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Bill of sale for enslaved man, Griffin, "suppose to be about Thirty years of age" for the sum of two hundred and eighty-four dollars.

"Conviction of Andrew & Israel Peters at a court of special sessions." Queens County Justices of the Peace convicted Andrew Peters and Israel Peters, African American men, of petit larceny for stealing three turkeys from Richard Hubbs. Andrew Peters to be imprisoned for four months and Israel Peters for thirty days.

Miner, a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, offers opinions and information on colonization; 1808 abolition of slave trade has not worked, the possibility of sending Africans to Cuba.

Sale of Caroline, a slave child, by Samuel Bowling to George Alderson for $200. This document arrived at the Clements Library with John Anderson DS to Nathaniel Willsin [i.e. Wilson], April 14, 1785, respecting the sale of James, another child slave.

Ralph Gurley's findings while researching 'Prince' [Abdul Rahman], an escaped slave, who claimed Moorish ancestry was a way to secure his liberation and eventual journey back to Africa.

Regarding Methodist missionaries and recent "Nevis Marriage Act"; the act reads that "It is expedient to encourage the Celebration of . . . Marriages among the Slaves of this Island, and, as forces can be, abolish the irreligious mode of living together between the sexes." Requests that the Methodist missionaries living in Nevis be granted the right to sanction slave marriages. Attached is Horace Twiss LS to James Townley, s.l.; December 6, 1828, regarding slave marriage.

School essay on Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution.

A free person of color's bond

"Monthly Account of Negroes, Stock, Produce, Receipts and Casualties on Park Hill Estate, St. Vincent," sent to Macdowall in Edinburgh. Printed table filled in for June and July 1830, listing increase, decrease, and total number of enslaved people. Lists number of draught oxen, horned cattle, and sheep, as well as amounts of sugar, rum, molasses, staves of red and white oak, feet of lumber, and acres of crops. Section for "Explanatory Letter" includes a letter from George Rickard regarding the completion and shipment of the sugar crop, as well as activities relating to rum and molasses. References enslaved women and children, whooping cough, "Cooper Rose" being hospitalized, and the need for certain supplies. Alex McB[]'s letter discusses the rum and molasses shipments, as well as the death of a woman in London and annuity payments to her heirs. See also Hugh Ramsay and Robert Cameron, Partially printed DS to Allan McDowall, July 1, 1832 - August 11, 1832.

Estate documents of James French's Richmond Hill plantation, St. Vincent, including an inventory of enslaved persons from 1817-1827. The inventory includes names, "colour," employment, age, and "country" (African or Creole).