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Keywords: 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 6355

Bill of sale for slave Scippio, 1759

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1759-12-07 Location: Falmouth Media: Ink on paper

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Item 7546

Sir William Pepperrell portrait, 1907

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1740 Location: Kittery Media: Oil on canvas

Item 7965

Civil War soldier's letter home, Oct. 1861

Contributed by: Fort Kent Public Library Date: 1861-10-12 Location: Washington; Fort Kent Media: Ink on paper

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Item 9270

Will of Charles Frost, 1724

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1724 Location: Kittery; Berwick Media: Ink on paper

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Item 13308

Henry Hinsdale letter on Indians, abolition, New York, 1841

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1841-11-02 Location: North Fairfield; Paris Media: Ink on paper

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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 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 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 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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Item 11616

John Davison letter from Mobile, Alabama, 1848

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1848-09-30 Location: Mobile Media: Ink on paper

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Item 74541

Warning to Gen. Shepley on slaves, New Orleans, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-12-15 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper

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Item 76624

Request to send Freedmen's teachers to Richmond, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: Boston; Richmond Media: Ink on paper

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Item 100358

William "Napoleon" Thomas, Rumford Center, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print

Item 101075

Slave whip, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: 1864 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper

Item 16150

William Ladd, Minot, ca. 1830

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1830 Location: Minot Media: Ink on paper, engraving

Item 29087

Austin Willey, Portland, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 6210

Rosemary cottage from the air, Eliot, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1885 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print

Item 60176

Receipt for Contraband Camp donation, Washington, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Washington Media: Ink on paper

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