William Coleman research files
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Abstract
Primary and secondary sources, notes, correspondence, and other documents relating to William "Bill" Coleman's research into the history of the slave trade.
Biographical note
William R. "Bill" Coleman was born in 1947. He earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1969 and a JD from New York Law School in 1972, after which he practiced law professionally until his retirement in 2006. He was elected to the board of the Brooklyn Historical Society in 1986 and served for 16 years before resigning in 2001, though he and his wife continued to support the Society. He was the honoree of the Society's 4th annual library dinner in 2008, and his speech from that occasion is included in this collection. He was also involved with the Brooklyn Bar Association, the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, and the Prospect Park Alliance. In addition, Coleman was an independent researcher and historian who planned to write a book on the history of the African slave trade in America.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into three series by type: primary sources, secondary sources, and Coleman's notes and correspondence. For simplicity, the archivist sorted pre-1900 documents as primary sources and post-1900 sources as secondary sources. Each series is further sub-divided by type. There are additional arrangement notes at the sub-series and folder level where appropriate.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the research files of William Coleman on the history of the slave trade. The collection is divided into three series: primary sources, secondary sources, and William Coleman notes and correspondence. Series 1: Primary Sources consists primarily of modern copies of pre-1900 sources, though there are some original documents. Series 2: Secondary Sources is largely computer printouts of post-1900 sources, though there are also photocopies of books and clippings. Series 3 contains both printed emails as well as typed and handwritten notes.
Primary source documents include books and articles, sermons and addresses, legal and government documents, and newspaper clippings. Secondary source documents include articles, books and book excerpts, indexes, lists, and guides, reviews, and theses and dissertations.
Though Coleman's overarching research topic was the African slave trade, this collection also includes significant materials on several related topics. These include the Oaksmith family (accused slave trader Appleton Oaksmith and his parents, the writers Seba Smith and Elizabeth Oakes Smith), the case of Nathaniel Gordon, Southern businessman Gazaway Bugg Lamar, and the slave trade from Asia.
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Open to researchers without restriction.
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While many items at the Center for Brooklyn History are unrestricted, we do not own reproduction rights to all materials. Be aware of the several kinds of rights that might apply: copyright, licensing and trademarks. The researcher assumes all responsibility for copyright questions.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); William Coleman research files, CBHM.0032, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Coleman family, 2025.
General
Users of this collection should note that research notes and files represent a work in progress, or an interpretation that might change over time. History is always subject to debate and new inquiry. This collection represents a researcher's interpretation of the archival material, and we invite you to look at the relevant original material, either at CBH or elsewhere.
About this Guide
Processing Information
The collection was rearranged for clarity and ease of use, but a listing of Coleman's original folder headings and order is preserved in the accession file. The archivist discarded duplicate copies of materials with no distinguishing markings, but retained duplicates if they had unique markings or notes from Coleman. Original folders were discarded and replaced with acid-free archival folders, but in cases where Coleman had made notes on a folder, it was photocopied and filed with the folder's contents. Email addresses of Coleman's correspondents were redacted for privacy.
Repository
Series 1: Primary sources, 1698-1896, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Unless otherwise specified, these are all modern copies of the original sources. Some folders contain Coleman's related notes or correspondence.
Processing Information
For simplicity, the archivist sorted pre-1900 publications as primary, and post-1900 sources as secondary.
Sub-series 1.1: Books and articles, 1824-circa 1870s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1853. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1853, pp. 130, 132, 135, and 137.
The American Colonization Society. "List of Life Members" (p. 23), "List of Emigrants by the Liberia Packet" (p. 24), "Brazilian Law Against the Slave Trade" and "Sketches of Liberia" (p. 25), "Character of the Emigrants by the Liberia Packet" (pp. 42-43), "Annual Report of the Am. Col. Society" (pp. 78-80), "Emigration to Liberia" (pp. 149-150). In The African Repository 27, 1851.
American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping, 1859, 1861, 1862.
Appleton, D. & Co., ed. "Habeas Corpus" to "Houston, Sam." In The (Appleton's) American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1861. New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1867, pp. 354-366.
Baker, George E., ed. The Works of William H. Seward, Vol. I. New York, NY: Redfield, 1853, pp. lxii-lxviii.
Baker, George E., ed. "The Virginia Controversy" and "The Georgia Controversy." In The Works of William H. Seward, Vol. II. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884, pp. 449-546.
Barrett, Walker. The Old Merchants of New York City. New York, NY: Carleton, 1864, pp. 223-224.
Bergen, Teunis G. Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County…New York, NY: S.W. Green's Son, 1881, select pages.
Broadway Tabernacle Anti-slavery Society. Proceedings of the Session of Broadway Tabernacle, against Lewis Tappan, with the action of the Presbytery and General Assembly. New York, NY: The Society, 1839.
Browne, Junius Henri. The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1869, pp.637-638.
Carey, Henry Charles. The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and How it May Be Extinguished. Philadelphia, PA: 1853.
De Peyster, Frederic. Memoir of Rip Van Dam. New York, NY: Press of Edmund Jones & Co., 1865. [original pamphlet]
Derby, J.C. Fifty Years Among Authors--Books and Publishers. New York, NY: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1884. Sections on Alice and Phoebe Cary, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and Richard Henry Stoddard.
Fernow, Berthold, ed. The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653-1674. Volume I: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, 1653-1655. Published under the authority of the City of New York. New York, NY: The Knickerbocker Press, 1897.
Foote, Andrew H. Africa and the American Flag. New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1862, pp. 344-347. Gelston, David. [Papers], 1802-1803.
Great Union Meeting Committee of Arrangements. Official Report of the Great Union Meeting, Held at the Academy of Music, New York, December 19, 1859. Published by Order of the Committee of Arrangements. New York, NY: Davis & Kent, 1859.
Green, Duff. "Commercial Importance and Future of the South." De Bow's Review 32, February 1862, pp. 120-134.
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot. Passages from the Correspondence and Other Papers of Rufus W. Griswold. W.M. Griswold, 1898, pp. 129-133.
Hunt, Freeman (conducted by). "Art. I - Duties on Portuguese Wines." The Merchants' Magazine, and Commercial Review. New York, NY: Volume 11, November 1844.
