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1.
A West India sportsman : Make haste with the Sangaree, Quashie, and tell Quaco to drive the birds

Creator:
F., J., printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 November 1807]
Call Number:
807.11.01.01
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
The English sportsman sits in a chair with his feet supported on a stool, gun in hand. He wears a hat with an enormous brim. A negro servant stands behind him (right) holding up an umbrella and a branch to beat off flies. A negro boy approaches his ma...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1807 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
West Indies, British. and West Indies, British
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Race relations, Alcoholic beverages, Game bird hunting, Leisure, Enslaved persons, and Umbrellas
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A West India sportsman : Make haste with the Sangaree, Quashie, and tell Quaco to drive the birds up to me. I'm ready [graphic]

2.
A dialogue, concerning the slavery of the Africans : shewing it to be the duty and interest of the

Creator:
Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803
Published / Created:
1776.
Call Number:
Z8 152
Image Count:
78
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Judah P. Spooner
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and United States
Subject (Topic):
Slavery and Controversial literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A dialogue, concerning the slavery of the Africans : shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American colonies to emancipate all their African slaves: with an address to the owners of such slaves : dedicated to the honorable the Continental congress

3.
A rebel negro armed & on his guard [graphic]

Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1794]
Call Number:
794.12.01.08
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A black rebel holds a musket in his right hand as he turns to his left looking up apprehensively. Around his waist is a bandolier with a pouch and a hatchet. At his feet is the skull of a human head. Behind him on the right in the distance are two bl...
Alternative Title:
Rebel negro armed and on his guard
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st 1794 by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Enslaved persons, Indians of South America, Rebels, and Rifles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A rebel negro armed & on his guard [graphic]

4.
A view in America in 1778 [graphic]

Creator:
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
Augt. 1, 1778.
Call Number:
778.08.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene before an American fort and palisade, perhaps depicting the indifference of Congress to the sufferings of American soldiers and the pro-slavery attitude of the Americans. A black man lies wounded in the foreground, surrounded by cannon balls. ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by M Darly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, America., United States, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Colonies, History, Forts & fortifications, and Blacks
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A view in America in 1778 [graphic]

5.
Africa. America [graphic].

Published / Created:
[20 August 1807]
Call Number:
807.08.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left, standing in front of a thatched hut. "Africa" wears a plumed headdress and animal pelt and holds a spear in his left hand; in his right hand he holds a document inscribed "Slave Trade abolish'd 1806." On the right, "America" is Lady Lib...
Alternative Title:
America
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Augt. 20, 1807 [by W.B. Walker ...?]
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Washington, George, 1732-1799, and Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790,
Subject (Topic):
Indigenous peoples, Huts, Headdresses, Hides & skins, Spears, Slavery, Flags, Portraits, Waterfalls, Snakes, and Crocodiles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Africa. America [graphic].

6.
An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : Containing the

Creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
Published / Created:
1699.
Call Number:
Pequot C25
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Selections. 1699. English
Description:
Signatures: A⁴B-T⁸.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Darby for D. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar, J. Harris at the Harrow in Little Britain, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-Keys and Bible in Cornhil
Subject (Geographic):
Latin America., Spain, and America.
Subject (Topic):
Indians, Treatment of., Slavery, and Colonies
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : Containing the most exact relation ... of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians ...

7.
Contract with Andrew C. Barnett to move enslaved people and property to Louisiana, 1839

Creator:
Smith, William, 1762-1840
Call Number:
WA MSS S-3197 Sm684
Container / Volume:
(File)
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript contract, signed, in the hand of William Smith, between Smith and Andrew C. Barnett, for relocation of one hundred sixty enslaved African American plantation workers and farming property owned by Smith from his plantations in Alabama to his...
Description:
William Smith (1762-1840), plantation owner and member of the Alabama House of Representatives, 1836-1840.
Subject (Geographic):
Alabama., Louisiana., Louisiana, and United States
Subject (Name):
Barnett, Andrew C. and Smith, William, 1762-1840.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Farmers, Slavery, History, Economic conditions, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Contract with Andrew C. Barnett to move enslaved people and property to Louisiana, 1839

