Slave trade--Southern States-History.

Scope and Contents The American Slavery Collection is an artificial collection compiled from a variety of sources including donations of individual documents and purchases. The thirteen original items in this collection consist of ten bills of sale, one receipt, one document relating to manumission and the autobiography of a former slave who lived in Madison County, KY as a "free black" prior to 1850. There is also one item, a receipt that is probably a handwritten copy made in the early twentieth century. The...