African American Manuscripts - Colonial and Antebellum Eras

Collection consists of photocopies of documents originally belonging to James Rogers, Bristol, England, a merchant, ship owner, and slave trader.

Account detailing the value of the ship Ascention and its cargo including 52 slaves. Apparently, the ship was lost in the slaves' insurrection in 1793.

Collection consists of the financial records of a voyage of the CHRISTOPHER, from Liverpool to the Congo River region of Africa.

Collection consists of a letter by Champlins' agents, Threlfall and Anderson, to the Champlins, reporting on the slave market at Grenada, Windward Islands.

Collection comprises Sir George Collier's instructions to trade ships off the coast of Africa.

Typescript of a letter (1794) concerning the transport of slaves from Georgia to Havana

Collection consists of two letters concerning the seizure and return of thirty slaves by British troops, and giving recipes for home remedies.

Volume contains entries relating to the operation of a North Carolina general store and an earlier similar operation in the West Indies. A few entries in each section record slave transactions: money lent for the purchase of slaves, money paid for their labor, or money received for the actual sale of slaves.

Collection consists largely of correspondence received by Wilberforce relating primarily to missionary activities of the Church of England in East and Central Africa. Letters also describe British efforts to thwart the Portuguese slave trade.