American Slavery Manuscript Collection American Slavery Manuscript Collection

Location

Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries

A small accumulation of unrelated manuscripts with a bearing on North American slavery. Many of the documents gathered in this collection are either slave bills of sale or estate inventories that include slaves. Seven are from Kentucky, including several from Madison County. The collection also includes several personal letters and a sample of the Arabic hand of Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, a freed slave who achieved a measure of fame during a tour of the Northeast in 1828.

Date

1771-1864

Material Type

Mixed Materials

Identifier

MSN/EA 0200

Subject

Ibrahima, Abd al-Rahman, 1762-1829

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user

Link to finding aid

https://archivesspace.library.nd.edu/repositories/3/resources/1537This digital collection may not include all items or all of the information available about the source collection. See the finding aid for more information.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection

Genre/Physical Characteristic

Manuscripts (documents)

Language

Dimensions

.25 Cubic Feet

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