Archives: Browse African-American Related Collections
Title |
MG |
Cheney, Albert O. (fl. 1861-1865), Officer of Company K and D, 127th US Colored Troops | 1534 |
Congar, Horace N. (1817-1893): Contains correspondence regarding slavery; Congar was an anti-slavery advocate | 408 |
Crane-Pierson Family: Contains correspondence discussing a northern congregation’s view on abolition and white southern views of African Americans after the Civil War | 422 |
Dipper, John (1778-1836), Freed slave and Baptist minister | 1127 |
Edsall Family (English Neighborhood, NJ): Contains a slave bill of sale | 944 |
Essex County Anti-Slavery Society, Newark, NJ | 187 |
First Presbyterian Church, Woodbridge, NJ | 1119 |
Frelinghuysen Family (Newark, NJ): Contains a letter discussing black suffrage | 380 |
Gibson, Kenneth, Newark mayor collection | 1684 |
Harmonic Society of Newark: Contains a fragment of the Newark Juvenile Anti-Slavery Society’s constitution | 886 |
Holmes Family (Middletown, NJ): Contains a number of slave deeds/bills of sale and of estate inventories including slaves | 282 |
Hunt, John (fl. 1770-1824): Diary describes Quaker outreach to African Americans | 1245 |
Jackson, John P. (1805-1861): Contains materials regarding the New Jersey Colonization Society and also a letter describing the state of the slaves at Mount Vernon | 47 |
Montgomery-Burnet Family (Monmouth County, NJ): Contains a bill of sale | 574 |
Morris, George Perry (1864-1921), Journalist: Contains correspondence regarding the African Ethnological Congress | 843 |
Munn Family: Contains slave bills of sale | 416 |
New Jersey State Anti-Slavery Society | 134 |
Nichols Family (Newark, NJ): Contains a deed of manumission | 1012 |
Newark, New Jersey Photograph Collection | 1362 |
O’Fake-Lynch Family (Newark and Jersey City, NJ) | 1515 |
Randolph, Florence Spearing (1866-1951), African Methodist Episcopal minister: Also contains documents relating to the National Association of Colored Women and the Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs | 1321 |
Sabbath School for Coloured People in the Newark Academy, Female Department, Newark, NJ | 1003 |
Ship Logs Collection: Ship Catherine’s log documents a voyage to and from Africa in participation of the slave trade | 49 |
Smith, William S. (b. 1919), Minister | 928 |
Smith Family: Contains a list of slaves of Hiram Smith | 824 |
Stockton, Elias Boudinot (d. 1918), Genealogy Collection: Contains vital records for slaves | 1411 |
Dr. James Earle Stuart Papers, 1917-1980 | 1541 |
Swackhamer Family: Contains records of the Lutheran Franckean Synod, which broke from the Hartwick Synod in opposition to slavery | 1048 |
Swaim Family: Contains documents regarding the free black population in Jacksonville, Florida during Reconstruction. | 1189 |
Trinity Cathedral in Newark, Newark, NJ: Contains Bishop Leland Stark’s papers from the 1967-1968 Black Power Conference | 882 |
Derek Winans Collection, 1862-2004 | 1673 |