Documentary Sources Database. American Multiculturalism Series.
Unit One. Documenting the African American Experience.
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From Jefferson's reply to Benjamin Banneker
Sample Titles (two with digital images of the print source)
- Antibiastes: Observations on the slaves and the indented
servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States.
- Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806:
Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson,
the secretary of state, with his answer.
[Illustrated]
- Bestes, Peter [and three others]:
Letter: Boston, April 20th, 1773.
- Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw:
A narrative of the most remarkable
particulars in the life of James Albert
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African prince, written by himself.
- Hammon, Briton:
A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of
Briton Hammon, a Negro man.
[Illustrated]
- Hammon, Jupiter, 1711-ca. 1800: An address to the Negroes in the state of
New-York, by Jupiter Hammon,
servant of John Lloyd, Jun, Esq; of the manor of Queen's Village,
Long-Island.
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784:
An elegy, sacred to the memory of the great divine, the Reverend and
learned Dr. Samuel Cooper, who departed this life December 29, 1783,
aetatis 59. by Phillis Peters.
- Various.
Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the
manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage.
- Wallace, George, 1727-1805:
From the United States chronicle, Thursday, February 19, 1784.
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