Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was perhaps our greatest president. His prudent measures and political skills stabilized the government after the southern states seceded, and his soaring rhetoric inspired a generation to risk their lives for the great twin causes of national reconciliation and abolition of slavery. Our catalog features varied manuscripts and prints related to his election victories, the war effort, and his assassination. Two highlights are his call for a cabinet meeting to discuss compensated emancipation, and the dividers used to trace distances on Civil War maps.
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African American
This catalog of original documents relating to Black History features pieces of the highest rarity and merit for collection, research, and exhibition. They illustrate some of the most opressive as well as inspiring facets of American History. You will see Phillis Wheatley’s poetry, records of slave sales and slave uprisings, and documents related to the Underground Railroad, the abolitionist movement, and Civil Rights publications.
You will also find Charles Langston, recently imprisoned after a slave rescue, declaring “Liberty and humanity to me have no particular location, no Color, no Country.” John Brown plans “a mighty conquest.” Frederick Douglass writing that “the right to personal freedoom” is the most basic of all rights. Presidential opinions on slavery, Revolutionary and Civil War documents. Nearly a century later, Jackie Robinson discusses the “Negro vote,” and Alex Haley’s research archive and manuscript drafts for Roots and an as yet unpublished book help to inspire our nation.
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