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Enslavement

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms || Use For: Slavery

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Abolición de la esclavitud / Abolition of Slavery in Mexico broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1025
Abstract

This collection contains a broadside distributed across the Republic of Mexico by the Mexican Congress in 1837, decreeing the abolition without exception of all slavery in all of the Republic.

Dates: 1837-04-05

Americas collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0518
Abstract:

Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the 19th century and early 20th century political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal.

Dates: 1811-1920

Andrew Forest Muir papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0017
Abstract: This material includes correspondence, research and genealogical notes which reflect the interests of historian and Rice University professor Andrew Forest Muir. They relate to 19th century Texas and Houston history; free African Americans in Texas pre-Civil War; the life and death of William Marsh Rice; the growth of the Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal Churches in the 19th century via missionary work in Texas and Hawaii; and Hawaiian history, specifically clergymen in Hawaii. These...
Dates: ca. 1916-1969

Earle C. Douglas, Jr. autograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0458
Abstract

This collection contains the autographs of Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and Steven R. Mallory.

Dates: ca. 1870

Early Rice Institute records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0101
Abstract: These records include the original William Marsh Rice murder trial records, and the estate records of Rice, founder of Rice Institute, now Rice University. These records relate to the formation of the idea of the Rice Institute and the activities of its first Board of Trustees in the years before Mr. Rice’s death and to the Institute’s formative years just after his death. The outcomes of the legal proceedings documented in these records, which related to significant financial resources and...
Dates: 1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916

Estate document for Samuel A. Burton

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0087
Abstract

The first page is the legal instrument authorizing public sale of the property of one Samuel A. Burton, deceased. Page two includes a list of enslaved persons including their first names, genders, and ages. It ends with detail of when the sale took place. The second page lists the property that was sold to the highest bidder, one David A. Burton, and its purchase price, $3500.

Dates: 1851

Indentured servant contract between the Duke of Chandos and one George Harvey

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0171
Abstract

The holding consists of an Indentured Servant Contract between the Duke of Chandos and one George Harvey, a parchment document, approximately 23 x 29 inches in size, in English and dated 1761, setting forth the terms of the indenture.

Dates: 1761

John Boles papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0423
Abstract The papers consist of historian John B. Boles’ Baltimore Museum of Art draft text and accompanying board proofs; Higginbotham Symposium 1984/85 correspondence, individual drafts of articles, and proofs; and drafts of Professor Boles’ earlier works, including The Great Revival, 1787-1805: the origins of the Southern evangelical mind; Religion in Antebellum Kentucky; America: The Middle...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1972-1988

Judge Peter W. Gray papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0417
Abstract The Judge Peter W. Gray papers include extensive handwritten documents on several of Gray’s early Texas district court cases, lectures, speeches, and official documents concerning the creation and organization of the Texas Historical Society. Court cases relate to murder, slavery, counterfeiting, the legal nature of circumstantial evidence and self defense; the notes related to these cases are generally Judge Gray’s direction to juries. The speeches include a speech given by Gray at the...
Dates: 1841-1870

Kuntz Louisiana Civil War collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0256
Abstract:

Correspondence, military documents, posters, receipts, and clippings chiefly relating to the Civil War in New Orleans and Louisiana. Includes bills of sale and lists of slaves, correspondence to Thomas Overton Moore, governor of Louisiana, and from Jefferson Davis.

Dates: 1811 - 1959