Slaves and slavery.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
William Price (1803-1881) Letter regarding Wheeling Convention
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3004
Overview
Letter from the Monongalia Co. State Senator and representative to the Wheeling Convention of 1861. Describes the Convention and his anti-secession, but pro-slavery sentiments.
Dates:
1861
Wilson-Lewis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2135
Overview
Papers relating to the Wilson, Lewis, and Ruffner families of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Kanawha County, [West] Virginia, St. Charles County, Missouri, and Fairfield County, Ohio. Correspondence between Nathaniel V. Wilson and Dr. Goodridge Wilson, concerning land purchases, preparation for the settlement of the family, care of livestock, employment of slaves, salt making and marketing, and the market price of salt. Other members of the family migrated to St. Charles County, Missouri,...
Dates:
circa 1693-1942 and undated
Wood County Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1752
Overview
Transcript of a trial in the circuit superior court of Wood County and appeal to the General Court of Virginia concerning citizens of Ohio who were arrested by Virginia authorities while helping slaves escape.
Dates:
1845 1 September-12 December
Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1455
Overview
Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...
Dates:
1743-1882