Lossing, Benson John. The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution. New York, NY: Harper & Bros., 1851-1852, pp. 210-211.
"[Announcement of formation of the] Maine Anti-Slavery Society." The Liberator. May 18, 1833.
Mars, James. Life of James Mars, A Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. Hartford, CT: Press of Case, Lockwood & Company, 1864.
Moore, John Bassett. A Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Rendition, Vol. II. Boston, MA: The Boston Book Company, 1891, pp. 846-858.
New York Committee of Vigilance. The First Annual Report...for the Year 1837. Published by direction of the committee, [1837].
Nichols, Clarina Irene Howard. To the Women of the State of New York [circular], circa 1856.
Niles, H., ed. Niles' Weekly Register. Baltimore, MD: Printed for the editor by William Ogden Niles, 1819-1822. Selections including "Chronicle," "Editorial Articles," "Slave Trade," "Law Intelligence," and "Congress."
Onderdonk, Henry Jr. Farming in Olden Times in Queens County, circa 1868. Reprinted in Journal of Long Island History 5.1, 1965.
Onderdonk, Henry Jr. Suffolk County in Olden Times Parts II and III, circa 1860s-1870s. Reprinted in Journal of Long Island History 6.1 and 6.2, 1966.
Onderdonk, Henry Jr. Notes on the History of Queens County Parts I and II, 1864. Reprinted in Journal of Long Island History 7.1 and 7.2, 1967.
Religious Society of Friends. The Present State of the African Slave Trade. Published by direction of a meeting representing the Religious Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, &c. Philadelphia, PA: William Brown, 1824.
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. Constitution, 1851. Edited by Porter Garnett and printed in the Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History 1.7, 1910.
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. List of Names, 1851. Edited by Porter Garnett and printed in the Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History 2.2, 1911.
Seabury, Samuel. American Slavery Distinguished from the Slavery of the English Theorists, and Justified by the Law of Nature. New York, NY: Mason Brothers, 1861.
Thompson, Mary W. Sketches of the History, Character and Dying Testimony, of Beneficiaries of the Colored Home, in the City of New-York. New York, NY: John F. Trow, 1851.
Truth, Sojourner. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Edited by Olive Gilbert. Battle Creek, MI: Review and Herald Office, 1884.
Unknown author. [Review of] Fifteenth Report of the American Colonization Society, Washington, 1832 and Letters on the Colonization Society; with a View of its Probable Results; addressed to the Hon. C.F. Mercer by M. Carey, 1832. The North American Review 35.76, July 1832, pp. 118-165.
Unknown author. "The Slave-trade in 1858." The Edinburgh Review 108, 1858, pp. 541-586.
Unknown author. "A Slave Trader's Letter-Book." The North American Review 143.360, November 1886, pp. 447-462.
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. John King. The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta at Home and in Society 1609-1760. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898, pp. 238-243.
Weeden, William B. "The Early African Slave-Trade in New England." American Antiquarian Society Journal, October 1887, pp. 107-128.
Whitman, Walt. Ode by Walt Whitman to be sung on Fort Greene, 4th of July, 1846. Reprinted in Journal of Long Island History 1.2, 1939.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author name.
Sub-series 1.2: Sermons and addresses, 1833-1866, inclusive
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Degrauw, John W. An Address Delivered Before the Brooklyn Horticultural Society December 7th, 1854; also the report of the treasurer, W.S. Dunham; with the report of the executive committee. Brooklyn, NY: J.W. Heighway & Co., 1855. [catalog record only]
Otis, James F. A Sketch of the Character, and Defence of the Principles of William Lloyd Garrison. Being an address, delivered before the board of managers of the "Maine Anti-Slavery Society," in Portland, Me. on...1st November. 1833, by one of the board. New York, NY: Henry R. Piercy, 1833.
Sloan, J.R.W. Review of Rev. Henry J. Van Dyke's Discouse on 'The Character and Influence of Abolitionism,' a Sermon Preached in the Third Reformed Presbyterian Church…New York, on…December 23, 1860…Also, by Special Request, in the Church of the Puritans (Rev. Dr. Cheever's), on...January 6, 1861. New York, NY: William Erving, 1861.
Van Dyke, Henry Jackson:
The Commandment with Promise: a sermon preached in the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, on…No. 24th, 1859. New York, NY: George W. Wood, 1859. [original pamphlet]
The Character and Influence of Abolitionism: a sermon preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, on...Dec. 9th, 1860. New York, NY: George F. Nesbitt & Co., 1860. [original pamphlet]
The Character and Influence of Abolitionism: a sermon preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, on...Dec. 9th, 1860. New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company., 1860. [original pamphlet]
Memorial of George L. Sampson: an address delivered at this funeral in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, Jan. 5, 1866. New York, NY: John F. Trow & Co., 1866. [catalog record only]
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author name.
Sub-series 1.3: Legal and government documents, 1698-1879, inclusive
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Kings County census documents, 1698-1820, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Censuses for 1698, 1738, 1786, 1800, 1810, and 1820 as well as 1755 census of slaves.
Legal cases, 1735-1867, inclusive
Scope and Contents
[Libel] Trial of John Peter Zenger. August 4, 1735.
Skinner v. May. Circuit Court District Maine 1792. Jay C. Justice. Civil action for fines for slaving in violation of Maine slaving law.
Libel of forfeiture against the brig Francis F. Johnson for alleged violation of the laws relating to the slave trade. April 6, 1821.
Polydore v. Prince. 19 F. Cas. 550. District Court Maine (1837). Photocopies from NARA Northeast Region.
Report of the Committee Appointed by the Government of the "Board of Trade," to take into consideration the communication of Messrs. Sampson and Tappan, dated April 24th, 1856. Boston, MA: J.H. Eastburn's Press, 1856. [original pamphlet]
In the Supreme Court of the United States, December Sessions, 1858. No. 188. The Ship Sarah, Sampson & Tappan, Claimants and Appellants, vs. S. & W. Welsh. Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania...Philadelphia, PA: Crissy & Markley, [1858]. [original pamphlet]
United States vs. Samuel Skinner. District Court…for the District of Massachusetts. Slaver Margaret Scott. 1861.
