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1.
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 plantations in Louisiana
Description:
William Smith (1762-1840), plantation owner and member of the Alabama House of Representatives, 1836-1840. and In English.
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

2.
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); Sūrat al-Masad (1-2); Sūrat al-Baqarah (285-286); Sūrat Fuṣṣilat (46); Sūrat 'Abasa (34-37); Sūrat al-Infiṭār (19); Sūrat al-Nabaʼ (40); Sūrat al-Mulk (1-13). Quotations from grammatical treatises include verses from Mulḥat al-iʻrāb (Ḥarīrī) and Alfīyat Ibn Mālik (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh). In the center of the first page, a geometric drawing encloses the Arabic text "Shaykh General Jim Owen," along with two unidentified words. In addition to the text relating to John and James Owen and the quotations, Said expresses a wish to see a place [Kaba?] in Africa and With cover letter, in English, from John Louis Taylor, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, dated Raleigh, North Carolina, 1819 October 10, to Francis Scott Key, George Town [Washington, DC]. Taylor describes Said's history and relationship with his owner James Owen, and requests Key's assistance in obtaining a translation of the enclosed manuscript. He also asks for Key's advice in obtaining an Arabic Bible for Said, and discusses his hope that Said could be persuaded to return to Africa with "the Colonization Society," likely the American Colonization Society, of which both Taylor and Key were members
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 the end of his life, Said was owned by politician James Owen of Bladen County, North Carolina, brother of North Carolina Governor John Owen., In Arabic., Notes on Taylor letter: "Letter from Judge Taylor - enclosing an Arabic Amulet" ; "Judge Taylor's letter and mss to be sent to Dr Stuart, Andover" ; "To the Library of the Theol. Seminary from M. Stuart, 22 April 1837." Moses Stuart was Professor of Biblical Studies at Andover Theological Seminary from 1810 to 1848., Accompanied by a copy of The Missionary Herald (Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, April 1869) which includes an article, in English, "Arabic-Speaking Negro Mohammedans in Africa," by George E. Post, that discusses Said's manuscript, Taylor's letter, and subsequent events and writings by Said., and Title devised by cataloger.
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

3.
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 enslaved woman) holds a large umbrella over her mistress walking ahead of her
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint from other illustrations in this publication., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., Plate from: Stedman, J. G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813., and Offset from letterpress text on verso.
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]

4.
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

5.
Yale letters : manuscript

Creator:
Goodyear, A. Conger (Anson Conger), 1877-1964
Published / Created:
before 1948.
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 1050
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Volume containing 13 autograph letters, signed, collected by A. Conger Goodyear and pertaining to Yale alumni or employees, 1742-1846, Elisha Williams, Wethersfield, Connecticut, to Reverend Stephen Williams, 1742 July 5., Richard Sill (Yale 1755), New Haven, Connecticut, to Nathan Hale (Yale 1773), New London, Connecticut, 1775 March 5., William Robinson, New Haven, Connecticut, to Nathan Hale (Yale 1773), Roxbury, Connecticut, 1776 February 19., Timothy Dwight (Yale 1744) to George Washington, 1778 March 8., John C. Calhoun (Yale 1804), Washington, D.C., to M. Sterling, Watertown, New York, 1818 April 1., Noah Webster (Yale 1778), Amherst, Massachusetts, to Jedidiah Morse (Yale 1783, MA 1786), New Haven, Connecticut, 1820 September 27., Samuel F. B. Morse (Yale 1810), Washington, D.C., to Jedidiah Morse (Yale 1783, MA 1786), New Haven, Connecticut, 1821 December 7., Samuel F. B. Morse (Yale 1810), Washington, D.C., to Louis McLane, London, England, 1846 March 24., Eli Whitney (Yale 1792), New Haven, Connecticut, to Lieutenant Drummer, 1814 August 28., Roger Sherman, Eliphalet Dyer (Yale 1740), and Silas Deane (Yale 1758), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to “Col. Butler, Esqr. Denison, Esqr. Judd, & Mr. Slumon,” 1775 August 2., Autograph accounts rendered by Richard Morris (Yale 1748) to Lewis Morris (Yale 1746) in New York, 1765. Noted are multiple purchases of enslaved people, Samuel F. B. Morse (Yale 1810) to David Dudley Field (Yale 1802), undated, Jedidiah Morse (Yale 1783, MA 1786), Charleston, South Carolina, to “Dear Sir,” 1818 June 30., and Theodore Dwight Woolsey (Yale 1820), New Haven, Connecticut, to Benjamin F. Thompson, Hempstead, Long Island, 1841 October 25.
Description:
A. Conger Goodyear (1877-1964) (Yale 1899) succeeded his father, Charles W. Goodyear, as director of the Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts in 1912 and was appointed the first president of the Museum of Modern Art in 1929., In English., Title from volume spine., and Some letters accompanied by typescript summaries or transcriptions.
Subject (Geographic):
New York (State) and New Haven (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Calhoun, John C. 1782-1850. (John Caldwell),, Deane, Silas, 1738-1789., Dwight, Timothy, 1752-1817., Dyer, Eliphalet, 1721-1807., Field, David D. 1781-1867. (David Dudley),, Goodyear, A. Conger 1877-1964. (Anson Conger),, Hale, Nathan, 1755-1776., McLane, Louis, 1786-1857., Morris, Lewis, 1726-1798., Morris, Richard, 1730-1810., Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826., Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872., Robinson, William, 1754-1825., Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793., Sill, Richard, 1755-1790., Thompson, Benjamin F. 1784-1849. (Benjamin Franklin),, Washington, George, 1732-1799., Webster, Noah, 1758-1843., Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825., Williams, Elisha, 1694-1755., Williams, Stephen, 1693-1782., Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1801-1889., and Yale University. Alumni.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery and Enslaved persons
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale letters : manuscript

