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Gwendolyn Midlo Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: 163
Scope and Contents
The papers of historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall are comprised of correspondence; professional working papers, including applications, reports, resumes, and grants; professional writings, including book and chapter drafts, essays, and lectures; and research materials including articles, news clippings, interviews, notes, vital records, and publications in English, French and Spanish. The collection includes reproductions of research materials and research notes dating from 1705-1820 and...
Dates:
Created: 1943-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1970s-2001; Other: Date acquired: 06/01/1972
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall papers addenda
Collection — Container: 1 Box
Identifier: 163-1
Scope and Contents
This addition consists of research materials and notes in the form of negative and positive photocopies of articles, hand script and typescript notes and copies of original correspondence. Topics covered in the files regarding civil rights activities in Jonesboro and Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Dates:
Created: 1964-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2004
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Antoinette Harrell papers
Collection
Identifier: 608
Content Description
The Antoinette Harrell papers primarily document Harrell's career as a historian and activist, with collected files from her civil and social activities within New Orleans and Louisiana. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of African American history in Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta; slavery reparations; and peonage in the South from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Harrell papers contain correspondence, news clippings, photographs, yearbooks, leaflets, genealogical material...
Dates:
Other: circa 1864-2017, undated
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Louis de Montault estate bill of sale
Collection — Container: small collections
Identifier: 2487
Scope and Contents
Document is a notarized copy of a bill of sale documenting the sale of a male slave in New Orleans, Louisiana, appraised at $900.00. The sale was conducted between Anne Marie Francoise Aspasie Fazende, the widow of Louis de Montault and representative of his estate, and Sosthene Roman of St. James Parish. The sale concerns a slave named Henry (or Henri), thirty three years of age and suffering from “the King’s evil” (Scrofula, a form of tuberculosis). The document was notarized by Antoine...
Dates:
Created: 1852 March 1; Other: Date acquired: 03/02/2012
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