ABOLITION & EMANCIPATION

Part 6: Papers of William Wilberforce, William Smith, Iveson Brookes, Francis Corbin and related records from the Rare Books, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Contents of Reels

REEL 89

William Wilberforce: Letters, 1782-1805
Information about Wilberforce Manuscripts in Great Britain (Box 1, Folder 1)
[Please note that letters for the 1970s at the back of this file have been excluded].
Letters, 1782-1789 (Box 1, Folder 2)
Letters, 1790-1795 (Box 1, Folder 3)
Letters, 1796-1799 (Box 1, Folder 4)
Letters, 1800-1803 (Box 1, Folder 5)
Letters, 1804-1805 (Box 2, Folder 1)

REEL 90

William Wilberforce: Letters, 1806-1818
Letters, 1806-1807 (Box 2, Folder 2)
Letters, 1808-1810 (Box 2, Folder 3)
Letters, 1811-1813 (Box 2, Folder 4)
Letters, 1814-1815 (Box 3, Folder 1)
Letters, 1816-1818 (Box 3, Folder 2)

REEL 91

William Wilberforce: Letters, 1819-1837 and nd
Letters, 1819-1820 (Box 3, Folder 3)
Letters, 1821-1822 (Box 3, Folder 4)
Letters, 1823-1826 (Box 4, Folder 1)
Letters, 1827-1830 (Box 4, Folder 2)
Letters, 1831-1837 (Box 4, Folder 3)
Letters, undated (Box 4, Folder 4)

Account Books, 1829-1833
Account books, 1829-1833 (Box 4, 2 volumes)

REEL 92

William Smith: Letters, 1787-1819
Description and Index (Box 1, 14 folios)
Letters, 1787-1799 (Box 1, Folder 1)
Letters, 1800-1806 (Box 1, Folder 2)
Letters, 1807-1819 (Box 1, Folder 3)

William Smith: Letters, 1820-1860
Letters, 1820-1829 (Box 2, Folder 1)
Letters, 1830-1833 (Box 2, Folder 2)
Letters, 1834-1860 and nd (Box 2, Folder 3)

Miscellaneous Papers, 1785-1833 and nd
(Box 2, Folders 4 and 5)

REEL 93

William Smith: Miscellaneous Papers on Slavery & The Slave Trade c 1788-1834 and nd.
Miscellaneous Printed Material, 1788-1822 (Box 3, Folder1)
Miscellaneous Printed Material, 1823-1834 (Box 3, Folder 2)
Miscellaneous Printed Material, undated (Box 3, Folder 3)
Slavery in the West Indies, undated (Box 3, Folder 4)
Slave trade between Africa and the West Indies, undated (Box 3, Folder 5)
General conditions of Negroes in Africa, undated (Box 3, Folder 6)
Speeches and resolutions relative to Slavery, undated (Box 3, Folder 7)

REEL 94

Campbell Family Papers
Writings on Slavery (Box 41, Folder 1)
Writings on Abolition Societies (Box 41, Folder 2)
Thomas Clarkson Papers, 1807-1846
Letters and newscuttings (1 Folder)
Samuel Wilberforce Papers, 1790-1872 (1 folder)
Samuel Wilberforce (Addition), Papers 1847-1872 (1 folder)
Zachary Macaulay Letters, 1812-1820
Letter to Captain Close, 14 December 1812 (1 item)
Letter from the firm of Macaulay & Babington, written by Zachary Macaulay to Latham Rice & Co found in Great Britain Papers (Literary) (1 item)
Joseph Sturge Letter, 28 July 1838
Letter addressed to the Negro Emancipation Committee in London, 28 July 1838 (1 item)
Benjamin Franklin Letter on Slavery, 25 October 1788
Letter on slavery, 25 October 1788 (1 item)
[Does not include material on the Printing Press housed in the same folder, dated 1841]
George Bradley Letters, 1845-1868 (6 items)
Francis Cope Yarnall Papers, 1853-1861
Background material (4 items)
Diary entitled “Letters on Slavery” (1 volume)

REEL 95

Jacob Rhett Motte Correspondence & Papers, 1743-1902
Exeter Plantation Book, 1846-1871 (Folder 1)
Correspondence and Papers, 1743-1836 (Folder 2)
Correspondence and Papers, 1837-1843 (Folder 3)
Correspondence and Papers, 1844-1848 (Folder 4)
Correspondence and Papers, 1849-1902 (Folder 5)
Correspondence and Papers, undated, (Folder 6)
[The 1850 diary “Every-body’s Almanac for 1850” is included here even though it is blank in terms of actual entries. Pages 1-32 provide good contextual material with a chronicle of events, 1848-1849, and a page of statistics on the Population, Products and Manufacturers of the US]
Account Books, 1838-1845 (1 Folder, 2 Volumes)

REEL 96

African American Miscellany
Slavery Division, 1757-1857 (Box 1, Folder 1)
Slavery Division, 1858-1867 and nd, including material on the Agency at Savannah, Georgia,
papers on other Agencies and Auctioneers, sale bonds and bills of sale (Box 1, Folder 2)
Miscellaneous material (Box 2, Folder 1)

