Keywords: Slaves
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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 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
Item 10081
Letter to Elizabeth Mounfort from a friend in Trinidad, Cuba, July 4, 1847
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1847-07-04 Location: Trinidad; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 74246
Planters' request for return of slaves, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 75056
Agreement between planters, slaves, New Orleans, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 72037
Statement denying charge of returning slaves, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 75057
Gen. Banks on putting slaves to work, New Orleans, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
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 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
Item 7372
Bill of lading for slave, 1719
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1719 Media: Ink on paper
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
Item 100614
Elisha F. Goddard, Rumford Point, ca. 1861
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1861 Location: Rumford Media: Carte de visite
Item 19278
Fugitive Slave Act cartoon, 1851
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1851 Location: Boston Media: Lithograph on wove paper, jpg
Item 99018
Lizzie Howard on wedding of former slaves, Leeds, 1864
Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library Date: 1864 Location: Augusta Media: Ink on paper
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
Item 101784
Thomas Reed to Thomas Robison regarding the Caribbean economy and slave market, Sint Eustatius, 1791
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Havana Media: Ink on paper
Item 101075
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: 1864 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper
Item 10087
Letter from Hiram Wilson to Elizabeth Mountfort, Aug. 29, 1848
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1848-08-29 Location: Portland; Detroit Media: Ink on paper
Item 9270
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1724 Location: Kittery; Berwick Media: Ink on paper
Item 101032
Israel Washburn on prohibition of inter-state slave trade, Portland, 1864
Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: 1864-07-27 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 22517
Receipt for slave, Kittery, 1738
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1738 Location: Kittery Media: Ink on paper
Item 36927
Map of underground routes to Canada, 1898
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1780–1865 Media: Ink on paper
Item 98699
John Nichols, Lewiston, ca. 1873
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1873 Location: Lewiston Media: Tintype
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
Item 15254
Henry Sewall letter to son concerning slavery, 1821
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1821 Location: Augusta Media: Ink on paper
