The collection

<I>When The Moon Shines</I>

Bert Williams · 1904

ink on paper; H x W: 13 3/4 × 10 3/4 in. (34.9 × 27.3 cm)

Public domain

Sheet music for the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society's Jubilee

Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society · 1891

ink on paper; H x W: 9 1/8 x 6 9/16 in. (23.2 x 16.7 cm)

<I>Revised Code of Mississippi</I>

Mississippi Legislature · 1871

ink on paper (fiber product); H x W x D (closed): 10 1/4 × 7 1/16 × 2 1/2 in. (26.1 × 18 × 6.4 cm); H x W x D (open): 10 1/4 × 16 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (26.1 × 40.9 × 6.4 cm)

Court petition regarding the children of Harriet, a freedwoman

Jeremiah Fuller · November 4, 1867

ink on paper; H x W: 6 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (16.5 x 19.7 cm)

Public domain

Bill of Sale for Chloe from Z. B. Oakes to Elias N. Ball

Walker · October 25, 1862

ink on paper; H x W: 14 × 8 1/2 in. (35.6 × 21.6 cm)

<I>The Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court</I>

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney · 1857

ink on paper with string; H x W x D: 9 1/16 × 5 13/16 × 5/16 in. (23 × 14.7 × 0.8 cm)

Public domain

Bill of sale for a boy named Hall to Jerome B. Annis

William Cardin · January 16, 1854

ink on paper (fiber product); H x W: 5 1/8 × 7 9/16 in. (13 × 19.2 cm)

<I>Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly</I>

Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1852

ink on paper; H x W x D (Closed): 9 5/16 × 6 5/16 × 7/8 in. (23.7 × 16 × 2.2 cm); H x W x D (Open): 9 5/16 × 12 1/2 × 7/8 in. (23.7 × 31.8 × 2.2 cm)

Public domain

<I>New-York Mirror Vol. XI No. 14</I>

George Pope Morris · October 5, 1833

ink on paper (fiber product); H x W: 13 3/4 × 10 5/8 in. (34.9 × 27 cm)

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Rouzee estates

Rouzee Family · October 1829

ink on paper; L x W: 6 3/4 x 8 in. (17.1 x 20.3 cm)

Public domain

Invoice for weaving and the hiring of an enslaved woman, Philice

Rouzee Family · 1805–1807

ink on paper; L x W: 7 x 8 1/8 in. (17.8 x 20.6 cm)

Public domain

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Rouzee Family · September 1803

ink on paper; L x W: 5 x 7 1/2 in. (12.7 x 19.1 cm)

Public domain

Memorandum of enslaved men and women hired or not hired for 1794

Rouzee Family · 1794

ink on paper; L x W: 8 5/8 x 4 1/2 in. (21.9 x 11.4 cm)

Public domain

Photographic print of a woman on a porch

William O. Turner · early 20th century

ink on paper; H x W (Image): 3 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (8.3 × 8.9 cm); H x W (Sheet): 5 3/16 × 5 3/16 in. (13.2 × 13.2 cm)

Public domain

<I>"Right to Work" Laws - A Trap for America's Minorities</I>

A. Philip Randolph Institute · n.d.

ink on paper; H x W: 9 x 5 15/16 in. (22.8 x 15.1 cm)

Envelope addressed to James Baldwin from Alex Haley

Alex Haley · mid-20th century

ink on paper (fiber product); L x W: 8 3/4 x 4 in. (22.2 x 10.2 cm)