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• Title:Documents concerning the slave trade in the United States, 1830-1849.
  
• Physical Description:13 items.
  
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: WA MSS S-2861 D6597
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Purchased from William Reese (Spink Shreves Galleries, Floyd E. Risvold collection sale, 2010 January 27-29, lot 907) on the Thomas W. Streeter Fund, 2010.
  
• Organization:Arranged chronologically.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Summary:Twelve manuscript legal documents in unidentified hands concerning the slave trade in Louisiana and Mississippi and one printed broadside advertising the sale of slaves in St. Louis, Missouri. The legal documents include bills of sale for slaves.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Documents Concerning the Slave Trade in the United States. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:African Americans--Louisiana.
  African Americans--Mississippi.
  African Americans--Missouri.
  Slavery--Louisiana.
  Slave trade--Louisiana.
  Slavery--Mississippi.
  Slave trade--Mississippi.
  Slavery--Missouri.
  Slave trade--Missouri.
  Slave trade--United States.
  Louisiana--History--1803-1865.
  Mississippi--Politics and government--19th century.
  Mississippi--Economic conditions--19th century.
  Mississippi--Social life and customs--19th century.
  United States--Politics and government--19th century.
  United States--Economic conditions--19th century.
  United States--Social life and customs--19th century.
  
• Genre/Form:Legal documents--Mississippi--19th century.
  Legal documents--Louisiana--19th century.