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Description

1. .2 lin. ft. (1/2 archives box)

Summary

1. Jesse J. Jackson Slavery and Civil War documents collection consists of approximately 90 individual documents relating to Southern slavery and the Civil War. The majority of the documents are manuscript bills of sale and deeds of gift for enslaved persons, issued in North Carolina, 1800-1858. Each document generally gives the enslaved person's name, sex, approximate age, and occasionally other information such as occupation, as well as prices and names of seller and buyer. Other interesting information is sometimes provided including mention that the enslaved person being sold is "at large," and an affidavit accusing a dealer of selling a man's runaway despite the fact that the owner had asked the dealer to hold the runaway until he could be retrieved.
2. Other documents in the collection include two petitions to courts in Wilcox County, Alabama, asking permission to sell the enslaved persons belonging to estates, dated 1859 and 1862, and four documents issued in Fredericks County, Maryland, attesting to the freedom of the individuals.

Subject

1. African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877
2. Slave trade -- Southern States -- History
3. African Americans -- Southern States -- History
4. Slavery -- Southern States -- History
5. African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History. -- North Carolina
6. African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History. -- Alabama
7. African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History. -- Maryland
8. Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
9. Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century
10. Slavery -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
11. African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
12. Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- History -- United States -- 19th century
13. Slave bills of sale -- United States -- History -- 19th century
14. Petition, Right of -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
15. North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
16. Alabama -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
17. Maryland -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
18. Southern States -- History -- African Americans. -- 19th century
19. United States -- History -- African Americans. -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Call number

1. Sc MG 896

Language

1. English

Note

1. Books transferred to Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division.

Source (note)

1. Ann and Judith Ann Jackson

Biography (note)

1. Jesse J. Jackson (1908-1983), the collector of these documents acquired them over ten years while serving as a writer-in-residence at Appalachian State University. Jackson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University. He wrote 8 books for children, and often wrote for magazines, journals, and local newspapers.

Author

1. Jackson, Jesse, collector.

Title

1. Jesse J. Jackson Slavery and Civil War documents collection, 1974-1983.

Biography

1. Jesse J. Jackson (1908-1983), the collector of these documents acquired them over ten years while serving as a writer-in-residence at Appalachian State University. Jackson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University. He wrote 8 books for children, and often wrote for magazines, journals, and local newspapers.

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Research call number

1. Sc MG 896