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Title: Franklin and Slavery: The Peculiar Connection
Identifier(s): video:694; 2006_04_018
Description: Gary Nash focuses the enslaved people in Franklin's household.
Subject: Early American History; Social history, 18th century; Slavery, History, 18th century; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Slavery; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2006-04-28

Title: Resolution, United States. Congress, 1782 September 10; United States. Congress. Resolution
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:11039
Description: A resolution from Congress that discusses the loss of property, including enslaved people, by the British Army and restitution for this loss for the former owners and enslavers.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Slavery; Slavery--United States--History--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Destruction and pillage
Date: 1782-09-10; 2022

Title: Legal case and opinion
Identifier(s): text:342880
Subject: Slavery -- United States; African Americans -- History -- To 1863; Fonblanque, John, 1760-1837
Date: 192-01-14

Title: Bill of sale
Identifier(s): text:342860
Description: Butler, Christopher Deed, bill of sale for a woman to William A Washington
Subject: Slavery -- United States; African Americans -- History -- To 1863; Washington, William Augustine, 1757-1810
Date: 1792-08-30

Title: Benjamin Dearborn to the American Philosophical Society, 1803 February 4
Identifier(s): text:253139
Description: Background note: Dearborn was an educator and an inventor. Philadelphia, A.L.S. 1p. Enc. of 7p. Concerning the abolition of slavery. Cf. Minutes, p. 338. Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Husbandry and Economics
Subject: Dearborn, Benjamin, 1754-1838; American Philosophical Society; Slavery--United States--History
Date: 1803-02-04

Title: Deed of Emancipation
Identifier(s): text:342903
Subject: Slavery -- United States; African Americans -- History -- To 1863; Powell, Leven, 1737-1810
Date: 1790-11-20

Title: Going over descriptions of artifacts: model war canoe, with discussion of slave raids
Identifier(s): audio:8333; APSdigrec_3276; Recording Number: 33; Program Number: 04
Description: Translation and transcription of previously recorded material in Lummi as it is played back to the consultant in short excerpts. Primarily concerns discussion of raids in the past by groups from the north looking for people to make into slaves.; The left channel has been digitally duplicated to the right channel due to a severe print-through effect on original tape's right channel. Contains a faint echo distortion throughout.
Source: Demers, Richard. Lummi recordings, 1974. (Mss.Rec.105);
Subject: North Straits Salish language; Lummi dialect; Lummi Indians--Material culture; Lummi Indians--History; Slavery
Date: 1974-08-06

Title: Going over descriptions of artifacts: model war canoe, with discussion of slave raids
Identifier(s): audio:8340; APSdigrec_3277; Recording Number: 33; Program Number: 05
Description: Translation and transcription of previously recorded material in Lummi as it is played back to the consultant in short excerpts. Primarily concerns discussion of raids in the past by groups from the north looking for people to make into slaves.; The left channel has been digitally duplicated to the right channel due to a severe print-through effect on original tape's right channel.
Source: Demers, Richard. Lummi recordings, 1974. (Mss.Rec.105);
Subject: North Straits Salish language; Lummi dialect; Lummi Indians--Material culture; Lummi Indians--History; Slavery
Date: 1974-08-07

Title: Going over descriptions of artifacts: model war canoe, discussion of slave raids, spindle
Identifier(s): audio:8344; APSdigrec_3278; Recording Number: 34; Program Number: 01
Description: Translation and transcription of previously recorded material in Lummi as it is played back to the consultant in short excerpts. Primarily concerns discussion of raids in the past by groups from the north looking for people to make into slaves. Also includes elicited sentences.
Source: Demers, Richard. Lummi recordings, 1974. (Mss.Rec.105);
Subject: North Straits Salish language; Lummi dialect; Lummi Indians--Material culture; Lummi Indians--History; Slavery
Date: 1974-08-07

Title: Sharp, Granville to Benjamin Franklin, [1774]
Identifier(s): text:251622
Description: Extract from a letter to Mr. Pecuezet, dated January 7, 1774, concerning the gradual enfranchisement of slaves already in the colonies.
Subject: Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Abolition, emancipation, freedom; Slaves, slavery, slave trade
Date: [1774]

Title: Howe?, John to John Fisher, 1716/17 January 7; No. 559 John Howe? to John Fisher
Identifier(s): text:348748
Description: Receipt for a Negro boy "Sold & Delivered."
Subject: Slave traders; Slaveholders; Slavery; Slave trade--America; Fisher, John, active 1777-1802
Date: 1716/17 January 7; 2022