8.
Contraste des moeurs anglaises [graphic]

Creator:
Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788-1839, lithographer
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
833.00.00.20
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"French cartoon on the abolition of slavery in England. John Bull gives freedom to an enslaved woman while keeping his own English wife on the leash. According to the caption, the woman is publicly offered for sale. This refers to the English use of '...
Alternative Title:
Dédié aux anglomanes
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Divorce, John Bull (Symbolic character), Slavery, and Spouses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Contraste des moeurs anglaises [graphic]

9.
Documents relating to the French West Indies, 1785-1869

Call Number:
GEN MSS 1107
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
16
Abstract:
Autograph letters, signed, official documents, notes and a case file documenting various aspects of French rule in the West Indies, almost entirely dating from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Manuscripts include a lengthy letter by "M...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Haiti., France, America., Haiti, Martinique., and West Indies, French.
Subject (Name):
Delahun, C., Noailles, Louis Marie, vicomte de, 1756-1804., and Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de, 1750-1813.
Subject (Topic):
Law, Slavery, Colonies, Administration, History, and Politics and government
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Documents relating to the French West Indies, 1785-1869

10.
English slavery, or, A picture of the times [graphic].

Creator:
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1788?]
Call Number:
788.04.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A reduced copy probably from a book and resembling the folding plates to the 'Hibernian Magazine'. The groups are arranged from left to right as in British Museum satire no. 7301, but each figure is reversed and the groups are in two rows, one above t...
Alternative Title:
Picture of the times
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Pigot, Hugh, 1721?-1792, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Smith Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, and Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
Subject (Topic):
Slavery and Antislavery movements
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > English slavery, or, A picture of the times [graphic].

11.
Female quadroon slave of Surinam [graphic]

Creator:
Perry, John, active 1791-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1792]
Call Number:
792.12.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young quadroon (person of one quarter black ancestry) shown full-length standing on a shore beside a blooming bush, holding her hat on with her right hand and a handkerchief in her left. Two women are shown in the distance on the left. The one (an ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
J. Johnson
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, and Enslaved persons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Female quadroon slave of Surinam [graphic]

12.
Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation [graphic]

Creator:
Benedetti, Michele, 1745-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1792]
Call Number:
792.12.01.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young Arawak native American woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her right foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left. On the left in the distance anot...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Hunting, and Parrots
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation [graphic]

13.
Lecture room, Castle Street, Aylesbury : outrage on a British seaman as seen by an eye witness

Published / Created:
[1854]
Call Number:
2012 Folio 208
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Outrage on a British seaman as seen by an eye witness and Lecture will be delivered in the above place, on Wednesday evening, August the 16th, by Mr. J. Brown
Description:
BEIN 2012 Folio 208: Imperfect: mutilated along edges, with some small holes, with no loss of text. Accompanied by two newspaper clippings pasted onto sheet of paper, with ms. note at head of top clipping "Aylesbury news, August 5, 1856."
Publisher:
publisher not identified and Robert Gibbs, printer, Advertiser Office, Bourbon-Street
Subject (Geographic):
Georgia
Subject (Name):
Brown, John, active 1854.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lecture room, Castle Street, Aylesbury : outrage on a British seaman as seen by an eye witness

14.
Memoir of William Wells Brown : an American bondman

Creator:
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Published / Created:
1859.
Call Number:
JWJ Zan B816 859M
Image Count:
21
Alternative Title:
William Wells Brown
Description:
BEIN: Original wrappers. (JWJ Zan B816 859M)
Publisher:
Anti-Slavery Office
Subject (Geographic):
Missouri. and United States
Subject (Name):
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery and Enslaved persons
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Memoir of William Wells Brown : an American bondman

