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Slaves and slavery.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Nathaniel V. Wilson Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0509
Overview

Letters to Wilson at Farmville, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia, from members of his family at: the University of Virginia; Lewisburg, West Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Clarksville, Virginia. Includes references to family business affairs, the Ruffner-Donnally salt works at Charleston, purchase of slaves, and medical education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1836 and 1844.

Dates: 1834-1850
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Ralph Fairfax, Collector, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0845
Scope and Contents

A tax book of Monongalia County, 1855, and an estate appraisement of John Fairfax for personal property at the Glades, and Cheat Farm, Monongalia County. The appraisement refers to the sale of eleven enslaved Africans. There are also two lists of delinquent taxpayers; scrip from the Gladesville Furnace, 1877; and a list of the hands at Clinton (Furnace).

Dates: 1844-1877
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1528
Overview Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook....
Dates: 1774, 1822-1943
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3082
Scope and Contents The papers of a prominent Lewisburg, Greenbrier County lawyer and politician, Samuel Price, who served numerous terms in the Virginia state legislature and was Virginia's Lieutenant-Governor during the Civil War. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1851, the Secession Convention of 1861, and the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872; and he completed the U. S. Senate term of Allen Caperton in 1876. The papers include correspondence relating to local...
Dates: circa 1788-1888
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1842
Overview Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers' certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner...
Dates: 1872-1905
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Slaves and Slavery Legal Documents

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2059
Overview Six court case papers from Frederick County, Maryland, involving slaves suing for freedom, one slave charged with murder, and slaves in an appraisement of property. The cases are: appraisement of property of Jacob Miller (December 13, 1791); petition for freedom of Negroe Fawcet (filed November 21, 1795); Rebecca Toogood vs. Joseph Wood, Jr. (October 1805); Nelly Toogood's petition for freedom (1805?); bond for Justice of the Peace for Dr. William Hilleary to appear in court against a man...
Dates: 1791-1816, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Slaves and Slavery Legal Documents

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2078
Overview Five court documents from Frederick County, Maryland, and Jefferson County, Virginia, mostly regarding slavery and manumission. They consist of: declaration by Christian Kemp of the removal of Negro Joseph from Berkeley County, Virginia to Frederick County, Maryland (January 13, 1797); affidavit of Philip Coblentz affirming manumission of Negro Mathew, Frederick County, Maryland (August 20, 1811); deed of bill of sale between William P. Craighill, William Little, Samuel Brown, and Samuel...
Dates: 1797-1829
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Slaves and Slavery Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2606
Overview

Typescript of two letters from a New Orleans slave, Georgiana Washington, to her friends Miss Mary Ellen Lucas and family, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

Dates: 1860
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Stuart Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2586
Scope and Contents Papers of John and Lewis Stuart, 1785-1823, and of Samuel Price, 1830-1879. Price's papers include mainly legal and business correspondence related to Price's law practice in Lewisburg, West Virginia. The Stuart papers concern settlement in Greenbrier County, land transactions, and family matters. The collection includes lawyer's fee books and account books for general merchandise, ca.1830-1880. There are also printed booklets of court briefs, pamphlets concerning "the slavery...
Dates: 1785-1880
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center