Slavery

EEC Type of Source

Citizenship - 14th Amendment

EEC Theme Topic

Constitution - 14th Amendment

Constitution - Slavery

EEC Index Number

Off

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

A Bill to Abolish Slavery

scollini — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:08:51 +0000

A Bill to Abolish Slavery scollini Wed, 08/02/2017 - 11:08

LOC URL

https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsb&fileName=038/llsb038.db&recNu…

LOC Title

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875
Bills and Resolutions, Senate, 38th Congress, 1st Session
Bill 123 of 484

LOC Contributor Names

38th Congress, 1st Session

LOC Created/Published

February 17, 1864

LOC Standardized Date

1864

EEC Creators

38th U.S. Congress

EEC Source Day

EEC Source Month

February

EEC Source Year

1864

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Legislative Branch - Lawmaking

EEC Theme Topic

EEC Index Number

307

EEC Theme

Legislative Branch

EEC Topics

Lawmaking

https://www.loc.gov/item/2003689280/

Anthony Burns

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Anthony Burns scollini Wed, 08/02/2017 - 10:44

LOC URL

LOC Title

Anthony Burns / drawn by Barry from a daguereotype [sic] by Whipple & Black ; John Andrews, sc.

LOC Summary

Print shows a portrait of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 touched off riots and protests by abolitionists and citizens of Boston in the spring of 1854. A bust portrait of the twenty-four-year-old Burns is surrounded by scenes from his life. These include (clockwise from lower left): the sale of the youthful Burns at auction, a whipping post with bales of cotton, his arrest in Boston on May 24, 1854, his escape from Richmond on shipboard, his departure from Boston escorted by federal marshals and troops, Burns's "address" (to the court?), and finally Burns in prison. Copyrighting works such as prints and pamphlets under the name of the subject (here Anthony Burns) was a common abolitionist practice. This was no doubt the case in this instance, since by 1855 Burns had in fact been returned to his owner in Virginia. (Source: Reilly)

LOC Contributor Names

Andrews, John, engraver

LOC Created/Published

Boston : R.M. Edwards, printer, 129 Congress Street, c1855.

LOC Standardized Date

1855

LOC Subject Headings

- Burns, Anthony,--1834-1862
- Fugitive slaves--Massachusetts--Boston--1850-1860
- Abolition movement--Massachusetts--Boston--1850-1860

LOC Notes

- Title from item.
- Inscribed in ink on verso: 230.
- Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by Anthony Burns in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
- The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on January 25, 1855.
- Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1855-7.

EEC Creators

John Andrews

EEC Source Year

1855

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Illustration

EEC Theme Topic

EEC Index Number

336

Question

What law is associated with this source?

Correct Answer

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Incorrect Answer

Voting Rights Act

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Social Security Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

Alien and Sedition Act

Immigration Act of 1917

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question

What does this source promote?

Correct Answer

Abolition of Slavery

Incorrect Answer

Slavery

Freedom of Petition

Freedom of Religion

Freedom of Speech

Women's Suffrage

Democracy

Prohibition

Labor Unions

Question

What is depicted in the source?

Correct Answer

Slavery

Incorrect Answer

Voting

Military Draft

Paying Taxes

Freedom of the Press

Freedom of Speech

Campaigning

Freedom of Religion

Freedom of Assembly

EEC Theme

Legislative Branch

EEC Topics

https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=038/llsp038.db&recNu…

Prohibition of Slavery in Missouri

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Prohibition of Slavery in Missouri scollini Mon, 07/31/2017 - 12:11

LOC URL

LOC Title

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875
American State Papers, Senate, 16th Congress, 1st Session
Miscellaneous: Volume 2
Page 572 of 1043

LOC Contributor Names

16th Congress, 1st Session

LOC Standardized Date

January 18, 1820

EEC Creators

16th U.S. Congress

EEC Source Day

EEC Source Month

January

EEC Source Year

1820

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

EEC Theme Topic

EEC Index Number

332

EEC Theme

Legislative Branch

EEC Topics

https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=003/llsl003.db&recNu…

Excerpt from Missouri Compromise

scollini — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:15:54 +0000

Excerpt from Missouri Compromise scollini Fri, 07/14/2017 - 10:15

LOC URL

LOC Title

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875
Statutes at Large, 16th Congress, 1st Session

LOC Contributor Names

16th Congress

LOC Created/Published

March 6, 1820

LOC Standardized Date

1820

EEC Creators

16th U.S. Congress

EEC Source Day

EEC Source Month

March

EEC Source Year

1820

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Legislative Branch - Legislation

Legislation

EEC Theme Topic

Constitution - Slavery

https://www.loc.gov/item/amss.cw100370/

EEC Index Number

273

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

Battle Cry of Freedom

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Battle Cry of Freedom scollini Thu, 07/13/2017 - 16:12

LOC URL

LOC Title

The battle-cry of freedom. [Philada. May 16, 1861.]

