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Shafer, Aileen

 Person

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Aileen Shafer, Collector, Material regarding African-Americans

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3756
Scope and Contents

Nineteenth century records regarding African-Americans, including deed of emancipation (1829), two brief autograph letters by abolitionists Charles Sumner and Wendell Phillips (1850, 1882), eight copies of "The Anti-Slavery Record", a significant abolitionist publication (1835), and twenty popular song broadsides featuring minstrel song themes (ca. 1830s-1860s).

Dates: 1829-1884