REEL 97

African American Miscellany
Bank Book of Freedman’s Savings Trust Company, Savannah, Georgia (Box 2, 1 volume)
The Mary Hamling volume of 1812, Salem, Ohio (Box 2, 1 volume)
Selected list of books by and about the African American (Box 2, Folder 5)
[Please note folders 2 and 4 have been omitted as these comprise printed material and clippings for the period c.1950-1970]
Two letters from 1859 and 1930 (Box 2, Folder 6)
Indenture, 22 January 1802 (Oversize Box 48)
Mortgage of Personal Property, 14 October 1843 (Oversize Box 48)
3 Bills of Sale, 1852-1865 (Oversize Box 48)
Methodist Episcopal Church, North Carolina Conference, Greensboro District 1841 1852
Haw River Circuit Church Book, (1 volume)
Currier & Ives Collection c 1860-1900
“Black Stereotypes” - a series of caricatures (Oversize 2, Box 46, 13 items)
African American Theater and Minstrel Show Advertisements (Oversize OC III 1,9, 9 items)
Virginia: Campbell County Clerk Register of Negroes, 1801-1850 (1 volume)
Rankin-Parker Collection
“Eliza of Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Frank M Gregg (Folder 1)
John Rankin’s Autobiography, c.1880 (Folder 2)
John Parker Story (Folder 3)
George Gage Papers
Freedmen’s and Home Relief Association of Lambertville, NJ. Minutes for 1864 (Box 1)
Journal of Sara M Ely, 1866 (Box 1)
(These two volumes are bound together)
Africa Papers 1838-1852
Letters (various) (Folder 2)
Typescript entitled “South Africa” by Cyril Sofer (Folder 5)
[Please note, other folders omitted as they cover a different time period and were not
relevant to this project]

REEL 98

Francis Porteus Corbin: Correspondence & Papers 1662-1839
Sketch. Information about the material; partial listing; family tree (Box 1, Folder 1)
Genealogy and calendar (Box 1, Folder 2)
Correspondence and papers, 1662-1795 (Box 1, Folder 3)
Correspondence and papers, 1796-1804 (Box 1, Folder 4)
Correspondence and papers, 1805-1814 (Box 1, Folder 5)
Correspondence and papers, 1815-1819 (Box 1, Folder 6)
Correspondence and papers, 1820-1839 (Box 1, Folder 7)

REEL 99

Francis Porteus Corbin: Correspondence & Papers, 1840-1876
Correspondence and papers, 1840-1844 (Box 1, Folder 8)
Correspondence and papers, 1845-1849 (Box 1, Folder 9)
Correspondence and papers, 1850-1859 (Box 2, Folder 1)
Correspondence and papers, 1860-1876 (Box 2, Folder 2)

REEL 100

Francis Porteus Corbin: Correspondence & Papers, c 1805-1876 & nd
Correspondence and papers, undated (Box 2, Folder 3)
Portfolio of Deeds and Indentures (1 portfolio in Picture Cabinet Drawer)
Henry McPherson Papers, 1801-1826
Accounts (1 Folder, 3 items)
Day book of accounts (1 volume)
Samuel Chapman Papers, 1800-1822
Financial papers, 1815-1822 (1 folder)
Account book, 1800-1822 (1 volume)
Manchester Ward Weld Papers, c 1847-1870
Background information (1 folder)
Printed material, 1872 (1 folder)
Record Book, 1847-c.1870 (1 volume)
William George Matton Papers, 1859-1887
Autobiographical sketch, 1887 (1 folder)
Memoirs, Chapters I-VII (1 folder)
Memoirs, Chapters VIII-XIII (1 folder)

REEL 101

Thomas B Nalle Papers
Papers, 1875-1905 (Box 2, Folder 6)
Papers, undated (Box 2, Folder 7)
Thomas B Nalle’s Farm Accounts and Notes, 1877-1881 (1 volume)
Iveson L Brookes Papers
Letters, 1817-1856 (Box 1, Folders 1-2)

REEL 102

Iveson L Brookes Papers
Letters, 1857-1888 and nd (Box 2, Folders 1-2)
Sermons and sermon notes, nd (Box 3, Folder 1)

REEL 103

Iveson L Brookes Papers c 1784-1878
Notebooks, nd (11 small volumes in Box 3, Folder 2)
Bills and receipts, 1829-1878 (Box 3, Folder 3)
Legal papers, 1784-1867 and nd (Box 3, Folder 4)
Miscellaneous, nd (Box 3, Folder 5)
Samuel Fuqua Account Book, c 1835-1866 (1 volume)

REEL 104

John Ramsey Papers, 1834-1885
Papers, 1859-1884 and nd (1 folder)
Ramsey Account Book, 1834-1872 (1 volume)
Ramsey Account Book including Ledger for Agricultural Labourers, 1878-1880 (1 volume)
John Ramsey Ledger including Ledger of General Store (1844-1847) and Ledger for Medical of Junius Napoleon Ramsey (1867-1873), 1844-1872 (1 volume)
John Ramsey Account Book including Day Book of General Store (January 1-March 10, 1849), 1870-1882 (1 volume)
[Please note, ledger for 1908-1909 is omitted]

REEL 105

Thomas Garrett: 6 December 1866 “Address to the Coloured People of St. Helena Island of South Carolina” (1 item)
Abolitionist Speech c.1850 On the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 (1 item)
Isaac Shoemaker: Diary, 1864 A Northerner who Operated a Cotton Plantation in
Mississippi, Reflecting the Trials of a Plantation Manager after Slaves have been Freed. (1 Volume)
Log Book: 1791-1792 For Thomas Leyland’s “Christopher” 4th Voyage (1 volume)
Slave Transporter’s Notebook (1 volume)
John Richardson Kilby Papers c 1840-1889
3 letters dated 1 February 1850 (Box 1), 2 March 1854 (Box 3) and 26 June 1856 (Box 4)

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