Opinion in the matter of the claims of G.B. Lamar and others: to certain cotton held by the Treasury Department as captured and confiscable property. 1867.
Nathaniel Gordon case, 1861
Scope and Contents
Case documents, chronology of case, and Lincoln correspondence from the National Archives.
Congressional documents, 1774-1872, inclusive
General
The listings of these documents are preceded with the notation that was on Coleman's files: [nth Congress]-[nth session]-[document number].
[Acts of Congress and Messages of the Presidents], 1774-1858, inclusive
1800-1820, inclusive
Scope and Contents
8-1-171 (8th Congress, 1st session, No. 171). Application to prohibit the import of slaves into the territory of Louisiana. January 23, 1804.
8-1-173. Slavery, Elective Franchise, and Public Land in Indiana Territory. February 17, 1804.
8-1-177. Importation of slaves into Louisiana. March 8, 1804.
9-1-202, 203. Slave Trade [letter from the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery]; Extension of the Right of Suffrage, and the Admission of Slavery, for a Limited Time, in the Indiana Territory, and the Division Thereof. February 13-14, 1806.
9-2-214, 215, 216. Slave Trade; Colonization of People of Color from Virginia; Slavery in the Indiana Territory. January 16, 1807.
10-1-244. Slave Trade [constitutional amendment prohibiting import of slaves]. February 23, 1808.
10-2-269. Violation of the Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves [New Orleans--domestic slaves (children)]. December 22, 1809.
11-1-5,7,8. [Slave trade; act for remission of certain penalties and forfeitures--relations with France]. June 24, 1809.
15-1-290. Suppression of Piratical Establishments. January 10, 1818.
15-1-441. Slaves Brought into the United States from Amelia Island. January 10, 1818.
1820-1840, inclusive
Scope and Contents
16-2-342, 343, 344, 345, 346. Correspondence Respecting Suppression of the Slave Trade; Foreign Vessels Engaged in Smuggling Through Florida; British West India and North America Colonial Trade; Suppression of the Slave Trade--Conference of Foreign Governments on the Subject. January 4-February 9, 1821.
17-1-351. Suppression of the Slave Trade. April 12, 1822.
17-1-529. Slaves Imported by an Indian Agent Contrary to Law. May 6, 1822.
18-1-371. Suppression of Slave Trade. 1824.
18-2-403. Suppression of the African Slave Trade. February 16, 1825.
19-1-319. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy, Showing the Condition of the Navy in the Year 1826. December 5, 1826.
19-1-414. Correspondence with Great Britain Relative to the Suppression of the Slave Trade. December 27, 1825.
20-1-193. Information…in relation to…the United States' Agency for Recaptured Africans... March 12, 1828.
21-2-435. On the Capture...of the Spanish Ship Fenix, with African Slaves on Board and Under Suspicion of Piratical Intent. January 18, 1831.
1840s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
27-1-34. Seizure of American Vessels--Slave Trade. July 14, 1841.
28-1-217.…information in relation to the abuse of the flag of the United States in subservience to the African slave trade…March 1844.
29-1-43. African Slave Trade. December 22, 1845.
30-1-23. …correspondence of Mr. Wise, late United States Minister to Brazil, in relation to the slave trade. March 3, 1848.
1850-1861, inclusive
Scope and Contents
31-2- 6. …documents relating to the African slave trade. December 17, 1850.
33-1-47. …correspondence between Mr. Schenck, United States Minister to Brazil, and the Secretary of State, in relation to the African slave trade. March 14, 1854.
33-1-88. …correspondence between Ferdinand Cox, late charge d'affaires of the United States at Brazil, and the Brazilian government... August 2, 1854.
34-1-99. A resolution of the Senate of April 24, calling for information relative to the coolie trade. 1856.
34-1-105. Information in regard to the slave and coolie trade. May 19, 1856.
35-1-49. …reports of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Navy…in relation to the African slave trade. April 23, 1858.
35-1-59. In answer to a resolution of the Senate, information concerning the recent search or seizure of American vessels...in the Gulf of Mexico. May 19, 1858.
35-1-61. …papers in regard to the seizure of the American barque Panchita on the Coast of Africa. May 29, 1858.
35.2. Central America--Slave Trade--Cuba. Speech of Hon. James B. Clay of Kentucky in the House of Representatives. February 7, 1859.
36th Congress. [Various documents relating to the slave trade]. 1859-61.
1862-1873, inclusive
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37-2-53. …information in relation to persons who have been arrested in the southern district of New York, from…May, 1852, to…May, 1862, charged with being engaged in the slave trade… May 30, 1862.
37-2-57. A copy of the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave trade. June 10, 1862.
40-2-260. Information relating to the imprisonment and destruction of the property of Antonio Pelletier by the people and authorities of Hayti. April 3, 1868.
42.2-30, 31, 32, 33, 34. [Various documents relating to Brazil and Figaniere]. 1871-1872.
44-1-420. Appleton Oaksmith [Amelia and Magnolia]. 1873.
Other legal and government documents, 1807-1879, inclusive
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The Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from November 28, 1780 to February 28, 1807…Published by order of the general court. Volume I. Boston, MA: Printed by J.T. Buckingham, for Thomas & Andrews and Manning & Loring, 1807.
Foreign Slave Trade. Abstract of the information recently laid on the table of the House of Commons on the subject of the slave trade; being a report made…to the Directors of the African Institution… London, UK: Ellerton and Henderson, 1821.
Potter, Henry, ed. Laws of the State of North Carolina… Raleigh, NC: J. Gales, 1821.
Prince, Oliver H. A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia: containing all statutes and the substance of all resolutions...which have been passed in this state previous to the session of the General Assembly of December, 1820. Milledgeville, GA: Grantland & Orme, 1822.
Toulmin, Harry. A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama: containing the statutes and resolutions in force at the end of the General Assembly in January, 1823. Cahawba, AL: Ginn & Curtis, 1828.
Private and Special Acts of the State of Maine, passed by the sixteenth legislature. Augusta, ME: Smith and Robinson, 1836.
Peters, Richard, ed. "Treaties Between the United States of America and Foreign Nations, from [1776]…to 1845." "The Late Cuba State Trials." United States Democratic Review 30.166, April 1852.
