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Other African American Offerings

• Lincoln Shrewdly Plots to Stop the Spread of Slavery after the Infamous Dred Scott Case
• Four Years Prior to Signing the Declaration, R.I.’s Stephen Hopkins Declares His Slave’s Independence
• Presidential Candidate William Henry Harrison Spells Out Position on “The Vexed Question” of Slavery’s Expansion

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• Frederick Douglass’s Plural Vision of America
• Eleanor Roosevelt Stands for Civil Rights – Her Four Freedoms
• Frederick Douglass’s Tribute to John Brown
• “[I]t was my good fortune to be born and brought up … where negro slavery never existed, except in theory.”
• African American Revolutionary War Documents, Including Caesar Ferrit, Said to Have Fought at Lexington
• Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton – before Parting Ways
• Frederick Douglass Counsels a Friend
• The Amistad: an Arresting Engraving of the Revolt
• Frederick Douglass and a “black sheep”
• Frederick Douglass Encourages Writing on John Brown
• Frederick Douglass Sends Condolences on the Death of an Abolitionist Friend
• A Future Anti-Slavery Supreme Court Justice Buys a Slave
• Frederick Douglass Prepares Address on the Annexation of Santo Domingo
• African-American Union Soldier Holding Rifle
• James Madison Signed Membership Form as President of American Colonization Society
• Jackie Robinson Reflects on the Importance of “the Negro Vote” in Nixon’s Loss to Kennedy
• A Lieutenant in the 27th Ohio, United State Colored Troops, Records the Final Year of the Civil War
• Frederick Douglass’s Changing Views of his Enemies
• Confederate Slave Impressments
• Three Months Before his Death Charging with the 54th Mass. at Fort Wagner, Colonel Putnam Writes of the Naval Bombardment of Charleston, the Burning of Jacksonville, and Black Troops
• A Black Civil War Soldier’s Death is Reported in a Letter Back Home to Friends and Family
• “Black bellied Yankees” at The Battle of Fort Blakely
• Haitian Slave Uprising in 1791
• “Our Colored Brother” Comes Up to Bat with the 15th Amendment
• Slave Tag “Charleston 1851 Servant 2285”
• The American Museum Magazine Considers Race and Slavery, Bound Together with Congressional Proceedings on the Bill of Rights
• An Overseer is Guilty of Murdering His Slave by “Stocks, Starvation and Lashes.”
• Against Slavery in the 1820 New York Gubernatorial Election
• Four Slave Sale Documents from Louisiana, 1835-1857, Including Some across State Lines
• Amistad
• Charles Sumner Writes to a Quaker Peace Advocate and Abolitionist
• General Lorenzo Thomas on Rations for Families of Freed Slaves: “I shall require them to work for their living.”
• John Brown, Jr.’s Copy of the “The Legislative Guide … Rules for Conducting Business in Congress; Jefferson’s Manual; and The Citizens’ Manual...”
• Ship’s Manifest Listing A Slave, Mentioning Constitutional Ban On Importation After 1808
• A Copperhead Newspaper Prints, Then Criticizes, the Emancipation Proclamation
• On the Eve of the Civil War, an Indiana Man Reflects on Slavery’s Hold on the South
• The First Act Limiting the American Slave Trade and Four Other Early Acts of Congress
• The Thirteenth Amendment
• Col. Isaac Shepard Authorizes Recruitment of 1st Mississippi Regt. African Descent (Former Slaves)
• Horace Greeley on Publication of a Letter by Abolitionist Cassius Clay
• Slave Trader Samuel Brown (Boston) to William Vernon (Newport)
• New Hampshire Ridicules South Carolina’s Attempts to Game the System After Rejecting the 14th Amendment
• Frederick Douglass Signed Deed
• Reporting the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and the Union Victory That Precipitated It
• 1764 New York Bill of Sale for 20-year old Caesar
• Boston Congregational Society Sermons
• Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics and the Influence of “the negro vote”
• Press Photos of Dr. King and the Selma Marchers
• The U.S. Senate Investigates Mississippi for Violation of the 15th Amendment
• Philadelphia Slavery - Reynold Keen Letter
• Planter Writes of Potential Slave Purchases and Problems with a Sale
• A New Yorker Wishes to Get an African Servant
• Freedom Bond Signed by Slave
• A Plea to the Military Governor of Arkansas and Mississippi, to Help a Battered Freeman
• Black Veteran Loses Property to a Corrupt Claim Agent
• Democratic Broadside Shows the Limitations of Reconstruction
• “The death of Patience, a Negro woman”
• A New York Pastor of the Church of the Puritans in New York City Challenges the 14th Amendment, Insisting It Would Harm Black Rights
• The American Colonization Society Petitions Congress to Create a Colony for Free Blacks
• “Fort Pillow Massacre”
• A Double Centerfold Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• ‘Rally round the Flag, Boys!’ President Lincoln Centerfold
• “Emancipation, 1863-1963, Proud Americans”
• Illustrations of African Americans Freeing Themselves by Moving Toward Union Lines
• Supplying U.S. Colored Troops in the Field

Other Civil War Offerings

• “If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.”
