Slavery -- United States
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Fred A. Rosenstock collection of United States Presidents' signed papers, 1802-1917
Contains six items from John Quincy Adams, Aaron Burr, James Monroe, and Woodrow Wilson.
Fred A. Rosenstock collection of Virginia records, 1774-1863
Bonds, court summons, depositions, indentures, promissory notes, public appointments, and miscellaneous papers (receipts, court orders and declarations, etc).
Fred A. Rosenstock collection of Wisconsin records, undated
Miscellaneous(1 item): A xerox copy of an affidavit given in court. Concerns legal dispute between John W. Archer, plaintiff and James J. Stacey and John Call, defendents.
Fred A. Rosenstock collection on the law partners of Abraham Lincoln, 1789-1834
Material of Jesse Head, John Todd Stuart, and Stephen Trigg Logan (settlements, receipts and bills of sale, affidavits and depositions, bonds, law suits, etc.)
Interviews with former slaves in Oklahoma
Photocopies of a microfilmed copy of typewritten interviews. Former slaves living in Oklahoma were interviewed about their experiences while in bondage. Some of them tell about their experiences with the Ku-Klux Klan.
Interviews with former slaves living in Ohio
Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typewritten interviews. These items are interviews with former slaves living in Ohio in 1937. Some of them tell about their experiences with the Ku-Klux Klan.
Fred A. Rosenstock papers
The collection includes various manuscripts acquired by Rosenstock of Denver, Colorado and sold as a group to the library. They come primarily from the eastern and mid-western United States and include diverse legal, personal, business, land and monetary transaction records originating with federal, state and local government officials and private citizens.
Utah County record books
Includes nine bound record books spanning the years 1851-1864. They record deeds of transfer, land survey certificates, deeds of consecration, and transfer records of enslaved people. Most of the records were kept by Lucius N. Scovil, the county recorder of Utah County, but some were also kept by Dominicus Carter, Isaac Higbee, and Howard Coray. The deeds of consecration recorded in Utah County begin in 1855 and primarily mention land and property rather than cash contributions.