Rapalje, Stewart. A digest of NY decisions, from the earliest period to July, 1878… Jersey City, NJ: F.D. Linn, 1879.
British government documents, 1821-1854, inclusive
Sub-series 1.4: Clippings, 1729-1885, inclusive
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Shipping and trade news, 1729-1862, inclusive
Runaway slave advertisements, 1730-1835, inclusive
Slave sale advertisements, 1730-1839, inclusive
Legal and legislative news, 1758-1863, inclusive
Other clippings, 1760-1885, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes, among others:
"The Pirates." Connecticut Courant, September 8 1834. [Coleman notes: Discussion of Spanish-Cuban Pirates and Salem vessel the "Mexican." Note-Spanish that were slavers and pirates.]
"The Slave Trade.--Our Late Consul at Rio, Mr. Gordon." Daily Atlas, Boston, August 27 1846.
"North American Slavery: Practical Difficulties in the Way of Emancipation." From the London "Household Words," edited by Charles Dickens. New York Times, November 10 1852, p. 3.
"Enslavement of a British Subject." New York Times, July 10 1857, p. 1.
"The Slave-Trade. 'Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark.'" [letter to the editor]. New York Times, January 17 1861.
"Parson Beecher and the Fugitive Slave Law." Brooklyn Eagle, June 27 1861.
"Hon. Moses F. Odell." Harper's Weekly, June 14 1862, p. 381.
"Greeley's Scout. Confession Made by the Notorious Blumenberg." New York Times, August 7 1872, p. 3.
Nathaniel Gordon case, 1846-1849, inclusive
Gazaway Bugg Lamar, 1851-1876, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Some of these articles relate to Rev. Henry Van Dyke, but were filed by Coleman under the folder heading indicated here and have been kept as such.
Slave trade from Asia, 1851-1878, inclusive
Scope and Contents
In addition to clippings, this file includes printouts of 1850s-60s register entries for the ships Norway, Wm. M. Groton, Flora Temple, and Sunny South, arranged alphabetically by ship name. There is also a page of Coleman's notes as well as printouts about Amoy, China and the ship Sea Witch.
Processing Information
The original files that make up this folder all had "coolie" in the title. The archivist renamed this file.
Harrison S. Vining New York Times articles, 1855-1867, inclusive
Sub-series 1.5: Oaksmith family, 1846-1896, inclusive
Arrangement
Within each section, documents are arranged roughly chronologically.
Clippings, 1857-1870, inclusive
Scope and Contents
"Is the Thomas Watson A Slaver." New York Times, November 30 1857.
"The Capture of the Schooner Lydia Gibbs." New York Herald 23.304, November 2 1858.
"The African Slave Trade. Five New Slavers Under Way. Two Vessels Captured." Evening Post 59.293, December 14 1860.
"City Religious Press." New York Evangelist, June 26 1862.
"The Case of the People Against Mr. Woodford," "Greeley and Woodford," "New Evidence Against Gen. Woodford," "The Slave Trader Convicted to a Demonstration." Brooklyn Eagle, October 1870. (Stewart L. Woodford, scandal over escape of Oaksmith.)
Legal and government documents, 1851-1876, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Wm. Bourgoyne and John Plume vs. The Steam Ship Gold Hunter. United States District Court, San Francisco. August 18, 1851.
United States v. Appleton Oaksmith, U.S. D.C. Mass (1861). Margaret Scott
Bark Augusta--cargo seized and related documents. June 25, 1862.
44-1-123. Connection of Hon. Robert C. Schenck with the Emma Mine and Machado Claim. February 25, 1876. (Vessels Thomas Watson & Mary Varney.)
Appleton Oaksmith, circa 1850s-1873, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Appleton Oaksmith documents from East Carolina University, Special Collections Department, Joyner Library. circa 1850s-1880s.
Brig Mary Adeline and Brig Camargo documents, 1851.
Haitian shipping manifests, 1854.
Appleton Oaksmith journal [held at Duke]. 1855.
[Appleton Oaksmith writings], 1855-1874.
Goicouria and Avezzano letters, 1856.
Document regarding Oaksmith's appointment as a commissioner from NYC to the Southern states, 1861.
Dispatches from the United States Consul in Havana relating to Appleton Oaksmith [from vertical files at Rosenberg Library, Galveston, TX], 1864.
"Southern State Debts and the National Currency..." The Southern Magazine 8, 1873.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith, 1846-1896, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Letters to and from John Neal and Mary Neal Sherwood, 1846-1856.
May, Caroline. The American Female Poets: with biographical and critical notices. Philadelphia, PA: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1853.
Scrapbook pages with clippings. 1869-1880
Elizabeth Oakes Smith documents at New York Public Library. circa 1870s-1890s
A Human Life, Being the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes Smith. circa 1885
Cohen, Isabel E., compiler. Readings and Recitations for Jewish Homes and Schools. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1896, pp. 118-120, "The Jewish Captive" by Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
Seba Smith, 1851-1872, 2019, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Seba Smith-Jack Downing letter, 1851. [Coleman notes: "probably not real."]
Camp, David N., ed. The American year book and national register for 1869… p. 796. Entry for Seba Smith.
Griffin, Joseph, ed. History of the press of Maine, Bowdoin. 1872. pp. 54-55 re: The Courier, founded by Seba Smith.
Seba Smith family tree, 2019.
Other documents, 1852-1883, inclusive
Scope and Contents
[Naval correspondence], 1852-1853.
The Appeal of the Religious Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, etc., to their fellow-citizens of the United States on behalf of the Coloured Races. Philadelphia, PA: Friends' Book-store, 1858, pp. 18-21.
The Great Republic Monthly, July 1859. New York, NY: Oaksmith & Co. [original magazine]
Mix, Jacob. "The Biter Bit; or the Robert Macaire of Journalism. Being a Narrative of Some of the Black-mailing Operations of Charles A. Dana's 'Sun.'" Washington, DC: 1870, pp. 59-69.
[Selections from magazine] Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine. Yarmouth, ME: Augustus W. Corliss, 1877-1884. [family history]
Betts, George F. "Memorial of Chancellor Erastus Cornelius Benedict." Proceedings of the Nineteenth Meeting of the University Convocation of the State of New York, held July 12-14, 1881. Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1883.