• Hours after the Battle of Culpeper Court House, Lee Escapes Again
• General Meade’s Controversial Gettysburg Victory Message

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• Stonewall Jackson Directs D.H. Hill’s March to Fredericksburg
• Rare Lincoln-Signed Sea Letter for a Martha’s Vineyard Whaler
• Frederick Douglass’s Tribute to John Brown
• First Printing of Robert E. Lee’s General Orders No. 9
• From the Battle of Gettysburg to the Gettysburg Address, Rare Civil War-era Run of the Daily Evening Express, Lancaster, PA
• The Gettysburg Address – First Day of Printing, Philadelphia
• The Gettysburg Address—First Day of Printing, New York
• A Union Officer’s Commission, and Field Report from the 17th Connecticut Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
• After the Disaster at Vicksburg, Grant Relieves General John McClernand, Replacing Him with General Edward Ord, Future Hero of Appomattox
• Robert E. Lee “The Marble Man” in Bronze
• The Storming of Petersburg: “Union and Rebel Soldiers were found dead in each other’s grasp…”
• Battles and Baseball: A New Yorker’s Red River Campaign Diaries
• The Gettysburg Address – Front Page News
• The Gettysburg Address—First Day of Printing
• William T. Sherman Attacks the Church, Reflects on Mortality, and Mentions the 1886 Princeton-Yale Football Game
• A Fugitive Rebel General Presents His Memoir to a Fellow General, Who Then Adds his Marginalia
• “Defence of the City of Philadelphia” Calling out the Home Guard Eleven Days before Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia Invades Pennsylvania
• A Complete, Bound Volume Set of Civil War Harper’s Weekly
• A Wet-Plate Glass Negative of Confederate Spy Belle Boyd
• African-American Union Soldier Holding Rifle
• Confederate Physician’s Medical Saddle Bag
• On the Eve of His March to the Sea, General Sherman Expressed Regret Over a Fellow Officer’s Failed Promotion
• The Gettysburg Address – First Day of Printing, Boston
• Broadsheet of Lincoln’s 1862 State of the Union Message
• Joe Johnston on his Negotiations with General Sherman: The Surrender that Ended the Civil War
• “Separating the Loyal from the Disloyal” in Reconstruction North Carolina
• Army of the Potomac Surgeon’s Diary: Antietam to Chancellorsville
• 1865 General Orders, Including Many Regarding Lincoln’s Assassination
• Civil War Bulletproof Vest Advertisement
• Confederate President Jefferson Davis and His Wife
• Jubal Early Recalls His Role in the Burning of Chambersburg
• The U.S. Navy Bombardment of Fort Sumter
• Wall Paper Edition of The Daily Citizen, Vicksburg, Mississippi
• A Lieutenant in the 27th Ohio, United State Colored Troops, Records the Final Year of the Civil War
• Henry Berry Lowrie, the Native American “Robin Hood,” in Civil War North Carolina
• Civil War Field Surgeon’s Kit, 6th N.Y. Infantry
• Report of Attacks on Forts Walker and Beauregard
• Georgia Militia Incorporated into Provisional Confederate Army
• First Federal Occupation of Winchester Broadside
• Confederate Slave Impressments
• Three Months Before his Death Charging with the 54th Mass. at Fort Wagner, Colonel Putnam Writes of the Naval Bombardment of Charleston, the Burning of Jacksonville, and Black Troops
• A Black Civil War Soldier’s Death is Reported in a Letter Back Home to Friends and Family
• Beauregard’s Thanks for Donation for “our gallant soldiers now battling manfully for our rights & our Independence…”
• Jefferson Davis’ Hope for a Future Union Based on Confederate Principles
• While Still a U.S. Army Officer, Future Confederate General William Hardee Schemes to Acquire Guns for Georgia
• Sherman Endorses the Publication of Butterfield’s Manual
• E. Kirby Smith Reacts to News of The “protracted and desperate fighting” in Virginia
• General Grant Congratulates Union Troops for their Victory
• Senator Charles Sumner Argues That There is No Limit to the Confiscation Act Regarding Slavery
• “Black bellied Yankees” at The Battle of Fort Blakely
• Union Volunteers Refreshment Saloon
• A Union Officer Sheds New Light on the Battle of Fredericksburg, with Schematic Drawings
• Franklin Sanborn – one of John Brown’s “Secret Six” – Harper’s Ferry Raid Letters and the Report of the Senate Investigation He Refused to Attend
• Prelude to Disaster: Lovell Weakens New Orleans in a Futile Attempt to Shore Up Fort Donelson
• New York Artillery Officer Captured at the Crater
• Print of the N.Y. 7th Regiment on Parade before the Park Avenue Armory
• General Gillmore Discusses Tactical Matters “Forts like “Sumter” & “Pulaski” cannot be breached by any iron clads that I have seen…”
• New York Draft Riots: “A Great Fraud”
• Naval Commodore Goldsborough Discusses the Capture of the CSS Nashville, Lincoln’s Reelection, and Teaching Former Slaves
• Col. James Clay Rice Lobbies for Military Promotions
• Confederate President Jefferson Davis Distinguishes Between Promises and Intents
• Irish American Union Soldier’s Music Book
• Massive Signed Presentation Photograph of a Union General
• A Massachusetts Officer Writes Home: Sherman Captures Atlanta, the Pursuit of Lee, Surrender at Appomattox, and Lincoln’s Assassination
• Celebrating a Report of McClellan’s Death
• Planning Civil War Slave Patrols
• Union Color Bearer Kady Brownell, Who Fought at First Bull Run and Displayed Incredible Bravery at the Battle of New Bern
• General Wool Takes Shot at McClellan
• South Carolina Impressment Agent Negotiates With General Beauregard for the Release of Slaves to their Masters
• Ulysses S. Grant Captures Fort Donelson, but Confederate General John B. Floyd Escapes
• On the Day of the First Battle of Bull Run, Confederate Ordnance Chief Josiah Gorgas Orders Equipment for 100,000 Troops
• General Gilman Marston’s Informal Casualty Report from Gettysburg
• A Surgeon in the Union Army of the Tennessee
• Authorizing Supplies for Virginia State Forces Three Weeks after Secession
• Recognition of Promotion to Medical Director of Hindman’s Corps in the Army of Tennessee
• Battle of Gettysburg Prisoner of War Broadside: Confederate Guards Shooting Unarmed Yankees
• General George Meade Assumes Command of the Army of Potomac
• Order Directing a Captain to Detach from Command of the Kearsage
• Rare Civil War Press Pass
• The Gettysburg Address
• The Rock of Chickamauga - Signed Photo
• “I thought Cump would advise you as to the movements here…”
• A Captain in the U.S. Colored Troops, Richard Andrews Describes his Closing Days of the Civil War and its Aftermath
• Charles Sumner Writes to a Quaker Peace Advocate and Abolitionist
• General Lorenzo Thomas on Rations for Families of Freed Slaves: “I shall require them to work for their living.”