LOC Created/Published

[Philada. May 16, 1861.]

LOC Standardized Date

1861

EEC Creators

Unknown

EEC Source Day

EEC Source Month

May

EEC Source Year

1861

EEC Format

Citizenship - Civic Duties

EEC Type of Source

Music

EEC Theme Topic

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/207/2074200/malpa…

EEC Index Number

263

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

Petition to Abraham Lincoln

scollini — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:32:18 +0000

Petition to Abraham Lincoln scollini Thu, 07/13/2017 - 14:32

LOC URL

LOC Title

Joshua Leavitt, et al. to Abraham Lincoln, August 1862 (Petition requesting enlistment of black troops)

LOC Created/Published

August 1862

LOC Standardized Date

1862

EEC Creators

Citizens of New York

EEC Source Month

August

EEC Source Year

1862

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Citizenship - Civic Duties

EEC Theme Topic

Citizenship - Civic Participation

Civil Rights - Freedom of Petition

Constitution - 1st Amendment

EEC Index Number

248

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

Harriet Tubman

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Harriet Tubman scollini Thu, 07/13/2017 - 14:22

LOC URL

https://www.loc.gov/item/2003674596/

LOC Title

[Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, standing with hands on back of a chair]

LOC Contributor Names

Lindsley, H. B. (Harvey B.), photographer

LOC Created/Published

[between ca. 1871 and 1876]

LOC Standardized Date

1871

LOC Subject Headings

- Tubman, Harriet,--1820?-1913

LOC Notes

Title devised by library staff.
- Date of photograph based on years photographer Harvey B. Lindsley was active and Tubman's clothing. (Source: researcher A. Cohn, 2016)
- Original photo not found in LOT since at least the 1970s; confirmed in 1998.

EEC Creators

Harvey B. Lindsley

EEC Source Year

1871

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Photograph

EEC Theme Topic

EEC Index Number

246

EEC Theme

Civil Rights

EEC Topics

https://www.loc.gov/item/92838825/

The Slavery Question

scollini — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:00:13 +0000

The Slavery Question scollini Thu, 07/13/2017 - 14:00

LOC URL

LOC Title

The slavery question. Dred Scott decision : to the free voters of Ohio.

LOC Contributor Names

African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)

LOC Created/Published

[Ohio? : s.n., 186-?]

LOC Standardized Date

c1860s

LOC Subject Headings

Slavery--United States--Legal status of slaves in free states.
Scott, Dred,--1809-1858.

LOC Notes

LC copy has ink stamp on p. 2: 73845.

LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16747.

Source: Source unknown.

EEC Creators

African American Pamphlet Collection

EEC Source Year

1860

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Manuscript

EEC Theme Topic

https://www.loc.gov/item/2008661312/

Constitution - Slavery

EEC Index Number

243

Off

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

Am I Not a Man and a Brother?

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Am I Not a Man and a Brother? scollini Thu, 07/13/2017 - 13:51

LOC URL

LOC Title

Am I not a man and a brother?

LOC Summary

The large, bold woodcut image of a supplicant male slave in chains appears on the 1837 broadside publication of John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem, "Our Countrymen in Chains." The design was originally adopted as the seal of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in England in the 1780s, and appeared on several medallions for the society made by Josiah Wedgwood as early as 1787. Here, in addition to Whittier's poem, the appeal to conscience against slavery continues with two further quotes. The first is the scriptural warning, "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. "Exod[us] XXI, 16." Next the claim, "England has 800,000 Slaves, and she has made them free. America has 2,250,000! and she holds them fast!!!!" The broadside is advertised at "Price Two Cents Single; or $1.00 per hundred.

LOC Contributor Names

American Anti-Slavery Society.
Anti-Slavery Office (New York, N.Y,)

LOC Created/Published

1837

LOC Standardized Date

1837

LOC Subject Headings

Whittier, John Greenleaf,--1807-1892
- Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Dominions--1830-1840
- African Americans--1830-1840
- Abolition movement--1830-1840
- Slavery--1830-1840

LOC Notes

N.Y. sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, 144 Nassau St. 1837.
- Title appears as it is written on the item.
- Wedgwood Portraits and the American Revolution, p. 116-117.
- Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A.
- Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1837-16.

EEC Creators

American Anti-Slavery Society

EEC Source Year

1837

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Poster

EEC Theme Topic

EEC Index Number

242

EEC Theme

Citizenship

Civil Rights

EEC Topics