Series 2: Secondary sources, 1900-2021, inclusive
Sub-series 2.1: Articles, 1900-2021, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Alexander, Arthur J., Federal Officeholders in New York State as Slaveholders 1789-1805. The Journal of Negro History 28.3, July 1943.
Allen, Richard B., Licentious and Unbridled Proceedings: The Illegal Slave Trade to Mauritius and the Seychelles During the Early Nineteenth Century. The Journal of African History 42.1, January 2001.
American Historical Association, AHA Council Issues Policy Resolution about Jews and the Slave Trade. Perspectives, March 1995.
Andrews, Charles M., Colonial Commerce. The American Historical Review 20.1, October 1914.
Anonymous, Eighteenth Century Slaves as Advertised by their Masters. The Journal of Negro History 1.2, April 1916.
Avallone, Charlene, Catharine Sedgwick and the Circles of New York. Legacy 23.2, 2006.
Bankoff, H. Arthur and Frederick A. Winter, The Archaeology of Slavery at the Van Cortlandt Plantation in the Bronx, New York. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 9.4, December 2005.
Barker, Eugene C., The African Slave Trade in Texas. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 6.2, October 1902.
BBC News, Ex-Slave Takes Niger to Court. BBC News, April 7 2008.
Bearss, Sara B., Henry Clay and the American Claims Against Portugal, 1850. Journal of the Early Republic 7.2, Summer 1987.
Behrendt, Stephen D., The Annual Volume and Regional Distribution of the British Slave Trade, 1780-1807. The Journal of African History 38.2, July 1997.
Bell, Herbert C., The West India Trade Before the American Revolution. American Historical Review 22, January 1917.
Berlin, Ira, From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African American Society in Mainland North America. The William and Mary Quarterly 53.2, April 1996.
Block, W.T., Sabine Lake: Focal Point of the Illegal African Slave Trade. Reprinted from the Beaumont Enterprise, April 4 1974, February 5, 1984.
Blue, A.D., Chinese Emigration and the Deck Passenger Trade. Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 10, 1970.
Blumberg, Arnold, Diplomacy of the Mexican Empire, 1863-1867. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 61 Part 8, 1971.
Boardman, Helen M., First Families of Manhattan. Phylon (1940-1956) 5.2, 1944.
Bonner, Willard Hallam, "Clamors and False Stories": The Reputation of Captain Kidd. The New England Quarterly 17.2, June 1944.
Brookhiser, Richard, Alexander Hamilton: New Yorker. City Journal, Autumn 1996.
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Arranged alphabetically by author name.
Sub-series 2.2: Books and book excerpts, 1901-2008, inclusive
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author name.
Books and book excerpts by author surname
Scope and Contents
Alexander, De Alva Stanwood. A Political History of the State of New York (Volume II, 1833-1861), pp.351-352. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1906
Beard, Charles A.. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, pp.176-177. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956
Bennett, Norman R., George E. Brooks Jr., eds.. New England Merchants in Africa: A History Through Documents 1802 to 1865, p. 104. Boston: Boston University Press, 1965
Blaustein, Albert P. and Robert L. Zanrando, eds. . Civil Rights and the American Negro: A Documentary History, pp. 4-7, 22-27, 36-41. New York: Washington Square Press, 1970
Block, W.T.. Chapter IV: Filibustering, Piracy and the African Slave Trade. A History of Jefferson County, Texas, 1976
Brasseaux, Carl A. and Glenn R. Conrad, eds.. The Road to Louisiana: The Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792-1809, pp. 92-101, 166-171. The Center for Louisiana Studies, 1992
Burak, H. Paul. History of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. New York: Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, 1962
Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. In the Kingdom of Sugar. Excerpt published in South Street Magazine from Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford University Press, 1998
Corbitt, Duvon Chough. A Study of the Chinese in Cuba, 1847-1947. Wilmore, KY: Asbury College Press, 1971
The Cuba Commission. The Cuba Commission Report: A Hidden History of the Chinese in Cuba. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
Custer, E.A. . A synoptical History of the Towns of Kings County from 1525 to Modern Times. New York, Sherwood's, 1911
Davis, Thomas J.. A Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York. New York: The Free Press, 1985
Day, Lydia S.. Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island. New York: Empire States Books, circa 2000
Deschamps, Hubert. Histoire de Madagascar pp.65-66, 76-78, 320. Paris: Editions Berger-Levrault, 1965
Dewey, Mary E.. Orville Dewey (1794-1882). In Eliot, Samuel Atkins, ed. Heralds of a Liberal Faith, Volume III: The Preachers. Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1910
Dictionary of American Biography. Gazaway Bugg Lamar. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936
Dugdale, Antony, J.J. Fueser and J. Celso de Castro Alves. Yale, Slavery and Aboliton. The Amistad Committee, 2001
Eltis, David. Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008
Emerson, Donald E.. Richard Hildreth [biography]. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1946
Emmer, P.C.. Chapter 5: The West India Company, 1621-1791: Dutch or Atlantic? In Blusse, Leonard and Femme Gaastra, eds. Companies and Trade. Leiden University Press, 1981
Faber, Eli. Slavery and the Jews: A Historical Inquiry. Hunter College Jewish Social Studies Program, Occasional Papers in Jewish History and Thought No. 2, 1994
Faber, Eli. Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight. New York: New York University Press, 1998
Ford, Paul Leicester, ed.. Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States Published During Its Discussion by the People 1787-1788, pp. 329-333, 366-371, 378-379. New York: Burt Franklin, 1971
Fritz, Chritian G.. Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851-1891, pp.10-11, 21, 269, 272. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1991
Christopher Fyfe. A History of Sierra Leone, pp.150-151, 194-197. Oxford University Press, 1962
Gordon, John D. III.. The Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Schooner "Savannah." Second Circuit Historical Committee pamphlet, 1983
Gordon, John Steele. The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653-2000. New York: Scribner, 1999
Gouverneu, Marian. As I Remember: Recollections of American Society During the Nineteenth Century, pp.69-71. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1911
Greenhalgh, Albion Robert. Sources Cited in The Rise of New York Port [1815-1860]. New York: Scribner, 1939
Hemstreet, Charles. The Story of Manhattan. 1901
Hemstreet, Charles. Literary New York, Its Landmarks and Associations, pp.197-201. New York: Putnam, 1903
Henry, Alice. The Trade Union Woman. 1915
Hershkowitz, Leo. Wills of Early New York Jews, 1704-1799, pp. xi-xvi, 5-6, 8-10, 15-17, 21-23, 44-46, 55-56, 59-61, 65-66, 79--81, 84-88, 129, 135-136, 158-159, 161, 208. New York: American Jewish Historical Society, 1967
Hunt, Gaillard, ed.. The Writings of James Madison…Volume IV: 1787, The Journal of the Consitutional Convention, pp.300-303. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903
Ireland, Ralph R.. Slavery on Long Island: A Study of Economic Motivation. Brooklyn: Long Island Historical Society, 1966
Jameson, John Franklin. Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents, pp.14-17, 175-187, 189-199, 220-223, 235, 318-322, 378-415. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923
Judge, John H. "Memorial of George P. Andrews." In Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Annual Reports, Charter, Constitution, By-Laws..., 1904.
Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery 1619-1877, pp.2627, 256-257. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. The Jamestown Project, pp.288, 329, 364. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007
LaChance, Paul F. The 1809 Immigration of Saint-Domingue Refugees to New Orleans: Reception, Integration and Impact. In Brasseaux, Carl A., ed. The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, Volume X: A Refuge for All Ages: Immigration in Louisiana History. Lafayette, LA: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1996
Lauber, Almon Wheeler. Chapter IV, pp.112-115, Chapter VII, p. 193,Chapter IX: Property Relations, pp. 211-241, and Chapter XII, p. 290. In Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States. New York: Columbia University, 1913
Lewis, Roberts G.. Geraldine Oaksmith: Real Estate Developer, Eccentric Recluse---Research Chemist? Morehead City, NC: Carteret County Historical Society, 1997
Linder, Marc, & Zacharias, Lawrence S. Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn, pp.80-88, 364-367. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999
Lubbock, Basil. Coolie Ships and Oil Sailers. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1935
Malloy, William M., compiler. Treaties, Conventons, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements between the United States and Other Powers, 1776-1909, Volume II, p.1458. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910
Marcus, Jacob R.. Chapter 37: The Slave Trade. In The Colonial American Jew, 1492-1776. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970
May, Robert E.. Manifest Destiny's Underworld: FIlibustering in Antebellum America, pp.174-177, 358-359. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Miller, Joseph C.. The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870. The Journal of American History
Moore, John Bassett. A Digest of International Law…Volume V, pp.19-21, 81. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1906
Morris, Richard B.. Selected Cases of the Mayor Court of the City of New York, 1674-1784. Washington, D.C.: The American Historical Association, 1935
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell. American Negro Slavery, A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime. New York: Appleton, 1929
Pierce, J. Kingston. The Magician of San Francisco. Excerpted from San Francisco, You're History, 1995
Ratner, Lorman. Powder Keg: Northern Opoosition to the Antislavery Movement 1831-1840, pp.20-21, 26-27. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1966
The Researcher 14.1 Spring-Summer 1998 [Elizabeth Oakes Smith issue]
Robbins, Christine Chapman. David Hosack, Citizen of New York, pp.62-65. Philadelphia: The American Philosphical Society, 1964
Roche, Emma Langdon. Historic Sketches of the South. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1914
Sandbeck, Peter B.. The Historic Architecture of New Bern and Craven County, North Carolina, p.108. New Bern, NC: The Tryon Palace Commission, 1988
Smyth, Thomas. Autobiographical Notes, Letters and Reflections, pp. 587--607. Charleston, SC: Walker, Evans & Cogswell Company, 1914
Spears, John D.. Appendix A:…vessels arrested and bonded from…1852, to…1862. In The American Slave Trade. London: Bickers & Son, 1901
Strange, Douglas C.. Patterns of Antislavery among American Unitarians, 1831-1860, pp.180-183, 218-227. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977
Sullivan, James, ed.. The History of New York State, Book II, Chapter II, Part IV. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1927
United States Bureau of the Census. Chapter XIV: Statistics of Slaves. In A Century of Population Growth. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909
Wakeman, Abram. History and Reminscences of Lower Wall Street and Vicinity, pp.20-25, 52-54. New York: The Spice Mill Publishing Co., 1914
Wyatt-Brown, Betram. Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery, 178-181, 184-185, 328-331, 342-343. Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1969
Selected Rensselaerswijck Seminar Papers
Scope and Contents
A Beautiful and Fruitful Place: Selected Rensselaerswijck Seminar Papers, Volume I. Albany, NY: New Netherland Project, 1991.
Burke, Thomas. The New Netherland Fur Trade, 1657-1661: Response to Crisis.
Goodfriend, Joyce D. Black Families in New Netherland.
Matson, Cathy. The 'Hollander Interest' and Ideas about Free Trade in Colonial New York: Persistent Influences of the Dutch, 1884-1764.
Rink, Oliver A. New Netherland and the Amsterdam Merchants Unraveling a Secret Colonialism.
Starna, William A. Seventeenth Century Dutch-Indian Trade A Perspective from Iroquoia.
Wilcoxen, Charlotte. Dutch Trade with New England.
Sub-series 2.3: Indexes, lists and guides
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by title.
Afrigenes.com Inward Slave Manifests
Scope and Contents
Slave shipping manifests. McClendon, Alma. Inward Slave Manifests for the Port of New Orleans, Roll 12 1837-1839.
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1718-1820
Scope and Contents
Hall, Gwendolyn Mildo. Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas.
Alan Singer teaching materials on slavery in NY state
Black Loyalists website
Scope and Contents
Canadian site; Black loyalist directory. Interesting comparison to Graham Russell Hodge's book on escaping.
Brooklyn Historical Society
Scope and Contents
BobCat information on slavery, finding aids for autograph manuscript collections, Onderdonk guide.
Census slave data by county 1820-1860
Gilder Lehrman Center resources
Map reproductions
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of insurance and zoning maps of sections of Brooklyn, dates unknown, likely late 19th-early 20th centuries.
Mystic Seaport Museum
Scope and Contents
Records of Thomas Dunham's Newphew & Company, Coll. 196, Manuscripts Collection, G.W. Blunt White Library.
