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Charles Carroll collection
Francis T. King reminiscences
Collection consists of a holographic manuscript (14 pages) of Francis T. King spanning the years 1826-1843, along with a typescript translation.
John Pendleton Kennedy letter to the National Intelligencer newspaper
John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a politician (elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1838) and writer with strong ties to the South. This collection includes a public letter which elucidates Kennedy's dialogue as an apologist for slavery on the one hand, and the views of famed anti-slavery activist, Lewis Tappan, on the other. The correspondence was written on March 5, 1850.
Johns Hopkins University collection of slavery records
The Johns Hopkins University collection of slavery records is an artificially assembed collection by the curators of Special collections, with materials that span from the 18th to the 19th century and primarily document the enslavement of African Americans in the United States.
Merryman-Crane family papers
The Merryman-Crane family papers document the extended Merryman family, land owners and enslavers in Baltimore County, Maryland, and the Crane family,enslavers from Richmond, Virginia who were related to the Merrymans through the 1871 marriage of Henry Ryland Crane and Clara Merrman. The papers consist of land deeds, legal documents, and correspondence, poetry, prose, financial documents, photographs, etc.