Lockridge, W.T. and Wm. Craig postmortem examination of a slave, Gonzales, TX, July 9, 1853 3P52 7 Slave bill of sale from James Cocks of Harris County, Texas, to George Delesdernier of Galveston County, 1854 3P52 8 Two Amnesty Oaths from Davis Elliot and Riley Spence, July 1, 1867 3S2.1 Tintypes and cartes-de-visites, [ca. 1860]-[ca. 1890] 2.116 / OD 1199 Twenty-ninth Regiment of the United States Colored Troops muster rolls; includes lists of troops in Companies A, B, C, G, H and K and their pay from December 31 through June 30; stationed near White Ranch, Texas, June 30, 1865