National Archives resources
New Netherland Institute resources
New York Public Library resources
New York State Council for the Social Studies teaching guide
Scope and Contents
New York and Slavery: Complicity and Resistence.
New York to New Orleans slave manifests, 1807-1860
New-York Historical Society resources
Scope and Contents
Slavery in New York exhibition.
Race, Racism, and the Law website
Scope and Contents
Randall, Venellia R. Slavery federal cases, 1790-1865.
Schuyler family genealogy
Scope and Contents
Descendents of the Schuyler Family Including Bayards and Livingstons.
Slave trade laws (federal) background materials
Supreme Court Historical Society journal index
The American People companion website
Scope and Contents
Slave Trade Documents--inventory.
TheShipsList website
Scope and Contents
Swiggum, S. and M. Kohli. Settlers to Liberia (1843-187?) [information taken from The African Repository, and Colonial Journal, 1843-1867]. Emigrant Ships to the West Indies in the 1850s.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Scope and Contents
Eltis, David. Table of Contents and sources, Analysis of data.
University of Georgia
Scope and Contents
Guide to the Gazaway Bugg Lamar papers, MS 10. Hargrett Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
University of Pennsylvania resource list
Scope and Contents
University of Pennsylvania Dept. of History. The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents about the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War
Virginia Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century guide
Scope and Contents
Klein, Herbert S. "Virginia Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century" 1727-1769: A User's Guide to the Machine Readable Data File Study Description
Sub-series 2.4: Reviews, 1928-2018, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, What Was Africa to Them? [review of The Door of No Return by William St. Clair, Middle Passages by James T. Campbell, American Africans in Ghana by Kevin K. Gaines, Black Gold of the Sun by Ekow Eshun, and Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman]. The New York Review, September 27 2007.
Berlin, Ira, Slaves in the Family [review of Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis]. New York Times Book Review, May 14 2006.
Berry, Jason, Urban Gumbo [review of The World that Made New Orleans by Ned Sublette]. The New York Times, February 17 2008.
Blouet, Olwyn M., Reviews of Books: Apprenticing to Freedom in the West Indies [review of Between Slavery and Freedom, ed. Roderick A. McDonald, and A Narrative of Events, ed. Diana Paton]. The William and Mary Quarterly 59.3, July 2002.
Bodle, Wayne, Reviews of Books [review of Cadwallader Colden: A Figure of the American Enlightenment by Alfred R. Hoermann]. The William and Mary Quarterly 60.2, April 2003.
Brewer, John, The Irish Indian Chief [review of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America by Fintan O'Toole]. The New York Review of Books, December 1 2005.
Buhle, Paul, [Review of] The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth Century America by Alexander Saxton. The Nation 252.23, June 17 1991.
Carlson, Thomas C., [Review of] Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu by Benjamin Fisher. The Mississippi Quarterly 46.1, Winter 1992.
Crain, Caleb, There She Blew: The History of American Whaling [review of Leviathan by Eric Jay Dolin]. The New Yorker, July 23, 2007.
Cray, Robert E. Jr., Reviews of Books: Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York by Judith L. Van Buskirk. The William and Mary Quarterly 60.2, 2003.
Dain, Bruce, Reviews of Books: Stories of Freedom in Black New York by Shane White and In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 by Leslie M. Harris. The William and Mary Quarterly 60.4, 2003.
Dargis, Manohla, The Imperfect Soul Who Helped Bring an End to the Slave Trade [review of movie Amazing Grace about William Wilberforce]. The New York Times, February 23 2007.
Dorson, Richard M., Seba Smith [review of the book by that title by Milton and Patricia Rickels]. The Journal of American History 65.2, September 1978.
Erben, Patrick M., Reviews of Books: Becoming German by Philip Otterness. The William and Mary Quarterly 62.1, circa 2005.
Finnegan, William, Double-Cross in the Congo [review of The Mission Song by John le Carre]. The New York Review of Books 54.6, April 12 2007.
Fireman, Janet R., Book Reviews: California, In-Doors and Out by Eliza B. Farnham. The Journal of San Diego History 20.1, Winter 1974.
Fredrickson, George M., America's Original Sin [review of Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery by David Brion Davis, Generations of Captivity by Ira Berlin, and The Slaveholding Republic by Don E. Fehrenbacher. The New York Review of Books, March 25 2004.
Fredrickson, George M., The Long Trek to Freedom [review of Though the Heavens May Fall by Steven M. Wise, Slave Country by Adam Rothman, The First Emancipator by Andrew Levy, and Bound for Canaan by Fergus M. Bordewich]. The New York Review of Books, July 14 2005.
Fredrickson, George M., They'll Take Their Stand [review of Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis and The Mind of the Master Class by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese]. The New York Review of Books, May 25, 2006.
Fredrickson, George M., Redcoat Liberation [review of Epic Journeys of Freedom by Cassandra Pybus, Rough Crossings by Simon Schama, and The Forgotten Fifth by Gary B. Nash]. The New York Review of Books, August 10 2006.
Furbank, P.N., A Capacity for Impudence [review of Beaumarchais in Seville by Hugh Thomas]. The New York Review of Books, April 26 2007.
Gewen, Barry, The Everyman of Genocide [review of Becoming Eichmann by David Cesarani]. The New York Times Book Review, May 14 2006.
Gillespie, Michelle, Reviews of Books: Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers by Graham Russell Hodges. The William and Mary Quarterly 58.1, January 2001.
Hamill, Pete, Raging Thirst [review of Dry Manhattan by Michael A. Lerner]. The New York Times, March 11 2007.
Heig, Aline, Review: The Cuba Commission Report: A Hidden History of the Chinese in Cuba by The Cuba Commission and Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar by Walton Look Lai. The Hispanic American Historical Review 75.4, November 1995. Herbert, Bob, In America; Stanton and Anthony. The New York Times, July 4 1999.
Kazin, Michael, The Original Party Boss [review of Martin Van Buren by Ted Widmer]. The New York Times Book Review, February 27 2005.
Kirsch, A., The Battle Cry of Freedom [review of The Slaves' War by Andrew Ward]. The New York Sun, June 4 2008. Lurie Alison, Liberated Girls [review of Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott]. The New York Review of Books, November 3 2005.
