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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

  • Relazione della spedizione e conquista dell'isola di S. Domingo
  • A Poetical Epistle to the King of Hayti
  • Considérations diverses sur Haïti
  • Negro anthology
  • The Independent Republic of Liberia
  • The history of the New-York African free-schools, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time...
  • Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year 1748.
  • The speech of William Wilberforce, esq., representative for the county of York, on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1789, on the question of the abolition of the slave trade
  • An address to the people of Great Britain, on the utility of refraining from the use of West India sugar and rum
  • Comparative statement with reference to a British claim against the United States, for the illegal seizure and condemnation of the ship "Francis and Eliza", and an American claim against Her Majesty's government, for the seizure and liberation of slaves on board two American vessels stranded upon the Bahamas, for which latter claim the proprietors of the slaves have lately received a large compensation from Her Majesty's government
  • Véritable origine des troubles de S.-Domingue : et des différentes causes qui les ont produits
  • Relation d'une conspiration tramée par les nègres
  • Facts and documents connected with the late insurrection in Jamaica, and the violations of civil and religious liberty arising out of it
  • A narrative of the insurrection in the island of Grenada, which took place in 1795
  • Jamaica, as it was, as it is, and as it may be:
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Miscellaneous American Letters and Papers (MALP)

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Slavery and Abolition

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Begins "I certify that negro named Jenny is at liberty to hire herself for an honest livelihood..."
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Miscellaneous American Letters and Papers (MALP)

Slavery and Abolition

Manumission Documents

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1807-05-12
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc MG 76
Topics
African Americans -- History
African Americans -- Social conditions
Slavery
Freed persons -- United States
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
Genres
Documents
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19971708
MSS Unit ID: 24901
Archives EAD ID: 3338220
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a3562ce0-c6cf-012f-1e33-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1807: Created
  • 2023: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Begins "I certify that negro named Jenny is at liberty to hire herself for an honest livelihood..." " The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1807. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-c949-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Begins "I certify that negro named Jenny is at liberty to hire herself for an honest livelihood..." " New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-c949-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1807). Begins "I certify that negro named Jenny is at liberty to hire herself for an honest livelihood..." Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-c949-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Begins "I certify that negro named Jenny is at liberty to hire herself for an honest livelihood..."