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Title: Onslow, Richard to Charles? Harrison, 1778 March 20; No. 1042 Richard Onslow to Charles? Harrison
Identifier(s): text:353288
Description: Offers to return thirty Negroes who escaped from Portsmouth, [Va.] to Onslow's vessel provided Harrison can assure him that they will not be punished.
Subject: Enslaved persons; Slavery; Fugitive slaves
Date: 1778-03-20; 2023

Title: Habersham, James to his brother, John Habersham, 1787 October 2; No. 450 James Habersham to his brother, John Habersham
Identifier(s): text:347623
Description: Comments that Gen. [Elijah] Clarke's skirmish with the Indians [at Jack's Creek, Ga.] was misrepresented and that Clarke's letter that will be published in a newspaper gives a very different account of the matter, and describes Clarke's account of the skirmish; asks him to sell barrels of rice; gives instructions for work to be done by his own Negroes.
Creator: Habersham, James, 1745-1799et al
Subject: Slavery; Slaves; Habersham, John, 1754-1808
Date: 1787-10-02; 2022

Title: Habersham, James to John Habersham, 1782 January 13; No. 445 James Habersham to John Habersham
Identifier(s): text:347674
Description: Informs him about James Habersham's business matters, mentions that he still has several Negroes to hire out, and expresses hope that he can pay debts without "parting with my poor fugitives"; informs him about a report that St. Eustatius and St. Martin, [W.I.] were retaken by the French; informs him that in Virginia paper money is no longer legal tender in payment of any debt or contract except taxes for 1781, describes the procedure adopted by the House of Assembly for retiring the emission, and mentions that the House also settled on a scale of depreciation for paying debts.
Creator: Habersham, James, 1745-1799et al
Subject: Taxation; Slavery; Slaves; Habersham, John, 1754-1803
Date: 1782-01-13; 2022

Title: Guerarde, Benjamin to John Hancock, 1783 October 6; No. 438 Benjamin Guerarde to John Hancock
Identifier(s): text:347608
Description: Complains that Negroes who belong to citizens of South Carolina were captured by the British and recaptured by armed vessels belonging to Massachusetts and that they are still detained by the latter state.; "Copy"
Subject: Slaves; Slavery; Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Date: 1783-10-06; 2022

Title: Custis, John and Tully Wise, 1791 September 21; No. 221 John Custis and Tully Wise
Identifier(s): text:325877
Description: Affidavit that a certificate that Negro Southy produced in Cuba that claims he is a freeman is a forgery.
Creator: Custis, John Parke, 1754-1781et al
Subject: Fugitive slaves; Custis, John Parke, 1754-1781
Date: 1791-09-21; 2021

Title: Habersham, James to John Habersham, 1787 January 11; No. 449 James Habersham to John Habersham
Identifier(s): text:347685
Description: Discusses problems involving his own slaves; discusses matters before the legislature, which include efforts to give "Credit & Stability" to paper money.
Creator: Habersham, James, 1745-1799et al
Subject: Slavery; Slaves; Habersham, John, 1754-1807
Date: 1787-01-11; 2022

Title: Song of the Slave, gucdutin
Identifier(s): audio:6972; APSdigrec_1049; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 11
Description: "Minnie introduces the song in Tlingit. It was composed by her mother's father's slave, gocdutin. He gave his master's sib, the teqwedi, the song and the face-paint pattern he used when he escaped. Cf. Swanton Song 68."; Recording ends with identification song and previously recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Indian slaves--Alaska
Date: 1954-04-07

Title: Song of Slave, gucdutin, (incorrect version)
Identifier(s): audio:6942; APSdigrec_1048; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 10
Description: Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequent recording. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Indian slaves--Alaska
Date: 1954-04-07

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: 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: 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: List of enslaved humans at Poplar Forest and Bear Creek, Giving Clothing and Blankets Needed
Identifier(s): text:252067
Subject: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Slavery--United States--History; Slaves, slavery, slave trade
Date: undated

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

Title: Roberdeau, Daniel to Benjamin Franklin, 1770 February 27
Identifier(s): text:251032
Description: Philadelphia. Concerning the sale of his estate in St. Christopher's; if Franklin will take charge of it, he will save him a trip to England; does not sell from necessity, but partly to remove the temptation of slave-holding from his children. Commits himself and his affairs to Franklin's prudent and careful management.
Subject: Roberdeau, Daniel, 1727-1795; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Slaves, slavery, slave trade
Date: 1770-02-27