Slavery
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Potomac Company Payroll Log
Collection
Identifier: GTM-0058
Scope and Contents
A single payroll log of the Potomac Company ("Potowmack Company"), a company formed to improve the navigation system for the Potomac River, for canal construction workers employed at Little Falls on the Potomac River. Written in tabular format, the document lists 90 individual workers with their occupations, number of days worked, monthly wage rates, rations deducted from wages, and the authorization of the receipt of payment signified by the workers' signatures or mark and the signature of...
Dates:
1793 October 26 - 1794 January 23
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Roosevelt Civil War Envelopes Collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030756293]
Identifier: GTM-0035
Scope and Contents
The Roosevelt Civil War Envelopes Collection contains 370 envelopes illustrated with American Civil war themes. Bound together in one album, the envelopes often depict the American flag, patriotic slogans, and satirical portrayals. Representations include Lady Liberty, Abraham Lincoln, Winfield Scott, and Elmer E. Ellsworth, to name a few. Also, slavery is addressed in some of the envelopes. Moreover, references to the American Revolution are presented. While most of the envelopes focus on...
Dates:
1861
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Joshua Seney Memoranda Book
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020031854378]
Identifier: GTM-0080
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a bound volume of orders related to measures taken by Queen Anne's County, Maryland, courts to protect property (collect debts, etc.) written down by Joshua Seney. At the front there is a table of contents listing offenses with page numbers where the reader can see each related law and justification of judgement. As the volume does not contain named plaintiffs or defendants, it seems to be a guidebook rather than a record of verdicts handed down. The frontispiece was...
Dates:
1794
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Shoemaker Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-831130
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily deals with family-related matters of the Eid, Brown, and Shoemaker families. The materials relate to the history of the 19th century Washington D.C. area, specifically Tenleytown, Friendship Heights, and west Chevy Chase, Maryland. See the External Documents section below for a detailed inventory to the collection.The Eid family materials includes deeds, plats, bills of exchange, and indentures from the 1830s to the 1860s. It also includes an undated bill...
Dates:
1830s-1958
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Stephen Dubuisson, SJ - William Feiner, SJ Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS50
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters, diaries, and other writings of Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson, S.J. and William Feiner, S.J. Because the two men served as successive Presidents of Georgetown College in the 1820s, and because both made entries in the letterbooks in this collection, these materials have been grouped together. Dubuisson’s materials consist of loose letters (including several pertaining to students at Georgetown College) and three bound items (a diary, a...
Dates:
1818 - 1842
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts