Slaves--New York (State)--Long Island; Slavery--New York (State)--Long Island
Bill of sale of a "negro wench Betty" from Cornelius Van der Veer, Junior, of Flatbush, Long Island, New York, to William Tongue. On back, additional notes in two different hands, both dated January 21, 1777, regarding the sale of the same slave,...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Nantucket; Whig Party (U.S.)
Four-page letter dated May 5, 1846, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Nantucket [Massachusetts] to Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] addressing rumors of Mrs. [Elizabeth] Sargeant and discussing the Whigs "on occasion of [Edward] Everett's...
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
