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- Receipt issued to Bolling Hall by the enrolling office of Montgomery County for the impressment of Jupiter, a twenty-five-year-old slave worth $3,000.
- 1864
- 2009-06-25
- Letter to James Dellet, informing him that his slave Barry had escaped with others the previous night.
- 1832-03-31
- 2009-06-25
- Voucher issued to John S. Powers of Butler County, Alabama, for the impressment of a slave "to work on Fortifications" for 74 days.
- 1863-11-06
- 2011-11-21
- Incomplete draft of an address by Alpheus Baker to the African American delegates of the Alabama House of Representatives, concerning their allegiance to the Republican Party.
- 1872
- 2012-01-27
- List of slaves owned by Bolling Hall.
- 1829
- 2012-01-27
- "Reminiscences of War, and Episode of Wilson's Raid near Selma, Ala., April 1865."
- 1865-04
- Account of the Union raid in Selma, Alabama, as remembered by Sarah Ellen Phillips. She describes an attack on a Confederate scouting party; her father's escape to Perry County; and the ransacking of local homes, including her own. In particular...
- 2009-09-04
- "Sale by Executor."
- 1864-11-20
- Advertisement for an upcoming estate sale in Sumter County, Alabama. Included in the auction will be "11 Likely Negroes," livestock, farming tools, furniture, housewares, and "One of the most valuable plantations in the State."
- 2010-01-25
- "Executors' Sale of Valuable Lands and Negroes, Stock, Provisions, &c., In Barbour County, Alabama."
- 1860-01-26
- Advertisement for the sale of Milton A. Browder's estate at a "public outcry" auction on February 16, 1860. For sale are about 2,400 acres of land; 50 slaves ("of superior quality, embracing Boys and Girls, single men and women, and families, all...
- 2009-09-04
- "Wanted to Hire 600 Negroes."
- 1863-12-27
- Advertisement seeking six hundred slaves to work building railroads in central Alabama.
- 2010-01-25
- "Wanted to Hire 600 Negroes."
- 1864-01-24
- Advertisement seeking six hundred slaves to work building railroads in central Alabama.
- 2010-01-25
- "Wanted to Hire."
- 1864-12-04
- Advertisement seeking two hundred "negro mechanics and laborers" to work at the foundry in Selma, Alabama; board, clothing, and medical service will be provided. The ad also asks for fifteen men to work on a steamboat on the Alabama River, and it...
- 2010-01-25
- "Wanted to Hire, 200 Negro Men."
- 1864-01-24
- Advertisement seeking two hundred slave men to work at the Bibb Iron Works; for every ten men hired, "One Woman will be received." Room, board, and clothing will be provided for all workers.
- 2010-01-25
- John H. Alexander's response to H. C. Nixon's questionnaire about slavery in Alabama.
- 1913
- Alexander, whose father was "a large slave holder before the war," describes the following aspects of slavery: dwellings and possessions; clothing and food; occupations and typical workdays; money earned by slaves for their own use; family life;...
- 2009-09-30
- Account of wages owed by Rebecca Smith to freedmen whom she had contracted to work on her plantation for a year.
- 1866-00-00
- All the freedman are listed, with the amount of the wages due them. In the original contract Smith agreed to provide the laborers $60 ("for Negro men of first class"), two suits of clothes, and one acre planted in cotton; the freedmen agreed to pay...
- 2009-09-04
- Contract for six African Americans, all freedmen, who will be working a year for Washington Wallace, Ed Anderson, and William Bonnell Hall of Benton, Alabama.
- 1867-01-07
- All the freedmen are listed at the end, with the amount each will be paid.
- 2009-06-25
- Deed of gift from Reuben Bennett to his daughter, Sarah Nall, giving her a thirteen-year-old slave named Delia.
- 1863-03-06
- Also included is a certification of the deed by Berry F. Bolling, the local justice of the peace.
- 2010-11-12
- M. T. Judge's response to H. C. Nixon's questionnaire about slavery in Alabama.
- 1913-02-26
- Apparently, Judge sent more than one response to the questionnaire; in this one, he focuses on entertainment among the slaves: "In the last installment I sent you, I fear that I didnt [sic] do justice to the subject - Viz Amusements, and I dont...
- 2009-09-11
- "Strung Up."
- 1889-01-16
- Article from The Weekly Herald about the lynching of George Meadows at Pratt Mines in Jefferson County, Alabama. Meadows, an African American, was accused of assaulting a white woman and killing her young son.
- 2009-09-18
- Letter from James Jackson from the Chickahominy battlefield in Virginia, to his wife, parents, and sisters.
- 1862-07-06
- At the time this letter was written, Jackson was serving in the 47th Alabama Infantry. In it he describes the recent Confederate victory at the Battle of Gaines' Mill (also known as the Battle of Chickahominy River): "This is one of the greatest...
- 2009-12-14
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by Reuben Bennett from Richard Cooper.
- 1833-01-10
- Bennett purchased the slave, a nineteen-year-old young man named Willis, for $600 in Selma, Alabama.
- 2010-11-12