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LC Subject Heading: Slavery

Historical Items

These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.

Item 16563

Title page from First Edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1852 Media: Paper

Item 23187

Miriam Monroe recollections of Edward K. Whitney, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Western Maine Cultural Alliance Date: circa 1850 Location: Norway; Paris Media: MP3

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Item 42141

Samuel Longfellow, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Portland Media: Oil, canvas, pine

Item 102024

Letter from Thomas Hodges to Captain Henry Skinner, Portland, 1791

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Les Cayes Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10241

Letter from Samuel J. May to Elizabeth Mountfort, July 4, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866-07-04 Location: Leicester; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 6644

Human neck shackle, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Pontchartrain Media: Iron

Item 9208

Capt. John Davison letter to wife, 1845

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1845-03-13 Location: Franklin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10086

Portland Anti-Slavery Society Letterbook, Portland, 1850-1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Location: Portland; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10232

Letter from Sylvester Judd to Elizabeth Mountfort, August 5, 1850

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1850-08-05 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 22513

William Pepperrell receipt for purchase of enslaved man, 1718

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1718-05-26 Location: Kittery Media: Ink on paper

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Item 36927

Map of underground routes to Canada, 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1780–1865 Media: Ink on paper

Item 101828

Cargo of Ship Eagle, 1791

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Les Cayes Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102023

Thomas Robison from Thomas Hodges regarding illegal slave trade, Les Cayes, April 6, 1791

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Portland; Les Cayes Media: Ink on paper

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Item 103126

Benjamin Bullard to Sir William Pepperell on slave trading, Barbados, 1720

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1720-03-15 Location: Bridgetown; Kittery Media: Ink on paper

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Item 108739

Pepperrell House, Kittery, ca. 1774

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1774 Location: Kittery Media: Ink on paper

Item 9216

Letter to George Richardson from Fessenden & Deblois, 1845

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1845-07-26 Location: Portland; Rio de Janeiro; Portland; Rio de Janeiro Media: Ink on paper

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