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Description of Series
Inventory
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A Guide to the Black History Collection, 1826-[ca.
1890]
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Creator: |
Black History Collection. |
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Title: |
Black History
Collection |
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Dates: |
1826-[ca.
1890] |
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Abstract: |
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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Accession No.: |
81-001; 81-123; 82-328; 82-353; 83-356;
85-014; 91-055; 91-074; 92-146; 93-403 |
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Extent: |
.25 in |
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Language: |
Materials are written in
English. |
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Repository: |
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.
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Access Restrictions
Unrestricted access.
Use Restrictions
Unrestricted use.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Mills, Robert. |
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Ashe, John B. |
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McCalley, William
J. |
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Slaughter,
Nathan. |
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Jenkins,
Allen. |
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Davidson,
William. |
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Brown, Joe. |
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Carmack,
Alexander. |
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Elliot, Davis. |
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Spence, Riley. |
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Cocks, James. |
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Delesdernier,
George. |
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Subjects (Organizations) |
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United States. Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. |
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United States. Colored Troops. Infantry Regiment, 29th
(1864-1865) |
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Subjects |
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African-Americans -- History. |
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Crimes and
criminals. |
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Sharecropping--Alabama--History--Sources. |
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Slavery--United
States--History--19th century--Sources. |
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United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans. |
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Autopsy -- Texas. |
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Places |
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Brazos River
(Tex.) |
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Austin County
(Tex.) |
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Columbia
(Tex.) |
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Gonzales County
(Tex.) |
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White Ranch
(Tex.) |
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Mississippi. |
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Alabama. |
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Black History Collection, 1826-[ca.
1890], Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
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Inventory |
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L. Kirkland Estate inventory; describes Negro slaves
sold by the order of the Orphan Court; Natchez, Mississippi,
October 7, 1826 |
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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 |
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McCalley/Slaughter sharecropping contract; describes
agreement between landowner, William J. McCalley, and freedman, Nathan
Slaughter, and family; Madison County, Alabama,
January 16, 1867 |
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Confession of "Charles, a colored man and slave" to the
murder of Alexander Carmack, in Austin County,
August 31, 1838 |
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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 |
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Lockridge, W.T. and Wm. Craig postmortem examination of
a slave, Gonzales, TX,
July 9, 1853 |
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Slave bill of sale from James Cocks of Harris County,
Texas, to George Delesdernier of Galveston County,
1854 |
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Two Amnesty Oaths from Davis Elliot and Riley Spence,
July 1, 1867 |
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Tintypes and cartes-de-visites,
[ca. 1860]-[ca. 1890] |
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| 2.116 / OD 1199 |
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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 |
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