Title: Donaldson, Alexander and Robert Jeffries, 1752 October 7
Identifier(s): text:342879
Subject: Donaldson, Alexander, -1794; Slavery -- United States; African Americans -- History -- To 1863
Date: 1752-10-07

Title: Rush, Benjamin to Benjamin Franklin, 1773 May 1
Identifier(s): text:251618
Description: Philadelphia. Dr. Priestley's experiment with fixed air; his observations thereon. Sending Franklin a pamphlet of his against the importation of negro slaves into Pennsylvania. Desires to see Franklin's treatise on colds; Dr. Cullen's observations on catarrhs and colds. Marriage of Rev. Mr. Coombe.
Subject: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Slaves, slavery, slave trade
Date: 1773-05-01

Title: Constable, William to John White, 1779 August 3; Constable, William, 1721-1791. Letter to John White, Philadelphia
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8906
Description: Letter from William Constable to John White about the possibilities for making money if slaves could be imported and sold.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Slavery--United States--History--18th century; Slave trade--United States--History
Date: 1779-08-03; 2022

Title: Foulke, William Parker to George S. Houston
Description: George S. Houston was the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means in the House of Representatives. Speaking on behalf of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, Foulke's letter argues for Congressional appropriations to fund a Liberian expedition.
Subject: Africa, West--Description and travel; Colonization, repatriation; Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform; Slavery -- United States
Date: 1853-02-11

Title: Benezet, Anthony to Benjamin Franklin, 1772 April 27
Identifier(s): text:251614
Description: Philadelphia. Looking forward to holding converse with Franklin in the winter evenings on past dangers and better future prospects. Concerning the grievous iniquities practiced towards the negroes; asks him to consider whether he may not be able to do something effectual towards the removal of that terrible evil; at the same time that he sent the tracts on the slave trade to Franklin, sent them to the most weighty of their friends in London; desired them to consider whether it might not be their duty to lay the iniquity and dreadful consequence of the slave trade before the Parliament. Realizes the opposition they are likely to encounter from those "who sell their country and their God for gold"; pleads the cause however with great cloquence and fervor; number of slaves in English colonies; many opposed to it in New England, and also in Virginia, who will add their weight to any reform.
Subject: Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Abolition, emancipation, freedom; Slaves, slavery, slave trade
Date: 1772-04-27

Title: Memorial to James Madison concerning his ship of slaves which was captured and sold in Cuba, 1808 July 28
Identifier(s): text:347291
Description: Charleston, D.S. 1p.and end.by T.Jefferson with a statement on U.S.policy on slavery. Presented by Morris Duane; Nov. 26, 1963. The Semiramis was one of South Carolina merchant Samuel Grove's slave ships that was involved in the legal slave trade to Charleston in 1807. The Semiramis was captured on December 15, 1807 off Cape Maize (the straights between Cuba and Florida) by the Le Reparateur. This vessel was a privateer that was apparently owned by a Spanish subject but operated under a letter of marque issued by General Louis Ferrand - the commander of French forces on the Eastern half of the island of Hispaniola, then waging the final phases of the Haitian War for Independence. The Le Reparateur brought the Semiramis and her cargo of enslaved individuals to Santiago, Cuba, where the individuals were sold into slavery and the proceeds of the sale (apparently $126,000) awarded to the owners of the privateer. General physical description: 12-3/4x7-3/4 Other Descriptive Information: See NY Evening Post, 1808 February 15. Capture of the slave ship Semiramis.
Subject: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Charleston (S.C.); Santiago de Cuba (Cuba); Slave traders; Slave ships; Slavery; Privateering
Date: 1808-07-28

Title: Thomas Jefferson to [Richard] Price, 1785 August 7
Identifier(s): text:253121
Description: Paris, A.L.S. 2p. End. (see Richard Price Papers. Letters from... B. Franklin.) Printed: Washington, Writings of T. Jefferson, I, 376-378.
Subject: Price, Richard, 1723-1791; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Slavery--United States--History
Date: 1785-08-07

Title: Receipt, 1781 September 16; Receipt-Zully[?]
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:10800
Description: A receipt signed by Louis Zelly that he has received 12 Louis for his "master" John Shaffer who is a prisoner in the Grand Chatelet.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Slavery; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons
Date: 1781-09-16; 2022

Title: Habersham, James to his brother John Habersham, 1777 March 23; No. 442 James Habersham to his brother John Habersham
Identifier(s): text:347692
Description: Discusses planting and selling rice; mentions two men who were confined and later paroled by the Continental Congress.
Creator: Habersham, James, 1745-1799et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons; Slavery; Slaves; Habersham, John, 1754-1800
Date: 1777-03-23; 2022