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Box Special Collections Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 2

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Contains 12 Results:

"The Black Whale Captured in Charleston Harbor, January 1880", 1885

 Item — Box: Special Collections Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 2, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection: Holograph manuscript with annotations and corrections written by Gabriel Manigault for publication in the Proceedings of the Elliott Society. In the manuscript Manigault notes that an earlier article, published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, was based on his letter to J.B. Holder. The manuscript describes the capture of a Right whale in Charleston harbor in January 1880, a description of the...
Dates: 1885

Slave passes for Mack and Ellack, 1843, undated

 File — Box: Special Collections Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 2, Folder: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection:

The folder contains two slave passes written by Sarah H. Savage and dated 1843. One pass gives an enslaved person named Mack permission to sleep in Bedon's Alley. The other pass, which has been penned through, gives an enslaved person named Ellack permission to sleep in Stoll's alley for three months.

Dates: 1843; undated