16.
Omar ibn Said letter : manuscript

Creator:
Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863
Published / Created:
circa 1819.
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 185
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Autograph letter, in Arabic Maghrabi script, conveying a greeting to Major John Owen in Raleigh, and consisting chiefly of quotations from the Qur'an and from treatises on Arabic grammar. Quotations from the Qur'an include: Sūrat al-Najm (21-23); Sūra...
Description:
Omar ibn Said, also known as Moro or Moreau, was a West African Muslim born and educated in the Futa Toro region on the Senegal River. He was sold into slavery in approximately 1807 and transported to the United States. From approximately 1810 until t...
Subject (Geographic):
North Carolina., Africa., North Carolina, Cape Fear River Region., United States., Cape Fear River Region (N.C.), and United States
Subject (Name):
Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843., Owen, James, 1784-1865., Owen, John, 1787-1841., Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863., Taylor, John Louis, 1769-1829., and American Colonization Society.
Subject (Topic):
African American Muslims, African Americans, Colonization, Arabic language, Grammar, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons' writings, American, and Race relations
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Omar ibn Said letter : manuscript

17.
Robert J. Brown diary : manuscript

Creator:
Brown, Robert J., active 1834-1835
Published / Created:
1834 December 5-1835 April 6.
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 733
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
113
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript diary written by Robert J. Brown during travel from Boston to Florida Territory, 1834-1835. Entries describe travel by steamboat, stagecoach, and railroad, and record impressions of natural features, commerce, urban development, ...
Description:
Spring Garden, a sugar plantation near De Leon Springs, Volusia County, Florida Territory, was acquired in 1830 by Orlando Savage Rees (1796-1852), of Stateburg, South Carolina. In 1835 December, during the Second Seminole War, Spring Garden was occu...
Subject (Geographic):
Florida, Volusia County., Florida., South Carolina, Charleston., Virginia, Richmond., South Carolina., Virginia., De Leon Springs (Fla.), Florida Panhandle (Fla.), Saint Augustine (Fla.), Saint Johns River (Fla.), South Atlantic States, Spring Garden Plantation (Fla.), United States, Volusia County (Fla.), and Washington (D.C.)
Subject (Name):
Brown, Robert J., active 1834-1835. and Rees, Orlando Savage, 1796-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Alligator hunting, Black Seminoles, Indians of North America, Orange growers, Seminole Indians, Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842, Slave trade, Slavery, Sugar, Manufacture and refining, Sugar plantations, Description and travel, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robert J. Brown diary : manuscript

18.
Savannah, or, the form of a servant, 1875-1876

Call Number:
YCAL MSS 303
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
161
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Draft, holograph, corrected, of a novel about a young woman from New York who learns of her African-American ancestry while travelling through Florida, Tennesee, and other parts of the southern United States in the mid to late nineteenth century. The ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Nashville (Tenn.), and New York (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
Race relations, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Slavery, Women's rights, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Savannah, or, the form of a servant, 1875-1876

19.
Sr. George Vandeput Baronet [graphic].

Published / Created:
persuant to the statute the Eight of George IId March 1750.
Call Number:
750.03.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of George Vandeput, bust to the left, head turned and glancing at the viewer, hair curled at the sides and tied in a queue; in a medallion supported by Britannia on the left and Liberty on the right; Britannia trampling on Bribery, holding a...
Alternative Title:
Sir George Vandeput Baronet
Description:
Title engraved below image and above three columns of verse.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Vandeput, George, Sir, ca. 1717-1784,
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty, Political elections, and Slavery
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sr. George Vandeput Baronet [graphic].

20.
The following hymns will be sung in Zion Chapel, Northallerton, on Friday, the 1st of August, 1834

Published / Created:
[1834]
Call Number:
File 68 834 F667
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Langdale, printer, Northallerton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, English and Slavery
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The following hymns will be sung in Zion Chapel, Northallerton, on Friday, the 1st of August, 1834, being the day appointed for the abolition of slavery

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