Print document containing list of German immigrant passengers' names and the region or town they were from in Germany. In print is the date October 13. Handwritten notes add the year 1858 with further notes: "Passanger list aboard SS Gauss on 9 October. Sailed from Bremen to Charleston, Captain H. Wieting."
A written agreement between James Adams and James Hopkins in which Adams agrees to the sale of fifty slaves for $34,000. The slaves are referenced by name or as "negroes" and the following pages of the agreement discuss interest and debt.
This document is a court case between Joseph A. Sasportas and Peter Desverney in which a sum of twenty-five dollars and forty-eight cents needs to be paid.
Short contract between W.L. Hadine (?), C.R. Hains and James B. Heyward to oversee two unnamed Heyward properties in 1858 and 1859. The handwritten document includes short statements from 1859 detailing the fulfillment of the contract. 1p.
Caption: 'Shipping the recaptured Africans on board the U.S. steam frigate Niagara, at Charleston, S.C.--from a sketch by our own correspondent.' [full date Oct. 9, 1858]
A letter from H. Tilman to his father Alfred Wardlaw discussing the arrival of slaves on their plantation as well as their usefulness in picking cotton. Refers to the enslaved as "negroes."
Color lithograph depicting people of Algeria, including a Jewish man. Lithograph by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin after Felix Fossey. From Le monde en estampes : types et costumes des principaux peuples de l'univers by Élizabeth Müller, published Paris: Amédée Bédelet.
