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Manuscripts
1834 – 1837


Application for Revolutionary War pension made by Caesar Babcock, former slave, 1834-1837


Model of slave ship made in 1740. The ship is associated to Joseph Thurston, who owned the vessel Prudent Abigail in 1739. 


Letter to R.M. Johnson from Nicholas Boss responding to Johnson inquiry about a gallows which stood on Easton's Beach. According to two eyewitnesses, at least three individuals were executed ...


Sailing orders from Samuel & William Vernon, Newport, RI to Captain Peter Dordin, Sept. 15, 1762. Early slave document detailing orders to Dordin, Master, Brig Reynard, to proceed "directly for the co...


Slave Papers


Slave Papers


Letter to Nathaniel Briggs from owners concerning slave of Aaron Lopez. Orders to Captain Robert Mills of Barbadoes


Letter from Bonnin of Antiqua to Goulding of Newport concerning the slave trade


Signed letter from Newport Gardner / Occramer Marycoo to Samuel W. Vinson from Boston on eve of sailing to Liberia, January 2, 1826


Panoramic photo of the construction of a slave prison set for the movie Amistad at Queen Anne Square.


Panoramic photo of the construction of a slave prison set for the movie Amistad at Queen Anne Square.
Account book
VOL.1272
Account book
1770 – 1803


Most of the entries in this volume date from the 1793 to 1803 and are the accounts of  Deacon John Irish of Middletown. They document buying and selling of crops and livestock, including corn, butter,...
Account book
2003.18
Account book
1746 – 1749


An account book detailing transactions associated with merchant John Banister (1707-1767), September 1746-December 1749. Some highlights include Banister's exporting of Narragansett Pacers to the West...
2652
Manuscripts
1761 – 1837


Letters concerning Dr. William Hunter and the slave trade, 1761-1837


Copy: Inquiry concerning Slave thrown overboard while she was still alive and sick with smallpox, 1791
3146
Manuscripts
1793 – 1794


Letter concerning purchase of Lottery tickets in "The Federal City Lottery," 1793 . Slave of Governor Josias Lyndon, died Jan 23, 1794
6613
Manuscripts
1731 – 1820


Inquiry concerning slave thrown overboard while she was still alive and sick with smallpox, 1791; Misc documents relating to slavery, 1731-1820.


DeWolf Cranston testimony, 1791; Inquiry concerning Slave thrown overboard while she was still alive and sick with smallpox, 1791


Letter concerning slave and mentioning William Townsend. Listed as William Townsend, goldsmith, "...brother of Solomon...", (photostat)


Letters from Silas Cooke to Aaron Lopez headed from Whitehall, Oct. 16 and Nov. 7, 1776. Also, letters from Silas Cooke regarding runaway slave.


Apprenticeship agreement between Elisha Tew of Jamestown and Holmes Weaver of Newport for Peggy (a slave) for 10 years to learn to read, 1803


Regarding a black boy slave being sent.


Letter from Thomas Paschall of Philadelphia concerning a slave boy, 1783


Letter to Captain William English from Jacob Rod Rivera and Aaron Lopez concerning the slave trade, and the Brig Ann, April 12, 1774.
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