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Series 3: William Coleman notes and correspondence, circa 2000s-2020, inclusive

Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

William Coleman writings

Scope and Contents

2007 memo to Deborah Schwartz re: NYHS exhibit on slavery; text of 2008 speech at BHS.

Research correspondence

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Printouts of emails between Coleman and other scholars and associates.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Notes on publications

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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.

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