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Earnest Edward Eells papers
Collection
Identifier: 145
Scope and Contents
Three bound volumes of carbon copy typescripts by Reverend Earnest E. Eells, containing photographs, maps, and other illustrations, entitled "The Colonization of Liberia with the Story of the United States Navy and the Slavers. A Narrative from Original Sources Not Before Published, Especially the Journal of Rev. John Christian Wiltberger, Jr." (2 vols.) and "The Journal of Rev. Christian Wiltberger, Jr., 1819-1822". The typescripts concern Eell's great-grandfather, the Reverend Christian...
Dates:
Created: circa 1969-1970; Other: Date acquired: 09/01/1982
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George Howe memoir of the slave ship Rebecca
Collection
Identifier: 2522
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of a manuscript copy of Dr. George Howe’s memoirs pertaining to his hiring as a physician on board the ship Rebecca in 1859. Howe was to accompany the last group of formerly-enslaved individuals from the John McDonogh estate in Louisiana on their journey to Liberia as directed in McDonogh's will. Howe discusses events leading to his position on the ship, his discovery that the ship's captain and crew intend to divert the ship to...
Dates:
Created: circa 1862; Other: Date acquired: 10/20/2017
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Amistad Research Center
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