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the New York History blog today, I saw that the New York Historical Society has
digitized nearly 12,000 pages of materials documenting US slavery, the Atlantic slave
trade and the abolitionist movement.

The diaries, account books, letter books, ships’ logs, indentures, bills of sale,
personal papers and institutional records date form the 18th and 19th centuries, and
come from 14 collections. Among them are records of the New York Manumission Society
and African Free School, papers of the Boston anti-slavery activist Lysander Spooner,
records of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and an account book of the slave
trading firm Bolton, Dickens & Co.

The materials aren’t searchable by name, but you
can browse them on the society’s website. Use the Quick navigation pull-down menu
to choose a collection, then a record image viewer will open in a new window.

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