• Haldiman Putnam Asks for a Commission and Killed Two Years Later Leading His 7th New Hampshire in the Famous Charge with the 54th Massachusetts on Fort Wagner
• Opposing the Confederate Draft
• Requesting another battery of artillery during 7 Days’ Battle
• Sherman Praises Mindil’s New Jersey Troops for Saving His Life
• 1865 North Carolina Colored Convention: “In his speech Galloway said that he did not believe the negro would abuse the ballot box any more than they had the cartridge box”
• A Copperhead Newspaper Prints, Then Criticizes, the Emancipation Proclamation
• A Philadelphia First-Day Printing of the Gettysburg Address
• Confederate General Gustavus W. Smith War-Date Telegrams in North Carolina
• An Eyewitness Describes Maneuvers Between the Monitor and Merrimack
• A Map of the Baruch College Area of New York City
• A Union General Minimizes His Defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run
• Col. Isaac Shepard Authorizes Recruitment of 1st Mississippi Regt. African Descent (Former Slaves)
• George McClellan Signed Photograph
• The “Constitution of Virginia” Signed by the Man Who Warned South Carolina Governor Pickens about the Reinforcement of Fort Sumter
• “The Christian Banner” – Pro-Confederate Paper From Union-Occupied Fredericksburg
• Joe Johnston Thanks Edward Bok
• Joe Johnston to Edward Bok
• Jubal Early Tracking Down a Letter
• Letter by Civil War Jewish Chaplain
• Lincoln’s Famous Mrs. Bixby Letter: Consoling the Mother of Five Sons Killed in the War
• Newspapers from Union-Occupied South Carolina
• Requesting the return of two artillery units, during 7 Days’ Battle
• Reporting the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and the Union Victory That Precipitated It
• Naval Commander Who Prevented Filibustering Expedition against Mexico, and Then Captured Slave Ships and Freed over 1,350 Slaves
• Sherman Invites a Friend to Dinner with the Mayor of NYC
• Union General Abner Doubleday’s Retrospective Account of Gettysburg
• Willard Saulsbury, Opposing Lincoln from the Senate Floor
• Future Confederate Secretary of War Makes Recommendation to War Department
• G.T. Beauregard to Edward Bok
• Future Confederate Naval Commander
• USS Monitor Commander Transmits a History of the Ship, with a Carte-de-Visite
• Confederates “fought like infuriated demons”
• James Longstreet to Edward Bok
• Ledger Report by Colored Sergeant, U.S.C.T., “Selling Government horse & bridle...” &c.
• Bishop of MD Instructs Clergy to Pray for the President, & for America: Maryland is admitted and declared by the Legislature and Governor of the State, to be at this time one of the United States of America
• General Schofield’s Personal Gettysburg Official Records
• Union Soldiers Recounts Conquest of Island No. 10
• “Capture of Richmond and Petersburg” Ballad
• “The Excursion of the Bought Nominations” Showing Balloon “Union League”
• Promoting Future Civil War Generals... including upgrades in rank for Grant, Pickett and Beauregard!
• A Rare Broadside Song Sheet Promoting the Confederate Cause – Issued From Baltimore
• A Confederate Soldier Responds to the Death of Stonewall Jackson: “I felt like some of my own folks was dead.”
• Lincoln’s Assassination
• The Death Bed and Funeral
• A Broadside Critical of Andrew Johnson’s Southern Sympathies
• An Eyewitness Account of Gettysburg by a College Professor
• 21st Georgia Cavalry Soldier Orders his Slave Whipped
• A Naval Physician Describes Tension Between Lincoln and Admiral Goldsborough
• Gettysburg Battlefield Bullet Mold
• Tribute to Sherman’s March to the Sea: “We stormed the wild hills of Resaca.”
• Grant’s First Success: A Postwar Report of Guns Captured at Vicksburg and Fort Donelson
• John Adams Dix, Autographed Carte De Visite
• Burning Then-Senator Andrew Johnson in Effigy and the Southern Secession Question in 1860
• Creating Two New Civil War Military Departments
• George B. McClellan’s 1864 Presidential Aspirations Are Mocked
• Patriotic Poem by Gov. John A. Andrew
• Anti-Southern, Anti-Semitic Poem from the Civil War
• Ordnance Returns from Atlanta Campaign
• “Hellmira”: A Letter from an Elmira Prison Guard
• Patriotic Post – 15 Pages of Union Envelopes with National Motifs
• The Inauguration of President Lincoln
• New York at Gettysburg: Personal Copy from an Artilleryman Who Repelled Pickett’s Charge
• A Double Centerfold Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation
• Confederate Circular Issued by Jewish Officer Abraham C. Myers, Quartermaster General
• Dance to the Sound of the Guns! Fort Sumter in Sheet Music
• Funeral Procession in New York City
• Senate Debate on Jefferson Davis’s Army Pension
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and Pivotal Battle of Antietam
• Three Special Orders Signed by Gen. Townsend Re. Capt. Abbott
• Union Soldier Explains What Happens To Rebel P.O.W.’s
• ‘Rally round the Flag, Boys!’ President Lincoln Centerfold
• Board of Engineers to review Sea Coast Fortifications, Including New York
• Lincoln’s Former Home, and Lee’s Surrender
• Lincoln Raises the Flag
• Illustrations of African Americans Freeing Themselves by Moving Toward Union Lines
• Lincoln, the War, and Emancipation
• “The South Has Learned Nothing and Forgotten Nothing”
• Supplying U.S. Colored Troops in the Field
• President Lincoln Commissions General Grant
• Lincoln Reviews the Army of the Potomac