Marietta, Jack D., [Review of] "Rememb'ring our Time and Work is the Lords": The Experiences of Quakers on the Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Frontier by Guenther Karen. Journal of American History 93.3, December 2006.
May, Robert E., Antebellum Americans 'Meet' Their Southern Neighbors [review of Agents of Manifest Destiny by Charles H. Brown]. Reviews in American History 8.3, September 1980.
McPherson, James M., The Fight for Slavery in California [review of The California Gold Rush by Leonard L. Richards]. TheNew York Review of Books, October 11 2007.
McPherson, James M., Days of Wrath [review of John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds, John Brown by Merrill D. Peterson, and Terrible Swuft Sword ed. Peggy Russo]. The New York Review, May 12 2005.
Merwick, Donna, Reviews of Books: Zion on the Hudson by Firth Haring Fabend. The William and Mary Quarterly 58.2, 2001.
Miller, Joseph C., [Review of] The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas. The Journal of American History 85.2, September 1998.
Moorehead, Caroline, Amnesia in Australia [review of multiple books on Australian history]. The New York Review of Books 53.18, November 16 2006.
Olson, Alison G., Reviews of Books: The Imperial Executive in America by Mary Lou Lustig and General Sir Guy Carleton by David Paul Nelson. The William and Mary Quarterly 60.4, 2003.
Parks, Tim, The Illusionist [review of 3 biographies of Mussolini]. The New York Review of Books, April 7 2005.
Reynolds, David S., Family Business [review of Sons of Providence by Charles Rappleye]. The New York Times Book Review, May 14, 2006.
Reynolds, David S., Fine Specimens [review of The Afterlives of Specimens by Linday Tuggle and Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, ed. Lawrence Kramer]. The New York Review, March 22 2018.
Rushforth, Brett, Reviews of Books: The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 by Alan Gallay. The William and Mary Quarterly 60.3, 2003.
Ryden, David, Running the Numbers: An Overview of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade CD-ROM. Slavery and Abolition 22.3, December 2001.
Schlesinger, A.M., [Review of] Two American Pioneers: Seba Smith and Elizabeth Oakes Smith by Mary Alice Wyman. The New England Quarterly 1.2, April 1928.
Swift, Daniel, "Stephen Spender": The Poet of Autobiography [review of Stephen Spender by John Sutherland]. The New York Times [2 copies], February 27 2005.
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey, Digging for Moles [review of Treachery by Chapman Pincher]. The New York Review of Books 56.16, October 22 2009.
Wood, Gordon S., What Slavery Was Really Like [review of Mastery, Tyranny and Desire by Trevor Burnard and Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom by Rhys Isaac]. New York Times Book Review, November 18 2004.
Wood, Gordon S., Apologies to the Iroquois [review of The Divided Gorund by Alan Taylor]. New York Review of Books, April 6 2006.
Wood, Gordon S., Reading the Founders' Minds [review of Dark Bargain by Lawrence Goldstone and American Taxation, American Slavery by Robin L. Einhorn]. New York Review of Books, June 28 2007.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author name.
Sub-series 2.5: Theses and dissertations, 1894-2007, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Carroll, Aileen M. Gentle Rebel: Elizabeth Oakes Smith. Masters Thesis at the University of Maine Orono, 1968.
Du Bois, W.E.B. Appendix A: A Chronological Conspectus of Colonial and State Legislation Restricting the African Slave-Trade. 1641-1787. In The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade, PhD dissertation at Harvard, 1894.
Eltis, David. The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1821-1863. PhD dissertation at University of Rochester, 1978.
Hohl, Loz. The Temperate Feminist: Elizabeth Oakes Smith. Master's essay at Sarah Lawrence College, 1977.
Johnson, Erica Robin. Louisiana Identity on Trial: The Superior Court Case of Pierre Benomine Dormenon 1790-1812. Master's thesis at University of Texas Arlington, 2007.
Kirkland, Leigh. A Human Life: Being the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes Smith. A Critical Edition and Introduction. PhD thesis [order form only].
Moss, Richard Shannon. Slavery on Long Island: Its Rise and Decline during the Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries [order form and notes].
Richards, Wynola L. A Review of the Life and Writing of Elizabeth Oakes Smith. PhD dissertation at Ball State University, 1981.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author name.
Series 3: William Coleman notes and correspondence, circa 2000s-2020, inclusive
William Coleman writings
Scope and Contents
2007 memo to Deborah Schwartz re: NYHS exhibit on slavery; text of 2008 speech at BHS.
Research correspondence
Scope and Contents
Printouts of emails between Coleman and other scholars and associates.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Notes on publications
Scope and Contents
Notes on the following:
Bernstein, R.B. Thomas Jefferson. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Brasseuax, Carl A. The Road to Louisiana: the Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792-1809. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1992.
Drake, Philip. Captain Richard Drake, Revelations of a Slave Smuggler. Robert M. Dewitt, 1860.
DuBois, W.E.B. Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1638-1870. Langmans, Green & Co., 1896.
Jameson, J. Franklin. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
McGuire, James K. The Democratice Party of the State of New York. U.S. History Co., 1905.
McManus, Edgar J. History of Negro Slavery in New York. Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Miller, New York Considered and Improved 1689. The Burrows Brothers Company, 1903.
Mins, Stewart L. Cobert's West India Policy. Yale University Press, 1912.
O'Callaghan, E.B. New York Colonial Tracts Number III. J. Muncell, 1867.
Pettit, Marilyn H., Slavery, Abolition, and Columbia University. Journal of Archival Organization 1.4, 2002.
Pitman, Frank Wesley. The Development of the British West Indies 1700-1763. Yale University Press, 1917.
Scoville, Joseph Alfred. Old Merchants of New York City. Thomas R. Knox, 1885.
Todd, Charles Burr. The Story of the City of New York. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888.
Townsend, Craig. Faith in Their Own Color. Columbia University Press, 2005.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author name.
Notes on research topics
Scope and Contents
Notes, correspondence and documents regarding the Nathaniel Gordon case, Appleton Oaksmith and Elizabeth Oakes Smith, David Eltis's Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database ("comments and backup materials"), and general information on shipping and the slave trade.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