6.
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 master, who grins delightedly, with a huge goblet on a salver. Below the design: "Make haste with the Sangaree, Quashie, and tell Quaco to drive the Birds up to me, I'm ready". Under a palm-tree (left) is a table covered with food: a shoulder of mutton (?), fish, a sucking-pig, a round of bee(?). On the ground are many bottles, some on their sides, a basket of pineapples and limes (or lemons), and a row of large jars: 'Royal Punch 5 gal:', 'Sangaree 5 Gal:', 'Brandy', 'Rum' [on its side], 'Sangrorum 10 Gal' [extra-large and close to the sportsman]; also a much smaller jar of 'Water' [broken], and a number of empty bottles. In the middle distance a negro runs, driving birds towards the sportsman. Near him in the middle distance, a second sportsman reclines on a settee; a negress holds an umbrella over his head. The scene is a flat sunny plain, with distant hills. From British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., A satire on the decadence of Englishmen in West Indies, published shortly after the successful passage of Wilberforce's bill to abolish slavery., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with loss of publisher's advertisement below title. From a more complete impression in the British Museum online catalogue, advertisement reads: London. Of Mr Holland may be had the following West India Prints, Johnny Newcome in the Island of Jamaica - A Grand Jamaica Ball - Martial Law in Jamaica - The Blessings of Jamaica - and a Segar Smoking Society in Jamaica 5s each - A large Portrait of Rachel Pringle of Barbadoes 7s 6 - Likewise Gillray's Sale of English Beauties in the East Indies 7s 6'., and For further information, consult library staff.
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]

7.
[Sugar plantation].

Creator:
Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684-1756
Published / Created:
ca. 1750?]
Call Number:
JWJ Za En32 750Z
Image Count:
11
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., A peep show consisting of five engraved leaves, card-backed, hand-colored and cut away., Three-dimensional scene depicting a sugar plantation (probably on Saint-Domingue) with slaves at work and several overseerers; engraved by Martin Engelbrecht?, and First leaf numbered: 1.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Haiti
Subject (Topic):
Sugar plantations, Slavery, and Peep shows
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Sugar plantation].

8.
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. An officer gestures towards him with his hat, turning to a man on the left (possibly meant to represent a Congressman) who is wearing a fur coat, large feathered hat, and is smoking a pipe. To the right of the officer an American soldier points and smiles towards three "Death or Liberty" men, all with grim features and ragged clothes
Description:
Title from item., Signed in lower left of image, MD, i.e. Matthias Darly., and Imperfect; later ink scribbles.
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]

9.
The skinning of the Aboma snake Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation / [graphic]

Creator:
Cook, Henry R., printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 20 1812.
Call Number:
812.11.20.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The plate on the right shows, a young Arawak 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; in the distance another Arawak is shown ready to shoot his arrow and The plate on the left shows, a Arawak native slitting the throat of a large Aboma snake that is hanging from a branch of a tree, suspended by a rope around its neck. Two other Arawak natives pull at the rope to hoist the snake higher. A man in Western dress, his back to the viewer, directs the work of the natives from the ground (left foreground), his rifle resting against the trunk of the tree. On the right in the distance, a man sits in a boat on the river
Description:
Title from caption below image., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the early plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., "Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation" first engraved by Benedetti and published "Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson"., and Copies of plates origingally printed for: Stedman, J. G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813.
Publisher:
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Hunting, Parrots, and Snakes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The skinning of the Aboma snake Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation / [graphic]

10.
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 ...

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